Lynxa wrote:
And I don't think Jersey Girl is a cult classic because to BE a cult classic people actually have to LIKE it
Thus far I have yet to find anyone who thought that movie was watchable (unless BH did....).
I actually do think it is a decent film for what it is. Is it standard Kevin Smith fare? No. And that's the point. Kevin took a chance at telling a very personal love story, and he ended getting a good performance out of Afleck(he seems to be the only one who can) and great performances out of George Carlin and Steven Root. I don't think it did poorly because it was a bad film, but simply because it wasn't connected to his Leonardo/Red Bank films. BTW, his next film is going to be a horror film. Can't wait to see what he comes up with.
As for Bubba, how can you go wrong with a black JFK and an aged Elvis fighting a mummy who sucks the souls out of old folks arseholes?! Freakin awesome!
What about movies that did not
maintain a following for years but simply disappeared and then resurfaced?
That happens often, where a generation of people later adopt a B-movie
as their own.
That would be my definition of a cult film. I do agree that it is not so much a genre. That's like calling classic films a genre. To me, a cult film is something that does not label itself as such. It's like the old rule of cool: If you are trying to be cool, you never will be. There are two subcategories that I follow:
1. A good film that was not critically well received and/or distributed on a large scale, which is rediscovered later by a new generation and looked at differently. (Freaks)
2. A film that is so terrible that it garners a following for simply being so bad that it's good. (Killer Klowns From Outer Space)
Time is but an illusion. Lunch time...doubly so.
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I probably won't actually do it, it just looks WAY too painfully awful to have to sit through, but maybe one day I'll rent it and get good and smashed - maybe that'll give me a laugh 
I missed an opportunity to post a clip from an ultra-violent HK movie. 
