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Term | Definition | Rating |
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AMG | All Movie Guide | |
MVO | Movie Violence Ontology | |
HGM | Highest Grossing Movie | |
GIAMA | Golden Icons Academy Movie Awards | |
GIAMA | Golden Icons Academy Movie Awards | |
TTMN | Terrible Tuesday Movie Night | |
DUMS | Daily Updated Movie Showtimes | |
MOTD | Movie Of The Day | |
ACMB | Automatic Cartoon Movie Builder | |
BOBB | Business of Being Born (movie) | |
UFMI | Uganda Federation Of Movie Industry | |
FFEM | Fighting Force of Extraordinary Magnitude (The Kentucky Fried Movie) | |
AMAA | Africa Movie Academy Awards | |
TNMC | Tuesday Night Movie Club | |
MIMF | Melbourne International Movie Festival | |
IMDP | Independent Movie Distribution | |
BUMP | Berkeley UNIGRAFIX Movie Package | |
IMDP | Independent Movie Distribution Portal | |
ASMF | Australian Surf Movie Festival | |
WYTM | Wasted Youth The Movie | |
GOM | Gretchen Online Movie | |
BOMB | Box Office Movie Bonanza | |
GOM | Gretech Online Movie | |
AMC | Adult Movie Centre | |
TM | The 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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