Why A 'Cult Film'

"It just didn't seem like any other cult movie I've seen. It's just another 70's cop movie, but somehow amazingly compelling."
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The fact that you find it "somehow amazingly compelling" just shows that it's not another cop movie, unless you somehow find garden variety cop movies amazingly compelling. I agree, though, that it doesn't fit the bill for a typical 'cult movie', but I would guess that anyone who says so is likely motivated by the fact that it's a relatively obscure movie.

Don't forget it also has a great soundtrack. "The Chase" has been a big part of my drive to work for years now.

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It's just another 70's cop movie,

'cause it isn't very good.

It isn't "just another 70's cop movie" because it is so morbid, hard to understand, with a story told so poorly that everyone is confused about what happened in the story. Trust me, wife-killer Robert Blake never did a movie that was over your head.

Most 70s cop movies are plot driven with a plot simple enough for a two-year-old to follow, with a whiz-bang happy ending, just about like any episode of Starsky and Hutch.

Just the simple fact that it doesn't have a happy ending like 99.999999% of 70s movies puts it in a category by itself.

One thing that usually makes a movie a cult film is that it's not widely popular. The people who love it love it enough to make up for all the people who don't. This movie apparently didn't lose money, but neither did it set the box office on fire, and most people long ago forgot about it. But it definitely has its fervent admirers.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. Gandhi.

I guess cause of it's quirkeness; it's like a cops version of Easy Rider.

ANY DVD

There is no definition of cult films but this one is regarded as such.

It's that man again!!