FReeper Canteen ~ Favorite Cult Movies ~ August 2 2004

My Tribute to Cult Movies

What does "cult" movie mean?

Cult means seen by few, but appreciated immensely by those in the know.

Do you know any of these movies?

If you didn't before you do now! And now you will be in the know! Run out NOW and get these flicks!!!

MY FAVORITE CULT MOVIES /COMEDY CATEGORY ARE:

CAR WASH

MOVIE QUOTE:

Lindy: I'm more man than you'll ever be and more woman than you'll ever get.

Daddy Rich: The best place for money, is right here in my pocket.

MOVIE TRIVA

The main location of this film was an actual Los Angeles car wash a few blocks from McArthur Park. It was torn down in the late 1980s. While it was open, the marquee of the car wash announced it was featured in this film.

CANNONBALL RUN

Filmed when the Fed imposed a national 55 mph speed limit, The Cannonball Run is based on the real–life "Cannonball Baker Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Dash." It’s basically a fast–moving – and at times, somewhat slapstick – comedy with a huge cast of stars: Burt Reynolds, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Mel Tillis, Terry Bradshaw, Adriane Barbeau, Jackie Chan, Farrah Fawcett, Jack Elam, Dom DeLuise, Jamie Farr, Roger Moore (who plays a character who thinks he’s 007 and even drives an Astin–Martin with gadgets), and more. From Adriane Barbeau using her – er, ah, assets – to escape speeding tickets to the big fight with Peter Fonda’s motorcycle gang to Jack Elam as the mad proctologist, The Cannonball Run is a fun and funny movie

MOVIE QUOTE:

California Highway Patrolman: Headquarters, we are still in pursuit of the black Lamborghini.
Dispatcher: Car 42, you've been in pursuit for two hours. Another five minutes and you'll be in Arizona.
California Highway Patrolman: Yeah, and we're going to stay in pursuit until we catch them.
Dispatcher: It didn't take us THAT long to catch Dillinger.

MOVIE TRIVA:

Don Rickles was originally cast as Fenderbaum before the part went to Sammy Davis Jr.
The ambulance used in the movie is the actual ambulance that Hal Needham and Brock Yates built and raced in the real Cannonball Run.
The producers asked the governor of Georgia if the crew could shut down the center of a small town so that a plane could land in the middle of it. The police blocked off the section that the plane was to land in and a barrier can be seen in the background.
The Ferrari 308 used in the movie belonged to director Needham, Hal.
Roger Moore (I) has a different girlfriend every time we see him in this movie and they are all voiced by June Foray (uncredited).
The first highway patrolman that pulls over Adrienne Barbeau and 'Tara Buckman" (qv) was Burt Reynold's stand-in (note the resemblance). race.
Jackie Chan, who played a small role in this movie, was very upset when he learned his character was Japanese since he himself is Chinese.
In one of the earlier scenes in the movie, Dom Deluise's character says "Maybe we could get a black Trans Am", and Burt Reynolds (I)'s character says, "No, it's been done before." This is a reference to Smokey and the Bandit (1977) which starred Reynolds, and was directed by Hal Needham, who directed this film. Deluise co-starred with Reynolds in the 1980 sequel, Smokey and the Bandit II (1980).

IT'S A MAD,MAD,MAD WORLD

MOVIE QUOTE:

If ever this mad, mad, mad, mad world needed "It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world" it's now!

Released in 1963, the film became not only one of the longest comedies ever filmed (nearly 5 hours
in its initial cut), but boasted the most impressive casts of Hollywood comedic legends ever
assembled: Sid Caeser, Milton Berle, Phil Silvers, Ethel Mermen, Jonathan Winters, Buddy Hackett,
Terry-Thomas, Dick Shawn, Mickey Rooney and Spencer Tracy. If that weren't enough, the film boasted
nearly a dozen additional cameos by Hollywood legends that included Don Knotts, Jerry Lewis, and even
The Three Stooges.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Restoration

SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT

Bandit and Cledus are two truck-driving southerners who accept a dare from big-shots Big and Little Enos to pick up a truckload of beer from Texas and return it to them within a specified amount of time. Picking it up is simple enough, but as they are leaving Texas, Bandit unwittingly picks up Carrie, a hitchhiking bride-to-be who just left her groom, Junior, at the altar. Junior, however, is the son of Sheriff Buford T. Justice. And when Buford and Junior discover what has happened, they go on a "high-speed pursuit" across the Southeast to catch the bandit.

