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cintune
climber
Penn's Woods
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They say this cat Shaft ties a bad munter...
Shut your mouth!
But I'm talkin' about Shaft!
Then we can dig it!
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millhous
Trad climber
ny,ny
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Love & a 45
Last Exit to Brooklyn
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Gagner
climber
Boulder
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I can't believe no one has mentioned Spinal Tap - one of the best cult moviesof all time.
Of course in the climbing specific world Eiger Sanction has to be considered cult / classic.
Paul
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survival
Big Wall climber
arlington, va
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Hey Paul!!
So good catching up with you a bit recently!
Spinal Tap for sure.
Yeah, Clockwork Orange...awesome.
A crazy buddy and I used to try to come up with interesting themes for a rainy weekend, like:
Dennis Hopper Filmfest
*Apocolypse Now
*Blue Velvet
You get the idea. You can make a category out of anything, it was fun!
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nature
climber
Flagstaff, AZ
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Gummo
Airplane (I picked a bad day to stop sniffing glue)
Caddyshack
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Python's Life of Brian & Meaning of Life, because both were deliciously subversive.
For the architectural geek factor, Body Double, because it featured the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemosphere" target="new"]Chemosphere[/url] house in the Hollywood Hills. The link's photo doesn't do justice to the one-drilled-hole=foundation magnificence of Lautner's masterpiece. The movie shows the house from several angles, and it's pretty cool. I once tried to get the vibration/earthquake eigenvalues for a plate+mass atop a beam, and, whoa, it was not pretty.
Sling Blade, because people laugh when I impersonate Carl's distinctive voice. And because, like Deliverance, it presents a view of the American South that validates any decision to just pack up, and move West.
Kubrick's Barry Lyndon because it's the closest to literature I've seen on the big screen. It was rumored that he shot the film so that every frameshot could be hung on the wall, as art.
Rocky Horror because they used to let you bring all kinds of stuff into the theater, and throw it. Extra points for Frankenfurter dispatching motorcycle Eddie in the walk-in freezer with a Chouinard-Frost piolet, the same laminated bamboo handle model I have. Even more points because Riff-Raff the hunchback wrote the musical score, and later flashed a bad-assed rope climb scene in a Star Wars movie (the third one that came out, with the Eewok koala bears).
Clerks because, as Kevin Smith himself said, "It looked like it was filmed by a chimpanzee with a cheap camera".
A Clockwork Orange because it now seems like a documentary.
The Song Remains the Same because the Zep ruled, and a budding guitarist could pick up riffs here and there by watching closely. Extra points because the "official" guitar tablature book for sale back in the day was (intentionally?) misleading, with riffs WAY harder to play than what Jimmy did in the movie.
Citizen Kane because it scorched, to a tee, one of the early 20th century's most visible and obnoxious personalities. Orson Wells never fully recovered from the backlash from W.R. Hearst.
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nutjob
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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Is "Pink Flamingo" the one that really ate a piece of dog sh!t in a movie? And there was some huge lobster? Anyone with me here?
And as for Urban Cowboy, I came half a nut from putting that on my list but shamed myself out of it. "Yer just mad because I can ride the bull..." I'd like to make a quesadilla with that cheese.
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AndySan Diego
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Bar Fly ! "Drinks for all my Friends!"
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Anastasia
Trad climber
California
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Unforgiven
Shawn of the Dead
It is a Wonderful Life
Lady in the Water
Spinal Tap
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Shawshank Redemption
Princess Bride
Room with a View (E.M. Foster)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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Geno
Trad climber
Reston, VA
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The "Train Movie" is Emperor of the North. What a great movie.
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MisterE
Social climber
My Inner Nut
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 4, 2008 - 09:20am PT
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Forgot Edward Scissorhands, Dodgeball (new on the list), Young Frankenstein.
Thanks for the input, there's some great ones! Winter is for watching stupid funny movies!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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I the absence of Crowley............... Killer Klowns From Outer Space for sure!
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d-know
Trad climber
electric lady land
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ZARDOZ
S. CONNERY at his finest.
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scuffy b
climber
Stump with a backrest
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Seeing that someone has mentioned Ernest Borgnine...
Does he have any serious competition for career death scenes?
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Redwreck
Social climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Some of my favorites:
Repo Man -- especially the edited for TV version ("flip you, melon farmer")
Die You Zombie Bastards! -- they had to spend at least 5 bucks on special effects
Even Dwarfs Started Small -- Early Herzog at his weirdest
Eraserhead -- you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll squirm
Pink Flamingos -- who'd volunteer to share a portaledge with Divine?
Rocky Horror Picture Show -- maybe THE canonical cult film?
Cannibal! The Musical -- for extra fun play it with Matt and Trey's voiceover commentary
The Big Lebowski -- possibly too major a release to qualify, but you can't argue with its huge cult following
Bad Taste -- I want to see Peter Jackson remake this with some of his Lord of the Rings megabucks
Crimes of Passion -- Kathleen Turner at her hottest and Tony Perkins at his creepiest
Shakes the Clown -- the Citizen Kane of drunken clown movies
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spud
climber
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TANK GIRL
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Hey, they just killed Ernie, you bastards!!!!
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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forgot about Tank Girl, the 'roo people are my favorite
speakinng of MAtt and Trey, what about Orgazmo?
-we (the whole family, aged 15-77 at the time) watched it at my brother's on xmas day once.
-we are clearly going to hell.
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