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**Mikey** · Oct 9, '17, 12:15 PM

Originally posted by warlock664

+1
Also, anything Tarantino.

--------- wha ???????????

Don't think I've ever met anyone that doesn't at least like a few Tarantino movies

**Goblin19** · Oct 9, '17, 12:58 PM

I think that I find most cult movies decent, but not great. There's a reason they are relegated to colt status. I can usually see why people might like them, but there's usually not enough of that for me. I find this especially true for cult horror movies.

Picking one, I would go with Big Lebowski, which I like, but I consider it on the lower end of Coen brothers movies. It has a rabid fan base and I guess I just don't get it. But there are lots of others like that for me.

**huedell** · Oct 9, '17, 1:13 PM

My thoughts on films mentioned in this thread in a "Hot" or "Not" context with "additional notes... I even re-edited to add thoughts on some posts after mine":

HOT:
Blade Runner (both)
All Tarantino (minus Jackie Brown, the Kill Bills and Death Proof)
Godzilla… but only modern not the “real” Godzilla movies
The Dark Knight (The movie-Unexpectedly great/Comicbook? Waste of time)
Chucky movies… kinda hit and miss… haven’t seen the latest, but enjoyed the preceding recent one
Monster Squad… need to revisit that one…enjoyed it when I was a kid
Terminators (Love T3 hate the ones that followed…so sue me)
Walking Dead (Not so much “Hot” as not “Not”)
Breaking Bad
The Princess Bride (Gordo Crisp… nod to your edit… I believe what sets this movie part is its “meta” or self-aware satirical quality)
Fargo
Fight Club (Very respectable… but not a multiple watcher for me)

NOT:
Rocky Horror Picture Show, Goonies, Phantasm, Big Trouble in Little China, Buckaroo Banzai
Fifth Element (always a chance I could sit thru it and actually like it…same goes for 12 Monkeys),
Not big on the “slasher” genre: Nightmare on Elm Streets, Friday the 13ths, Texas Chainsaw Massacres, Hellraisers, Halloweens
Re-animator, Doctor Who, Big Bang Theory, Apocalypse Now,
Clockwork Orange, The Matrix, The Lord of the Rings/Hobbit movies,
Repo Man, The Man Who Fell To Earth
Brazil (But I ADORE Time Bandits!)
The Sound of Music, Urban Cowboy, Eating Raoul
Eraserhead (or anything by the Twin Peaks guy)
Barton Fink & The Big Lebowski (but love Raising Arizona, O Brother Where Art Thou, Fargo)
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Pink Flamingos, Frankenhooker,
Mulholland Drive
X-Files
Buffy The Vampire Slayer

All the stuff J.B. listed as good cult??? With respect to J.B.---“ahhhh!!!!!”

And, additionally, J.B., your review of Princess Bride almost seems like you didn’t pick up on the satirical quality… and, although I’m likely inaccurate with that guess, I still am thinking that such a scathing review seems inappropriate for some reason (as its such a harmless simple well-intentioned movie).

Donnie Darko, Darkman, Sin City agggh….so many movies I hate hearing about again & again that have zero appeal to me no matter how many people say I should like them!

Shock Treatment? The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T? Phantom of the Paradise? Scott Pilgrim VS the World? Beautiful Girls? Fantastic Planet? Never heard of ‘em.

Mike hit the nail on the head with “Saturday Night Fever --- love the music, story is boring as hell” I suppose Saturday Night Fever is my “Blade Runner” in some respects as it’s a great "immersion"… the sights, the sounds etc. (Problem is, unlike Blade Runner, I think Fever offers nothing story-wise)

Valley Girl? Have to re-watch.

I’ll still give Showgirls a chance, as I love the director!

Return to Oz? I should love (I’m a huge Oz Universe fan) but never got into RTO.

The only Eastwood film I like isn’t really an “Eastwood” film persay: In The Line Of Fire

Monty Pythons… all hit and miss… but not enough to even care that much, yet I passionately ADORE Time Bandits AND Fish Called Wanda (weird, eh?)

**Werewolf** · Oct 9, '17, 11:21 PM

If we are including TV shows too, I never liked the X-Files.

**Bruce Banner** · Oct 10, '17, 6:24 AM

The X-Files was hit and miss for me. Same with Buffy... I could take it or leave it.
I never liked Twin Peaks. Most of my friends love it. Never clicked with me.

**palitoy** · Oct 10, '17, 9:14 AM

I understood the appeal of X Files but it was never my bag. I'd tune in occasionally though.

**CrimsonGhost** · Oct 10, '17, 9:26 AM

I love Big Trouble in Little China. It's secondary to Escape From New York, but I like Kurt Russell in just about anything. Elvis, Used Cars, The Best of Times, Death Proof ... Even Escape From L.A., which I can admit is a bad movie, but i like it anyway.

And I guess I'm in the minority that Jackie Brown is my favorite Tarantino film.

Here's a big one: Flash Gordon! I hate the dumb Queen song. It's boring and everytime I try it, I get about halfway thru and have to shut it off out of embarrassment. Again, maybe if I had seen it when I was 10, I would feel different.

I try Time Bandits now and again, but I just can't click with it. It's so disjointed ... maybe I should give it another go.

Scarface is so ridiculous, I just don't get it.

Rollerball, Monster Squad, Kelly's Heroes, and Slap Shot are all movies that I almost like. I like a lot of parts of those movies, but the whole thing doesn't work for me.

I'm also realizing I could make a list of cult films that I'm the ONLY one that likes them.

**Mikey** · Oct 10, '17, 10:29 AM

^--- loved Used Cars

Never liked Scarface ---- Paccino's fake Cuban accent was hilarious and was he hot for his own sister ? ... weird

^--- Flash Gordon 1980 ---- BEST MOVIE EVER no BS

Don't like most 1950's - 1960's B horror and space movies ---- I like this genre for movie content but not to sit there and laugh at bad ones.

**CrimsonGhost** · Oct 10, '17, 10:48 AM

Originally posted by Mikey

--- Flash Gordon 1980 ---- BEST MOVIE EVER no BS.

What do you like about it? What am I missing? I'm actually curious because I want to like it, but I can't get past rolling my eyes at the song.
Also, how old were you when you first saw it?

If this reads like I'm being snarky, I'm not. I actually want to know!

**Hedji** · Oct 10, '17, 11:11 AM

I like Flash Gordon's set design, costume design, garish colors, fast moving script, laser sounds (seriously), sense of humor, willingness to exist purely for fun, and yes, the music... but not just Queen's... the orchestral score by Howard Blake is quite good at recapturing the swashbuckling tonality of old Sinbad movies or serials of old. It flirts with sexuality in a PG film, and makes no apologies for how over the top it is. Could have been a boring Star Wars ripoff like many others, but stands above as something a lot of love went into making.

**palitoy** · Oct 10, '17, 11:21 AM