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What's your favorite "cult" flick?
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The thread about the funniest movies got me thinking....one of my favorite movies ever is "Blade Runner" from the mid/late 80s. Harrison Ford, Daryl Hannah, Sean Young, and the uber-cool Rutger Hauer. Never got a lot of run, but I'll put it on every 6 months or so.

"I have seen things you people wouldn't believe....attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near Tanhauser Gate. All those...moments...will be lost in time....like tears, in rain....time....to die."----Roy Batty, Replicant.



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Army of Darkness

"Well hello Mr. Fancypants. You ain't leading but two things right now, Jack and shit, and Jack just left town."

Some of the best one liners come from this cult film!



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Kill Bill vols 1 & 2.

"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
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Re: What's your favorite "cult" flick? [dteed] [ In reply to ]
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What exactly constitutes a "cult flick."

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Rocky Horror Picture Show. Has to be the ultimate cult flick.

Second favorite would be the original 1932 King Kong.
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Rocky Horror without a doubt:

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I haven't been able to find a copy, but has anyone seen THX 1138? Any good?








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Clerks

Enough said, there are too many great lines to even try to pick one to put here.

Fast times at Ridgemont High

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Farenheit 9/11. From the cult of liberalism.
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I don't know if I'd call Blade Runner cult - pretty classic sci-fi if anything.

I'd suggest "The Warriors", which I didn't see until I was like 30, even though it came out when I was 9, and caused a lot of havoc here in NYC.

Seeing it at 30 really had me questioning the fabric of my existence - I couldn't believe that it was a controversial film. It was so awfully campy and just dumb, that I couldn't believe it could actually inspire violence. Maybe violence in between disgusted groans, perhaps. I mean, Jesus, the Baseball thugs? Or those idiots on roller skates? It was more like a bad extension of the Village People than a threatening gang movie.

Just dopey.


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Pulp Fiction......'nuf said.

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"Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th Dimension"

Cast includes Peter Weller, Jeff Goldblum, John Lithgow, Christopher Lloyd and Ellen Barkin in a dress that shows just enough without showing too much.
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What exactly constitutes a "cult flick."


A movie that did not meet mainstream success or critical acclaim - yet has a small group of very devote followers.

"This is Spinal Tap" -- this movie was a commercial flop and lost money at the box office -- yet many many years later, VHS and now DVD sales continue, there are website, fan clubs, parties, they have released follow up CD's in addition to the movie soundtrack.

Rocky Horror picture show is the all time cult film -- living life after life at midnight movie showings -- this was big with the college crowd in the early 80's and has continued into the 2000's.

My personal favotites are "Animal House" and "Bachorler Party" - but hey - I like to party!
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"A movie that did not meet mainstream success or critical acclaim - yet has a small group of very devote followers. "

In that case, I wouldn't classify Pulp Fiction, either Kill Bill film, ro probably Blade Runner as cult films. Obviously Rocky Horror is the archetypical cult film, but some I like that might fit the bill are:

Pink Floyd: The Wall
This is Spinal Tap (obviously)
A Clockwork Orange
Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2 and especially Army of Darkness
and The Big Lebowski

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Dark side of the rainbow: the wizard of oz with the Dark Side of the Moon as the soundtrack.

Awesome.
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Rocky Horror is the epitome of the "cult" flick. It was still playing in theaters around here until a few years ago....something like a 15-20 year run. And yes, I was in the audience in the 80's with my oatmeal and garbage bags, reciting lines with the minions.....and Damnit, Janet, it was fun.

Spinal Tap is another great cult flick....some people get it, some don't.



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"Rocky Horror is the epitome of the "cult" flick. It was still playing in theaters around here until a few years ago....something like a 15-20 year run."

Absolutely the ultimate cult movie. It was a total box office flop when it first came out in 1975. Meatloaf made his debute in this film.

There was a theatre I'm aware of that played it every Friday for 20 yrs and packed the house every show with people dressed in costume. We'll never have another cult movie like this.

