FReeper Canteen ~ Favorite Cult Movies ~ August 2 2004

MoJo2001 and FRiends of the Canteen

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

 

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?

 

[StarCMC]

I have heard so much about that movie but have yet to see it!

[Rebelbase]

My favorite:

The Last Days of Planet Earth.

Its a cheezy Japanese end of the world, hippies go crazy, flick.

[Taft in '52]

I've seen the term "cult movie" defined as a movie that fans see over and over again. If this is so, then my favorite cult movie would be The Girl Can't Help It (1956) starring tom Ewell, Edmund O'Brien, and Jayne Mansfield. I've seen it at least nine times in the theater, several times on television, and own the video.

Movies that I see over and over again tend to be musicals, such as Gold Diggers of 1933, Hollywood Review of 1929, The Big Broadcast (1932) and Pigskin Parade (1936), which was Judy Garland's greatest film.

By the way, I saw It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World at the Cinerama Theater in Hollywood in early 1964, and I remember really enjoying it.

[StarCMC]

LOL! Yep!! And that he drinks the whole vat and then puts out the fire!!

Or how about "He was in the crease!!!" ?

[Delta 21]

Two of my favorite midnight movies! I didnt think anyone else on the planet liked Wizards

Here are a few more.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Welcome to the Canteen!

[StarCMC]

Hey Rebelbase! Good to see you in the Canteen!! :o)

[TXnMA]

We agree -- except "The Gods Must Be Crazy" is my all-time favorite. It's not 'strange'; it has a little bit of everything...

"Did you know she has flowers on her panties?"

"So that is how the thing got up in the tree."

[Siegfried]

"Mickey One", an early film with Warren Beatty. Tense, paranoid.

And a movie that burned a hole in my brain, "Invaders from Mars", 1953 version

Designed and directed by William Cameron Menzies (one of the greatest production designers of Hollywood's golden age, whose credits include Gone with the Wind), this eerie little thriller benefits from Menzies's skill at combining physical settings with psychological undercurrents of paranoid terror and resistance against the alien threat. It's still most effective for younger viewers, with Jimmy Hunt providing the story's youthful point of view. And although the malevolent aliens look campy now, with a leader who resembles a bubble-brained squid in a fishbowl, Invaders from Mars remains one of the seminal science fiction films of its time, paving the way for The War of the Worlds and the rapidly developing trend of alien-invasion thrillers. --Jeff Shannon

[StarCMC]

I'm a sucker for a good (or bad!) WW2 movie. My favorites are Flying Tigers and Battle of Midway.

[Hildy]

My favorite campy movie...so bad that it's good!

THE OSCAR

Frankie Fane (Stephen Boyd) has clawed his way to the top of the Hollywood heap. Now, as he's preparing to win his Oscar, his friend Hymie Kelly (Tony Bennett) reminisces over their life together, and Frankie's ruthless struggle to the top and the people he's stepped on (i.e., everyone else in the movie) to make it there.

Cast includes Elke Sommers, Eleanor Parker, Ernest Borgnine, Jill St. John. You have to see this movie to believe it!!!!

[hummingbird]

Harold & Maude . . . . for starters!

Definitely! Haven't seen it in years, but for some reason, think of it every once in a while.

[AZamericonnie]

It's especially appropriate for the "cubicle bound" but a very funny movie.

[Palladin]

Some of my favorites are: "Hairspray", "Some Like It Hot", and "Raising Arizona".

[radiohead]

Tremors is a great cult film; practically defines the genre. Why have you defiled it by choosing a French poster/dvd cover? : )

I don't know if it has reached cult status, but another guilty pleasure of mine is 'Twister' w/Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Welcome to the Canteen!

[StarCMC]

I am gonna HAVE to see it!!

[airborne]

I'm gonna have to dig throughmy tapes and watch it again.
I laugh at the court hearing.
Judge, "Order,order."
Doug, "two toast and back bacon."
Judge, "Quiet,you two."
Doug, "Jeez, she sounds like mom."
And then Bob gets a nose bleed and they stick a bullet up his nose! (OK I'm oficially a geek)

[Yaelle]

THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY

The last scene of the movie, a very long one from one camera shot in one take, is some of the best acting ever seen on film by the talented Bob Hoskins, though no words are spoken. Amazing.

[Lady Jag]

Why did you insult me by saying I defiled it?