I made a reference to "Fargo" in a thread recently. One of my others is American Beauty. These films didn't achieve numbers below without reason:yes::yes:.

Budget $15 million
Box office $356,296,601


Tom (PK)

Goodfellas, Fargo, Monty Python & Holy Grail, Thunderbolt & Lightfoot...

Goodfellas, Fargo, Monty Python & Holy Grail, Thunderbolt & Lightfoot...

The original, "Little Shop of Horrors".
When I first saw it, 50 years ago, I couldn't believe it. I never saw a movie, that was made so crude and low-budget, but it was actually quite good.
It really became a "Cult-classic". :thmbsp:

And for some other "strange ones not necessarily box office successes"....

Pushing Tin

Edward Scissorhands (which put Johnny Depp on the acting "map")

Earth Girls Are Easy

Beetlejuice

Mars Attacks!

Tom (PK)

Ditto that on the Bill Murray version of Little Shop of Horrors.

Tom(PK)

Ground Hog Day, and the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers....

And Forbidden Planet.... Rocky Horror too...... And Sandy's picks too.....

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I'd advise anybody who HASN'T seen it to rent a copy of "Thunderbolt & Lightfoot"... GREAT early/mid-Seventies Clint Eastwood flick w/Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy, & Clint's longtime co-star, Geoffrey Lewis. A Seventies flick that could NOT be made today... Anybody who was around back then will understand that, the others WON'T...

Gran Torino.
Small budget, no special effects Clint Eastwood movie

Downfall (Der Untergang)
Great movie. Bruno Ganz plays Hitler the best all time.

I'd advise anybody who HASN'T seen it to rent a copy of "Thunderbolt & Lightfoot"... GREAT early/mid-Seventies Clint Eastwood flick w/Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy, & Clint's longtime co-star, Geoffrey Lewis. A Seventies flick that could NOT be made today... Anybody who was around back then will understand that, the others WON'T...

I've never saw that movie, but are you referring to the non-PC content, similar to "Blazing Saddles"?
I never saw that movie either, until a year ago, when I found one at a thrift.
The guys I worked with, used to comment about it. :D

Not so much that its not PC, its just the whole crazy mess...Its a sort of "Buddy" movie, but unlike any other "Buddy" movie you ever saw...

Not so much that its not PC, its just the whole crazy mess...Its a sort of "Buddy" movie, but unlike any other "Buddy" movie you ever saw...
I think, I get your drift! :yes:

Take, f'r instance the scene where they get picked by the crazy guy in the black 2-door, jacked-up Plymouth... Which they roll, wreck & the guy gets out, grabs a shotgun, opens the trunk, which is full of little white bunnies... I mean, WTF is up w/THAT ? But in the movie, it made PERFECT sense... Sort of..

Ed Wood, the Tim Burton film with Johnny Depp as Ed Wood Jr.

Helps a lot if you're an Ed Wood fan of course.

Pink Flamingos, directed by John Waters, the same guy who later made Hairspray.

Definitely not for everyone, (or anyone of tender sensibilities), it incredibly raunchy and obscene but also very funny in a black humor sort of way.

Cost $10,000 to make, made millions.

Billed as "An exercise in bad taste" when it was released, that's a gross understatement.

This film used to be really hard to find, after the 25th anniversary release it became so easy that it was selling in Big Lots stores, I can't imagine how the unsuspecting buyer must have reacted when they took it home and popped it in the DVD player!:eek::wtf:

I must also include "Pulp Fiction" if for no other reason than the great lineup of actors Quentin Tarantino grabbed and how bizarre the "story" line(s) were...

Budget $8.5 million
Box office $213,928,762

Tom(PK)

Kentucky Fried Movie
The Groove Tube
J-Men Forever
Americathon
UHF

Requiem for a dream

Tru romance

Blade runner

Memento

My favorite "cult" movie is Used Cars, from 1980. The cult is very small, though. I think there are about five of us in it. We can recite every line, and make references to it in every day life constantly. :)

LOVED used cars... "That price is tooooo f**king high!" BOOM!!