Animal House was also a good scene. Anybody in college at the time will remember the ongoing toga parties. But unlike Rocky Horror, it only lasted a few years.
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"A movie that did not meet mainstream success or critical acclaim - yet has a small group of very devote followers. "

In that case, I wouldn't classify Pulp Fiction, either Kill Bill film, ro probably Blade Runner as cult films. Obviously Rocky Horror is the archetypical cult film, but some I like that might fit the bill are:

Pink Floyd: The Wall
This is Spinal Tap (obviously)
A Clockwork Orange
Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2 and especially Army of Darkness
and The Big Lebowski


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Not sure about "cult classics"

But definately Airplane, Caddie Shack & Stripes.

Newer, semicult, except it did fairly well at the box office would be Fight Club.

~Matt
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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Clerks

Young Frankenstein
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Re: What's your favorite "cult" flick? [dteed] [ In reply to ]
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Office Space- red Swinglines, Hawaiian shirt day, 37 pieces of flair, "Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. Just a moment. ", TPS reports, "PC Load Letter", 40 subscriptions to Vibe, and Michael Bolton the no-talent assclown.

Best depiction of modern American corporate life ever seen in the movies.

Honorable mentions:
The Cutting Edge- a stealth cult chick flick
Beastmaster- how can you not love Marc Singer AND ferrets
Heathers- no way could that movie be made today
Donnie Darko
Slap Shot- I'm glad they're finally got rights to the original music again
The Princess Bride
Better Off Dead
The Lost Boys
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Dark Star

Yojimbo

Monty Python (any)

The Harder They Come

Who'll Stop The Rain

The Gods Must Be Crazy

The Wall

Live long and surf!
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Phantasm

It's Alive

Food of the Gods

Them!

The Beastmaster


And what was that movie from the late 70's/early 80's with Joan Collins and the giant ants in the Florida sugar farms? I never could seem to get enough of that one!!


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Buckaroo Banzai

The Princess Bride

Endless Summer

Waiting for Guffman

Brazil

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"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin
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"Sin City" will be considered a cult classic once its ben around long enough to be appreciated.
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Laugha whila you can, monkey boy.
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"A Boy and his Dog", written by Harlan Ellison, with a young Don Johnson and a not-so-young Jason Robards. A post-apocalyptic movie about a boy who communicates telepathically with his dog. A great ending, too.

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"Sin City" will be considered a cult classic once its been around long enough to be appreciated.


Only if it does poorly at the box office ... I believe that's a criteria for "cult" status.

"Jaws" and "Star Wars" were destined for "cult movie" status, but thew blew it by becoming huge summer blockbusters, which hadn't existed before.

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...But seriously. I have other favorite not-very-popular-during-release films like:

The Thing (1982)

In the Mouth of Madness

Escape From New York

Prince of Darkness

They Live

hmmm. I'm beginning to see a trend.
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True Romance, with Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette. Scripted by Quentin Tarantino. Lots of quirky bit parts, including Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, Christopher Walken, Samuel L. Jackson, Bronson Pinchot & James Galdofini.
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Alien Nation- I should have rented that one while Mrs. Vitus was out of town.








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Repo Man.

Remember these gems:

Bud: An ordinary person spends his life avoiding tense situations. A repoman spends his life getting into tense situations.

Miller: The more you drive, the less intelligent you are.

Bud: Goddamn-dipshit-Rodriguez-gypsy-dildo-punks. I'll get your ass.

Duke: The lights are growing dim Otto. I know a life of crime has led me to this sorry fate, and yet, I blame society. Society made me what I am.
Otto: That's bullshit. You're a white suburban punk just like me.
Duke: Yeah, but it still hurts.

Debbi: Duke, let's go do some crimes.
Duke: Yeah. Let's go get sushi and not pay.


Miller: A lot o' people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch o' unconnected incidents 'n things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice o' coincidence that lays on top o' everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness.

Bud: Look at 'em, ordinary fucking people, I hate 'em.


Reverend Larry: I DO want your money, because god wants your money.


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Killing Zoe

Jacobs Ladder

Being John Malcovich (sp?)







