B-movies
I love B-movies. There's not much better than a low budget, thinly veiled plot with random unnecessary nudity and gallons of fake blood. Of course, not all B-movies need to follow the B-movie stock. Sometimes they don't need blood or nudity, just really bad dialogue and fantastically enthusiastic OVERACTING! :o I mean, look at the movie Vibes starring Cindy Lauper and Jeff Goldblum. No blood, no nudity, just a really awesome pyramid made of light and Cindy speaking in tongues. CAN IT GET ANY BETTER?!? I submit that it cannot! And, honestly, I don't think they play enough B-movies on TV. The Sci-fi channel has all but given up on playing the good ol' standards and has begun to make their own rather large collection of this lovely genre of film. I'm not saying I don't enjoy their little forays into the filmmaking world, but their graphics are a little too good, their actors not quite bad enough, and the storylines are all really boring and flat. WHERE'S THE PASSION! Even when the storyline sucks and there's nothing going on, an actor that plays ON THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF HIS ENTHUSIASM ABILITY can always hold my attention. The last Sci-fi channel B-movie I saw starred Richard Grieco. Now... c'mon... Richard Grieco? HE'S FAR TOO CREDITED TO BE IN A B-MOVIE! I mean, he starred in a hit show not even 20 years ago! That's far FAR too soon to be starring in B-movies. Where are the porno actors trying to get "serious" work? Or the really old washed up actors in minor hit shows from 30 years ago? Or Pamela Anderson? Oh, wait... put her under the first category. ANYWAY! C'mon... people... If Peter Jackson, Robert Rodriguez, David Cronenberg, and many other critically acclaimed directors can start out making really shitty B-movies, what's stopping the next generation? Who needs a budget? You can't pay your actors? Get your friends to do it! You can't afford the makeup? Really tricky and crappy camera angles! C'MON! Bring back the good ol' standard of B-movie. These new high falootin, fancy shmancy movies are an embarasment to the art! And it is art, oh, indeed, it is art.
If you're a fan of B-movies like I am, you might want to go here http://www.badmovies.org/
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have you ever seen brown bunny? it's not quite a b movie, more of an indie film, but it was terrible. |
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Indeed, xxkpmxx, I have the trillogy. Army of Darkness was my favorite out of the trillogy though. And Sam Raimi is a Genius.
Lastexit, I didn't see Brown Bunny. It seems to me the only reason anyone's heard of that movie is from the, essentially, porn scene. OMG UNSIMULATED FELLATIO! If I wanted to see that I'd rent porn. I just want to see porn stars TRY and to be actors, not actors try and be porn stars. I'm glad to know it sucks though. :) |
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well, i didnt even know it had that scene, but either way i didnt get to it cos the movie sucked so bad. |
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I liked Evil Dead 2, and when I feel like watching a horror B movie I pop in the first one. |
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i love B movies...i also love cheesy 80's movies like Flight of the Navigator, Cloak and Dagger and The Manhatten Project(which was on last weekend! staring cynthia nixon and john lithgow!) |
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B Movies are great to watch because you know from the start that something about them is going to be bad. There's nothing better on the weekend then to flip to the SciFi channel and watch all those bad monster movies.
And I totally agree that they need to stick with unknown actors. |