MOVIE QUOTE:

What we have here is a total lack of respect for the law!

WATCH THE TRAILER

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S

Based on Truman Capote's 1958 novella of the same title, BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (1961) is the story of a woman on her own making her way in the big city. As stories go, it is short on plot but rich in characterization which may explain why its protagonist, Holly Golightly, has become Audrey Hepburn's most memorable screen persona. In the hands of director Blake Edwards, the film neglects much of the book's foreboding edge, but gains an unforgettable comedic touch which actually helps accentuate the darker moments. In addition, Henry Mancini's musical score and Hubert de Givenchy's gowns for Ms. Hepburn successfully uphold Capote's style when the story itself is forced to leave his writing behind. Like the protagonist at its heart, BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S is quirky, funny, bewildering, serious, sophisticated and bittersweet -- and as movies go, great entertainment.

Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) at Reel Classics

MOVIE QUOTE:

You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.

WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM

The deranged adventures of Gonzo journalist Hunter Thompson and his attorney Oscar Acosta, referred to in the movie as "Laslow". Thompson attempts to cover the Super Bowl and the 1972 Presidential election in his typical drug-crazed state, but it continually and comically sidetracked by his even more twisted friend Laslow. Allegedly based on actual events.

MOVIE QUOTE:

"I hate to advocate weird chemicals, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone... but they've always worked for me"-Hunter Thompson

TGTH - BOOKS - OTHER - WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM

COMING ATTRACTIONS:

LOCK ,STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS

WAKING NED DEVINE

BEND IT LIKE BECKAM

FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH

VALLEY GIRL

CLERKS

BLADE RUNNER

BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE

SO.. TELL ME... WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE CULT MOVIES?

Welcome to the Canteen/asylum!! We may be weird, but we're lovable!!

201 posted on 08/01/2004 9:59:43 PM PDT by trussell (K'nigget. Lady Espiona, Official Sneaky Beeyotch and Vengeful Popper of Lies and Exploder of Retread)

I love to laugh and forget everything.
Airplane
Spaceballs- last movie I watched with the youngest before he deployed.
Police Squad
and..I'm Gonna Git You Sucka

202 posted on 08/01/2004 9:59:45 PM PDT by armymarinemom (Ultimate Flip Flop->I support the Troops but not their mission)

Welcome to the Canteen/asylum!! We may be weird, but we're lovable!!

203 posted on 08/01/2004 9:59:58 PM PDT by trussell (K'nigget. Lady Espiona, Official Sneaky Beeyotch and Vengeful Popper of Lies and Exploder of Retread)

To: 1FreeAmerican

Blazing Saddles!!!

And Rustlers' Rhapsody! (I love the song Lasso the Moon!!!)

204 posted on 08/01/2004 10:00:38 PM PDT by Fawnn (Canteen wOOhOO Consultant and CookingWithPam.com person)

To: AZamericonnie

I have a husband that uses lines from movies in everyday speech. He is usually the life of the party and has everybody in stitches. Lines from those movies are standards in this family.

205 posted on 08/01/2004 10:00:56 PM PDT by Lady Heron

To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

Vanishing Point. And I mean the original, not the remake.

Barry Newman behind the wheel of a 1970 Dodge Challenger. Faith healers in the Nevada desert. Early Kim Carnes soundtrack. And of course, Cleavon Little working his DJ mojo from that radio station in Nowheresville, Colorado. What's not to like?

"This radio station was named Kowalski in honour of the last American hero to whom speed means freedom of the soul. The question is not when he's gonna stop But who is gonna stop him."

