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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2019 18:58:57 GMT
O Lucky Man: staring Malcolm McDowell, Music by Alan Price, Directed by Lindsay Anderson. !973. An allegory on the capitalist society.
Remember seeing this in 1973 and I have never forgotten it.
Had the sound track on my reel to reel.
Found the complete movie on YouTube. A very good copy. Worth a watch.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2019 20:29:22 GMT
Where do I start?......................of course it depends on what you call a 'cult movie'. In my DVD collection: The Last Picture Show, In The Mouth of Madness, Rosemary's Baby, Electragilde in Blue, Zatoichi, Deliverance, Oldboy, Street of Crocodiles, The Hill, Zardoz, Blade Runner (director's cut), Wise Blood, Repulsion, Two Lane Blacktop, Thief, The Swimmer, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Funeral in Berlin, Ong-Bak, Prime Cut, Frenzy, Theatre of Blood, The Flim Flam Man, Miami Blues, Onibaba. And many more (I bet somebody will mention Easy Rider  ) |
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Post by macca on Sept 10, 2019 20:52:01 GMT
What are we defining as a cult film? For me it is a film that is still a bit under the radar. A film becomes cult because mainstream audiences and critics don't get it and it isn't successful, but in reality it is great so it gets a loyal following. Then word gets about and it becomes popular until pretty much everyone has seen it or at least heard of it. Eventually documentaries get made about it. Then it is no longer cult. So I wouldn't count Easy Rider on those grounds. Was cult, now it isn't.
'Dark Star' is still a cult film. Or 'Repo Man.'
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Post by macca on Sept 10, 2019 20:53:33 GMT
Actually thinking about it Easy Rider was really successful when it came out. So maybe it was never cult.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2019 21:12:41 GMT
Im a very simple man where movies are concerned. Im more than happy to live with just the below:
A Clockwork Orange [1971]
THX 1138 [1971]
Logans Run [1976]
West World [1976]
Andromeda Strain [1971]
Zardoz [1974]
Tommy [1975]
Silent Running [1972]
Planet Of The Apes [1968]
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2019 21:48:36 GMT
The worst cult film ever. Killer Clowns From Outer Space. And any thing by Ed Wood.
Dune was a good one, along with Vanishing Point, and Phantom Of The Paradise.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2019 9:43:49 GMT
O Lucky Man: staring Malcolm McDowell, Music by Alan Price, Directed by Lindsay Anderson. !973. An allegory on the capitalist society. Remember seeing this in 1973 and I have never forgotten it. Had the sound track on my reel to reel. Found the complete movie on YouTube. A very good copy. Worth a watch. Talking about Malcolm McDowell, what about 'If' 1968? There's a cult movie, if ever there was one.  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2019 9:51:55 GMT
Have you notice how very similar the IF text is to the International Times 'IT' text..
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2019 12:09:35 GMT
What about "Bad Taste"?
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Post by macca on Sept 11, 2019 12:12:17 GMT
Don't know if it is a cult film but it is crap.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2019 15:16:21 GMT
And that is probably it is the reason it is a cult film...
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Post by macca on Sept 12, 2019 17:08:34 GMT
Never been keen on Peter Jackson's stuff anyway. Thought he was a better writer than Tolkein. Think again, Pete!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2019 5:26:39 GMT
Certainly agree he is not a better writer.
Bad taste was cringingly bad.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2019 12:11:05 GMT
Not a cult film but Micheal Winners 'HANNIBAL BROOKS' [1969] was a great movie with Oliver Reed & Micheal J Pollard who was a brilliant little actor. 
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2019 15:27:39 GMT
Another classic movie: The Performance [1970] with Mick Jagger & James Fox.  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2019 18:09:57 GMT
Performance is a top film.
Listen to the first Big Audio Dynamite LP for the samples done brilliantly.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2019 18:29:43 GMT
Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush
Peeping Tom
The Omega Man
Metropolis
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2019 22:13:34 GMT
Beatles films 'cult' ?
Bloody big cult eh ?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2019 18:03:55 GMT
Don't take my word for it but earlier in the year Magical Mystery Tour was mentioned on the radio. It was said that when it was first aired it was panned by the critics. Fast forward through the decades it's now acquired cult status with student filmmakers. At various times since it was made A Hard Day's Night has been regarded as a cult film. Can't say the same has been said of Help. But hey don't take my word for it. If it's too much a stretch of the imagination they can go. There you go.
As for replacements
Girl On A Motorcycle with Marianne Faithful was always pretty culty.
Anything by Russ Meyer likewise I'd say
Plan 9 From Outer Space also.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2019 18:19:10 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2019 23:25:56 GMT
Was I don't know if it was a cult filum.
But I love Wickerman .
The best horror film every made along with Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Zombie flesh eaters.
Horror is now a dead genre in my not so humble opinion. Like Latin is a dead language.
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Post by macca on Sept 17, 2019 7:26:22 GMT
The Wicker Man is deffo a cult film. (The proper one not the Sh#t remake with Nicolas Cage).
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2019 8:27:19 GMT
This has to be the most disturbing horror film, it is with out a doubt a cult film, if you are brave enough to watch it more than once. No thanks not for me, once was more than enough. I wonder if IT 2 will live up to the original.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2019 9:31:40 GMT
The clown was a twat though.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2019 9:54:35 GMT
The clown was a twat though. Like this one, except this one is real,  be afraid very afraid. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2019 10:04:33 GMT
Arguments about what is, and what is not a 'cult film' are about as dull and pointless as arguments about what constitutes 'real prog' or 'real punk', but Magical Mystery Tour was shown at peak broadcasting time on a mainstream TV channel. I think some people are confusing 'cult' with 'a big bag of shite'.
My own nominations are Mike Leigh's 'Naked' and 'Withnail and I'.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2019 10:57:48 GMT
Cult bag = of Shyte, being exactly the point, is it not. Like one of those hideous American cars from the 50's and early 60's there is something to be said for completely awful. This is a prime example the A90 Austin Atlantic.  Attachments:
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Post by macca on Sept 17, 2019 11:22:27 GMT
Arguments about what is, and what is not a 'cult film' are about as dull and pointless as arguments about what constitutes 'real prog' or 'real punk', but Magical Mystery Tour was shown at peak broadcasting time on a mainstream TV channel. I think some people are confusing 'cult' with 'a big bag of shite'. My own nominations are Mike Leigh's 'Naked' and 'Withnail and I'. Withnail might have been a cult film in the 1990s but it's mainstream now. There's been documentaries and everything. We have failed to paint it black. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2019 12:54:35 GMT
It was in Sainsbury's on saturday.
£7.
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Post by macca on Sept 17, 2019 17:02:50 GMT
And a fiver for his arse.
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