I took my kids to see the first ANACONDA in our local theatre...the STRAND. It was great to view an old fashioned explotive horror movie in the same theatre that I watched cheezy horror flicks as a kid....not a classic,but a fun goofy,good time!
I think that's the key. When a B-film knows exactly what it's trying to attain, it can have good time with it, and thus come out a more enjoyable film. This is one of the reasons I enjoy LAKE PLACID so much. The seriousness is barley kept to a thin veneer and it's fabulous to see actors with great deadpan skills like Brendan Gleeson and Bill Pullman in a film where there was no obnoxious pressure to pretend they were making a serious art house film or summer tent-pole spectacle.