Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[SlaveNoMore]

Anne Elk
What's a cult movie?

I would not put Scarface and Shawshank in the cult category, I think of them as mainstream movies.

I nominate Office Space, Raising Arizona, and Dr. Strangelove to the list.

How can anything by the Coen Brothers or Kubrick be a cult movie? My god.

THIS is a list of great cult movies, in no particular order:

Meet the Feebles
Humanoids from the Deep
Eraserhead
Re-Animator
The Toxic Avenger
Cannibal Holocaust
Five Deadly Venoms
Andy Warhol's Dracula
Omega Man
Demon Seed
Dude, Where's my Car?

not7y(find the hidden joke)S

[dtb]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
OK, I wear sweaters about the neck with some frequency, though I don't do it by way of accessorization (I accessorize my neck with scarves and pearls, like a sane person). I wear them around my neck not because I am cold but because I am warm. I get cold a lot, and so wear a lot of sweaters and cardigans, and when I am not cold they are too warm, so I remove them and need someplace to put them. I refuse to wrap the damn things about my waist so as to emphasize the size of my ass, or wad them up into a handbag, which seem to be the other options, so about the neck they hang. (Or I wear them over my shoulders, all the better to impersonate a librarian, but this doesn't strike me as a superior look.)


BR(OK, I acknowledge that anyone doing this as a "fashion statement" just looks like an idiot)C

Hmmm. Interesting. I would have thought you would be the last person to use fall back upon the "functionality" exemption for improper clothing use. Weren't you advocating wearing high heels when fleeing a terrorist attack on your city rather than change into the more functional sneakers in your gym bag on the basis that wearing said sneakers would be "improper" with work clothing? Isn't wearing a sweater about the neck not really what you're supposed to be doing with it?

I'm sure your logical explanation will be forthcoming.

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
How can anything by the Coen Brothers or Kubrick be a cult movie? My god.

THIS is a list of great cult movies, in no particular order:

Meet the Feebles
Humanoids from the Deep
Eraserhead
Re-Animator
The Toxic Avenger
Cannibal Holocaust
Five Deadly Venoms
Andy Warhol's Dracula
Omega Man
Demon Seed
Dude, Where's my Car?

not7y(find the hidden joke)S

Amen to Omega Man. I thought I was the only freak who loved that film (and I would add Soylent Green to the list). Speaking of great Chuck Heston flicks, I still want to know what possessed them to remake Planet of the Apes and put in my vote to ensure that they don't remake any of the others. They took a campy classic and made it into a special effects freak show. I saw the new one at the theater and refuse to ever watch it again.

I would add Suburbia (not the Parker Posey one) to the cult classic list. I saw it as during my "mohawk days" and actually bought a used copy for like $1.99 at Blockbuster a couple of years back. You can read about it here http://www.fast-rewind.com/

Another site states:
"No actors here, just real people. Director Penlope Spheeris, possibly America's surest hand in dealing with social rejects, knew she couldn't turn actors into punks. "I can," she says, "turn punks into actors." About 14 of these homeless L.A. kids crash all day and listen to 300 beats per minute speedrock at night. They live in condemned waste of a suburban area where wild dogs roam and emblazoned graffiti is reminiscent of Stanly Kubrick's ominous "Clockwork Orange." Filmed in realistic locations in a run-down suburb of Downey, CA (condemned to make way for the new Century Freeway to LAX) and in L.A. clubs, "SUBURBIA" is an original story by Spheeris. The production took place during the winter of 1982-1983 and lasted five weeks. Vincent Canby of the New York Times says SUBURBIA is "The best teenagers-in-revolt movie since 'Over The Edge'. It's far better than Coppola's 'Outsiders' and 'Rumblefish'."

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan
Amen to Omega Man. I thought I was the only freak who loved that film (and I would add Soylent Green to the list). Speaking of great Chuck Heston flicks, I still want to know what possessed them to remake Planet of the Apes and put in my vote to ensure that they don't remake any of the others. They took a campy classic and made it into a special effects freak show. I saw the new one at the theater and refuse to ever watch it again.

I would add Suburbia (not the Parker Posey one) to the cult classic list. I saw it as during my "mohawk days" and actually bought a used copy for like $1.99 at Blockbuster a couple of years back. You can read about it here http://www.fast-rewind.com/

Another site states:
"No actors here, just real people. Director Penlope Spheeris, possibly America's surest hand in dealing with social rejects, knew she couldn't turn actors into punks. "I can," she says, "turn punks into actors." About 14 of these homeless L.A. kids crash all day and listen to 300 beats per minute speedrock at night. They live in condemned waste of a suburban area where wild dogs roam and emblazoned graffiti is reminiscent of Stanly Kubrick's ominous "Clockwork Orange." Filmed in realistic locations in a run-down suburb of Downey, CA (condemned to make way for the new Century Freeway to LAX) and in L.A. clubs, "SUBURBIA" is an original story by Spheeris. The production took place during the winter of 1982-1983 and lasted five weeks. Vincent Canby of the New York Times says SUBURBIA is "The best teenagers-in-revolt movie since 'Over The Edge'. It's far better than Coppola's 'Outsiders' and 'Rumblefish'."

