What makes a movie "cult" statis?

Savia · Post by **Savia** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 1:56 pm

Being directed by Quentin Tarantino.

DTJB · Post by **DTJB** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 3:38 pm

MinnieMoose wrote:Super Mario Bros was lame. John Leguizamo's girlfriend said it best when she said "Oh yeah? Well Super Mario Brothers sucked!".

I didn't imply that it was the best of the cult movies, I just liked it. I mean, it's better than that suck ass Street Fighter movie.

WarpedElements · Post by **WarpedElements** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 3:44 pm

I dunno about that. But the Mario Bros movie was just bad. No enlargin because of mushrooms. No fireballs. The goombahs SUCKED.

DTJB · Post by **DTJB** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 4:29 pm

True, I understand that, maybe the writers just thought that the plot of the games couldn't adapt to a movie that well. The only reason I'll watch it when it's on T.V. is for some of the more humorous moments, not for the whole thing. As for the Street Fighter movie, watch it. You'll end up stopping half way through. Character personalities and motives in the games are not use in the movie: Chun-Li is a news reporter, Sagat and Ryu never met in the past, Charlie Nash is turned into Blanka by Dr. Dhalsim and Vega fights with his mask OFF!

ithaqua · Post by **ithaqua** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 10:43 pm

Dazed and Confused!

OzzieArcane · Post by **OzzieArcane** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 3:01 am

DTJB wrote:True, I understand that, maybe the writers just thought that the plot of the games couldn't adapt to a movie that well. The only reason I'll watch it when it's on T.V. is for some of the more humorous moments, not for the whole thing. As for the Street Fighter movie, watch it. You'll end up stopping half way through. Character personalities and motives in the games are not use in the movie: Chun-Li is a news reporter, Sagat and Ryu never met in the past, Charlie Nash is turned into Blanka by Dr. Dhalsim and Vega fights with his mask OFF!

I think the main problem with video game based movies, is that they change it because they want to movie to appeal to ALL audiences even though it won't. They want to try to get viewers who don't play games and at the same time they end up butchering the series so bad that any fans of the game will hate it.

shai-hulud · Post by **shai-hulud** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 11:48 am

My little cult film list:

Boondock Saints
Donnie Darko
Kill Bill (hard to tell at it's peak of popularity)
Every Monty Python/Terry Gilliam movie.
Pi
Tank Girl
Equilibrium

Savia · Post by **Savia** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 11:59 am

shai-hulud wrote:My little cult film list:

Boondock Saints
Donnie Darko
Kill Bill (hard to tell at it's peak of popularity)
Every Monty Python/Terry Gilliam movie.
Pi
Tank Girl
Equilibrium

Ooh, good film.

Kamoc · Post by **Kamoc** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 12:37 pm

the acting was terrible though, and even the storyline got drab after the first 30 minutes of it.

"everything has a pattern everything has a pattern i just made a pattern dude that's so cool"

darren aronofsky's other film requiem for a dream is a lot better: he uses the same "popping pills" technique from pi to draw more attention from the problem of an addiction rather than the haphazard 'pattern' conveyed in pi.

as for cult films, those are usually shit-flicks with disturbingly large fanbases.

anyone who makes a website for a movie in which a tree violently rapes one of the lead characters needs to drink a quart of trash juice (fuck you evil dead).

)v(ajin Koji · Post by **)v(ajin Koji** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 12:44 pm

The Red Dwarf series is "supposed" to be a cult, so I guess the movie will be too