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

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

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

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        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.eeEnglish
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          1 year ago

          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.

            • oddspinnaker@lemm.eeEnglish
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              1 year 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