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I didn't want to get off topic on the "Why are they trailers" thread, but I wonder if anyone would be interesting in sharing their favorite B movies. I have two: the reliable standby classic: Plan 9 From Outer Space and the highly underrated The Toxic Avenger.
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Probably Harold and Maude. Although I also have a great deal of fondness for The Doberman Gang, mostly because it was filmed in the town where I grew up and has a lot of familiar places in it.
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I'm with TheTick on this one. I don't know if Highlander was considered a B movie when it was originally released, but it certainly seems that way now. If not Highlander, then Highlander II, which was much worse and way cheesier than Highlander.
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no I haven't. I think I have seen half of "the highlander" but it was awful enough I wasn't going to watch the whole thing. I've always been told to see Rocky Horror the first time in a theater with drag queens present, but I've never seen that advertised around here.
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The Pallbearer. I don't know if any of you saw it, but it's just so akward that I have to cringe and laugh at the same time.
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Surf Ninjas!! My brothers andI must have watched that movie thousands of times.
I'm not sure if these are really considered "B" movies, but I like Newsies, and The Boondock Saints. I can't remember how big of a movie The Boondock Saints was.
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Does Starship Troopers count? 'Cause I think it's a fantasically horrible movie. Any time I'm flipping channels and I see it, I've gotta watch until the end.
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Ooh, ClaudiaTherese, I hadn't realized anyone else on the planet had actually seen Zardoz. That movie was a trip. It actually caused LSD to ooze out of the TV screen. I licked it, and then the movie made sense, man!
quote:I'm not sure if these are really considered "B" movies, but I like Newsies, and The Boondock Saints. I can't remember how big of a movie The Boondock Saints was.
I'm not sure I'd call Boondock Saints a "B" movie. It's one of my favorite movies ever, though, so I could just be biased.
Also, I really liked Kung-Pow, and to a lesser extent, Kung-Fu Hustle. "By the way, you must be wary of Betty's iron claws. They are sharp, and they hurt. And beware his song about big butts. He beats you up while he plays it!"
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I think they're both good, especially if you take Kung-Pow as a parody and take Kung-Fu Hustle as a serious film.
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According to Wikipedia, Plan 9 From Outer Space is actually a Z-movie.
As for my favorite B-movie, it'd have to be Dario Argento's Phantom of the Opera, lovingly nicknamed RatBoy by yours truly and company, for the..creative use of rats.
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I found Kung-Pow funnier because it was so over the top. A lot of it was pure silliness for no other reason than to be silly, which I appreciate. My favorite character from Hustle was the iron-hands fairy, for similar reasons.
Also, anything by Mel Brooks.
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Avadaru: Yes! "Turn off that tickle ray! No!" "You can't take him, it's too near Christmas--But---"
I am a HUGE B-movie fan. Plan 9 From Outer Space is a classic, of course, but anything by Ed Wood (Glen or Glenda anybody?) is just awful.
The worst/best is, by far, The Giant Gila Monster by Ron Kellog. It's just...wrong. "With this underbrush, a giant lizard could have lived here for years without getting noticed".
Others: Teenagers From Outer Space (the gargons/aliens=lobsters!), Robot Monster (a gorilla suit+ diver's helmet), and the elusive The Horror at Party Beach.
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"Orgasmo" The guy from South Park, before SP. "Real Genius" Val Kilmer in the early 80's "Better off Dead"
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