Rocky Horror Picture Show was dumb as fuck.
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Airplane! It's okay just not my cup of tea
Not a cult classic. It's a mainstream hit.
"Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home..."
So if the cult gets large enough it doesn't count?
It was never a cult classic. It was a huge hit from the beginning.
"something, typically a movie or book, that is popular or fashionable among a particular group or section of society." I'm going to say that exactly fits LOTR, Star Wars, Star Trek etc. You are just trying to say the group size matters, it doesn't. I'd also say the Bible is a cult classic by definition.
You are being intentionally obtuse. A mainstream mega hit is in no way among a particular group. Those franchises you mention may be in a way, but their touchstone movies are all mainstream hits. Videodrome or Twin Peaks are cult classics, not Fifth Element or X Files. Like, Twin Peaks was a big hit for a very short amount of time, then its popularity nosedived. The continuing fans them were the cult. But Airplane! was a mega hit and never went out if vogue. It spawned a sequel and a whole genre of slapstick parody.
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The Shining. I've seen so many parodies and homages before seeing the original, that I just kept laughing and couldn't get into the horror part of it whatsoever.
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Yeah, I guess you must have watched it when you were young to really get into it. Watched it a couple of years ago for the first time, because it is such a classic, and was so underwhelmed and bored.
A Clockwork Orange. I read the book first and was excited to see the movie but ultimately I found it really slow and boring. It's not a great adaptation in my opinion.
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I find there are few cult classics that can be found by future generations and maintain their cult status outside of the truly timeless greats like Rocky Horror Picture Show or similar. There's a nostalgia associated with most cult films. I can't imagine GenZ glomming onto Better off Dead or Ferris Bueller's Day Off or The Goonies because so much of the camp and humor is tied to a time they don't have a reference for.
I'm Gen-X and showed my Gen Z kids Better off Dead recently. They quite liked it. I think it's just so goofy anyone could enjoy it. I DON'T think they'd like Ferris Bueller's Day Off - too talky.
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Pulp fiction.
I think, like most of his work, you got to be really into characters, storytelling, and the interactions between characters.
I didn't really like Kill Bill because of backstory. I like his films that just start and end. You know nothing about the characters, but by the end of the story you feel like you know a lot based on their actions and interactions. Reservoir Dogs and The Hateful Eight are my favourites for this. In-depth and complicated characters and story being told, but know little to nothing outside of the snapshot in time the film takes place.
That's a very specific style of film to enjoy, so I can see why people praise Pulp Fiction while others don't or just pretend to.
I dont know, characters and story were fine it also made me cackle a cuple if times. But all combined just didnt feel quite right, something was missing. I guess I should watch it againg, maybe I could pin point it better, but it just did not live up to the hipe it was and still is getting. Kill Bill is in my eyes more interesting because of cinematography
Princess Bride
So dull, nothing funny, no redeeming feature
2001 Space Odyssey.
It's just so bad. Objectively bad. And I rarely use that term, because movies and art are so subjective.
It feels like it was trying to be a showcase of 1960's film technology, and I've got nothing about that. It's shot well, and it's kinda cool seeing how they had to do things back then.
But the plot feels like it was written mostly during a bad acid trip that just wouldn't end. I'm fully convinced that its one of those things that people pretend to like so they can pretentiously chortle with their film buddies about "how the common man just doesn't have the attention span needed to appreciate it."
It's an hour too long and the plot is so basic yet so overly convoluted.
I always interpreted it as Kubrick trying to give you a feel for how vast even just the solar system is, and how long space travel takes. It's slow and not much happens for long periods, because travelling to Jupiter is slow and not much happens for long periods.
I agree that doesn't make it an easy watch, but if you get into the right frame of mind to watch it, it gives you a kind of uneasy existential dread at the vastness of the universe and our inconsequential smallness in it, that very little other sci-fi does.