Sentences with phrase «sort of cult status»

Yes, the film received an F CinemaScore, and was thrashed in certain critic circles — but it has also been fiercely embraced in others, which admire the film for its sheer insanity and have given it an instant sort of cult status.

I feel that lemonade has a sort of cult status in every cuisine.

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In fact, it probably owes its cult status predominantly to two or three superb lines delivered to deadpan perfection by Caine («you're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off», etc), than any sort of major comic consistency or outstanding action sequences.

Just four years after The Silence of the Lambs made Levine sort of a cult figure, the film is the first to capitalize on his new status, its resounding failure freeing him to return to the character actor ghetto.

True, the NSX never sold in great numbers in the UK — certainly not in the sort of volumes that would have persuaded Honda to bring over the lightened and track - honed «- R» variant — but owners of good manual» box examples have cottoned on to their cult classic status and rising stock (# 20K plus) and tend to keep their pampered treasures locked away, which is understandable if perverse given the Honda's everyday useability.