And of course. . .

"There goes the Challenger, being chased by the blue blue meanies on wheels. The vicious traffic squad cars are after our lone driver. The last American hero. The electric centaur. The demigod. The super driver of the golden west. 'Itvo nasty Nazi cars are close behind the beautiful lone driver. The police numbers are getting closer, closer, closer to our soul hero, in his soul mobile. Yeah baby, they're about to strike. They're gonna get him, smash him, rape the last beautiful free soul on this planet."

Classic!

206 posted on 08/01/2004 10:01:51 PM PDT by Euro-American Scum (A poverty-stricken middle class must be a disarmed middle class)

We have a group of people from our church in Peru this week...they are traveling from Lima to Chiquian today.

Did the Sky News Report say where the bus crash was?

207 posted on 08/01/2004 10:02:21 PM PDT by HiJinx (Pray for Piper...)

To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

I love the horror flicks...especially if they make me laugh.

"Those children who've been bad all year...those who been naughty; he punishes!"
"It takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent's fritters."
"I love you, Tina. That's why you've got to let me eat your BRAINS!"

Please don't put me on any more ping lists, I'm already on one. Thanks.

208 posted on 08/01/2004 10:03:09 PM PDT by NewRomeTacitus (Because platitudes don't take precedence over law, that's why.)

And the best sports movie ever... Slapshot

"Old time hockey -- like Eddie Shore!"
"P!SS on Eddie Shore -- we're LOSING!!!"

209 posted on 08/01/2004 10:05:38 PM PDT by MikalM

To: AZamericonnie

I remember Yours, Mine, and Ours! And, Please Don't Eat the Daisies!

Do you remember The Gazebo? ;)

210 posted on 08/01/2004 10:05:56 PM PDT by Fawnn (Canteen wOOhOO Consultant and CookingWithPam.com person)

Never mind, I found reports...it looks like this isn't the bus our folks would have been on.

211 posted on 08/01/2004 10:10:49 PM PDT by HiJinx (Pray for Piper...)

Ping to #211, I goofed!

212 posted on 08/01/2004 10:11:11 PM PDT by HiJinx (Pray for Piper...)

trussell!!! #150!!!
trussell!!! #200!!!

213 posted on 08/01/2004 10:11:37 PM PDT by Fawnn (Canteen wOOhOO Consultant and CookingWithPam.com person)

To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

Some on my list are:
They Live
The President's Analyst
33 1/3

Is "Red Dawn" a cult movie?

214 posted on 08/01/2004 10:12:40 PM PDT by Wampus SC

The President's Analyst

One of the late, great James Coburn's best. My favorite scene is the one where he's tripping with the hippies in the tall grass, while just steps outside of their "scene," rival secret-agent-types are offing each other with silenced pistols. A fine metaphor for the Sixties.

215 posted on 08/01/2004 10:15:04 PM PDT by MikalM

ALVAREZ KELLY, is, not too surprisingly one of my FAVORITES!

Glenn Ford & Richard Widmark star!

free dixie,sw

216 posted on 08/01/2004 10:17:23 PM PDT by stand watie (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -T. Jefferson)

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217 posted on 08/01/2004 10:18:20 PM PDT by trussell (K'nigget. Lady Espiona, Official Sneaky Beeyotch and Vengeful Popper of Lies and Exploder of Retread)

Welcome to the Canteen!

218 posted on 08/01/2004 10:18:32 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Please answer our prayers)

Welcome to the Canteen/asylum!! We may be weird, but we're lovable!!

219 posted on 08/01/2004 10:19:10 PM PDT by trussell (K'nigget. Lady Espiona, Official Sneaky Beeyotch and Vengeful Popper of Lies and Exploder of Retread)

To: 1FreeAmerican

Welcome to the Canteen/asylum!! We may be weird, but we're lovable!!