Has anyone mentioned "C.H.U.D."*?

*Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan

I would add Suburbia (not the Parker Posey one) to the cult classic list. I saw it as during my "mohawk days" and actually bought a used copy for like $1.99 at Blockbuster a couple of years back. You can read about it here http://www.fast-rewind.com/

I remember that movie being much discussed in the smoking area at my highschool (the one I went to after boarding school). I thought it was great. I have no idea what I'd think of it now.

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Has anyone mentioned "C.H.U.D."*?

*Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers

Good flick.

Repo Man, anyone? "You find one in every car."
Road Warrior -- before everyone picked it up after Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. Sheesh, there were people who never knew that there were two great flicks before that piece of shit with Tina Turner.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
What's a cult movie?

One good rule of thumb is whether people will do pilgrimages to the sites where it was filmed. This rules out all movies filmed entirely on a studio production lot, or anything with CGI.

A friend lives in the rectory of the church in the first Harold & Maude funeral scene (the one indoors, not at the gravesite). She says they sometimes get people knocking on the door saying they're H&M fans. That's pretty good sign it's a cult classic. I occasionally point out to out-of-town visitors the office building from which Maude liberated the street tree. I judge their coolness by whether they know what I'm talking about.

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I remember that movie being much discussed in the smoking area at my highschool (the one I went to after boarding school). I thought it was great. I have no idea what I'd think of it now.

I watched it about two months ago. Sound, lighting and camera work are still as shitty as I recall but the film is actually kinda cool. Of course, I am the person who would immediately shave her hair back into a mohawk if she won the big jackpot from the lottery so YMMV.

:devil:

edited to wonder aloud why GWNC has not mentioned Slap Shot.

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
One good rule of thumb is whether people will do pilgrimages to the sites where it was filmed. This rules out all movies filmed entirely on a studio production lot, or anything with CGI.

Another rule may be that a cult classic is a movie that Hollywood is interested some thirty years later in doing a remake of (Planet of the Apes) or a sequel for (Slap Shot) and the movie either didn't make diddly when originally released or only garnered a following after one million showings on TBS and the like.


edited to make fucking sense of the thought. May not have succeeded.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
apropos of nothing- when bored, I would sometimes try to put my nipple in to the "eye" of my bfs penis. It hurt. And not in a pinching way. Why?

Either you have nipples like needles or your boyfriend's urethra is nearly the diameter of a dime.

S(that's unpossible)D

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
That doesn't sound right. Most sororities will not allow a man above the first floor. In my house, men were only allowed in the "formal living room" not the TV room or the dining room. Ever. Also, no alcohol. That's what frats are for. So, weird etiquette:
Many weird smoking rules - it was PC to smoke in those days but - NO lighting the cigarette without holding it between two fingers (in other words don't let it hang out of your mouth while you light). Never hold a cigarette in your mouth - you must hold it between your fingers at all times. Otherwise it makes you look cheap. No gum, ever (I think that rule should hold now - I hate gum chewers).

The girdle check was my favorite. There was also a brassier check - you had to wear yours at all times.

Where I went to school, sorosrities didn't have houses. After readin your post, I'm glad.

[bridge of love]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan
Another rule may be that a cult classic is a movie that Hollywood is interested some thirty years later in doing a remake of (Planet of the Apes) or a sequel for (Slap Shot) and the movie either didn't make diddly when originally released or only garnered a following after one million showings on TBS and the like..

most of these rules are really "one offs" to describe one movie that is cult. a cult movie is one where most/all people hear of it through a recommendation, as opposed to ads etc. also, I think the "cult" following needs to be somewhat anti-mainstream. for this reason Office Space (which I love, see my Avatar) is not a cult movie. its following is fried engineers. Spinal Tap also is not a cult movie for a similar reason- its following thinks its not mainstream when it is the mainstream. the whole question is made much more complicated once mainstream media starts giving its ten best "cult" movies. the very listing almost makes it not.

3 that are great, and destined to always be "cult" Liquid Sky, Forbidden Zone (Herve V.!) and Driller Killer.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by andViolins
You or your bf? It hurt him b/c there are a whole heck of a lot of nerves down there and things just are not supposed to go in that out door. Don't know why it hurt you. I would guess that you're not into the clothespins on the nipples thing, are you?

aV

Any man who's ever been tested for a social disease will concur that having something stuck even a milimeter up there is pain above any you could ever previously imagine.

S(worse tha getting kicked square in the nuts)d

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan
Speaking of great Chuck Heston flicks, I still want to know what possessed them to remake Planet of the Apes and put in my vote to ensure that they don't remake any of the others. They took a campy classic and made it into a special effects freak show. I saw the new one at the theater and refuse to ever watch it again.

Yeah, what the hell good is a Mark Wahlberg movie where he doesn't take off his shirt? It just ain't right.

[Jack Manfred]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Dude. That joke is so old it was on ER 2 years ago.

Get with the times.

My bad. Though this might explain why your friends think it's normal to move in together so soon. I agree with the others who have a one year minimum. You have to complete the holiday cycle before you really know a person (and their family).

In my defense, I haven't watched ER in over 5 years.