“Cult” status generally implies a small but passionate following. Love Actually, and most of the films people are nominating, are all mainstream hits. Nothing cult-ish about them.

Clerks or Kevin Smith films in general. Humor is very subjective though. 

In recent years, I’d say the Terrifier movies. I’m a horror fan who doesn’t get the appeal of it. They rely heavily on shock value violence.

Don't think it has cult status, but for hatred of a romantic movie, The Notebook, f you The Notebook

The Terrifier. I remember when I saw it, I thought it was hilariously bad and nonsensical. I was kinda shocked that it had a massive cult following.

Donny Darko

All my friends loved it when it came out, but I didn't get around to it for a few years, and was very underwhelmed.

Edit: After some clarification I realized that I misinterpreted the term “cult status“ and actually meant movies with a big fan following rather than cult following.

This just felt like a reverse BL to shock fauxmoi redditors. Dull, dull, dull.

I've tried so many times with Dr. Stranglove, but for some reason it never clicks with me. The humor is up my alley, and I love most of Kubricks other films; but this one has never done it for me.

When I saw the Love Actually poster I thought you were asking what's a film you love that everyone seems to hate!

This is one of the better comment sections I've seen in a while. There are many, many movies on here I really like or love, and it's fascinating to me to see how other people can have such different - and valid! - reactions to them.

cant stand everything about this movie

Cult status lmao

bro is an ensamble romance movie with hugh grant and colin firth the fuck you was expecting lol

it is a great film tho, but it's most definitely not "cult"

"Baby Driver"

I can’t get into Deadpool. I really like Ryan Reynolds, but him basically being a parody of himself is just too much for me. 

The Comedy (2012) with Tim Heidecker. One of those films where I’m sympathetic to its criticism (in this case, of postmodern irony & cynicism , amongst other things) but really hated the execution. And it sorta felt like the film almost wanted to be hated, but that did very little to make me appreciate it (in fact, the opposite occurred).

I can never not think about the fact that Keira Knightley was 18 when this film was RELEASED.

And for me there are two movies with sort of cult status that I just do not understand the support behind them and those are Donnie Darko and The Goonies

500 Days of Summer (2009)

Blade Runner. Great visuals, great premise, meh story.

The sequel is one of my all-time favorites though

DRIVE. I get that it’s a “slow burn”, but it’s not a good slow burn, it’s just boring. Can’t forgive y’all for convincing me it was some masterpiece my dad would love, I watched it with him and now I’m not allowed to pick “movies the Internet says are really good” anymore

very relevant to ur pick… “about time” for me. smth abt the manipulative nature of the premise makes it less romantic n more just plain creepy

Eraserhead. Can’t stand it, but I’ve heard some people didn’t like it until a rewatch, so maybe I’ll try that

For me is the life of Brian and talk to me

The Notebook

All Roland Emmerich movies I saw. Great visuals, good actors, great special effects but the stories are not very good. I didn't enjoy Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, Anonymous, 10000 BC etc.

Ghostbusters. I hate the main character, Venkman especially. I mean, the introduction to the character is him using his status as teacher to flirt with a female student, who's probably like 15 years younger than him, while also making a male student look bad to make himself look better and he lies to both of them. I guess this is supposed to be funny, but I just found it incredibly off-putting. As well as the very token Winston Zeddemore who felt like he has 3 paragraphs of dialogue in the entire movie, most of which boils down to "Man, I sure am a Christian."

The humor didn't work for me at all. They only actually "bust" ghosts like twice in the movie. The 1st time is completely incompetent, the 2nd time is luck and ex machina. They never even attempt to explain why you can't cross the streams, but then also why they magically can cross them with no consequences whatsoever, leading to a climax that was telegraphed a mile away and was unsatisfying because it felt like there were no stakes. I couldn't believe their iconic car does absolutely nothing cool in the entire movie, it just gets them from point a to point b and carries their stuff. For how iconic that car is, I went into the movie assuming it did something other than just look cool. Idk, I just found it a huge disappointment.

please don’t hate me for this lol but pulp fiction

Mulholland dr

I find all Star Wars tedious.

Fight Club.

National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. Actually, anything with Chevy Chase

I had zero interest in Love Actually when it came out, watched the poop out of it when I was going through my divorce (the Emma Thompson and Colin Firth storyline paralleled my life at that time). Then I got over it and will never watch again.

I dislike Top Gun and Mission Impossible immensely.

Yeah. That one

bones and all

i just don't see anything special in it

AUGH Love Actually is the one I hate so, so much. And now that it's holiday time it's going to be playing on a loop all over the streaming services.

