https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc9l5OBv3hs
And my IMDb list of the Worst movies of all time with high rating:
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls569363902/?ref_=uspf_t_1
Any intelligent movie fan knows that.
shareAll the people I know personally who are fans of star wars are also fairly stupid
shareAre you subscribed to Matt Walsh on youtube? That sounds like something someone stupid would do.
Star Wars is one of the most popular movie franchises, ergo there are a LOT of Star Wars fans. Some of them are stupid, some of them are very intelligent.
You can't like Star Wars and be intelligent, it's irreconcilable
shareThat overrated movie list is great. He's right about Marvel movies.
shareWalsh is pretty spot on, including his take on Shawshank - its a B movie, rather cartoonish - but watchable.
Being a supercilious prick is his schtik. Sometimes it works, usually it doesn't - with me, anyway.
Your list, otoh, is nothing like what mine would be, if I had the gumption to make one.
I LIKE the Coens, Kubrick, Tarentino. Call me krazy.
I entirely agree with him about The Shawshank Redemption. I think it's a solid enough movie but its ranking on the IMDb 250 has always been a bit of a baffling mystery to me. It's very cliched and sentimental.
The rest of it is shooting fish in a barrel, I think. 'STAR WARS IS FOR KIDS.' Yeah, we know. Everybody knows.
Matt Walsh, whoever he is, obviously doesn't know what a B movie is (and by extension, neither do you). It doesn't mean, e.g., "a movie I don't like." A B movie is low-budget and poorly made, neither of which applies to Star Wars, which had a budget of $11 million, groundbreaking special effects (for which it won an Oscar), and an iconic score by John Williams (for which it also won an Oscar). Speaking of Oscars, it won 7 of them, and was nominated for 4 more (one of the nominations being Best Picture).
It also had great performances by Alec Guinness (who was nominated for an Oscar for that role), Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Anthony Daniels, and James Earl Jones. The only dubious acting was from Mark Hamill (in my opinion).
Most of the movies produced by Cannon in the 1980s (Golan-Globus era) are good examples of B-movies. Menahem Golan liked to make movies on the cheap, and imposed a budget limit of about $1 million on most of Cannon's movies, which wasn't much for a movie budget in the 1980s. As far as I know, only one of their movies received any significant critical acclaim: Runaway Train (1985), which had a high (by Cannon's standards) budget of $9 million and was nominated for three Oscars (no wins).
Before Menahem Golan there were people like Roger Corman and Ed Wood pumping out B movies.
There are some movies for which it's debatable, but Star Wars isn't one of them. It's not even close to being a B-movie, and asinine arguments like, "It's just a B movie plot/theme with a bigger budget, more polish, and critical acclaim" aren't valid, because those things negate B-movie status, by definition.
It's a very expensive B movie then, or C
shareA “B” movie designation doesn’t have anything to do with how good or bad the film is story wise, directed, acted or scored. It only has to do with the production budget. You can put on a production of Hamlet with cardboard sets and as long as the directions and actors are good it is still Hamlet.
shareIn B movies the actors are also B along with the sets to fit all together
share"It's a very expensive B movie then"
There's no such thing because B movies are low-budget by definition. In addition to not being low-budget, Star Wars was also well-made, ground-breaking even, in the case of its special effects, and received critical acclaim and seven Oscars, plus four Oscar nominations. The Academy Awards are the most prestigious awards in the movie industry.
Another one who needs Star Wars to get some attention.
shareIt was inspired by B-movies for sure, but another poster above already explained why it does not classify as a B-movie.
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