FReeper Canteen ~ Favorite Cult Movies ~ August 2 2004

MoJo2001 and FRiends of the Canteen

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, razorback-bert, for sharing your movie choice.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, BlueLancer, for sharing your movie pick.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, 6323cd, for adding your movie pick.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, I'm ALL Right, for adding you movie choice.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thank you, freekitty, for sharing your movie choice.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Wonderama, for stopping by the Canteen and sharing your movie picks.

[cowboy_code]

My idea of a "cult film" is one that generates large numbers of fans who get involved and study every aspect of the film and production.

The public's notion has been peaked by such cult movie phenomenas as Star Wars and such conventions. But that is only in an instance of large commercial convention phenomena.

Other films have a more quieter cult film devotees and celebrate their "Fav" films in smaller personal ways. Monty Python comes to mind in this example. Because those fans exhibit more individual actions of cult film fandom.

My personal cult films are: The Thing '53. The Adventures of Robin Hood '39. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Tombstone. Sling Blade. Khartoum. LimeLight.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Even tho I'm a day late, which isn't unusual, thanks for posting this article. And thanks to Rob for all he does to help teach the Iraqis about freedom, and keeps us free and safe.

[Christian4Bush]

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[Cathy]

Princess Bride - one of my favorites - I just saw it yesterday!

Wuv, True Wuv.......

Meathead (Rob Reiner) also directed another cult classic :THIS IS SPINAL TAP!

Of course the ultimate Chick cult classic is "When Harry Met Sally." Reiner may be a liberal puke but his movies are most excellent.

[Ladysmith]

Thank you, Kathy!

[Uncle Fud]

Buckaroo Banzai

They Live!

and all the Chris Guest mockumentaries (esp. "Waiting for Guttman")

[Ladysmith]

(...psst! Check out posts 633, 639, and 649!...)

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

Repo Man

Man Bites Dog

Kentucky Fried Movie

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Lust for a Vampire
The Horror of Frankenstein
Zardoz
Soylent Green
The President's Analyst
Eye of the Devil
The Devil's Own
The Devil's Bride

Just make sure NOT to watch the last three while home alone on a dark night....

[Elsie]

...on a dark night....

But, if it were NOT 'dark'; wouldn't it be DAY!?

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Ever seen a full moon? [irony]

[Elsie]

Oh yeah!

I being from central Indiana, the thick air here filters a LOT of the night lights.

But when I vacationed out West in CO & UT - WOW!!

Recognized constellations disappeared among a vast ocean of far-flung worlds! I could even DRIVE by full moon light! (As long as no one was coming; of course.)

I once hiked out of the Grand Canyon by moonlight, making the rim by 3:30 AM!

[Armedanddangerous]

I WAS WAITING for someone to mention The Final Option. It is the Towering Inferno of Beseaged foreign embassy movies. Basicallly, the plot is as follows.

A group of anti nuclear activists led by Judy Davis and backed by sinister figures with eastern european accents attack and take over the US Embassy in London. Their chief demand is for Nato to detonate a nuke over a naval base in Scotland.

After an ill advised shooting of a hostage, the British Special Air Service Counterrevolutionary Warfare team mounts a rescue mission on the embassy.

Lots of flash bangs, doors kicked down and men in black outfits with gas masks, hoods and MP-5s kicking ass.

The cool part was the way they did it. No agonizing death scenes its just commando kicks in door, shoots and says "Third floor, terrorist dead, still clearing sector."

For us gun guys, it is an essential movie. Especially the scene where the commandos rescue a man and woman by blowing a ribbon charge, breaking through a wall and killing two terrorists with double taps from Browning High Powers.

[Chode]

yeah... with lines like "I'l allowed a certain mortality rate in this outfit and I'm well below my quota..." it had to be great

the scene with guys hanging from the heli was great

little things like picking up extra mags made it all the more real but the best was the gas mask over the camera lens with the respirator breathing sound!