The Cult of Cult films.
I know of two things that produces a cult film.
Either really good in a strangely gripping way. Or supremely crappy that being serious (or not serious) is an appeal to itself.
I have my own cult film of Hudson Hawk. I don't think it was the fact that it was so bad, so off the cuff, so insanely a cumalation of being one of the greatest box office flops ever that made me like it. I just liked it. I was a kid when I first saw it, and as a kid I was kinda oblvious to the whole world. Seriously I was. I would watch a movie and never know the name of it, let alone know why it was good. I just inhaled it in, without any perceptions or anything. I didn't bother to remember names or even try to remember stars until I was much older, perhaps AFTER I saw Jurassic Park. I was in my own little world.
Hudson Hawk was a movie that I watched and kinda liked when I was a kid. It wasn't until later and through no help of others that I began to watch it often. It was like one of my "spend a whole weekend" watching movies additions. Soon enough when my mother "re-ordered" for the store it because she knew it was my favorite film, I watched it even more. Just cause I liked it. the more I learnt about it the more I liked it, how actors absolutely hated it, yet in the film they possibly played some of the best parts of their lives....IMHO of course. The characters were stock, yet the perfect kinda stock. But I think what stood out the most was the plain wackiness and it stuck in me despite my "oblvious" days.
Cult film fans just seem to be unified in only one thing, being fervor to the thing they like. Not some hoity toity acknowledgement like the Rollingstones, but a type of thing so obscure (or at least fringe enough to scare people of your knowledge beyond normal reachable grasps) you have to make an effort to like it.
I guess it's hard to describe cult, at least for me. I constantly find it being so over-used than anything becomes cult, even Pokemon.
I know of two things that produces a cult film.
Either really good in a strangely gripping way. Or supremely crappy that being serious (or not serious) is an appeal to itself.
I have my own cult film of Hudson Hawk. I don't think it was the fact that it was so bad, so off the cuff, so insanely a cumalation of being one of the greatest box office flops ever that made me like it. I just liked it. I was a kid when I first saw it, and as a kid I was kinda oblvious to the whole world. Seriously I was. I would watch a movie and never know the name of it, let alone know why it was good. I just inhaled it in, without any perceptions or anything. I didn't bother to remember names or even try to remember stars until I was much older, perhaps AFTER I saw Jurassic Park. I was in my own little world.
Hudson Hawk was a movie that I watched and kinda liked when I was a kid. It wasn't until later and through no help of others that I began to watch it often. It was like one of my "spend a whole weekend" watching movies additions. Soon enough when my mother "re-ordered" for the store it because she knew it was my favorite film, I watched it even more. Just cause I liked it. the more I learnt about it the more I liked it, how actors absolutely hated it, yet in the film they possibly played some of the best parts of their lives....IMHO of course. The characters were stock, yet the perfect kinda stock. But I think what stood out the most was the plain wackiness and it stuck in me despite my "oblvious" days.
Cult film fans just seem to be unified in only one thing, being fervor to the thing they like. Not some hoity toity acknowledgement like the Rollingstones, but a type of thing so obscure (or at least fringe enough to scare people of your knowledge beyond normal reachable grasps) you have to make an effort to like it.
I guess it's hard to describe cult, at least for me. I constantly find it being so over-used than anything becomes cult, even Pokemon.
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