Why are 70s and 80s cult films so much more timeless then modern movies
Cult Movies
Adrian Powell
Dylan Rivera
They were a product of their time. The 70s and 80s had distinct styles to them that we just don't have today. I think it might be due to the ubiquity of the internet and being able to look back into the past which influences us even if we don't know it.
Alexander Morgan
I agree. I also thinks it helps that New York was much seeder back then so on location shots needed less work, but still The warriors creates a world that is soulful as hell and it is contained to one film. the only thing that comes close is what John Wick ended becoming
Aaron Moore
>when a dumb person tries to smart person talk
Landon Robinson
At least he's trying nigger.
Matthew Morales
It's true though.
Jaxson Cox
People acting like people, even in weird settings.
Tyler Green
What are some other good cult films
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Zachary Hall
Check out After Hours. Great atmosphere and kind of suspenseful.
Brandon Cook
I will check it out
Isaac Long
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Daniel Gonzalez
Watched Backdraft yesterday. Sad we can't have this any more.
Noah Garcia
Thank your lucky little stars for Micheal bay
Brayden Gray
The Driver
Sorcerer
To Live and Die in LA
Miracle Mile
Thief
Gabriel Reed
Repo man.
Ian Fisher
Isn't crazy how diverse movies were with no complaints. Half the warriors were black with the most evil one being white
Joseph Cox
WarGames
Adam Williams
most ""cult"" movies are trash like the goonies though
Jacob Powell
I like a lot of the stuff from Joe Dante and John Waters personally. I feel like nobody consistently make movies with as much such anarchic fun as those two. Rock ‘n’ Roll High School and Female Trouble are two of my go-to’s.
Connor Parker
The To live an die in LA trailer is a masterpiece in advertisement. Sucks that trailers are so formulaic
Zachary Williams
Culturally, we're in a time of decay. There aren't many new ideas floating around, and it's consequently more difficult to be creative. Standards are slipping on the production side too. It's acceptable now to be far more sloppy with scriptwriting and overall production than ever before. The late 1950s was a similarly flat time, at least in Hollywood. The old world was just about to end, and the new world hadn't been born yet. We're in the same spot.
Jacob Young
would drive be considered a cult film
Liam Adams
True, I hate this weird culture now. Trannies running around and basement dwellers screaming about jews at the slightest provocation (real or not).
Aiden Price
based
Owen Price
I think so. I think there’s still plenty of cult films being made. Or at least films that are close. It’s tricky using the same terms to define things when the industry is so fundamentally different now than it was then.
Nicholas White
To Live and Die in LA is free on youtube.
Evan Myers
>do not despair, user
Jaxon Nguyen
Trannies were running around then too, but you know what they say. Only the cool gays died of AIDS and then we were only left with the no-fun ones.
Aiden Rivera
Taxi Driver
Raging Bull
Starship Troopers
Ethan Collins
beat me to it
Brandon Parker
More independent films are being made now than ever before but who has the time to sort through the crap for the gems. They also have near zero marketing so people are oblivious to their existence.
Nicholas Gutierrez
directors had final say, now the studios do
Wyatt Anderson
original fright night
Nathan Harris
the directors cut of this is such wank
Austin Bennett
product of high IQ white men, not zoomers, leftards and roasties
Sebastian Green
Yeah the comic book shit was unnecessary but that opening with the wonder wheel is still one of the most kino openings ever
Carson Hill
Not convincing. The cover is nowhere near the proper art style for a cult movie.
Isaac King
Films back then were experimental. Directors also had way more control, and nowadays there's only a couple of auteurs left in Hollywood.
Sebastian Powell
You think their will be point in the future where money will cede control to auteurs again
Wyatt Edwards
the trend of true film auters really died when Cimino made Heaven’s gate or whatever, and it flopped
William Robinson
>Backdraft
What, no braps posts?
Colton Bennett
Doubt it but I'm hopeful for capeshit fatigue to happen. Otherwise studios have no reason to deviate from the cookie cutter formula.
Jonathan Nelson
Because back then film was art first, money maker second.
Now it's agenda pushing first, money maker second, art third.
Camden Thompson
Not really. Snow White would have made or broken Disney. It being a success spun it into a bunch of princess movies after.
Aiden Brown
Jayden Butler
that plate of shrimp speech is some fucking genius acting I tell you
Wyatt Garcia
>Snow White would have made or broken Disney.
So? It was still art first, money maker second. Don't get me wrong, they want all their films to make money, but they wanted to it with quality (of course there was some garbage, but I'm talking big films)
Brody Ramirez
Cooper Ramirez
You're all right!
Men of good taste. Repo Man is kinoest of kino and only chads appreciate it.
Post yfw John Wayne was a fag.
Kevin Wood
>They were a product of their time. The 70s and 80s had distinct styles to them that we just don't have today.
100% this. The last 20 years have been one long blur with nothing to define our culture or its style unlike previous decades!!!FACT!!!
Tyler Miller
I still maintain that the 70s were the greatest decade in film because of the ending of the Hays Code. Movies were just gritty as fuck back then.
Joshua Rodriguez
Wang Chung soundtrack was my jam.
Blake White
Fucking existentialist kino
Cameron Reed
>we can't have this any more.
Why not?
Eli Murphy
Untalented hacks still exist
Logan Wood
This extends into so many aspects of our lives. Even home decor has stagnated for fuck sakes