The Hollywood Knights....... "Vooooolare---RRRRIIIP!!"

And yes.... XANADU..... ONJ was hot to this 15yr old :D

SR

Taxi driver, Travis you talking to me has to be one of the best.

My favorite "cult" movie is Used Cars, from 1980. The cult is very small, though. I think there are about five of us in it. We can recite every line, and make references to it in every day life constantly. :)

Used cars and the other classic, "Car Wash", seemed to attract the same kind of audience.
I got a copy of "Used Cars" at a thrift. I think, I only saw it once before.
Slightly OOT, How about the dame, that has 500 copies of "Speed". I think, every thrift in the country, has one or more copies. I didn't think, that movie was that good. :boring:

That's no dame ;) http://www.vice.com/read/this-guy-is-trying-to-collect-every-single-copy-of-the-movie-speed-on-vhs

Brian DePalma's FIRST film, "Sisters" from 1973. Shot entirely on Long Island, it also features the LAST score by the late, great Bernard Herrmann. His music pretty much MAKES the film, w/its freaky, "World-Out-Of-Kilter" sound.

That's no dame ;) http://www.vice.com/read/this-guy-is-trying-to-collect-every-single-copy-of-the-movie-speed-on-vhs

Me and my speed-reading is at fault again! :thumbsdn:

That's no dame ;) http://www.vice.com/read/this-guy-is-trying-to-collect-every-single-copy-of-the-movie-speed-on-vhs
Thank you for posting that. All of the useless things I have ever done in my life seem like the work of Mother Theresa now, by comparison. And, no, I am not going to send my Laser Disc copy of "Speed" to him.

From the early 80's:

Heavy Metal

John Carpenter's "The Thing"

John Carpenter's "They Live"

Watership Down

hi_volt: From the early 80's:

Heavy Metal

John Carpenter's "The Thing"

John Carpenter's "They Live"

Watership Down

I'll bring the pop corn if we can watch them all in one night.....

I liked XANADO too..... ONJ was pretty hot.... Good movie...
Can't believe they made good movies without guns or car chases back then,
but then as I remember reviewers didn't like it much..... And they made good
car chase movies back then.... Now they don't think anything about
Matrixing up a car chase till you just sit there disappointed.....
You can't beat a Rockford Car Chase ! !

Ahhhh, those were the days when I actually Went to the movies....
Now I've seen so many that suck as a rental, I'm always happy I didn't
blow any real money on them....

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Yeah, CGI style car chases leave me cold.. Gimme a "Bullitt", Seven-Ups" or "Gone in 60 Seconds"-the 1974 version, only-ANY day over all that computer-generated nonsense. "Vanishing Point", the 1970 version w/Barry Newman, is also a Good 'Un. ALL the CGI crap in the world CAN'T out-do Cubic Inches, & skillful driving. When will these dimwits get that thru their thick skulls ?!?

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Amazing acting, especially Chief!! :-)

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Amazing acting, especially Chief!! :-)
Great screen presence in spite of a lack of dialogue, just like Morgan Woodward in Cool Hand Luke.

Great screen presence in spite of a lack of dialogue, just like Morgan Woodward in Cool Hand Luke.



Martini (De Vito) , McMurphy, Billy Bibbet, Cheswick. Some incredible charactors that you never forget. Love Chief's first line in the movie, when McMurphy passes him a stick of gum, " Mmmm, Juicy fruit" One of my faves!!

Other one, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Watched it with my 12 and 16 yearolds recently and they LOVED it!!! Especially the music!!

Not to keep beating a dead horse to death here on this topic; does anyone remember S.O.B. (Blake Edwards film)? Definately a different Julie Andrews character compared to those in the 1960's likes of The Sound of Music, Marry Poppins, etc.

Tom (PK)

Not to keep beating a dead horse to death here on this topic; does anyone remember S.O.B. (Blake Edwards film)? Definately a different Julie Andrews character compared to those in the 1960's likes of The Sound of Music, Marry Poppins, etc.

