Cult Classics Years Later After Being Squat On Mostly By Everyone

[Rex Kwon Do]

Congo. Yeah, the talking gorilla movie. I usually watch it once a year; fucking love that movie. I think it was panned by critics partially because they used a person inside a gorilla suit instead of CG (this was after Jurassic Park so they expected every big budget film to have equally impressive special effects, I guess). Probably were also some other criticisms, but that sticks out in my mind as the main one. It's a completely ridiculous criticism, IMO; Amy the gorilla was pretty well done. Moved like a gorilla, looked like one, had a fairly expressive face...the fuck do these critics want? It would have looked much worse as CG in those days. Even 10 years after it came out a CG gorilla still would have looked worse than a person in an ape suit.

Fuck the haters. I'm going to watch Congo before the year is over--again.

 

[Organic Damage]

Heh, this is still probably the best video game movie they've ever made.

 

[Bobby Boulders]

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

Love that flick. Saw it in theaters when it came out.

 

[Bobby Boulders]

Love that flick. Saw it in theaters when it came out.

Me too. I liked it, most of the peeps who saw it with me hated it. Now I rarely hear of anyone dissing this film.

 

[method115]

Never back down might be the best MMA movie but that's not saying much lol.
I hated Warrior but it never had a real shot with me because of it being an MMA movie.

I thought warrior and redbelt were both great but I never liked them for the fighting scenes. It was more the overall story.

 

[neverwas]

love this film,but has it ever aged badly.

 

[HARRISON_3]

Dark City
Thirteenth Floor

 

[RollSonnenRoll]

McGruber!

One of my absolute favorite movie endings

Spoiler

...I do

MACGRUBER!

 

[Dizzy]

Me too. I liked it, most of the peeps who saw it with me hated it. Now I rarely hear of anyone dissing this film.

It's aite

 

[Zer]

MacGruber was quality. Shit had me in tears a couple of times

"I will suck your dick, I will suck your fucking dick, just join my team. I'll suck your dick, you can fuck me, you can get fucked by me. You can watch me fuck something? Just point at something in the room and I'll fuck it for you! Just tell me what you want me to fuck!"
- MacGruber, 2010

 

[Bobby Boulders]

It's aite

Aite.

 

[Te Huna Matata]

 

[TheStruggle]

Showgirls became a cult classic BECAUSE everyone completely shit all over the movie.

 

[AronaBeatsJones]

Showgirls became a cult classic BECAUSE everyone completely shit all over the movie.

Which brings me to this hilarious black comedy:

 

[raty tat tat]

Starship Troopers.

Mostly panned and misunderstood. I thought it was straight up schlock (basically being a snob about it) back then but over the years I realized this borderline schlock, camp, gore infested social commentary/satire was the most fun alien insect/arthropod invasion movie - aside from Edge of Tomorrow - I'll ever watch.

And clearly has the original premise of showing intermittent news coverage (of impending Alien invasion) via interactive TV/internet news footage in a meta sort of a way which Edge of Tomorrow, Captain America borrowed liberally among others - done in the style of circa 1940's/WWII.

The deliberately stiff and earnest acting all around was ingenious which flew over my head then.

Plenty of cult classics that was originally panned. What's your fav?

I liked it to bad we never got a proper sequel to it. And I liked Robot Jox
as well.

 

[Genki Sudo II]

Which brings me to this hilarious black comedy:

Ha, ha, what a story, poster. Anyway, how's your sex life?

 

[vcmmafan]

Didn't that actor make that up on the spot?

 

[Madmick]

Shawshank Redemption tank at the box office but once it hit VHS became a instant cult classic

Shawshank Redemption is one of the examples of a good reason why the Academy Awards exists. The ceremony used to be important enough to even warrant second runs for Best Picture nominees in markets where they didn't do well; sometimes, as in my small town, nominations would earn a film that didn't even get a first run a virginal chance at being seen in the theater.

Then they diluted their shit, and I've noticed people just stopped caring, really.

I think some in here are mentioning films like Shawshank that were never "shit on". They were just underknown. Starship Troopers was literally panned by the critics, just shit on from all side, and now it's considered a satirical masterpiece of the Sci-Fi genre. I couldn't have named a better film than the OP himself. I don't see how it gets topped.

 

[cottagecheesefan]

Starship Troopers, and the people I've met that liked it suck.

I have always loved the movie. The people I have met, who don't like it, are self-hating, PC-liberal, pussy-assclowns who don't enjoy Denise Richards in her prime, along with starcraft action, prior there even being a starcraft.

And lolz at TS for not realizing this on his first watch througn