What's your favorite cult/classic movie in the last 30 years or so?

[powerking]

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.

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


Tom (PK)

[Sandy G]

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

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

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".

[powerking]

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)

[powerking]

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

Tom(PK)

[Username1]

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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[Sandy G]

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...

[Robb]

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

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

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

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.

[Sandy G]

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...

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

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!

[Sandy G]

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..

[Eric H]

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.

[Eric H]

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!

[powerking]

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)