• TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    Holup, The Terminator, one of the most popular sci fi movies of all time, is a “B-movie” now?

    The one with Arnold?

    Tf?

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      1 month ago

      is a “B-movie” now?

      Did you not read the article? It was regarded as a B-movie when it came out: a low-budget sci-fi slasher/horror film. Arnold referred to it as a B-movie when asked about it on the set of Conan the Barbarian (which had 3 times the budget as Terminator). The New York Times referred to it as a B-movie in its review, as discussed by this article, which is also why the headline uses quotes around “B-movie.”

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      “B movie” is insane. But what they accomplished with their low budget is phenomenal, if that’s what they mean…

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        I too was shocked and a bit offended that it was called a B movie. But the budget was a freaking measly $6.4 million.
        That’s peanuts even back in 1984.
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminator

        Indeed they accomplished a lot, an all time classic movie. Some of my friends were a bit critical about the stop motion not being very good in their opinion. But I just thought the movie was amazing.

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          Unpopular opinion: too big budget gives a bad movie. Lower budgets forces people to be more creative and keeps the suits away that would otherwise make it a designs by committee.

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            That can be the case, but IMO Terminator 2 was an amazing follow up, and it had 15 times bigger budget.

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              James Cameron has a history of making great things happen with a low budget, and spending millions responsibly to actually make a positive difference in big budget films.

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      It was written by AI probably, so it wants us to not believe what it’s learning to do is very good. Just ignore it, human.