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reservoir dogs

requiem for a dream

swingers

evil dead trilogy

texas chainsaw massacre (original)

trainspotting

dazed and confused

clerks

chasing amy

harold and kumar go to white castle

memento
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I just saw Harold & Kumar a couple of weeks ago for the first time. I had low expectations, but that is a hilarious movie!

I'll add Office Space to the mix.


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My picks: The Road Warrior, Repo Man, Princess Bride, True Romance,... That's all I can think of now. David K
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As moronic as it is , that Coneheads film . The part with the lawn mower -spark plug in the mouth " does thee device have fuel in it ,uuum uum" or " Come over to char mammal flesh on our fire pit " . Ring over the cone / sex thing ,gets me .
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True Romance, with Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette. Scripted by Quentin Tarantino. Lots of quirky bit parts, including Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, Christopher Walken, Samuel L. Jackson, Bronson Pinchot & James Galdofini.
True Romance was great, one of my favorites. My newest favorite is Shaun of the Dead, just fucking hilarious. "Would anybody like a peanut?"
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Fantasia, The Wicker Man, Barb Wire, Freaks, Detour, Laura, any John Waters film, El Topo, Whats Up Tiger Lily, Wizard of Oz, Reefer Madness, Plan Nine From Outer Space, Return To Payton Place, Enter The Dragon, Behind The Green Door, Harold And Maude, Glen Or Glenda, To Be Or Not To Be, Night And Fog, To See With Ones Own Eyes, The First Nudie Musical,



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Ahh, The Wicker Man! That's worth watching just to see Britt Ekland dancing nude.
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Great List, how about:



Miller's Crossing

Raising Arizona

Tape Heads

American Spendor

Crumb

Election

Napolean Dynamite

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One I didn't see on anyone lists:

Highlander

Also on my list

the princess bride (Andre the Giants last movie)

Beast master

Best of the Best (based on a semitrue story)


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Just thought of three more that deserve mention. Dunno if anybody mentioned these.

Blues Brothers

and two from Monty Python:

Holy Grail

Life of Brian
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"Home? Home is where you hang your hat?"

And the classic unanswered question.

"what's that watermelon doing there?"

"I'll tell you later."

They never tell us later!!!
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I love Highlander and the tv series.

How come nobody mentioned Red Dawn?
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One I didn't see on anyone lists:

Highlander

Also on my list

the princess bride (Andre the Giants last movie)

Beast master

Best of the Best (based on a semitrue story)


Dude!!! I think most Martial Arts Movies are cult films.

All time Martial Arts Cult Movie: Enter the Dragon - Bruce Lee

Runners up: The Big Brawl - Jackie Chan

The double feature of Bruce: The Chinese connection/Fists of Fury

The white dude: Good Guys wear Black - Chuck Norris

The Euro Dude: Blood Sport - Jon Claude Van Dam(n)

The "wow" dude: The One - Jet Li
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I can't believe I forgot Highlander.

Peter Wingfield (Methos on the tv series) was a marathoner at one time.
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I can't believe everyone forgot Highlander. And although I liked the TV series, thats not what i'm talking about.


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But only the first Highlander movie. I do not acknowledge any other movies after that exist.
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I would add "El Mariachi" to the long list(The original, $10000 version)
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Subway with Christopher Lambert. It starts with an awesome urban car chase through Paris ending going down the steps and through the doors into the Metro!


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But only the first Highlander movie. I do not acknowledge any other movies after that exist.

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Probably not "cultish" enough but the Commitments is pretty good fun. Irish soul band, mystical sax player and the worship of Elvis by Star Trek's engineer, pretty hard to beat.

Also would support Buckaroo Banzai as may have earlier.

fal7 in Houston.
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Big Trouble in Little China -- Kurt Russell

also -- Escape from New York
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Big Trouble in Little China -- Kurt Russell
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension (1984) was directed by W.D. Richter, who wrote the screenplay to Big Trouble in Little China (1986)If you watch the end of Buckaroo Banzai, the film mentions a potential sequel called "Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League." Supposedly, Richter was writing this Banzai sequel and, under John Carpenter's direction, it eventually morphed into Big Trouble in Little China.

