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I am looking for some new suggestions for B movies. I said 80's but anything 80's and up is good with me. Im talking like funny movies that maybe have missed my grasp. Like movies towards the line of like Zapped! Meatballs! Things like that. Suggestions?
 

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Meatballs wasn't a B-movie. Did you hear about the Polish terrorist that tried to blow up a car? :D The sequels were, and a lot of sequels are B-Movies. Like Dream a Little Dream 2. Watch Dream a Little Dream, that's compatible with someone liking Zapped!

Zapped wasn't a B-Movie either.

But yeah, this is totally my thing. I love 80s B-movies. 80s B-Movies are easy to spot, because they went straight to VHS after a failed run at a tiny number of theaters. Where big budget movies that were bad, simply were run when the seasonal line-ups were weak. Some straight to VHS movies weren't B-movies, of course, as all a B-Movie really consists of, is being an Arthouse picture, opposed to a studio picture.


Trancers. I've suggested this movie like 200 times on the forum. LOL. One of my all-time favorites. My absolute favorite low-budget movie of all-time. It's corny, takes itself way more seriously than it should, and has a fun and crazy plot.

Class of 1984 - If you like Meatballs and Zapped, this is also good.

If you liked Zapped, then there are a lot of made for TV movies that were actually pretty awful but good. That's another place to look. There are just so many suggestions, and simply throwing them out there is really useless. Mainly because the arthouse and obscure genres of films also include a lot of skin comedies, gore, skin horror, and just a see-what-will-stick attitude towards sci-fi.
 
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Meatballs had a $1.6 million budget. It was most definitely a B-movie. It was released in June of 1979.
 

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That's not a very low budget for what the movie actually did. And it was released by Paramount Pictures as a major theatrical release(which instantly rules it out of any and every classification of a b-movie). Meatballs is not a B-Movie. If you want to claim it's a low budget movie, then maybe. But that doesn't instantly put a movie into the B-Movie genre. $1.6m for cameras, actors, and a campsite. It's not like they had to break the bank to make the script into a movie. It opened up #3 to a James Bond movie and Alien.

I collect B-Movies, and the classification argument can be never-ending. But one thing is for sure. When a picture is released as a major(meaning, in theaters, high accessibilities, and not due to it being a double-feature), it is a major release, not a B-movie.
 
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B-mov·ie
noun
noun: B-movie; plural noun: B-movies
a low-budget movie

From Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_movie
A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse.

From Dictionary.com
B-movie
[bee-moo-vee]
noun
1. a low-budget movie


From B-MovieCentral.com
definition of b-movie, which basically encompassed any low budget film.


You are certainly entitled to your own definition. But according to the rest of the world Meatballs was a B-movie.

That's not a very low budget for what the movie actually did.
Huh?
Budget $1.6 million
Box office $43 million

That is a tiny budget for what the movie did.

We can agree to disagree.
 

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midnight madness was a bad b movie from the 80s.

[video=youtube;gLusAy-aOJY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLusAy-aOJY[/video]
 

AussieBear

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was better of dead considered a b movie, even though its a classic
 

AussieBear

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the wraith was one of my favorite b movies a a kid

[video=youtube;9QNDycDirxA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QNDycDirxA[/video]
 

AussieBear

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you know you want some megaforce

[video=youtube;O1NpZxn860M]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1NpZxn860M[/video]
 

AussieBear

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hahaha - so bad

[video=youtube;WpH1yMGxh5E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpH1yMGxh5E[/video]
 

AussieBear

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joysticks

[video=youtube;rUuL1vOuxas]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUuL1vOuxas[/video]
 

AussieBear

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i have lots of ideas.. just not funny.. unless you consider it funny how bad some 80s b movies are..
 

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B-mov·ie
noun
noun: B-movie; plural noun: B-movies
a low-budget movie

From Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_movie
A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse.

From Dictionary.com
B-movie
[bee-moo-vee]
noun
1. a low-budget movie


From B-MovieCentral.com
definition of b-movie, which basically encompassed any low budget film.


You are certainly entitled to your own definition. But according to the rest of the world Meatballs was a B-movie.


Huh?
Budget $1.6 million
Box office $43 million

That is a tiny budget for what the movie did.

We can agree to disagree.


This thread is the first time in my life I have heard anyone describe Meatballs as a b-movie.

Since you're in the mood to look up definitions, keep digging. B-movies were films made for the purpose of double-features. They were part of an A and B movie set. The 80s B-movie is different, because in the 80s, double features were completely different, consisting of rerunning older movies, not made for the purpose of a double-feature. So that is when the term b-movie carried over, as those who produced these kind of movies, continued to produce them. The fans of these pictures started making their own films in the same style.

Low-budget =/= B-movie. But I guess we can say Dallas Buyers Club(adjusted for inflation, this was made for less than Meatballs) was a B-Movie, and every other indie film, since we can now eliminate terms, and just call every low budget movie, a b-movie. Even though it has no ties to the genre. All because humans are lazy with their words.

:facepalm:


Oh, BTW since I have you here. Let's get back on topic, B-movie expert. Why don't you run off some suggestions?
 

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[video=youtube;GwztOTVAxwo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwztOTVAxwo[/video]
 

AussieBear

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another one of my favorite 80s b's

[video=youtube;FrqhzLwdB24]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrqhzLwdB24[/video]
 

AussieBear

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eh.. mazes and monsters

[video=youtube;yfxXug5ZMdk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfxXug5ZMdk[/video]
 

AussieBear

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uuuuuu scary

[video=youtube;ph2qpWw7nZI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph2qpWw7nZI[/video]
 

AussieBear

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get you some van damme

[video=youtube;4zYgAGt3bps]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zYgAGt3bps[/video]
 

AussieBear

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yo...its bruce leeroy

[video=youtube;7H7iemtCQXQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H7iemtCQXQ[/video]
 

AussieBear

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do you want ninjas

[video=youtube;9f70sKbqr3g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f70sKbqr3g[/video]
 

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