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Even though this is one of the best b-movies site on the web what are some of your othere favorite sites out theremine others are
Cold Fusion Review Site and Bloody-Disgusting

I've been to many other B-movie review sites and in my honest opinion I don't care for any of them.
Badmovies.org keeps it nice, simple, easy & funny.  
I do admit that this Phorum is what keeps me coming back so often.
Many other sites do not have such a feature.

All the others in my opinion somewhat of a mess & have and long drawn out reviews where I lose interest quickly...especially the one's with the plain white backgrounds.  

Nothing personal against Shumate's site or even Jabootu....I have visited both of them.
I'm sure their creators are very talented, nice people and I don't want to make any enemies but I just don't like either of their overall layouts.  
Trust me when I say that COLORS & GRAPHICS ARE EVERYTHING when it comes to a website's layout. (my opinion again of course)
The writing may be decent but if the colors are all wrong...well then you get my drift.
To put it simply...neither of them do anything for me and do not give me a real desire to return.
There's that saying that successful things are like popcorn in a pan...some pop & some don't.
(Just a little constructive criticism)

There is a reason that I bookmarked this site over 2 years ago and keep coming back to it everyday and there is a reason why I've only visited certain "other" sites once or twice and never returned.

This one has that "right" formula that works...similar to an actor who is "perfect" in a role where another actor in that same role would not be. (my opinion remember)......
I feel that most other B-movie sites are definitely lacking and are in sore need of improvement.



Post Edited (09-10-03 11:18)

I like Nathan's site probably the best.  I like the length, feel, and humour of his reviews, plus he tends to review a lot of movies I've seen or would be likely to see.  Love the "Notable Totables" and the Heriatric (sp) Head, although the breast count, like Andrew's "RGBS", have gotten me in trouble. I usually read Nathan's reviews within about 10 minutes of getting his email announcement. Of his associates, I will usually catch up with "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" and "And You Thought It Was Safe", but I don't care for "MonsterHunter"

I also like "Dante's Inferno And All Night Video Store".  Good reviews, about the right length. Again, movies I'm more or less likely to come across.

Lesseee....

"Jabootu" - Good reviews but I have to be in a certain mood to read something that lengthy. I'm more prone for the "Video Cheese" selections then the normal movie reviews.

"And You Call Yourself A Scientist" - I like that Liz tends to also review some more mainstream movies and does a good job (her "Mad Max" review ad how it tied to Australians and cars was excellent) . Tends to be a bit longwinded and I wish she used more paragraph breaks.    Also tends to get on a soapbox about scientists and women in movies, which usually gives a good perspective.

"Bad Cinema Diary" - Found that place before Andrew's and have read most of his reviews, so I usually just pop in after the 15th to see the latest updates.  Short and to the point.  I do like that he doesn't really try to rate the movies, just lays out a quick synopsis with occasional tags for the espcaially good, or bad, or violent, or...

I pretty much gave up on "Teleport City" as they tend to review movies I've never heard of and probably never will, in genres that really don't interest me.   Well done reviews, just not in my taste. GreyWizard's "Unknown Movies" comes close in this department of "stuff I've never heard of and probably will never find" but I'll drop by on occasion to see if anything catches my interest.
"Sci-Fi Films" - I'll check out pretty regularly.  I'm not as much into the older sci fi as they seem to be, or rather, I haven't had time to investigate the genre enough, so a lot of the stuff they review from the 20s to the early 70s kinda misses me.  Maybe someday...

I should say that almost all of the sites that are on Andrew's links pages I have visited at least a couple of times.  Some stick with me...many do not.

i really enjoy THE CAVALCADE OF SCHLOCK at:

http://www.geocities.com/tyrannorabbit/index.html

the design is nothing special but the reviews are funny, informative, and addictive. i really really encourage everyone to check it out.

"Trust me when I say that COLORS & GRAPHICS ARE EVERYTHING when it comes to a website's layout. (my opinion again of course)"

Then you must LOVE the Schlocktoberfest site! :)

Wait, there are other b-movie sites out there besides this one?

Kidding aside, Cold Fusion is awesome.  A great collection of movies there.  Bad Cinema Diary is good as well.. although sometimes the movies border on a little too obscure or too weird.  Teleport City is a well-written site.  Unknown Movies is another great site.