Ah, but the plot thickens. In 1996, a BB fan named Ernest Cline wrote a professional screenplay of "World Crime League" which almost made it big time.

Most interestingly, his script has several scenes with none other than wise-cracking, truck-driving Jack Burton! ... here's the first scene with Jack:

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A trucker, wearing a ball cap and sunglasses, walks out of the station eating
a huge submarine sandwich. He's got a saddlebag slung over his shoulder.
He glances at the Jet Car, and Buckaroo motions to him.

BUCKAROO
Excuse me, sir. Do you know who that
truck over there belongs to?

TRUCKER
Jack Burton . . . Me.

BUCKAROO
Well, Mr. Burton, we need to get this car to
Holland Township, New Jersey as quickly as possible.
If you'd be willing to tow us with your rig, we'd be
glad to compensate you.

JACK BURTON
That won't be necessary, Dr. Banzai.

Jack turns sideways so that they can all see the Blue Blaze Irregular
patch on the shoulder of his jacket.

JACK BURTON
You pay for the speeding tickets and I'll have you back
at the Institute in an hour, tops.

BUCKAROO
Thank you, Mr. Burton.

JACK BURTON
Call me Jack.

BUCKAROO
Buckaroo.
(shaking his hand)
Say Jack, mind if I have half your sandwich there?
I'm starving. Skipped breakfast.

JACK
(handing him the sub)
Knock yourself out, Buckaroo.
(to the others)
Reno, Rawhide, Sid, if you fellas push her around in back
of the 'ole Porkchop Express there, I'll hitch ya on.

They are all a bit stunned and impressed that he knows their names. They start
pushing, and Tommy smiles and hops back behind the wheel to steer. Buckaroo lays
into the sandwich like he hasn't eaten all day (which he hasn't) and his taste buds
are immediately on fire. He drops the sandwich and begins fanning his mouth.

JACK
Chinese pepper-steak. Packs a wallop, don't it?

New Jersey hands Buckaroo a canteen, which he empties.
New Jersey motions to the saddlebags slung over Burton's shoulders.

NEW JERSEY
Like your saddlebags.

JACK
Thanks. Real leather.

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"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin
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Big Trouble in Little China -- Kurt Russell

also -- Escape from New York



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"My name is Inigo Motoya, you killed my father, prepare to die"

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you know I got goosebumps just reading that. I gotta rent that again.


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"My name is Inigo Motoya, you killed my father, prepare to die"

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you know I got goosebumps just reading that. I gotta rent that again.


Whaddya mean "rent???" You mean you don't OWN it??? ... You gotta see "As You Wish: The Making of 'The Princess Bride'" on the DVD.

Even better get the book ...

Here is the scene where Westley leaves

"I'm going to America. To seek my fortune." (This was just after America but long after fortunes.) "A ship sails soon from London. There is great opportunity in America. I'm going to take advantage of it. I've been training myself. In my hovel. I've taught myself not to need sleep. A few hours only. I'll take a ten-hour-a-day job and then I'll take another ten-hour-a-day job and I'll save every penny from both except what I need to eat to keep strong, and when I have enough I'll buy a farm and build a house and make a bed big enough for two."

"You're just crazy if you think she's going to be happy in some run-down farmhouse in America. Not with what she spends on clothes."

"Stop talking about the Countess! As a special favor. Before you drive me maaaaaaaad."

Buttercup looked at him.

"Don't you understand anything that's going on?"

Buttercup shook her head.

Westley shook his too. "You never have been the brightest, I guess."

"Do you love me, Westley? Is that it?"

He couldn't believe it. "Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches. If your love were--"

"I don't understand that first one yet," Buttercup interrupted. She was starting to get very excited now. "Let me get this straight. Are you saying my love is the size of a grain of sand and yours is this other thing? Images just confuse me so--is this universal business of yours bigger than my sand? Help me, Westley. I have the feeling we're on the verge of something just terribly important."

