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B Movie Bonanza

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A place for lovers of B movies to come together and talk about them.

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This is my fav sub but what's a B movie? (self.bmoviebonanza)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Graphy to c/bmoviebonanza
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Hey, sorry for the meta post! Please please delete this post if this doesn’t fit here.

I love this sub but there’s been a few movies where I love the cover and the movie isn’t very popular (these day?) but I don’t post it because it’s a once popular film.

Some examples are like

They Live (carpenter)

Mars Attacks

In the Mouth of Madness

I love all of those but fear they’re too well known or had too big of a budget to be B movies.

Like I love the activity on this sub but don’t want to accidentally co opt it into just being movies I love haha

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

a “B movie” is something almost completely non-existent in today’s terms – publishers nowadays refuse to even invest in a project unless it’s a guaranteed blockbuster which is why so much of what’s currently on the screen is so excessively formulaic

“back in the day”, studios risked their budgets and tried out new ideas in the hopes of winning the box office – so you ended up with blockbusters as well as imported films and art/indie films and complete flops – but you ended up with a larger chunk of films sitting in that “in between” area, not blockbusters but also not obscure art house flicks – the stuff that was entertaining and fun and a good night out with friends, stuff that was so bad it was hilarious, stuff that didn’t hit immediately but developed a cult following later, stuff that filled the drive-ins on Friday nights, stuff that became the basis of in-jokes in Monday morning classes

[–] Rolando 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think a lot of contemporary B-movies go direct to streaming (or previously, direct to DVD).

For example Steven Seagal's most recent movies: nobody expects them to be any good, but the producers hope that he still has enough fans that they make a profit.

Then there are independent films that know they're not A-list and work with it, like Space Wars: Quest for the Deepstar.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

nobody expects them to be any good

they’re Russian money laundering, they’re not meant to be any good

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

But there's all kinds of low budget movies of questionable quality coming out these days?