>>213660309
Almost everything before the 70s seems like a B-movie no matter the funding, maybe with the exception of some Buster Keaton films. Vertigo for example is a late 50s film, seemingly pretty high budget, but swings wildly between A and B quality. Hitchcock deserves some credit for hitting some of the highs that went on to inform true A movies later on. And now the fundamentals lie forgotten and all of these A24-like flicks with A budgets just use them to record actors spamming cringe-on-purpose B-list renditions of C-list dialogue in 9000fps 20k IMAX quality with a gray filter taking the details back out.