But the one that I wish would come back was one of the horror sites that was linked off of here.  It was called Night of the Creeps.  I have never read such funny reviews of movies in my entire life.  I've always wondered what happened to the guys on there.  I think the last time they updated was two years ago.  It's a shame; that site was incredible.

Nick

I enjoy 'Brains on Film'.  [http://www.brainsonfilm.com/]
It's only partially about B-Movies. BoF used to be a cable access show in Lexington, KY.  
It skews older. There is a plea for those under 18 to go elsewhere (and one of those chasing links is to here).
Its colors are black , and shades of gray; but posters can use colored text and other BBCodes.
A site which is envisioned to be a complete multimedia experience of one B-Movie director, but which has generated a movie BBS as well, is William Girdler [http://www.williamgirdler.com/].

CAVALCADE OF SCHLOCK was the first site I thought of when I saw the thread.

I enjoy a lot of the other sites, especially Cold Fusion, but it's more of "I think I'll go read a couple of reviews for a while" thing than a regular visiting schedule.

Once in a while I'll surf other B-movie sites, but the only other one I visit regularly is Jabootu.    The reviews are so long I have to be interested in the movie to read the whole thing.  His reviews on Superman IV and ROTOR are the best I've read at a B movie site.

I'm a regular fan of Sci-FiFilms, Jabootu, the House of Pain.  Opposable Thumbs is pretty good, too.

I found Badmovies.org through Bad Movie report, then went to Jabootu and Cold Fusion.
Ken Begg is the Tolstoy of the group. Big old reviews!
Andrew is the "Short story" master, and Nathan is more a novelist.
All in all, i like the civility Andrew and Ken and Nathan and Freeman (Oh my) keep the BBS full of. I gotta respect that.

Personally I also like Unknown Movies, which is hosted through Bad Movie Planet.

:Andrew is the "Short story" master

Actually, they are more like Cliff Notes if you really look at them.

I go through phases where I get into different ones; lately, I've been digging Teleport City.

:Andrew is the "Short story" master

Actually, they are more like Cliff Notes if you really look at them.

One thing I noticed about Andrew's review style (and I think Nathan does the same thing) is that when the movie is good, or at least interesting , he tends to talk about the movie, but when it's really bad or just plain boring , he tends to talk more about how the movie affected him

Hummm....now that you mention that.....

ok, i can't resist the temptation to shamelessly plug my own site.

i mean, mine really is one of my favorites so:

www.310am.com

My second favourite is Jabootu's Bad Movie Dimension. OK, their reviews are very long, but if you have suffered your way through any of the films they've reviewed, it feel like group theraphy. The phorum is good as well, but it is not as crowded as this one, so I don't check it as often.

Next would be And you call yourself a scientist! or The Agony Booth, where they also like to make long reviews.

I like the scifilm site....good for those older films.

I haven't gone to any of the others much.  I used to participate on some other message boards, but they all kinda went downhill, probably because they got too insular...not enough people, so the discussiosns fell apart quickly into more of a chat-room type message board.

I like a quite a few: SciFi Film, Dante's Inferno,Cold Fusion Reviews, Jabootu's Bad Movie Dimension, Teleport Cities, And You Call Yourself A Scientist, (was Bad Movie Report the one done by Dr Freex? I Like the one done by Freex) And my favorite is Bad Movies.org. (duh) Oh and once in a while I stop at Stomp Toko.com

-the first rule of fat club-

I don't think there's any doubt that Andrew's site is the most influential of all the old guard ones, and for good reason.  However, the writer who most often makes me green with envy is Liz Kingsley at And You Call Yourself a Scientist.

Honorable mention to Dr. Freex, too, of course.

Shh!  Ken, they're not supposed to know we're listening!

Off topic, I know, but I'm waiting forward to read the remaining "Jaws" reviews at Jabootu. Although I may be the only one who prefers the third instalment of the series over the second one. At least it is *a bit* different from the original, whereas the second one is the first chapter cloned.

Shh! Ken, they're not supposed to know we're listening!

I assumed you were and was sorta suprised not to have heard from you already

wow that is alot of favorites I wonder how many we missed