Cult classic movies that you never get tired of watching?

What are some of your favorite cult classic movies and you can always rewatch and never get sick of?

Here's a few of mine.

• Donnie Darko I love this movie from the late 80's setting to the time travel aspect and the soundtrack is perfect.

• Office Space I rarely find comedy movies funny but this one is different so many classic lines and scenes.

• Mulholland Drive I really enjoy a movie that makes you keep guessing and this one sure did it's all in the details watching a deep dive of this film really gives you a appreciation for all the symbolism.

Based on a true story.

Love Bloodsport such a great movie.

I usually watch a movie and see it once or maybe twice if it’s a really good one. There’s probably two or three movies that I watched a number of times,one is Scareface,the other is Casino and Goodfellas?

The Shawshank Redemption never gets old from me:

Its just one of those movies I never get tired of watching over and over again. Still shocks me today it never won an Oscar and I'm always like...WTH!?

Big Trouble in Little China

They Live

The Thing

Battle Royale

Belle du Juor...

I've seen Mulholland Drive many. many times.

I didn't know Shawshank never got an Oscar. I looked it up and errr.... Not a fan of Forrest Gump.

I watched Big Trouble In Little China so much growing up I love it. It's pretty cool how some Mortal Kombat characters where inspired from that film like Shang Tsung and Raiden etc.. also there's that part of the movie where Jack and Wang are swimming in green looking water with skeletons that resembles the dead pool stage from MK2.

The Big Lebowski.

Never seen this guy in much, but always thought he was fucking great in TNG.

• Battle Royale
• Shrek
• Anchorman
• Dumb & Dumber

I'm not really sure what classifies as a "cult classic" but I'm going to have to go with the Chan Wook-Park "revenge" trilogy; Oldboy, Lady Vengeance, and Sympathy for Mr Vengeance. Add in The Handmaiden while we are on the subject of Korean movies.

@PfizersaurusRex: YEEES! God, there was a time in high school where my friends and I spent more time quoting The Big Lebowski than, like, actually conversing with each other.

Mirrormask

Heathers

American Psycho

Serenity

Off the top of my head,

• Evil Dead
• Naked Gun
• Kung Fu Hustle
• UHF
• The Warriors
• The Last Dragon
• The Rocketeer
• History of the World
• Spaceballs
• My Name Is Nobody

Don't know if Snatch counts as a cult classic, but I can watch that from beginning to end and always be entertained.

Do you know what a nemesis is?

The Big Lebowski and Mulholland Drive are pretty much my go-to's.

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

The Breakfast Club
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Fifth Element
Forrest Gump
Office Space
The Shawshank Redemption

You guys picked popular movies, not cult classics. :(

The Crow

The Crow is popular.

It is considered a cult classic so there's that.

Err okay. How about Pulp Fiction?

Watched My Star Wars Special Edition VHS tapes 1000's of times auto rewinding it.

Watch my DBZ DVD's 1000's of times

Watch my LOTR extended edition DVD 1000's of time before i go to bed with actor commentary an stuff i miss those things screw streamin services

Big Lebowski

I never understood the attraction of repeatedly watching or reading something over and over again.

Do you listen to a song more than once?

Is the first Terminator considered a cult classic? Or the second one?

Na, wouldn't say so personally. Not as popular as II, but was still pretty popular and generally, really well known.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Big Lebowski

The Rock

@LJS9502_basic: You’re comparing apples with oranges.

Perhaps you should ask if I’ve ever drank water more than once.

Watching or reading something repeatedly is simply a waste of time.

One can listen to the same music while doing different thing.

While sitting down and spending multiple hours watching a film repeatedly is just a waste of time.

I don’t replay single player games, once I’m done with it, I wouldn’t waste my time replaying it.

Oh so you don't really pay attention to music. That's a shame.

@kadin_kai: Sounds like you just don't really enjoy anything which is really sad.

Easily the best Die Hard clone. Heck, kinda prefer it over Die Hard.

@vfighter: It doesn’t surprise me that you came to such a conclusion, you’re very intelligent.

@LJS9502_basic: That’s true, music doesn’t play a huge role in my life. It’s in the background, never in the foreground.

I simply find it monotonous and a waste of my time to repeat something that I have seen, read or played.

