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Napoleon Dynamite. The main thing I got from the movie was that know I know where a meme comes from.

I tried twice to watch The Godfather and fell asleep both times. Nothing about it caught me at all.

I may get a lot of hate for this, and I wouldn't say it was a huge disappointment because I actually really liked most of the movies but, Star Wars.

I thought they were great moviees, but when watching them after years of everyone telling me to and all the hype I was kind of disappointed even though I enjoyed watching them all. For me they just didn't live up to the hype I guess.

I'm afraid to watch the Princess Bride because everyone I know loves it and begs me to watch it and I'm afraid it will be terrible and when they ask me how it was I'll have to lie

Synecdoche New York. Every one of my friends who’ve seen it think it’s brilliant. I tried watching it and felt like I was losing my mind. I know that’s the point, but that doesn’t make it a good movie!

Breakfast club. It doesn't age well. Bender commits sexual assault, and he's the hero.

I had a little personal crisis when I watched The Big Lebowski for the first time and just hated it. I was so bored.

I'll have to give it another go and hope I get it .

The first Mad Max movie, just feels like a slog at times to get through and when you finally finish it there's no resolution it's just a cliffhanger into the next movie.

Donnie Darko.

Not a terrible movie, just an extremely odd film of which I have never understood the cult following.

Mean Girls is ok. It has some good meme quotes, but it isn't really a good movie.

The Big Lebowski is extremely boring and nonsensical.

Pulp Fiction

Airplane! It's okay just not my cup of tea

A Clockwork Orange. I read the book first and was excited to see the movie but ultimately I found it really slow and boring. It's not a great adaptation in my opinion.

No country for old men. I get that it's supposed to be bleak and not resolve at the end. I still hate that it's bleak and doesn't resolve at the end. I didn't really get the "amazingness" of the coin flip scene either.

I also thought Blade Runner was ok, but the whole "tears in the rain" monologue is so hyped on the internet that it was a bit meh when it actually happened.

Jupiter Ascending. It's just all around terrible, and not in the it's-so-bad-it's-good way. I don't get the appeal.

The Shining. I've seen so many parodies and homages before seeing the original, that I just kept laughing and couldn't get into the horror part of it whatsoever.

The inglorious bastards. It treats a very serious subject matter with too much quirky humor.

Also the Nazi slaughter group is basically like an Einsatz Gruppe, but for slaughtering German soldiers. Literally locking people in a building (often a church) and then setting it ablaze was a technique used against Jews.

Just reversing the roles doesn't make it an act that's worth cheering for, like people did in the cinema when I saw it. I couldn't detach myself from that, hence why I did personally not enjoy it.

Rocky Horror has one of the weakest 3rd acts I've ever seen.

Ive never seen the live show so it might just be pains trying to fit a 2 act musical into a traditional 3 act movie

Maybe not a cult classic but the highly praised adaptation of Little Women (2019). It did not have the positive flow and feel compared to the 1994 version. Also, having a 22 year old actress playing the young version of Amy was not a good choice, her sitting between the other girls at school looked ridiculous.

I'll be honest. WarGames. I'm a big fan of 80s movies, but when I saw WarGames, it was very much meh.

I can't stand the Fifth Element. On paper, it should be perfect for me but I just find it really obnoxious.

I always get hate for this but Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

For years I heard it be revered as the best comedy film of all time, it was hyped up so much, then I finally saw it.... And didn't even laugh once.

That taught me that hype is a powerful thing (look at Cyberpunk for instance), because whatever our mind comes up with, will never live up to the actual final product.

goonies

A Clockwork Orange. I read the book first and was excited to see the movie but ultimately I found it really slow and boring. It's not a great adaptation in my opinion.

Repo! The Genetic Opera. I could not get into it at all.

pulp fiction is just not my thing :)

Big Lebowski .. I mean I enjoyed it but not enough to join the cult

I find there are few cult classics that can be found by future generations and maintain their cult status outside of the truly timeless greats like Rocky Horror Picture Show or similar. There's a nostalgia associated with most cult films. I can't imagine GenZ glomming onto Better off Dead or Ferris Bueller's Day Off or The Goonies because so much of the camp and humor is tied to a time they don't have a reference for.