Cult Movie Meme -- REVISED!

[athelind]

Seen it
Own a copy of it

2001 - A Space Odyssey
Abba - The Movie
A Clockwork Orange
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Akira
Alien
Apocalypse Now
Army of Darkness
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Bad Taste
Barbarella
Batman (1966 movie)
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
The Big Lebowski
Blade Runner
Blood and Donuts
The Blues Brothers
Blue Velvet
The Boondock Saints
Boxing Helena
Braindead (also known as Dead Alive)
Brazil
Bubba Ho Tep
The Breakfast Club
Carnival of Souls
Carrie
Clue
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Dark Star
Dawn of the Dead (George Romero original)
Day of the Dead
Dazed And Confused
Deep Throat
The Draughtsman's Contract
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Drowning by Numbers
Donnie Darko
El Mariachi
Eraserhead
Evil Dead
Evil Dead II
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fight Club
Forbidden Zone
From Dusk Till Dawn
Gayniggers From Outer Space
The Grand Illusion
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Harold and Maude
Harry Knuckles series
Heathers
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Highlander
If.... (half)
Incubus
The Italian Job (original)
Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter
Kids
Koyaanisqatsi
Lon
Liquid Sky
Little Shop of Horrors (Corman Version)
Little Shop of Horrors (Musical) (I had to distinguish between the two versions of this myself -- the raw meme doesn't.)
Logan's Run
Mad Max
The Man Who Fell To Earth
Mars Attacks!
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Motel Hell
Meet The Feebles (Only got about halway through it before giving up. This is the same guy who gave us LOTR?)
The Naked Gun trilogy
Night of the Living Dead
Office Space
Paris, Texas
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Pink Flamingos
Pink Floyd's The Wall (That's right. Own it, haven't seen it.)
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Planet of the Apes (Original)
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Pulp Fiction
The Princess Bride
The Producers
Raising Arizona
Reefer Madness aka Tell Your Children
Repo Man
Reservoir Dogs
RollerBall (1975)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Haven't seen it -- other than a brief glance at a sci fi con in the late '70s -- and don't plan to.)
Scum
Shallow Grave
Silent Running
Six String Samurai
Solaris (original) (Kind of. We got about half an hour into it. Nothing happened. We got bored. The George Clooney remake managed to take all the tedium of the original and compress it down from three or four hours to just under two hours -- of concentrated tedium!)
Southlander
St. Elmo's Fire
Santa Sangre
Shawshank Redemption
Star Wars series (Yes, I forgot to mark this before. It must have been denial -- Episodes 1 & 2 traumatized me.)
Tank Girl
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the original)
They Live (Forgot to mark this one the first time around, too.)
Themroc
This Is Spinal Tap
This Island Earth
Tommy (the Who rock opera)
Total Recall
The Toxic Avenger
Tremors
TRON
UHF
Waiting for Guffman
The Wicker Man
Withnail and I
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
The Wizard of Speed and Time (I've also seen the original short!)
Yellow Submarine
Zardoz
Zoolander

Comments

[xylen.livejournal.com]

Last I heard, Willy Wonka is being remade with Johnny Depp being cast in the lead role.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Yep. And word is that the scriptwriter is determined to make it truer to Dahl's original book. In fact, at least one articlequoted someone as saying something to the effect of, "We're not 'remaking' Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. We're making Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."

I loved the book as a child, and, while I enjoyed the movie, I remember being disappointed and even annoyed at some of the changes made, things that changed the tone and altered the character of the story.

Personally, I think Depp will make a superb Wonka. And I think Burton will do a splendid job as director. He's never at his strongest when adapting someone else's work, but I believe his sense of dark whimsy meshes well with Dahl's.

[silussa.livejournal.com]

Definitely see The Toxic Avenger; the film that put Troma Films on the map. (admittedly, maybe as a Superfund site....)

[jirris-midvale.livejournal.com]

Oooh... Just right up my alley. I will swipe this from you.

[araquan.livejournal.com]

Regarding Peter Jackson's "other" works... Yeah. I've seen a few of his films and can understand why some say his doing LoTR is, in a way, the '00s equivalent of Ed Wood having somehow pulled Ben Hur, Spartacus, and The Ten Commandments out of some bodily orifice one day. }:>

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

Should watch "Feebles" all the way through. There's something about a film that contains a song in praise of sodomy that deserves that at least.

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

Where did this meme come from? Who decides what is cult or not?

...and do they do it for mainstream animation?