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favorite B-movies
Aurjay:
wait...so your saying Troma films aren't B-movies? If so then i would disagree with you, sir. Troma films are all done on a very low budget and pile on the camp. Yes they are of the genre "wow that sucked, lol" but still think would classify as B material. Favorite Corman movie btw is Suburbia. It was directed by penelope spheeris but is a corman production so guess that counts.
Caleb:
--- Quote from: Aurjay on 21 Feb 2010, 14:47 ---I've always wanted to see the last man on earth. I heard its one of Vincent Price's best
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http://www.archive.org/details/the-last-man-on-earth
knives:
Price's real best, to me at least, is a little ditty known as Witchfinder General. Scary as all hell with Price's best performance. Worth at the very least checking out.
--- Quote from: KvP on 22 Feb 2010, 00:14 --- Roger Corman pictures are the very definition of B (the term comes from the second film in a double feature, which was the standard viewing experience once upon a time. Corman churned them out on a shoestring budget).
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Corman actually came around just a the A-B structure was falling out of popularity, so few if any of his films would have been a B on a double bill. Still by modern definition I agree with that sentiment, if just not for the AIP films.
Aurjay:
--- Quote from: Caleb on 22 Feb 2010, 07:27 ---
--- Quote from: Aurjay on 21 Feb 2010, 14:47 ---I've always wanted to see the last man on earth. I heard its one of Vincent Price's best
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http://www.archive.org/details/the-last-man-on-earth
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Awesome, gonna watch it now.
Emaline:
--- Quote from: KvP on 22 Feb 2010, 00:14 ---Yeah, I mean it's gotten to the point now where (would-be or actual) "cult film" and "b-movie" are virtually synonymous. And while there is quite a bit of overlap they ought to be defined separately. I'd say a B-movie is a film that may be kind of bad (not necessarily though) and patently cheap. It can have comedic elements but the point of the film shouldn't be "this film sux lol". That rules out pretty much anything Troma-related. Evil Dead had a lot of silliness but Sam Raimi wasn't out to make a shitty movie. Steven Seagal films are B. Roger Corman pictures are the very definition of B (the term comes from the second film in a double feature, which was the standard viewing experience once upon a time. Corman churned them out on a shoestring budget).
So if you want to actually see B-movies these days, you're invariably going to end up looking for either TV movies (the 84-year old Corman is directing "Sharktopus" for Syfy, due this year) or films on DVD that never got a theatrical run. There are tons of them at Blockbuster.
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I actually totally agree with this. I think any film that is "We are purposefully making this film bad so it'll be funny" cannot be classified as a b movie.
To me, a b movie should be something cheap, and unintentionally funny.
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