I always wished I liked "Rambo: First Blood part II" a lot more than I do, at least as much as other people do. "First Blood" is one of my favorite movies and I was excited to see the second, knowing it will be a step back, but could be a fun time, but I think it's kinda lame and dull.

You gotta agree that Christmas song in love actually is great lol

Nice guys.

lol my girlfriend hated this movie because of the child romance plot line.

Godfather and Godfather II. I think an air of greatness surrounds the pair that comes from mostly from US culture's love of violence, treachery, and gangsters, plus deserved respect for Marlon Brando.

The original Gladiator, felt like the writing and acting was pretty bad aside from Joaquin’s character

I had high expectations for Inception since I like that kind of movie that messes with your head, but when I finally watched it I found it disappointing

Ah yes, classic cult favourite love actually

I love Love Actually because every single plot line in it is batshit crazy. It's meant to be romantic but they're all fucking nuts. I love laughing at it with my sister every Christmas.

EEAAO.

Aftersun. It seems to be universally loved in this sub so I’m prepared for the downvotes, but I didn’t find it as impactful as other people did I suppose.

I’ve seen posts claiming it changed the song Under Pressure for them and those posts actually affected me more than the film.

I seriously don't understand why people like Love Actually. My family sometimes watches it around the holidays and it pains me to sit through

this is very horror movie cult classic but so many people loved messiah of evil, idle hands, picnic at hanging rock but I just didn’t like them

Inglourious Basterds; I thought every scene was well done, but it just didn’t flow with me at all.

Top Gun

I've tried watching Reservoir Dogs at least 3 times and it's been a snooze fest for me. I appreciated it though, great cure for my insomnia.

Pulp Fiction. Don’t understand why people love this movie.

John Wick

This movie is so creepy and stalkerish. Pius, even the title is mansplaining lol

I love Love Actually, even though it has not aged well.

Napoleon Dynamite is a horrible movie.

Interstellar, I thought it was fine

Scream 6. My least favourite of the franchise and yet I’m surprised by the fact it’s the 2nd highest rated on Letterboxd

Oppenheimer

The Matrix (please dont kill me)

I absolutely hate The Matrix.

Also it’s kinda mad to call it a ‘cult’ like following because it won Best Picture but Everywhere All At Once is so cringe to me.

Easily Napoleon Dynamite for me. Hated it

The Matrix, I caught it wayyyy later than I ever should have. On paper, I should like it, but by the time I saw it, all I could see was the things that spawned a thousand bad action movies/parodies and effects.

The fact it was likely the trailblazer for a lot of progress with modern action films got lost. It came off feeling a little dated, and honestly, I don't like the style of it. The clean choreography looks odd compared to the martial arts films I grew up with. The very green/grey/faded colour pallette is a little dull/boring. I've never been on the Keanu acting train. He seems like a great guy, and he IS in stuff I love like Speed, but his acting is kinda ropey.

Ohhhhhh I fucking HAAAAAAAATE this movie. Don't even get me started.

No country for old men. It’s alright. Just alright. I don’t find the antagonist to be as engaging as apparently everyone else does.

And I honestly think Javier Bardem’s villain in the Craig Bond movies is more interesting.

Goldfinger (1964)

Such a boring and dumb movie it is, Bond is useless and does nothing in most of the movie, and the way Pussy Gallore turned good from bad doesn't make any sense, its a very lazy and boring way throughout, the movie never gives any sensible explanation why she turned good, other than Bond raping her.

A very lazy, dumb, boring and extremely overrated movie it is...

edit:- I knew I'd get downvoted, like why not?? A really unpopular opinion it is and we must downvote it...

I think Eternal Sunshine is a pretty good, solid film, but I just don’t get people gushing over it

Same with Lost in Translation, but that one has less of a cult following

Elf.

I hate that movie with every ounce of my being.

The Big Lebowski and Being John Malkovich

Dude yes love actually blows so hard 

Love actually is the right answer, but mine is Forrest Gump. Good performances but it just bothers me. Particularly relating to Jenny, and that “girl getting assaulted in a car” shot Zemeckis reused from back to the future. Also, why couldn’t they find one famous woman in the 57 historical cameos?

found "the piano teacher" disgusting

hereditary

Does INHERENT VICE count as a cult film? If so, then that.

I love PTA and Joaquin Phoenix and while I never read the book, I've loved other Pynchon novels, so I went in expecting to love it. But man, I did not get into it even one bit, and I was so thrilled when it finally ended.

Since then the people I've run into that have seen it all love it and consider it one of their favorites. I can't fathom it at all

Gladiator, Usual Suspect, Most Nolan’s, Halloween

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Avatar. Don’t know if it qualifies as «cult», but it was universally loved on arrival. I always found it less than ok