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[shadowkat]

[ETA: found a new icon of Ayra from Game that I really like.]


Okay, my brain hurts...is it time to go home yet? ;-)

LJ brainless question of the day:

What is your favorite cult film, and why?

At the moment? Buckaroo Bonzai - Adventures Across the 8th Dimension.
Although Tremors comes in close second. Not sure Blade Runner counts as a cult film - if it does, then definitely that - since I actually own it on DVD.

I don't feel like explaining why. Figure it out for yourselves.

Speaking of taste issues? The whole Buffy S5-7 vs. Buffy 1-3 debate arises again.

Easy - if you are obsessed with high school stories and tween romance - you probably loved 1-3, if you are obsessed with stories about 20something angst, depression, abusive relationships, post and current college angst,
job frustration, and are either a frustrated psychology major or philosophy major at heart? You probably loved 5-7 and think S4 is the ultimate season. Although 3's stand-alone and Mayor/Faith arc had its appeal.

Hopeless romantic into Twilight novels? 1-3 only. (1-2 - I doubt they stuck around much after that.)Or casual fan into watching something not too deep. (there are exceptions of course, aren't there always?)

Cynics into Supernatural, BSG, Doctor Who, and tv shows like Game of Thrones and True Blood? 4-7 OR scholarly fan wanting to analyze the thing to death.
(also exceptions...ETA: some of these people love Doctor Who for example, which is far from cnynical.)

Then of course there are the weird people like myself who liked everything but the last 10 issues of the comics. We don't fit in any category and just look in bewilderment at the rest of you. ;-)

[ETA: Also should include people who liked all the tv series seasons but hated all the comics even though they masochistically read them anyway. And then there's the people who ignored the comics completely and loved all the seasons ...ETAA: Alright, I'm bound to have forgotten someone - so create your own little special category.]

And finally the folks who well liked all the seasons including all the comics...

Okay, not finally, there's also the people who think the show was about a cheerleader slaying vampires directed towards tween girls and just don't get the appeal. (Uh, no, that was the movie. But I can understand the confusion.)

In short try figuring out why people like what they like at your own risk.
Personally, I think it's impossible, without pissing everyone off and being proven to be an ass.

back to figuring out this change order request...then home again home again jiggedty jig.

Comments

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

I'm going to out myself — to the surprise of no one — by saying I like it all except the last 15 issues of S8 (and there were about 3 issues in there that were okay, too).

Re the Doctor Who thing, which you've already ETA'ed a bunch of times:

I went to the Gallifrey One Con a couple of months back, and they were making much of Craig Ferguson's video love letter to Doctor Who, entitled "The triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism". It was so sweet! I hadn't really thought about it in those terms, and I do think the Doctor is getting increasingly okay with brute force wielded on his behalf by others, but it is very different from the "let's blow shit up" take that we get too often here in the US. Not really adding to the convo, I'm afraid...

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Not really adding to the convo, I'm afraid...

Not true. I actually enjoyed your comment quite a bit.

I like it all except the last 15 issues of S8 (and there were about 3 issues in there that were okay, too).

You're in the weird group with me. Hee. Who is looking at everyone else in a state of bewilderment. (My reviews of S8 make it clear that I really only hated the last 15 or so issues. Up to that point, S8 was okay.)

The problem with fandoms regardless of the fandom, is people always like different seasons. There are Doctor Who fans who want try the new seasons, fans who hate RT Davies, fans who only like RT Davies arc...it's insane. I rather like Neil Gaiman's statement that people have vastly different tastes and you can't please everyone. What I loved about S6, I'm guessing someone else hated, and what I hated about S8, someone else may have loved. (shrugs)

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't get the Doctor Who balkanization. I'm not that invested, so it all looks fine to me. Except I only watch "New" Who (9th-11th Doctors). Gaiman is right, of course.

Nobody has answered your cult film question! I love too many to narrow it down, probably. D.E.B.S. is up there for me. Also, Yes, Nurse! No, Nurse! and an early Almodovar film, Labyrinth of Passion. (I may be a het girl, but I have a soft spot for queer cinema.) Here's an EW list of the 50 greatest, and Blade Runner and Buckaroo Bonzai are indeed on there, though not the ones I just mentioned. Tremors isn't either, and that's a great one!

http://www.filmsite.org/cultfilmsew.html

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

D.E.B.S. is up there for me.

I love D.E.B.S. It's absolutely ridiculous, but it knows it, and it's got so much heart that it works anyway.

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