Sentences with phrase «cult movie because»

Pulp Fiction is a little different than most cult movies because when it came out it was successful and critics loved it.

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The reason he was the driving force behind the films creation and promotion was not because of the artistic merit he imparted to the work (not to say the movie and book weren't excellent), but because of the cult of personality surrounding his own personal brand.

thinkingbpeople are rating it low because it has a diverse cast to which i say die off like ur ignorant grandfathers and fathers before them!!!!! In addition, Cabin in the Woods is a fucking cult success, it was well written and made for a network-esque movie.

That movie, in all its incompetent grandeur, is «The Room» (2003), which is now considered «the greatest bad movie ever made» because of its DVD popularity and cult following.

If Platoon doesn?t have the cult status of some other movies on the Vietnam war, it?s not because of the overall quality, because it?s a really great movie.

Hereditary may well be destined to change into a cult movie within the vein of The Babadook, It Follows, The Witch, and maximum just lately It Comes at Night, because of this.

As I touched on earlier, I'm actually glad that I didn't get to many new movies this year, because I liked being able (forced) to focus on the cult films that make up the backbone of MRFH.

A remake of Tom Holland's cult classic that was itself one of my VHS favourites (worn to breaking during my formative decade with the movies), Fright Night is delightful because it's absolutely certain of what it is and what it isn't, delivers everything it promises it will (in spades), and genuinely has fun with the 3 - D innovation that's the bane of most other movies lately.

When: January 18th Why: Between the English - language debuts of Kim Ji - woon and Park Chan - wook, and Spike Lee's upcoming remake of the cult classic «Oldboy,» the Korean invasion is in full swing, and deservedly so, because they're making some of the best movies at the moment.

Sci - Fi Movie Page Pick: This extremely funny spin - off of the «cult» television show may start off unpromisingly, but soon you'll find yourself rewinding the tape and watching it again because you couldn't hear all the dialogue because everybody watching it were laughing so loud.

Judged against the original 2001 movie version of Wet Hot American Summer — a film no one saw in theaters, before it became a cult obsession in part because then - unknown actors like Bradley Cooper, Amy Poehler, Paul Rudd, and Elizabeth Banks became huge stars — the two Netflix spinoff seasons (including 2015's First Day of Camp prequel) can't help but come up wanting.

In part because the billboard stayed up for fucking years, and in part because the movie itself is so wackadoo, the cult of The Room grew and grew.

Good thing Hollywood didn't bite, because if they'd made it big, Tommy and Greg wouldn't have felt put - out and desperate enough to make their own movie, in which case there'd be no cult of The Room to speak of and, thus, no excuse for James Franco to do whatever the hell it is he's is doing in The Disaster Artist.

While the behind - the - scenes aspects of making 2003's infamously terrible cult film The Room are undoubtedly entertaining (especially for those who are familiar with that movie), the reason James Franco's The Disaster Artist is elevated above mere nudging and winking is because of the co-dependent relationship at the center of the movie.

Reviled by critics upon its initial release (Ebert dismissed it as a «freak show» for instance) and doing badly at the box office, this 1982 horror movie by cult director John Carpenter has undergone a bit of a rehabilitation recently — partly because of Gen X fans who recall it vividly and partly because horror flicks strangely enough became more tame and predictable with the years.

He starred in cult»80s movies Teen Wolf and Back to the Future, but Michael J. Fox has confessed he almost gave up acting to become a builder... because he kept losing roles to Matthew Broderick.