220 posted on 08/01/2004 10:19:29 PM PDT by trussell (K'nigget. Lady Espiona, Official Sneaky Beeyotch and Vengeful Popper of Lies and Exploder of Retread)

One of the best movies that is now a sleeper is called "The Rapture". This is an intense film that makes you think after watching it. It stars David Ducovney and Mimi Rogers. Good flick.

JJ

221 posted on 08/01/2004 10:19:51 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)

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222 posted on 08/01/2004 10:20:00 PM PDT by trussell (K'nigget. Lady Espiona, Official Sneaky Beeyotch and Vengeful Popper of Lies and Exploder of Retread)

Welcome to the Canteen/asylum!! We may be weird, but we're lovable!!

223 posted on 08/01/2004 10:20:24 PM PDT by trussell (K'nigget. Lady Espiona, Official Sneaky Beeyotch and Vengeful Popper of Lies and Exploder of Retread)

To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

Thanks for the welcome, (not sure how I got here)

Two movies that did the same thing.

50s monster flick The Giant Gila Monster: for half the movie, livestock and people are disappearing, buildings destroyed, tension builds up as the characters (and audience) try to work out what the (unseen) cause is. (I won't spoil the surprise by revealing it here)

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead: Having given away the plot in the title, they abandon it entirely and redo the plot of Working Girl, but actually do it better.

224 posted on 08/01/2004 10:20:41 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy ("Despise not the jester. Often he is the only one speaking the truth")

Welcome to the Canteen/asylum!! We may be weird, but we're lovable!!

225 posted on 08/01/2004 10:20:53 PM PDT by trussell (K'nigget. Lady Espiona, Official Sneaky Beeyotch and Vengeful Popper of Lies and Exploder of Retread)

To: ClearBlueSky

Welcome to the Canteen/asylum!! We may be weird, but we're lovable!!

226 posted on 08/01/2004 10:21:13 PM PDT by trussell (K'nigget. Lady Espiona, Official Sneaky Beeyotch and Vengeful Popper of Lies and Exploder of Retread)

To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

Thanks for the welcome (again)

227 posted on 08/01/2004 10:21:36 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy ("Despise not the jester. Often he is the only one speaking the truth")

To: Undivided Heart

Welcome to the Canteen/asylum!! We may be weird, but we're lovable!!

228 posted on 08/01/2004 10:21:54 PM PDT by trussell (K'nigget. Lady Espiona, Official Sneaky Beeyotch and Vengeful Popper of Lies and Exploder of Retread)

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229 posted on 08/01/2004 10:22:36 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Thank You Troops Past, Present and Future)

To: pro libertate

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230 posted on 08/01/2004 10:23:11 PM PDT by trussell (K'nigget. Lady Espiona, Official Sneaky Beeyotch and Vengeful Popper of Lies and Exploder of Retread)

Another one was when they've cut the power at The Phone Company and are about to blow it up when Dr. Schaffer refuses to take the M16 to shoot their way out.

To which Godfrey Cambridge replies: "Look. You want to be the great humanitarian? You want to save the world? Take the gun."

Priceless.

That movie has almost as many great one-liners as does Casablanca.

231 posted on 08/01/2004 10:23:34 PM PDT by Euro-American Scum (A poverty-stricken middle class must be a disarmed middle class)

To: AZamericonnie

Yea, Office Space is one of my favorites. A lot of the same folks that do King of the Hill.

232 posted on 08/01/2004 10:23:34 PM PDT by Boiling point (If God had not meant for man to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them out of meat!)

"Tapeheads

How could I have forgotten that one?

Come to Roscoe's for delicious food
We got the cure for your attitude
We make the best waffles and cluck
And you get good value for your buck

233 posted on 08/01/2004 10:23:52 PM PDT by Wampus SC (Waffles just pancakes with little squares on 'em)

Welcome to the Canteen/asylum!! We may be weird, but we're lovable!!

234 posted on 08/01/2004 10:24:16 PM PDT by trussell (K'nigget. Lady Espiona, Official Sneaky Beeyotch and Vengeful Popper of Lies and Exploder of Retread)

To: Looking4Truth

Welcome to the Canteen/asylum!! We may be weird, but we're lovable!!

