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A very strange yet watchable movie. Charlotte Rampling was quite the hottie when she was young!
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Carpenter's "The Thing" was hardly a B-movie or cheesy.
It wasn't cheesy, I fully agree with it. But the whole story and setting reeks B-movie. There's nothing wrong with B, I f'in' love B. A B film by definition is tailored to attract a specific demographic of the audience - in this case science fiction and horror fans, plus maybe the fan groups of the lead actors. A film that won't attract women, for example, can't be "A", and "Engineers and scientists trapped on an Antarctic station with an evil, body-invading alien" is about the polar opposite of a rom com chick flick. The original "Terminator" was B (well, C, actually, or D or E if you consider the budget); because it was so successful (not the least because it was released exactly when the VHS age took off into the mass market) it enabled the Terminator franchise after that point to leap into A category.
#4403760 - 02/06/1801:26 PMRe: Cheesy B movies that you actually like
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Originally Posted by Ssnake
A B film by definition is tailored to attract a specific demographic of the audience -
That original definition has been lost though and is not used by current mainstream pop culture. "B Movie" for a long time has meant specifically a low budget, campy movie with lots of bad acting and cheap production values.
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“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
Hmm...either Boondock Saints or The Room. The Room is so bad it managed to be hilarious.
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“The Room” even had a movie made based on it starring James Franco!!
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All of those named so far! I’ll add a personal favorite comedy: Young Einstein. I even had the movie poster.
Scifi, some of the best: Forbidden Planet...excellent paired with Robinson Crusoe Mutant Chronicles Immortal (Nikolpol) Spectral...a new one on Netflix Robot Jox Screamers...Peter Weller in a Phillip K Dick story
Horror The Babadook Tucker and Dale vs Evil...comedy too, should appeal to Alan Tudyk fans
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Originally Posted by Raw Kryptonite
Speaking of B movies PM... Flash Gordon!
I guess you forgot my initial post already?
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"They Live" ---- Love the line .. Im here to chew bubble gum "Real Men" ---- What a hoot UHF ----- Dont you know the dewey decimal system!! -- Not sure this a cheesy B movie ... but it was low budget
Hmm...either Boondock Saints or The Room. The Room is so bad it managed to be hilarious.
Was just about to put that one forward too along with it's follow up story All Saints Day, liked it enough to get the sound tracks and they are played a lot in the car.
Spacehunter: Adventures in the forbidden zone
Crank and Crank 2: High Voltage really a good laugh, introduced my youngest to them two weeks ago and he was in stiches watching them.
There was one Dolph Lungren film that I seen the start of in the cinema, fell ill and had to go home and never seen the rest of it, it was broadcast on the TV a good few years later in a late night showing and I had settled down to watch it when the girl friend pop round and I had to shut it off, still don't know the name and could not find any reference to it on IMDB. Dolph was a bounty hunter in a space ship, landed on a planet and got hit by a chemical shell which made I'm immortal or invincible or some such, that was about as far as I got in the story both times always wondered how it finished It came out around about the same time as the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century film came out so around 1979 - 1980 ish
I have so many "B" movies in my collection that reading what has been listed here is like a catalogue of my film collection
EDIT: No it was not Dolph Lungren, it was Richard Kiel that was the actor!
Edit2: The Humanoid was the film
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#4403982 - 02/07/1812:12 PMRe: Cheesy B movies that you actually like
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It came out around about the same time as the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century film came out so around 1979 - 1980 ish 