"I have stayed these years in my hovel because of you. I have taught myself languages because of you. I have made my body strong because I thought you might be pleased by a strong body. I have lived my life with only the prayer that some sudden dawn you might glance in my direction. I have not known a moment in years when the sight of you did not send my heart careening against my rib cage. I have not known a night when your visage did not accompany me to sleep. There has not been a morning when you did not flutter behind my waking eyelids.... Is any of this getting through to you, Buttercup, or do you want me to go on for a while?"

"Never stop."

"There has not been--"

"If you're teasing me, Westley, I'm just going to kill you."

"How can you even dream I might be teasing?"

"Well, you haven't once said you loved me."

"That's all you need? Easy. I love you. Okay? Want it louder? I love you. Spell it out, should I? I ell-oh-vee-ee why-oh-you. Want it backward? You love I."

"You are teasing now; aren't you?"

"A little maybe; I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard, and you never heard."

"I hear you now, and I promise you this: I will never love anyone else. Only Westley. Until I die."

He nodded, took a step away. "I'll send for you soon. Believe me."

"Would my Westley ever lie?"

He took another step. "I'm late. I must go. I hate it but I must. The ship sails soon and London is far."

"I understand."

He reached out with his right hand.

Buttercup found it very hard to breathe.

"Good-by."

She managed to raise her right hand to his.

They shook.

"Good-by," he said again.

She made a little nod.

He took a third step, not turning.

She watched him.

He turned.

And the words ripped out of her: "Without one kiss?"

They fell into each other's arms.




There have been five great kisses since 1642 b.c., when Saul and Delilah Korn's inadvertent discovery swept across Western civilization. (Before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy, because although everyone agrees with the formula of affection times purity times intensity times duration, no one has ever been completely satisfied with how much weight each element should receive. But on any system, there are five that everyone agrees deserve full marks.

Well, this one left them all behind.




The first morning after Westley's departure, Buttercup thought she was entitled to do nothing more than sit around moping and feeling sorry for herself. After all, the love of her life had fled, life had no meaning, how could you face the future, et cetera, et cetera.

But after about two seconds of that she realized that Westley was out in the world now, getting nearer and nearer to London, and what if a beautiful city girl caught his fancy while she was just back here moldering? Or, worse, what if he got to America and worked his jobs and built his farm and made their bed and sent for her and when she got there he would look at her and say, "I'm sending you back, the moping has destroyed your eyes, the self-pity has taken your skin; you're a slobby-looking creature, I'm marrying an Indian girl who lives in a teepee nearby and is always in the peak of condition."

Buttercup ran to her bedroom mirror. "Oh, Westley," she said, "I must never disappoint you," and she hurried downstairs to where her parents were squabbling. (Sixteen to thirteen, and not past breakfast yet.) "I need your advice," she interrupted. "What can I do to improve my personal appearance."

"Start by bathing," her father said.

"And do something with your hair while you're at it," her mother said.

"Unearth the territory behind your ears."

"Neglect not your knees."

"That will do nicely for starters," Buttercup said. She shook her head. "Gracious, but it isn't easy being tidy." Undaunted, she set to work.

Every morning she awoke, if possible by dawn, and got the farm chores finished immediately. There was much to be done now, with Westley gone, and more than that, ever since the Count had visited, everyone in the area had increased his milk order. So there was no time for self-improvement until well into the afternoon.

But then she really set to work. First a good cold bath. Then, while her hair was drying, she would slave after fixing her figure faults (one of her elbows was just too bony, the opposite wrist not bony enough). And exercise what remained of her baby fat (little left now; she was nearly eighteen). And brush and brush her hair.

Her hair was the color of autumn, and it had never been cut, so a thousand strokes took time, but she didn't mind, because Westley had never seen it clean like this and wouldn't he be surprised when she stepped off the boat in America. Her skin was the color of wintry cream, and she scrubbed her every inch well past glistening, and that wasn't much fun really, but wouldn't Westley be pleased with how clean she was as she stepped off the boat in America.

