I too was shocked and a bit offended that it was called a B movie. But the budget was a freaking measly $6.4 million.
That’s peanuts even back in 1984. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminator
Indeed they accomplished a lot, an all time classic movie. Some of my friends were a bit critical about the stop motion not being very good in their opinion. But I just thought the movie was amazing.
Unpopular opinion: too big budget gives a bad movie. Lower budgets forces people to be more creative and keeps the suits away that would otherwise make it a designs by committee.
James Cameron has a history of making great things happen with a low budget, and spending millions responsibly to actually make a positive difference in big budget films.
“B movie” is insane. But what they accomplished with their low budget is phenomenal, if that’s what they mean…
I too was shocked and a bit offended that it was called a B movie. But the budget was a freaking measly $6.4 million.
That’s peanuts even back in 1984.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminator
Indeed they accomplished a lot, an all time classic movie. Some of my friends were a bit critical about the stop motion not being very good in their opinion. But I just thought the movie was amazing.
Unpopular opinion: too big budget gives a bad movie. Lower budgets forces people to be more creative and keeps the suits away that would otherwise make it a designs by committee.
That can be the case, but IMO Terminator 2 was an amazing follow up, and it had 15 times bigger budget.
James Cameron has a history of making great things happen with a low budget, and spending millions responsibly to actually make a positive difference in big budget films.