What Good B-Movie Did You Just Watch?

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Dreemworx

Seriously.
Calling ANY movie a 'B movie' because one didn't like it is foolish.

Exactly: "B-movie", like "Anime", "Film noir" or "Virtual reality", starts becoming one of those "cool" all-purpose adjectives by people who've never seen it in their lives, and start making up their own definitions to mean "I liked it. "
(Back on the Anime boards a few years ago, we were ready to strangle one idiot who kept posting that "The Matrix"--the live-action movie--was "the coolest anime ever", despite the fact that it was not drawn, and did not come from Japan. Why?--Well, like, it had ACTION in it! )

B-Movie definition:
- Not produced by a major studio
- Not intended to be played at A-list theaters
- Often generic example of exploitation genre (and usually that's what's good about it)

(Warner's Clash was intended by the studio to be as UN-B-movie as you can get...Like calling Iron Man 2 a B-movie. Clash was the big studio-tentpole for responsible theaters in "geek-week" March, and was intended to get those faux-300 dollars rolling in.
Real B-movies don't have the Rich Sugar-Daddies to give them the 3000-screen 3-D openings, and have to make their own grungy hard-thrills way in the world.)