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26 Aug 16 - 09:29 PM (#3806973) Subject: BS: Lovable B movies From: Donuel I love comedy relief, besides most threads right now are all pretty heavy lifts. Danny Deckchair The Man Who Sued God Dark Star The Nugget if you haven't seen these, do. |
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27 Aug 16 - 09:00 AM (#3807038) Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies From: McGrath of Harlow I remember when our cinemas had doublle- feature movies. And continuous programmes, so you could watch them through a gain if you wanted. Never saw those ones - in England the B-movie was typically some cheaply made English film. Or there were "oaters", which also cropped up on TV. Renfrew of the Mounties, the Cisco Kid... |
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27 Aug 16 - 09:10 AM (#3807041) Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies From: Donuel 3 of the 4 listed so far are Australian. |
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27 Aug 16 - 09:24 AM (#3807047) Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies From: Bonzo3legs Hammer films - Island of Terror!! |
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27 Aug 16 - 05:03 PM (#3807117) Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies From: Rusty Dobro This thread reminded me of the (late 50's) days of Saturday morning pictures at the local Odeon. Some were in serial form, and I particularly remember that several of the Westerns starred Alana Ladd, who bore a strong resemblance to her father Alan. However, none of these movies seem to be listed in her IMDB entry. I think that's a shame - and I wonder if any prints survive. |
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27 Aug 16 - 07:03 PM (#3807131) Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies From: Donuel The Iron Maidens It's an old English color film about steam tractors not virginity belts Also English is :No Blade of Grass a movie from the sixties about a Monsanto like corporate mistake. |
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28 Aug 16 - 12:49 PM (#3807218) Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies From: robomatic Killer Klownz From Outer Space |
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28 Aug 16 - 05:25 PM (#3807259) Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies From: Donuel Day of the Triffids |
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29 Aug 16 - 08:46 AM (#3807368) Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies From: mkebenn The Heretic |
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29 Aug 16 - 11:30 AM (#3807389) Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies From: Donuel Tyler Perry's Gandhi with the Win ;) |
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29 Aug 16 - 01:11 PM (#3807407) Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies From: Padre The old "Bowery Boys" movies were silly, but fun. Since I lived in West Virginia, I never completely understood some of the references, and the accents were strange, but the patter between Slip Mahoney (Leo Gorcey) and Sach Jones (Huntz Hall)was always amusing. |
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30 Aug 16 - 09:59 AM (#3807563) Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies From: Mrrzy Donuel, did you see the remake? It looked great. What a book! I'd love to see a movie made from The Trouble With Lichen, too. I think they did make Village of the Damned, that was fun too. Meanwhile, I love all monster-insect movies and world-ending natural disaster movies - there's a great one about cockroaches growing to look like humans and only the autistic kid figuring it out, there is that Pierce Brosnan one with the hot springs that boil the young couple, there is a Tommy Lee Jones one with lava flows, love'm all. Them. Arachnophobia. 2012, which I have only seen parts of but it looked like a ton of fun. Giant asteroids. But the best is always the giant insects. |
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30 Aug 16 - 10:02 AM (#3807564) Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies From: Rapparee Song of Old Wyoming King of the Bullwhip I Married a Space Alien |
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30 Aug 16 - 10:03 AM (#3807565) Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies From: Rapparee My old (and late) friend Roy Brocksmith was in "Arachnophobia." |
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30 Aug 16 - 04:22 PM (#3807636) Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies From: Donuel Remake of Village of the damned with Christopher Reeves? Revenge and plants is a good theme. Guess whose coming to Dinner s no B movie but if it has been decades look at it with fresh eyes. It is remarkably prophetic!!!!! Arrival and Arrivl 2 have a different take on Global warming. Song of old Wyoming, Ill look it up. |
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31 Aug 16 - 03:47 PM (#3807806) Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies From: Donuel Late 50's? Topper reruns Tom Corbin Space Cadet 70's The Late Great Planet Earth |
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01 Sep 16 - 09:38 AM (#3807930) Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies From: Padre The "Durango Kid" westerns (there were almost 60 made between 1945-1953) were a hoot. Charles Starrett played the lead, with a number of 'sidekicks' throughout the series. They were very popular at the Saturday matinees at the Best Theater in Kanawha City. One notable feature was, of course, a chase scene, which always showed the hero riding after the villain. No matter where in the West the story was set, at one point in the chase the riders would gallop around THE SAME BIG ROCK while blazing away with their 'six-guns,' which seemed to hold an unlimited amount of ammunition! |
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01 Sep 16 - 11:02 AM (#3807949) Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies From: Rapparee Not to mention that shooting accurately from the back of a galloping horse is iffy at best. I want to know where they got rocks with which, when struck by a bullet, the spatter of rock chips and the ricochet never hurt anyone. And shooting a gun out of the baddy's hand is a great trick -- I'm aware of it happening exactly twice in real life and then by accident. Destination Moon. The Brain Eaters. |
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01 Sep 16 - 11:09 AM (#3807951) Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies From: frogprince A question just occurred to me. It may be analogous to "What is folk?", but I'm gonna throw it out just for the halibut. How do you distinguish (or, it there a distinction) between a "b" movie and any of the low budget, no production value opuses out there that really range down through the c-minuses to stuff that it would we generous to grade at d-minus? |
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01 Sep 16 - 10:19 PM (#3808015) Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies From: Padre There's a good article about B movies on Google - goes into detail about the "Poverty Row" studios who made so many of them. |
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01 Sep 16 - 10:19 PM (#3808016) Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies From: Padre There's a good article about B movies on Google - goes into detail about the "Poverty Row" studios who made so many of them. |
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02 Sep 16 - 08:51 AM (#3808057) Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies From: mkebenn Brandon Lee's "The Crow", "The Fiend without a Face" Mike |
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03 Sep 16 - 08:38 AM (#3808212) Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies From: Thompson Night of the Demon All the spaghetti westerns |
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03 Sep 16 - 09:44 AM (#3808221) Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies From: Rapparee Rocky Horror Picture Show Anything I saw as a training film in the US Army, including the classic "Below Knee Amputations." |
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03 Sep 16 - 12:42 PM (#3808241) Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies From: Padre My favorite training film was "The Return of Count Spirochete" - a heartwarming animated short about the microbe that causes syphilis. The 1973 remake is almost as good as the original from 1959. |
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03 Sep 16 - 12:42 PM (#3808242) Subject: RE: BS: Lovable B movies From: Padre My favorite training film was "The Return of Count Spirochete" - a heartwarming animated short about the microbe that causes syphilis. The 1973 remake is almost as good as the original from 1959. |