cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/1150586

This week’s #KungFuSat watch party on Mastodon features the classic cult action-comedy-fantasy by John Carpenter, starring Kurt Russell, Dennis Dun, Kim Cattrall, James Hong, Victor Wong, Jeff Imada and Carter Wong. Join us!

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#KungFuSat Watch Party Anouncement

Time: Saturday 16th August, 12pm EDT

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    • klu9@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      No, not a B movie but I thought there might be fans here who’d like to join in.

      The watch party is over now, but we all had a great time watching it.

      • Rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        Oh yeah of course, I would have loved to have been there too! Next time 🤞 just in case it wasn’t clear; I wasn’t criticising you by questioning if it was a B Movie or not - I was just genuinely surprised to see it listed because it looks so high-budget!

        Glad you all had fun 🥳

        • klu9@lemmy.caOPEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          No worries!

          BTW there will be a next time, as an August ‘season’ of BTiLC & other Kurt Russell movies are an annual event. (Tomorrow on #SundayFunnies will show Used Cars and for #MondayActionMovie it will be Escape From New York see https://piefed.social/post/1154200 for more info

  • whaleross@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    5 months ago

    To be a stickler, BTILC is maybe considered culturally a B-movie today that the term has lost its meaning, but the budget and marketing was a typical A-lister back in the day. It was the headliner in theatres worldwide. I remember it showing in the main salon in cinema multiplexes here in Sweden. That simply didn’t happen with American B-movies at the time unless it was something truly spectacular.

    Yep. The A/B/C/Z refers to the budget of the production. A B-movie had lower budget and lower priority from the studio. They were fillers or jokers or opportunities for up and coming directors and actors and crew to prove themselves for future A-budget productions.

    • DagwoodIII@piefed.socialEnglish
      7·
      5 months ago

      Added footnote.

      Double features were a big deal back in the day. Many theaters only ran double bills, and the studios would re-release particular double bills [“Bonnie and Clyde” and “Bullit” ran together]

      The B movie was the second movie, like the B side of a 45 rpm record was the less popular song.

      Lower budget, actors who weren’t as famous, those made a movie a B.

      • klu9@lemmy.caOPEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        Someone in the watch party said their local cinema in 1986 showed BTiLC and Highlander (also from 20th Century Fox) in a double bill all summer, didn’t say which came second.

        • DagwoodIII@piefed.socialEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          Things were a lot different before video tape changed the game. There was a theater in Atlanta that ran Gone With The Wind for decades. Another big difference is that there used to be many, many more theaters with one owner. There were all sorts of deals being made between the distributors, the studios, and the theater owners.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    I have been playing Ghosts of Tsushima lately, particularly doing the Legends Mode story to unlock a mask and I keep wondering if the narrator of Legends Mode is the same dude that played Egg in this movie. He kinda sounds like him, and the way these stories are presented is literally just a dude telling an exagerrated and embellished story, which hella reminds me of Egg 🤣

    I keep expecting to hear “suddenly, Lo Pan appeared before Jack… er, I mean The Ghosts…”

  • flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    I just watched this with the boyfriend who had mever seen it and I laughed so hard at the stupid questions Jack was asking at the end of the movie.