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12 votes
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The road to 'The Road to El Dorado' - The making of an animated cult classic
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Showgirls | re:View
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What's your favorite cult classic movie?
I love hearing about obscure or forgotten films that people are passionate about. I was in a thread on Reddit, IIRC, and someone mentioned The Man From Earth. I just watched it for the first time...
I love hearing about obscure or forgotten films that people are passionate about. I was in a thread on Reddit, IIRC, and someone mentioned The Man From Earth. I just watched it for the first time and I can see its appeal.
I'm sure you have more than one. For me, a couple of favorites off the top of my head are Wristcutters: A Love Story and Wings of Desire. And some old timey classics that I rarely hear mentioned anymore are I Know Where I'm Going and The Lady Eve.
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Sex, cyborgs and videotape: An introduction to Japanese V-cinema
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Nuns on the Run (1990) | Almost Cult Classics
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A24 acquires Darren Aronofsky’s first film ‘Pi,’ sets IMAX re-release on Pi Day
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Albert Pyun, cult filmmaker behind ‘Cyborg,’ ‘Nemesis’ and ‘Captain America,’ dies at 69
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William Shatner’s Esperanto horror movie is a cult classic
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The oral history of Office Space: Behind the scenes of the cult classic
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Tubi is a good alternative to Netflix
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The Last Dragon - What happened to Laura Charles manager - What are you thoughts on Laura Charles?
I always had a little problem with Laura Charles in this 1985 cult classic. At the beginning of the movie, Laura's manager is begging her to play a tape. He tells her a man named Eddie Arcadian...
I always had a little problem with Laura Charles in this 1985 cult classic.
At the beginning of the movie, Laura's manager is begging her to play a tape. He tells her a man named Eddie Arcadian will hurt him if he doesn't get it played. He is literally terrified and begging. You can see he is terrified.
Laura actually says to him, "My life isn't filled with all that...... Drama." That's how she says it, she pauses before the word drama. Think about how dismissive that is. He is scared for his life and tells her as much, and she just says something that dismissive. Then she berates him like it is his fault he is in the situation. And the kicker is, she says her life isn't filled with all "of that drama" for two reasons. She liked the idea of it. The idea of thinking she was this person with no drama. And because she didn't care because it didn't affect her.
So the movie goes on. Now Laura is in danger of Eddie. It was all because Eddie wanted the tape played. There wasn't any "drama" in her life that caused it. But does she stop and realize that? Nope. Does she for one second think, "Gee maybe it wasn't my manager's fault he was in this situation. I wonder if he is okay?" Nope. She suddenly cares because it affects her.
And then everything in the end works out for her of course. And we never know if Eddie killed the manager or what happened to him. Laura never even looked for him to even just apologize, let alone make sure he wasn't dead.
What are your thoughts?
3 votes