Hell no. B movies are full of treasure, where the most subversive and sublimated ideas are expressed. As I once introduced a movie at a screening ‘if you think Oscar winning Green Book is better than Robocop or Night of the Living Dead you’re out of your goddamn mind’
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Lots of great stuff in the article, but isn't TNM essentially just describing B-cinema, which has existed since day zero? That the vast majority of recorded film is poorly conceived dreck isn't a new phenomenon. Those Blockbuster shelves were full of it too.
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Didn't get the horrible overcrowding and cannibalism right.
But dying ocean ecosystem and greenhouse effect fucking with climate, spot on.
The Andi Sedaris movies, while titty flicks, have more progressive dialogue & plot points than a lot of modern movies.
Mainstream sci fi wasn't casting female leads until 1979. Barbarella was made in 1968.
Sidaris is also responsible for the greatest death scene ever filmed:
such as in 1987's Hard Ticket to Hawaii, where a skateboard-riding assassin is blown up by a rocket launcher while he clutches a blowup doll.
Which 1990s film is more remembered/loved?
"Tremors" or "The English Patient".
Turns out she hadn't seen it, and she actually hated Dune.
Also reuniting him with his family did nothing to help him get his body parts back .
Substance should get wins for Demi Moore but will never happen.
Jane Fonda leads a Sci Fi movie
Mainstream studios: you can do that?