I really love these films done during the 70s and the 80s with almost no money and almost no ideas. I have just seen "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" (John de Bello, 1978), a film in which tomatoes are growing and spreading around the US.
While I was watching the film, I thought it was not as good as some genre-classics, like 'Revenge of the Nerds', 'Airplane' or many university campus, zombie or horror films, but the truth is that, by the end of the movie, I (partially) changed my mind. The jokes are terrible, but the idea used to finish the film is great.
The point is that there's some similarities between this film and "Mars Attacks". I just mention this after Monkey's article: "Remember, Remember, the 5th of December". Everything is influenced, inspired or directly taken from somebody or somewhere else. Maybe you don't know, but many actual filmmakers are great lovers of low-budget movies (we call z-series in spanish). I'm sure Tim Burton or John Waters are great fans.
Anyway, old films like that with the tomatoes, have over me some strange sense of attraction that modern films don't. It's only me, or does anybody else feel attracted by low-budget movies?
For the consideration of all those people who think like me, please check out: http://www.badmovies.org/ and visit to B-Movie Reviews.
While I was watching the film, I thought it was not as good as some genre-classics, like 'Revenge of the Nerds', 'Airplane' or many university campus, zombie or horror films, but the truth is that, by the end of the movie, I (partially) changed my mind. The jokes are terrible, but the idea used to finish the film is great.
The point is that there's some similarities between this film and "Mars Attacks". I just mention this after Monkey's article: "Remember, Remember, the 5th of December". Everything is influenced, inspired or directly taken from somebody or somewhere else. Maybe you don't know, but many actual filmmakers are great lovers of low-budget movies (we call z-series in spanish). I'm sure Tim Burton or John Waters are great fans.
Anyway, old films like that with the tomatoes, have over me some strange sense of attraction that modern films don't. It's only me, or does anybody else feel attracted by low-budget movies?
For the consideration of all those people who think like me, please check out: http://www.badmovies.org/ and visit to B-Movie Reviews.
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Yes, Quentin Tarantino had a movie store and used to watch and sell B movies!
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