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

  • oddspinnakerEnglish
    3·
    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
      31·
      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.

      • oddspinnakerEnglish
        4·
        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.

          • oddspinnakerEnglish
            1·
            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