Why not approach uncharted waters instead?

The world is full of great films, books, games, people to socialise with, places to travel, history, languages to learn...

Back when I was in the UK with my long commutes, I used to pick topics and learn all about it. It was great to learn a topic and it was often useful to me at work.

But off course, each to their own.

I'd rather watch something great again and again over some new trash I haven't seen yet. That just makes sense to me why would I watch something I don't like over something I like?

Don't you like watching good trailers that just come out like 10 or 20 times or 100? You really just watch them once and your done?

@ProtossRushX: Watch a trailer 10 times? I have never seen a trailer 10 times in my life, what’s the point in doing that?

Yup I wouldn’t want to re-watch a film, not unless many years have passed or there is something significant that I missed or misinterpreted. But re-watching a film over and over is definitely a no-no for me.

Moreover, how would you know you wouldn’t like a film if you’ve not seen it?

@kadin_kai: that’s a bit of an odd take.

I love to consume various art of all mediums, repeatedly, precisely because it does not change. But that’s missing the point.... I’M constantly changing as a person, constantly growing. I can watch the same movie, read the same book, or listen to the same song sometime later on and gain a totally different appreciation and respect for it than I did on my first consumption.

I’d argue that repeated views are paramount to the fullest appreciation of any medium. If you’re simply going to watch it once and then discard it to move onto the next thing, you’re really depriving yourself of its fullest potential in showing you not how it changes, but how you do.

@MirkoS77: Consider this:

2 people, 1000 books and 3 years.

Person A, reads each book 3 times, Person B reads each book once.

By the end of three years, who earned the most knowledge?

Your appreciation of a book or a film does not depend on how many times you read or watch it, but rather how efficient the person is in understanding it.

If you still feel this is a strange approach, consider your education, did you have to study a course twice? How many years did it take for you to graduate high school or university?

Def disagree. Rereading and re-watching helps plenty of people appreciate things more or provide a better understanding.

To assume that simply consuming more material in general gives someone an up on 'understanding' is way off. Think you can totally understand Mullholland Drive on a single watch? Well you'd be a liar if you said yes.

To bring up studying is strange considering that it requires source material to be rigorously reread, and I see it as direct evidence against your viewpoint. The act of studying implies you're revisiting material that you may have previously sat through at a previous time.

@kadin_kai: Person A learns more because they were able to fully understand the books after reading them multiple times. Person B rushed through each book and learned very little.

This also explains your utter lack of knowledge whenever you post, thanks for clearing things up.

Superbad, Hot Rod, American Pie and Lords of Dogtown.

@kadin_kai: consider this:

Two people, the same person.

Person A: a woman who is single and has not given birth or endured raising child(ren).

Person B: a woman who is married and has raised a family.

She consumes something once before she has had a family, and once after. This piece of media is immutable, but perhaps it deals with issues she couldn’t have possibly appreciated fully prior to having had and raised children. Its value changes to her and becomes more evident and appreciated because of how she has changed in the experiences she’s had.

You seem to think that more information intake is synonymous with better appreciation of it, and that’s simply not true. If I were only able to experience things once, or made it a point to do so intentionally, all art would lose an immense degree of its power to me.

@vfighter: I did not account for slow learners, apologies I hope you catch up!

@MirkoS77: Surely you’re talking about a lack of memory.

If she held the memory then she would reflect, she wouldn’t need to rewatch whatever this piece of media contained.

No, more information intake is not the same as better appreciation of it.

Have you heard of The Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility? You earn less marginal utility for consuming the same thing.

I stand by my point, it’s a waste to repeatedly consume the same thing.

I don't consume art for its utility, and memory is not even close to a substitute for experience.

If you honestly hold no interest in consuming art more than once and view it as worthless, then no offense but I honestly feel a bit bad for you, but to each their own. Typically it takes me numerous views to even begin to appreciate and respect something. Even films I've seen dozens of times over I still find myself in awe of.

It's not a waste at all, what would be a waste would be to not repeatedly consume it.

@MirkoS77: Thanks but no need to feel bad for me.

I have no desire to repeatedly consume something that derives diminishing returns.

I prefer to enjoy new things, expand to new horizons and experience fresh perspectives.

Star Wars 4,5,6.........and simply the best star wars movies.