cult films

fifty baddies by robert ball 

can you name them all?

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(Source: hello-zombie)

the two towers by iwilding

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a mysterious and powerful hero of the classic kind, buddy is a ’50s rocker and wandering warrior rolled into one, too-cool package. armed with his six-string in one hand and his sword in the other, buddy is on his way to lost vegas to succeed elvis as king in this post-apocalyptic rock&roll themed future.

director: lance mungia
action / rock
1998

some facts:
- the band the red elvises who are featured throughout the film’s soundtrack appear as themselves, the band with the “nice shoes”. the large, triangular string instrument that one of the band members is playing is an electric balalaika.
- jeffrey falcon did all of his own stunts free of wires and special effects.
- the ‘tiger claw’ soviet soldier towards the end of the film is jeffrey falcon’s brother noel.

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“don’t touch my guitar, man”

2001: a space odyseey
dir.: stanley kubrick
1968

80’s filmography tshirt from chopshop

a google map of imdb’s top 2000 films from 1910 - 2010.
made using google’s new data management tool: fusion tables. 

some locations couldn’t be found by google maps, and those points are mapped to the bermuda triangle. the film “the fall” -which started it all- isn’t in the top 2000 film list, so after adding that, the totals are 2001 films, 9735 locations.

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daniel day-lewis facts:

the boxer: trained for 18 months with former world champion barry mcguigan who later said that day lewis could have easily been a professional afterward.

the crucible: etched actual tattoos onto his own body.

gangs of new york: in preparation for his role as bill the butcher, daniel day lewis actually took up an apprenticeship as a butcher; he would sharpen his knives during breaks in filming. he was also diagnosed with pneumonia on set, after continuously refusing to wear warmer modern coats as they ‘wouldn’t have existed in the 19th century’. (he also fell out with co-stars liam neeson due to the fact that he refused to not call him by his characters name he also refused to acknowledge leonardo dicaprio who broke his nose on film.)

my left foot: during filming as paralytic christie brown, lewis refused to leave his wheelchair between scenes, so he could truly experience the problems associated with the condition. his constant refusal to break from character also earned him 2 broken ribs, from his continually hunched position in the wheelchair. he somehow sat still so hard that he broke his own ribs, and still didn’t move. (he made the crew wheel him around and feed him).

last of the mohicans: lived in the wild for 6 months, surviving only on necessities. no word if he ate a mountain lion whole and took a grizzly bear as his “woods wife,” so we are forced to assume he did.

in the name of the father: for the part of a prisoner, lewis lived in solitary confinement at an abandoned prison. the only reason he was not dragged away by the furious ghosts of long dead prisoners was the vast weight of his balls rooting him to the spot.

there will be blood: he made co-star paul dano feel uncomfortable around him because day-lewis threw actual bowling balls at him during there will be blood. (and dano wasn’t even the first actor to play the priest in that movie; the original quit because day-lewis was too crazy.)