'huge, queer and tawdry' but 'much admired by the public'

Indeed, without just being wanky about it like eg Donnie Darko. And rewatching is easy enough given it is, after all, quite short - so two viewings would still only take as long as one go-through on a lot of other films. I think I managed to follow about two thirds of what was going on first time, and Wikipedia cleared up the rest.