235 posted on 08/01/2004 10:24:43 PM PDT by trussell (K'nigget. Lady Espiona, Official Sneaky Beeyotch and Vengeful Popper of Lies and Exploder of Retread)

Welcome to the Canteen/asylum!! We may be weird, but we're lovable!!

236 posted on 08/01/2004 10:25:02 PM PDT by trussell (K'nigget. Lady Espiona, Official Sneaky Beeyotch and Vengeful Popper of Lies and Exploder of Retread)

Welcome to the Canteen/asylum!! We may be weird, but we're lovable!!

237 posted on 08/01/2004 10:25:35 PM PDT by trussell (K'nigget. Lady Espiona, Official Sneaky Beeyotch and Vengeful Popper of Lies and Exploder of Retread)

Welcome to the Canteen/asylum!! We may be weird, but we're lovable!!

238 posted on 08/01/2004 10:26:19 PM PDT by trussell (K'nigget. Lady Espiona, Official Sneaky Beeyotch and Vengeful Popper of Lies and Exploder of Retread)

I like Dogma. Lots of controversy around that film, but I felt parts of it really makes one contemplate religion. (I objected more to how Rufus/Chris Rock calls everybody "STUPID" than I did to any religious mis-interpretation.)

Jason Lee is underrated, and if life were fair, he'd be as famous as Ben Aflack! He's great as Azrael!

239 posted on 08/01/2004 10:26:36 PM PDT by Fawnn (Canteen wOOhOO Consultant and CookingWithPam.com person)

Welcome to the Canteen/asylum!! We may be weird, but we're lovable!!

240 posted on 08/01/2004 10:27:01 PM PDT by trussell (K'nigget. Lady Espiona, Official Sneaky Beeyotch and Vengeful Popper of Lies and Exploder of Retread)

P.S. I haven't seen The Rapture, but I'll watch for it.

241 posted on 08/01/2004 10:27:12 PM PDT by Fawnn (Canteen wOOhOO Consultant and CookingWithPam.com person)

I did enjoy that one. It was weird, but I liked it.

242 posted on 08/01/2004 10:27:57 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)

Thanks, ms feather, for the Canteen Blessing for the Troops.

243 posted on 08/01/2004 10:28:05 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her)

To: Euro-American Scum

Welcome to the Canteen/asylum!! We may be weird, but we're lovable!!

244 posted on 08/01/2004 10:28:09 PM PDT by trussell (K'nigget. Lady Espiona, Official Sneaky Beeyotch and Vengeful Popper of Lies and Exploder of Retread)

To: NewRomeTacitus

Welcome to the Canteen/asylum!! We may be weird, but we're lovable!!

245 posted on 08/01/2004 10:28:53 PM PDT by trussell (K'nigget. Lady Espiona, Official Sneaky Beeyotch and Vengeful Popper of Lies and Exploder of Retread)

The Gazebo....refresh my memory (if you can). I can't place it.

246 posted on 08/01/2004 10:28:55 PM PDT by AZamericonnie ("Any compromise between good & evil only hurts the good & helps the evil")

It will mess you up!! Good thinking type movie that did not get a lot of attention.

247 posted on 08/01/2004 10:29:48 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)

Welcome to the Canteen/asylum!! We may be weird, but we're lovable!!

248 posted on 08/01/2004 10:29:49 PM PDT by trussell (K'nigget. Lady Espiona, Official Sneaky Beeyotch and Vengeful Popper of Lies and Exploder of Retread)

249 posted on 08/01/2004 10:31:21 PM PDT by trussell (K'nigget. Lady Espiona, Official Sneaky Beeyotch and Vengeful Popper of Lies and Exploder of Retread)

250 posted on 08/01/2004 10:31:22 PM PDT by trussell (K'nigget. Lady Espiona, Official Sneaky Beeyotch and Vengeful Popper of Lies and Exploder of Retread)

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