Why don’t they make them anymore? Or has the definition changed?
Check out your local video store.
Today’s “B-movies” are better known as “Direct to video,” “Made for cable,” etc.
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Good definition Mjollnir
Actually, I think yesterday’s B movies are today’s A-list blockbusters, and yesterday’s A movies are today’s second-tier low-budget dramas.
Come on: Armageddon? Tomb Raider? XXX? The Ring? Dopey genre knockoffs, nothing more. They get the big budgets and high profile only because Hollywood now caters to the spend-happy teenager.
Forty years ago, flicks like In the Bedroom would have been the topline prestige hit. Sure, spectacle projects like Around the World in 80 Days drew crowds, but think about how something like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest would be positioned in today’s marketplace.
They do make B-movies today. They’re called weekly television series. Seriously, measured in running time, shooting schedule, and budgets, episodic television is the equivalent of B-movies.
Yeah, pretty much… though Im sure there was a significant amount of crap 40 year ago. Hollywood caters to the market with the money. Gotta support the local, small “artsy” theaters before movie making goes all the way into the shitter.