Tom (PK)

Could you imagine Julie Andrews flashing her tits during Mary Poppers? :yikes:

Wall Street 1987 with Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen

Since it's Halloween, I have to agree with the previous poster and 'They Live' (John Carpenter)

I'll have to go with "or so" as none of my favorite cult classics were made in the last 30 years.

Duel (1971)
Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)
Mad Max (1979)
The Blues Brothers (1980)

On a side note, I finally saw Jaws all the way through. I saw the last of it about 20 years ago, never forgetting the line "Smile you son of a..."

A sound effect used in this scene is the same one used at the end of Duel.

Too bad Toby bought it filming the follow up to "Gone..." The scene where Eleanor charges thru Moran Cadillac, leaving Death 'n' Destruction.... Well, "Destruction", anyhow, is CLASSIC, especially the poor secretary's reaction... "Gone" has absolutely no socially redeeming values at all, its just 90 minutes of pure, unadulterated, take-your-mind-out-of-Gear FUN...I LOVED it in '74 when I was 17, & dammitt, I STILL do at 57...

Hey Jon, I think Duel is one of the most underrated films of its time. Definitely a favorite over here!

Hey Jon, I think Duel is one of the most underrated films of its time. Definitely a favorite over here!

Yah Duel is one of my favorite films..... That is one tough Dodge....

(yah I know it's not a Dodge)
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Yah Duel is one of my favorite films..... That is one tough Dodge....

(yah I know it's not a Dodge)
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Didn't they dust off the old truck, & use it again in one of the "Jeepers Creepers" horror flicks ?

I don't ever remember seeing a RED Valiant... Right wasn't it a Plymouth Valiant....
Must have been a custom color.....

They drove the truck off a cliff at the end..... Pretty smushed now....

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Yeah, that's right.. Forgot about that... Sorry, been awhile since I've watched "Duel".. Bizarre flick, but GOOD...

I love Duel, I remember watching it's first run on TV back when.

I think Dennis Weaver's car was a Valiant, same thing as a Dart basically.

Trivia: it was directed by Steven Spielberg.

Another favorite of mine from recent years is Donnie Darko. Watched it again a couple weeks ago.

Yah, after star wars all of a sudden Duel was a work of art.... I remember they
re-released it in the city.....

Duel was along the same lines as a older B&W film I believe was called
"hot rods to hell" about a buncha kids terrorizing a family in a car in the
mid 50's.... Saw it several times as a kid, not seen it in 20 years....
Old man trapped the terrorists one at a time and killed them off....

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Hey Jon, I think Duel is one of the most underrated films of its time. Definitely a favorite over here!
No kidding, many think that Spielberg's first film was The Sugarland Express.

The car was a red Valiant, and I believe two trucks were used. Much of the footage of the truck was shot close to the road to make the truck look like it was going faster than it really was. Cary Loftin, the film's stunt coodinator, also drove the truck. He was praised for how safely he drove while making it look dangerous.

I didn't know that! Cool. In a way, parts of Duel reminded me of the 1986 movie Maximum Overdrive, based on a Stephen King book, as you know.

I have Duel on DVD and I noticed that a part of the movie was cut out. It's the part where the truck push starts a school bus. They used to play it on regular TV all the time

I haven't seen Maximum Overdrive, but I'll check it out eventually.

Cary Loftin can be seen in the DVD special features. To see his face in the film would have ruined the perception of a trucker gone mad as he didn't look intimidating at all. The closest look we get at him in the film is shortly after Weaver encounters the truck. A partial face view through a dirty windscreen, that's it.

For the scene in which Loftin runs down the phone booth, a red flag was placed just off camera. If he didn't see Weaver exit the booth by the time the front of the truck reached that flag, he was to veer off.

Weaver was adamant about doing his own driving and had to be flat-out refused for scenes that were considered too dangerous. That scene in which the Valiant pulls a 180 and the entire horizon as seen through the windscreen goes into a sharp tilt was real.

Well here's another one that came out from the woodwork; really bizarre for its day (1968); The Swimmer --Burt Lancaster. Yeah, OK I broke my own 30 year or less rule here.....

I just happened to find it surfing the DTV channels (I think it was on GET-TV).

Remember this guy:?

