Question what was your favorite movie that bombed at the box office. And later because a cult classic ?
Mine is "Office Space"
when the movie is too quotable to fail
@corlin Actually I've always had a soft spot for Cutthroat Island ☠️
Oh, great one.
Cheesy but so much damn fun.
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Easy twofer -- and they both came out the summer of '82: Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" and John Carpenter's remake of "The Thing."
"Office Space" is a good choice, too. Judge also did "Idiocracy" which died (and also has cult status) cuz bigwigs at Fox yanked support for it. I wonder why...? 🤔 🤓
Adore both of these. Definitely in my top movies of all time.
Yes, I know it’s “PeopleTV” 🙄🤓 but it’s Keith David talking about “The Thing.” 🤣
@corlin
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, starring Uma Thurman, with music by k.d.lang.
Way under appreciated
Ricky Horror Picture Show - it ran in Austin longer than anywhere else. Dammit, Janet, was there ever a better cult classic!?!!
Oh, man. It’s hard to choose just one!
Bladerunner
Empire Records
Labyrinth
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Hunger (yes, Bowie himself was a cult classic; and the score was exquisite!)
@corlin I would have mentioned Zardoz.
@corlin Zardoz managed to convey some pretty complex notions with little in the way of fx. I loved it.
@tyghebright I like cheese...especially when it conveys a point. @corlin
@corlin ”Xanadu”. Loved that movie as a kid, it was such a bomb back in the day and then developed a following.
Also “Clue”, so quotable now and it has become more famous than the movie that inspired it, “Murder by Death”.
@Redskye572 @corlin Second The Hunger. Our family loved both Cutthroat Island and The Phantom (with Billy Zane), which were both solid B movies. I also really liked French films Diva and La femme Nikita.
@corlin Buckaroo Banzai
@corlin
It's a wonderful life
@corlin A few come to mind, but "Dredd" stands out. Enough of a flop to ensure no sequels (booooo!) but enough of a cult following to become something of a classic (yaaaaay!).
Terry Gilliam's 'Brazil'
Ha, one of the cultiest of cult classics. 🤓
@corlin
Legend, with Tim Curry.
Buckaroo Banzai.
Didn't even earn back half its $17 million budget at the box office but it's become a cult classic. (They couldn't figure out how to market it.)
I adore it. My favorite movie.
@tyghebright @corlin Laugh while you can...
@tyghebright @corlin
John Abigbootie...
🙃😉
Oh, and Ladyhawke.
Funny and romantic.
I loved Ladyhawke, too-:)
@corlin Head Office from '85 was a classic in my circles, but I'm not sure about more broadly. All star cast Eddie Albert, Danny DeVito, Judge Reinhold, Jane Seymour, Don King, etc. Hilarious! 😆
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091183/
@corlin Harold & Maude
@JGSchaeffer
Good choice
Knights of Badassdom. $124k at the box office.
@corlin Fight Club