And very quickly now, her potential began to be realized. From twentieth, she jumped within two weeks to fifteenth, an unheard-of change in such a time. But three weeks after that she was already ninth and moving. The competition was tremendous now, but the day after she was ninth a three-page letter arrived from Westley in London and just reading it over put her up to eighth. That was really what was doing it for her more than anything--her love for Westley would not stop growing, and people were dazzled when she delivered milk in the morning. Some people were only able to gape at her, but many talked and those that did found her warmer and gentler than she had ever been before. Even the village girls would nod and smile now, and some of them would ask after Westley, which was a mistake unless you happened to have a lot of spare time, because when someone asked Buttercup how Westley was--well, she told them. He was supreme as usual; he was spectacular; he was singularly fabulous. Oh, she could go on for hours. Sometimes it got a little tough for the listeners to maintain strict attention, but they did their best, since Buttercup loved him so completely.

Which was why Westley's death hit her the way it did.

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Re: What's your favorite "cult" flick? [KEJ] [ In reply to ]
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I forgot " So I Married an Axe Murderer". I love that movie, it was on last night. Mike Myers kills me.

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Re: What's your favorite "cult" flick? [randymar] [ In reply to ]
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It's funny how in the book Buttercup is a blithering idiot. I guess they had to make some concessions to PCness.
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Re: What's your favorite "cult" flick? [Jim] [ In reply to ]
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Highlander was awesome after that, there was a succession of serie Z movies by C. Lambert...it was worse and worse and worse...(apart from Greystoke but I am not sure if it wasn't before Highlander).

Anyway, mine (I will admit) is

Love Actually...I just love that movie...
Groundhog day is a close second

and for the french speakers of the forum:

Le pere noel est une ordure, les bronzes, le bossu (the real one with jean marais)
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Strange Brew. Bull Durham. My high school buddy and I used to watch Army of Darkness (already mentioned) all the time. "That's what we call pillow talk, baby". Dumb and Dumber. Tommy Boy. Slapshot. They Call Me Bruce (always liked that one). Tango and Cash. My alltime favorite, Red Heat.

Another buddy and I talk about the idiotic Ninja/Karate movies we used to watch in junior high. 9 Deaths of the Ninja and No Retreat, No Surrender (Van Damme is the bad Russian) have to be the two worst, with Ninja III: The Domination running in third.

Strange Brew ... the McKenzie brothers are running away from the scene of an accident. One of them is wearing a jockstrap from an earlier attempt at a home movie regarding the end of the world, "Good thing, I'm still wearing that jock, eh?" Love it.

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Re: What's your favorite "cult" flick? [dteed] [ In reply to ]
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"Eraserhead." Easily the most visually disturbing film I've seen, it's an early B/W David Lynch film. I really enjoyed Donnie Darko, my son turned me on to it.
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Re: What's your favorite "cult" flick? [robc] [ In reply to ]
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How about Red Dawn?

Also add: Office Space, Highlander, The Breakfast Club, Happy Gilmore


and Ferris Bueller's Day Off
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Re: What's your favorite "cult" flick? [dteed] [ In reply to ]
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How about "Tron" one of my favorite movies from quite a while ago?
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Re: What's your favorite "cult" flick? [dteed] [ In reply to ]
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Re: What's your favorite "cult" flick? [Francois] [ In reply to ]
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Has anyone added "The Long Kiss Goodnight"? Geena Davis as a government assassian who gets amnesia, Samuel L. Jackson . . . This movie has it all, action, humor, blowing shit up, just great.
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I have it on video somewhere. Bought it cheap. Tried watching it, slow movie at the beginning and never watched the whole thing. I'll have to dig it out one day and watch it.

By the way, my favourite, Return of the Living Dead (and all the other original deads, night of, day of, dawn of)
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Re: What's your favorite "cult" flick? [Tri-ing in TO] [ In reply to ]
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David Cronenberg: Naked Lunch or Dead Ringers

If you want to know more, go check: http://www.davidcronenberg.de/


Tough times don't last, tough people do ;-)
Francois.
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Re: What's your favorite "cult" flick? [dteed] [ In reply to ]
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How "Dune" or "Rocky Horror Picture Show"?



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