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I just heard an advert on the radio for Withnail & I which has recently been released on DVD.

It said that it was a "cult classic".


What I want to know is:

How does a film get labelled a "cult classic"? Is it just a film that's not liked by many people or something?

A cult classic is a film that is liked by a bunch of dress wearing weirdos that commit suicide under the mistaken impression that they're going to a higher plain of existance!

"miss use"... WTF?

Right, I can't type anymore, I'm off to bed.

(this is what happens when you spend all day writing about accounting standards and the wonderful, Sesamae Street a-like names - ASB, SSAP, FRS, FSA, IASB, ASC, etc)

Cult Classic is also goes hand in hand with Camp Classic.

I hate the whole miss use of the word cult in media though - how in the world can Star Wars be a "cult" film? Okay, it has the small, die-hard fan base and thus cult, but their is also a whole slurry of other fans making it a mass market hit, not a cult.

Cult in films seems to mean something a little camp and/or different from the norm that turns into a suprisingly big film.

Or sometimes it is just used as filler on the box of a rubbish film.

Note: none of this has any particular relevance to Withnail, top film, recommended buy. Though get the US Criterion version - harder to get, more expensive, but more extras.

Okay.

So School sucks, life rules.
Good-O!

Plural, shumural.

Change for for more.

I spend six + half hours in school.

Ok.

In that period I learn nothing.

Considering that I go to school... to learn.

Then, I read your reply. And learn what a cult classic is.

Considering:

I have learnt nothing in school.

And:

I have learned something, in approximately five second.

We would conclude that:

I spend six and a half hours in school, come out, and learn MORE in five seconds.

Once again, excuse the original mistake.

What on earth are you talking about man?

More. Probably.

I spend six and a half hours in school, come out, and learn for in five seconds.

A film that is intially ignored upon release, but later gains an audience through word-of-mouth of midnight screenings and either recoups it money or is appreciated by loads of people who are sexy and intelligent.

Something like that.