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Plissken 01-30-2004 01:28 PM

What is a B-Movie?
 
Could someone explain this to I have no idea what the B means (if it stands for bad im gonna shoot myself)

Dr.Kelvinstein 01-31-2004 10:42 AM

It follows the alphabet. Theater owners would refer to big movies with big stars as A pictures and exploitaion movies as B pictures. Originally, exploiation devices were used to attract audiences because a movie had no big stars to attract an audience, but now almost every big budget movie is an exploitaion movie with a big star, and the phrase B-movie is quickly vanishing or is used only to refer to pre-80s style movies.

Hope that helped.

Plissken 01-31-2004 12:45 PM

Thanks Doc. I though Nobody was gonna post


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