Soundtrack
The Swimmer
Soundtrack album by Marvin Hamlisch


The score was composed by a first-time film composer, 24-year-old[1] Marvin Hamlisch, and was orchestrated by Leo Shuken and Jack Hayes.

Of all things, they released on it on Blu-Ray earlier this year; go figure....

Tom (PK)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swimmer_%281968_film%29#Response

Two Lane Blacktop, 1971, starring James Taylor, Dennis Wilson, Laurie Bird and Warren Oates.

I first taped it on Speed Vision's lost Drive In in the late 90's, and didn't really get it or like it. I didn't watch it again until last year and then it clicked with me.Now it's one of my favorites. Got the collector DVD set. I notice something new every time I watch it.

It was a major film company movie made for $850,000 but it plays like an indie movie.

So this thread won't end it seems.... I stumbled upon this rather bizarre movie: " The Virgin Suicides". Kathleen Turner never looked so bad in this 1999 film. It's a dark American drama written and directed by Sofia Coppola, produced by her father Francis Ford Coppola, starring James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, and A. J. Cook

Tom(PK)

The Gods Must Be Crazy #1. #2 not so good.

Vanishing Point. When that came out my father had a
'66 SS396. I dont know what he was thinking but he let my
brother take it to the drive-in. When the movie let out
everyone raced away going like a striped baboon. We went
down the street sideway, what a rush !! All nite all you could
hear in town was screaming tires & motors. A miracle nobody
was killed. So much for movies not influencing people.....

73 Zeno:smoke:

Vanishing Point. When that came out my father had a
'66 SS396. I dont know what he was thinking but he let my
brother take it to the drive-in. When the movie let out
everyone raced away going like a striped baboon. We went
down the street sideway, what a rush !! All nite all you could
hear in town was screaming tires & motors. A miracle nobody
was killed. So much for movies not influencing people.....

73 Zeno:smoke:
Hahaha, gotta love it. :D Can't do that these days with slammed Hondas.

Stretch of road by the drive-in was flat & straight for >.5 mile.
We measured out a 1/4 mile & would race when the coppers
were busy. A friend just got a 1970 Chevelle w/ 454. Twas
a balls out 1/4 mile car. We ran it over 100 & when he slowed
down it felt funny. He had recap snows on the back & they
were coming apart. I made sure I went to mass Sunday, it
was a miracle we didnt wreck & I had to thank someone.

73 Zeno:smoke:

Did you know that the Challenger turns into a dime-a-dozen first-gen Camaro just before the impact?

I agree about "Duel" so much tension created for a low budget made for TV movie.

Can't leave out Godfather I, II and III
Apocapolse Now: Robert Duvall's character Kilgore: " I love the smell of napalm in the morning ... "
12 Angry Men

So many more .....

Apocalypse Now. It's an imaginary Vietnam experience for kids who knew it was coming ever since the third grade but when you got to the end of the conveyor belt they shut it off. I've seen it many many times and it never gets old.

A bit beyond 30 yrs old, but the ORIGINAL "Gone in 60 Seconds" I think was/is AWESOME.. The megabuck remake wasn't worth the time it took to watch it. I just wish Toby Halicki hadn't got himself killed...

I love Duel, I remember watching it's first run on TV back when.



So do I! I knew I was a tyke at the time, but hard to believe I was only 6. I was watching with my sister and her boyfriend, obviously being sat, so yeah, makes sense. It was a Tuesday Movie of the Week. Probably the best of the entire series, but that was pretty reliably good TV, a surprising number of those flicks could now be considered cult classics. And we got them for free every week. Those were the days. [sigh].

The only really good thing about 'Xanadu' was ELO. How can you dispute that considering how well the soundtrack album did compared to the film.

The truth is I don't watch that many movies, but my favorite indie film still these many years later is 'Beautiful Thing', adapted from the play of the same name. It was filmed in 1995 and tells the story of two teenagers finding romance amid low-rent East London surroundings. It's one of the first films of its kind not to end with one of the protagonists jumping off a roof. It too has a great soundtrack full of Mama Cass songs.