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B Movie Bonanza

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A place for lovers of B movies to come together and talk about them.

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This is my fav sub but what's a B movie? (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Graphy@lemmy.world to c/bmoviebonanza@lemmy.world
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Hey, sorry for the meta post! Please please delete this post if this doesn’t fit here.

I love this sub but there’s been a few movies where I love the cover and the movie isn’t very popular (these day?) but I don’t post it because it’s a once popular film.

Some examples are like

They Live (carpenter)

Mars Attacks

In the Mouth of Madness

I love all of those but fear they’re too well known or had too big of a budget to be B movies.

Like I love the activity on this sub but don’t want to accidentally co opt it into just being movies I love haha

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 15 points 11 months ago (6 children)

It's a low-budget commercial film. The name comes from the fact they used to be exclusively shown as the second half on a double feature with the first half being the "A" movie, similar to how records had A sides and B sides.

[–] oddspinnaker@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This is very cool, I did not have any idea that’s where the term B movie came from! Thanks for sharing

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Got a curious question. Did you not know the B side was the other side a hit 45 record? Same deal. The popular song was on the A side, literally labelled as such, and a filler song on the B side.

LOL, I'm feeling older by the second.

[–] oddspinnaker@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I did actually know about the B side of a record! It just never translated to movies.

Double features were much less of a thing when I was a kid, so the concept of a “B side” movie never occurred to me! They just played them on TV when I was little so I assumed they were just not as good.

I’m kinda like… How did I not know? How did I not know until last year that “footage” referred to how many feet of film you shot? Haha I even grew up when they shot movies on film and it still never translated.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm 52 and double features weren't a thing for me either.

[–] oddspinnaker@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

I’ve asked three other people close to my age (they’re between 41 and 44) and none of them knew.

This is fascinating, I don’t know how this information got lost within ten years! Lol

What’s weird too is that I live where there were a lot of drive-ins so you’d kind of assume there would be more double features but maybe not

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Same. That's some TIL gold.

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