80's B movies!

AussieBear

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im not really sure if this was/is considered a b movie.

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okay okay..

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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.

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You must have missed this part.

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.

I think Dallas Buyers Club falls into the category of an Art House Film.

I typed "B-movie definition" into google and copied the first few links. I'm no expert, but the experts seem to agree with me, not so much with you. B-movies are low budget, non art house films. I understand that you don't like it, but as a fellow Bears fan I know you can handle this minor setback.

Keep slugging.
 

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AussieBear

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last one before i cant stop

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okay i couldnt help myslef

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You must have missed this part.



I think Dallas Buyers Club falls into the category of an Art House Film.

I typed "B-movie definition" into google and copied the first few links. I'm no expert, but the experts seem to agree with me, not so much with you. B-movies are low budget, non art house films. I understand that you don't like it, but as a fellow Bears fan I know you can handle this minor setback.

Keep slugging.

First, as long as you admit that you had to look it up, and that you aren't an expert. Because that is the real truth in your post.

I didn't say it was a B-Movie. I was implying under your definition, it could be. The definition that says, "not definitely" an arthouse movie. It doesn't say, "definitely not" an arhouse movie. Which is correct, not all arthouse movies are b-movies. But from the criteria given, 80s b-movie, most were. So even if something like Dallas Buyers Club did fall into an arthouse category, it's still low-budget, which, according to your continued, but failed, efforts, it's a B-Movie.

Here, you want a B-movie. Comedy from the same year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_'n'_Roll_High_School

Oh wait. $200k budget. Whoa.. I know it's no $1.6 million(which is not a low budget for a film of its criteria), but maybe you get the idea. Or you can go along with this idea that if enough people repeat the wrong thing enough, and others start to repeat the same wrong information, you can too, and that is just okay.

But hey, if 1.6m in 1979 dollars are suddenly low budget, Why not extend that to $4m? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jerk. It's certainly not the $10m budget seen in action movies. So I guess that makes it a good comparison. /sarcasm

a) $1.6m is not a low budget.
b) Meatballs is not a b-movie
c) B-Movies are films produced or selected for the purpose of double features/double bills. If you ignore the purpose, then you ignore the definition.
d) B-movies are made on a low budget.
e) all of the above *correct answer*
 

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Aussie is going ape shit with some horrendous movies. Crys and Numbers are nerding out my topic. Overall good thread.
 

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You guys are forgetting that Meatballs was a Canadian production. Funded by a Crown corporation and Paramount, distributed nationally in the States by Paramount. Murray was not a box office star then, and this was really his first major role in a film.

80's B-movie, to me, is something like The Evil Dead, made 2 years later for less than half a million, and originally very limited release, until it was picked up by New Line, renamed, and distributed more widely. Or Blood Simple, made 5 years after Meatballs, for the same money. Funded by 150 or so private investors, small theatrical release, gaining attention at film festivals.

But I'm okay calling all Canadian films B-movies.
 

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I checked out this site http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/year/1979. It has a partial list of 1979 movie budgets. It shows big budget blockbusters and art house movies and even a documentary called Dolphin made for $170,000. The average came out to around $14M.

1. In 1979 $1.6M was a low budget movie.
2. By definition Meatballs was a B-movie. Take it up with the dictionary, leave me out of it.

Look man I already said I'm no expert, you say you are, but the experts agree with me. B-movies are your hobby, don't let other experts, or dictionaries, or me mess with what you believe. I already said 400 posts ago, you're entitled to your own definitions.

We're repeating ourselves, so I'm done. I'd love to hear some '80's B-movie ideas from you.
 

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I checked out this site http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/year/1979. It has a partial list of 1979 movie budgets. It shows big budget blockbusters and art house movies and even a documentary called Dolphin made for $170,000. The average came out to around $14M.

1. In 1979 $1.6M was a low budget movie.
2. By definition Meatballs was a B-movie. Take it up with the dictionary, leave me out of it.

Look man I already said I'm no expert, you say you are, but the experts agree with me. B-movies are your hobby, don't let other experts, or dictionaries, or me mess with what you believe. I already said 400 posts ago, you're entitled to your own definitions.

We're repeating ourselves, so I'm done. I'd love to hear some '80's B-movie ideas from you.

rocky was made for nearly over a million and in 28 days.
 

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Aussie is going ape shit with some horrendous movies. Crys and Numbers are nerding out my topic. Overall good thread.

come on, those are some great "films". youre pissing on my childhood
 

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If you want to understand what a b-movie is, and the genre as a whole. Check this list out. http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2014/05/the-100-best-b-movies-of-all-time.html?a=1

I wouldn't rank them the same way myself, but anyone can get a better idea what a b-movie actually is. And not just label everything according to budget(while totally ignoring economic facts, like some movie ideas simply do not cost a lot to make right). Some definitions are not clear cut. You need to understand what something is, not just the definition. Thus why all experts on the subject know the economic realities, and do not blindly classify everything as a b-movie, for simply having a lower budget compared to a film that was done on 10 locations with a number of explosions and tons of make-up and costume work.

the experts agree with me.
Show me a b-movie expert that says Meatballs is a B-movie.
 
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midnight madness was a bad b movie from the 80s.

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They Call Me Bruce
Super Fuzz (Starring Ernest Borgnine!... Not nude though)
Strange Brew
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Jekyll and Hyde Together Again
Hot Dog... The Movie
 
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