Topic: B-movies (Read 8950 times)

patthager · « **on:** February 03, 2007, 04:26:49 PM »

I would have to say my favorites are Evil-dead 2 and Braindead, by Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson

12AX7 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 03, 2007, 04:55:59 PM »

patthager · « **Reply #2 on:** February 03, 2007, 06:59:01 PM »

Overanalysism, in the context of B-movies, is any analysism, or so I have always thought. But I will try. They are both well directed and edited, as well or better them most hollywood movie, and they go to all the lengths hollywood movies cant go to any other B-movies dont. And they do it well, the camera angles and props are more then you could want them to be

12AX7 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 03, 2007, 07:40:47 PM »

No, I mean why do you have to say that?

patthager · « **Reply #4 on:** February 03, 2007, 10:18:52 PM »

B-movies are another art form, a counter spectrum. These movies are good examples of this, partially becuase the directers went on to make giant budget vids, partially because they compete with hollywood movies in the ways that count, while keeping the staples of B-movyness. Why do other movies entertain people? That all aside, they entertain me becuase of the humor and the irony of them. The fact that they pride being unique just makes them more satifying to watch, if not more fun
The medium isn't one that spreads itself well though, so it is hard to stay in touch with them

hackess · « **Reply #5 on:** February 03, 2007, 11:34:43 PM »

Rocky Horror Picture Show

So awesomely bad, so cultish, and a soundtrack full of earworms.

BDC256 · « **Reply #6 on:** February 04, 2007, 12:04:33 AM »

What counts as B class?

patthager · « **Reply #7 on:** February 04, 2007, 01:21:13 AM »

The B-ness emnates from a willingness to do incredibly ridiculas or stupid things to display incredibly deep truths about ourselves. Or to entertain us with cliches woven into an art form.
B-movies are movies that contain silly or nonsensical things that are displayed and molded such as to be of legitimate (or better) artistic quality.

12AX7 · « **Reply #8 on:** February 04, 2007, 11:49:17 AM »

Plan 9 From Outer Space.

Vespertine · « **Reply #9 on:** February 04, 2007, 01:29:32 PM »

Clash of the Titans is one of my all-time favourite movies.

Anyanka_was_framed · « **Reply #10 on:** February 04, 2007, 04:13:18 PM »

Quote from: 12AX7 on February 04, 2007, 11:49:17 AM

Plan 9 From Outer Space.

+1!!!

Barbarella

and of course, Army of Darkness

jeee · « **Reply #11 on:** February 04, 2007, 04:47:50 PM »

Groundhog Day.

Crystalmonkey · « **Reply #12 on:** February 05, 2007, 02:06:32 AM »

Worst Movie Ever: "Manos: The Hands of Fate"

Featured on SEVERAL websites and other venues that like to comment on bad movies, including MST3K!

Agent_Tachyon · « **Reply #13 on:** February 05, 2007, 02:11:59 AM »

Manos is just horrible...I don't even think it's a very GOOD B-Movie, if that means anything. I loved Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, and also Bride of the Monster...you really get the feeling watching them that the creator really did believe he was creating ART dammit, and he wasn't going to let something like the tiny budget, lack of acting and writing skills, or any other obstacle stand in the way of glory.

12AX7 · « **Reply #14 on:** February 05, 2007, 06:21:43 AM »

Quote from: Anyanka_was_framed on February 04, 2007, 04:13:18 PM

+1!!!

+1 back atcha for being the first person I've come across who knows that movie!

Agent_Tachyon · « **Reply #15 on:** February 05, 2007, 08:53:49 AM »

Plan Nine rocks. the warning gets me every time.

Vespertine · « **Reply #16 on:** February 05, 2007, 11:18:23 AM »

Quote from: jeee on February 04, 2007, 04:47:50 PM

Groundhog Day.

Groundhog Day is not a B movie.

12AX7 · « **Reply #17 on:** February 05, 2007, 11:43:43 AM »

It was on the flip side of his DVD.

pbsaurus · « **Reply #18 on:** February 05, 2007, 02:37:05 PM »

Quote from: BDC256 on February 04, 2007, 12:04:33 AM

What counts as B class?

B movies were the first movie of a double feature in the 30s and 40s. They were usually about an hour long and often were serials like Superman. They later evolved into the television serials we know today. The B movies had their own production teams and generally had lower budgets and fewer big Hollywood stars than the feature films. The studios with their oligopoly would only provide the features to theaters if they took the B pictures along with them. As the industry evolved, the original B movies went mostly to television and independents with lower budgets started being called B movies. This happened sometime in the probably late 60s and the term became popularized by critics such as Joe Bob Briggs who would rate these movies on the three Bs: Blood, Breasts, and Beasts. So today anything that has a lower budget and lower production quality can be considered a B movie.

Some of my favorites include:

Evil Dead
Evil Dead 2
Army of Darkness
Dead and Breakfast
Tromeo and Juliette
Terror Firmer
Man With The Screaming Brain
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Cannibal The Musical
The Toxic Avenger
Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger 4
Frankenhooker
Reanimator
Reanimator 2: Bride of Reanimator
J Men Forever
Nick Danger in the Case of the Missing Yolk
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
Police State
Repo Man
The Return of the Living Dead
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (earworms indeed!)
Rude Boy
SLC Punk
Teenage Catgirls In Heat
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
Troma's War
The Blob

and plenty others.

Agent_Tachyon · « **Reply #19 on:** February 05, 2007, 05:03:33 PM »

Toxic Agenger is awesome, but I'm not sure that the Evil Dead series was in the B-Movie realm come Army of Darkness.

pbsaurus · « **Reply #20 on:** February 05, 2007, 05:57:25 PM »

It was still a low budget film compared to its contemporaries the year it came out.

patthager · « **Reply #21 on:** February 05, 2007, 07:05:40 PM »

There are the movies that try to fit this description, and those that don't. Sadly, it is often the ones that don't that often start the trends of the next decade.
Why would anyone attempt to make a movie that seemed as if it had no budget with which to hire a crew? The sake of it.

myonlylove · « **Reply #22 on:** February 06, 2007, 09:53:47 PM »

Action movie...OUTLAW

directed by Nick Love

favourite action star: Sean Bean

http://www.outlawthemovie.com

Demosthenes · « **Reply #23 on:** February 06, 2007, 10:10:06 PM »

Repo Man has always been a favourite of mine.

I'm not sure if they qualify as b-movies, but George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" et al series is a masterpiece of low-budget horror.

Agent_Tachyon · « **Reply #24 on:** February 06, 2007, 10:25:23 PM »

Quote from: myonlylove on February 06, 2007, 09:53:47 PM

Action movie...OUTLAW

directed by Nick Love

favourite action star: Sean Bean

http://www.outlawthemovie.com

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