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R2D2 | A robot featured in the Star Wars movie series. | |
ATM | A Terrible Movie | |
ASAP | Act Swiftly Awesome Pachyderm (Horton Hears A Who Movie) | |
AMP | Action Movie Pagoda | |
AMOV | Active Movie | |
AMC | Adult Movie Centre | |
AMRI | Adult Movie Review Index | |
AMS | Adult Movie Shop | |
AMAA | Africa Movie Academy Awards | |
AMAA | Africa Movie Academy Awards | |
AMAA | Africa Movie Academy Awards | |
AMAA | African Movie Academy Awards | |
AMAAS | African Movie Academy Awards | |
ACGAS | All Creatures Great and Small (movie and James Herriot book) | |
AMG | All Movie Guide | |
ATFM | All Time Favorite Movie | |
AMS | Alternative Movie Society | |
AMC | America's Movie Classics | |
AMC | American Movie Channel | |
AMC | American Movie Classics | |
AMC | American Movie Co | |
ACTM | Animal Crossing: The Movie | |
AWA | Animation Works Accelerated movie | |
AWM | Animation Works Movie | |
AWM | Animation Works Movie |
What does b movie mean?
- B movie
- A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse or pornographic film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature. Although the U.S. production of movies intended as second features largely ceased by the end of the 1950s, the term B movie continued to be used in the broader sense it maintains today. In its post–Golden Age usage, there is ambiguity on both sides of the definition: on the one hand, many B movies display a high degree of craft and aesthetic ingenuity; on the other, the primary interest of many inexpensive exploitation films is prurient. In some cases, both may be true. In either usage, most B movies represent a particular genre—the Western was a Golden Age B movie staple, while low-budget science-fiction and horror films became more popular in the 1950s. Early B movies were often part of series in which the star repeatedly played the same character. Almost always shorter than the top-billed films they were paired with, many had running times of 70 minutes or less. The term connoted a general perception that B movies were inferior to the more handsomely budgeted headliners; individual B films were often ignored by critics.
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