First off, many reviewers do not understand what a 'B' movie is. It is a cheaply made movie to be shown in tandem (double feature) with an 'A' film, usually in the 1940s and 1950s. Though nowadays is can mean a low-budget indie film.
Roger Corman did not make B movies, he made 'Z' movies, as he likes to call them. He would see used film sets and think "I can use those" and then approach the studio in question to use the set before it was taken down, then go to Robert Towne and Jack Nicholson (two of his stalwart writers) and say "I need a script in three days". And Corman did direct and/produce some classics, the cheesy but fun The Raven, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Masque of the Red Death. And of the course the original Little Shop of Horrors. And let's not forget The Intruder, with William Shatner, dealing with segregation and civil rights.
After he set up Concorde Anois in Galway, I auditioned for several of his "B" movies. Cheesy and cheap.
But back to this film Crash Point Zero, wow, I laughed all the way through it. Cheap tawdry rip-off and I like Treat Williams, but this film, I wonder about my own mental state by watching it all the way through. I suppose I wanted to see what else in the film was going to be ripped off from other films.
I am a professional actor and writer, classically trained, and if my agent approached me with this script, I would have asked him if he had taken his Valium.
One of the worst films, if it was made deliberately tongue-in-cheek, it worked.
Roger Corman did not make B movies, he made 'Z' movies, as he likes to call them. He would see used film sets and think "I can use those" and then approach the studio in question to use the set before it was taken down, then go to Robert Towne and Jack Nicholson (two of his stalwart writers) and say "I need a script in three days". And Corman did direct and/produce some classics, the cheesy but fun The Raven, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Masque of the Red Death. And of the course the original Little Shop of Horrors. And let's not forget The Intruder, with William Shatner, dealing with segregation and civil rights.
After he set up Concorde Anois in Galway, I auditioned for several of his "B" movies. Cheesy and cheap.
But back to this film Crash Point Zero, wow, I laughed all the way through it. Cheap tawdry rip-off and I like Treat Williams, but this film, I wonder about my own mental state by watching it all the way through. I suppose I wanted to see what else in the film was going to be ripped off from other films.
I am a professional actor and writer, classically trained, and if my agent approached me with this script, I would have asked him if he had taken his Valium.
One of the worst films, if it was made deliberately tongue-in-cheek, it worked.