It just kind of depends how thorough the streamer wants to be with their licensing purchase. Generally they just lease out huge chunks of a distributors library in bulk, not individually. So they'll get the cheapest, default cut of the title. More recently I've seen services going out of their way a bit more and having separate listings for subtitled and dubbed versions of non English films, which is cool. But rarely do they get unrated vs rated because if they do they see it as getting charged for the same title twice and don't bother.

Sometimes the cut they get is actually rarer. I had never seen the PG-13 cut of 2002's Rollerball before, because it was a disaster and all Home video releases bumped it up to an R rating to try and help promote it. So if you really want to see the PG-13 cut for...whatever reason, streaming is essentially the only way to do it.

It puts the viewer in the position of the characters: meaning we know as much as they do, based on their best guesses. The fear is meant to come from both the unknown and the hubris of characters who either think it's fake or think they can control the creature.

Probably shouldn't be. Although Blonde is admittedly fiction it kind of takes a Darkest Timeline approach to her life and shows just how rough patches of it could have been. And that version of her certainly suffered terribly.

She's good as an example, though. If anything. For modern people to look at the scum involved in her life, who used and abused her, and to identify and recognize if anyone in their lives behave similarly, gaslight them or manipulate them. Maybe knowing how to spot that sort of thing ahead of time can save someone else.

Vortex

You're a brick wall. You look at film as some concept to be mastered and beaten with rules and logic at every turn. Black and white. Pass or fail.

And it's not. It's subjective. It's as simple as that. And so are vague classifications like "cult classic"

I'll say my point just one more time: there are no rules in defining why, how or when anything can be defined as a "cult classic" and just because it doesn't meet your specific qualifications doesn't mean it doesn't mean a great deal to "cult" of people.

I'm not going to write you a book you'll never read, and only go through with a red marker and point out punctuation errors or conjunctions in. Because that's the kind of criticisms you give. Absolutes. Great for English lit 101, maybe, but you're not listening to a single thing because you've already made up your mind and you just want to fingershit out more ranting and posturing to validate your one-dimensional opinions as fact despite it being on a medium that exists in speculation, personal taste and relativity.

We're done here. Have a nice night.

Well that's just it then, isn't it. You think you "lived through the time period of the cult classic" and with all your decades of education you get to label what it is.

But you don't. Especially now. The new cult cannon isn't defined by your criteria and nobody, not even you, can learn yourself an education in how to predict the future, what will re-ignite a new generation's passion or how they'll see it, and what will define a film as a success.

And frankly, someone who seems as close-minded, stubborn and sour on not being agreed with doesn't even seem the type of person to be into any kind of cult scene, regardless of genre. Because it requires an empathy for offbeat things that have indirect conclusions.

Very deniable. Because you, or I, don't get to define cult status. It's not like a record that goes platinum where you count the units. There's no finite criteria. It doesn't even always apply to financial failures. Its just christened to films that are outside popular culture but have a passionate fanbase.

Something like Sweet Sweetbacks Badass Song that made 15 million dollars profit on box office alone is assuredly a cult classic. Because it's so radically different from everything being put out at the time.

You're just...incredibly misguided how you're looking at this.

This is the stupidest take on this possible.

Profit has NOTHING to do with a film's PERCEPTION and FANBASE. MANY beloved films were financial failures. NOBODY IN THEIR RIGHT MIND only sees "movies that make the most money as the best!"

Exactly the opposite. Now, because there are a million different opinions flooding in from everywhere and everyone at any given second, TONS more films are gaining their own cult of support every day. Go ahead. Name a movie here in the comments. ANY movie. Somebody will say they love it or its their favorite. It could be ridiculously obscure or came out two weeks ago. The fact that films can spread so much quicker and easier now make them way easier to attract attention.

I hated this move way more than I thought I would. It absolutely reeks of a dude in his late 50s thinking he's cooking up the coolest and most revolutionary action spectacle set pieces because people used to love them in 1996 but he hasn't progressed an inch since then.

He's painfully out of touch with storytelling, camera work and action choreography. This was a miserable experience to endure.

The one that blows my mind is Jarhead. Because the original is a pretty cynical, autobiographical war story and it somehow has 2 sequels that are generic Rambo ripoffs featuring made up people in no way connected to the first film.

Bloodrayne maybe? Made 3.7 million and still ended up as a trilogy somehow.

Calm down, Kim Jong-UNfun. Not everything you don't like gets deemed criminal. You're not the center of the universe and not the president of taste and decency either.

Finally watched Benedetta. I'd been putting it off because I assumed it would be mostly a forbidden romance heavy drama. But I underestimated Paul Verhoeven. It was way more wild and layered than I thought. Lots of deception, violence, sex, hallucinations, torture and mystery. And I thought the dialogue in it was excellent. It was a really nice surprise.

Ghostbusters 2. I know a lot of people don't like 2 but I loved it growing up, taped it off of TV and rewatched it several times but none since back then.