Cheesy B Movies: Sci-Fi, Western, Horror, Porn?

I am a movie junkie! I love movies and I especially love B Movies. If you don't know what a B movie is, then I can quickly share, it's not a box office hit! A B movie or B film is a low-budget commercial movie, but not an arthouse film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified films intended for distribution as the less-publicized bottom half of a double feature (akin to B-sides for recorded music). Although the U.S. production of movies intended as second features largely ceased by the end of the 1950s, the term B movie continues to be used in its broader sense to this day. Most B movies represent a particular genre—the Western was a Golden Age B movie staple, while low-budget science-fiction and horror films became more popular in the 1950s. And B movies didn't stop in the 1950s; we have them now, most currently for me "Sharknado" in 2013. 

So you can imagine my happiness when I got a Roku for Christmas and there were several channels dedicated to "B movies." I was in heaven, especially since many of them are recently made "B Movies." However, my excitement was short lived...I was sitting down to watch a Sci-fi movie and the first seen is a nude man and woman "in the act." Immediately I went to look up the film and it's actually a "Soft Porn" movie. Well friends you can imagine  my disgust with the ease of access to pornographic material not only on the internet, but streaming into our homes. 

Now, I get it there is a market for that kind of thing--but it's not my market and honestly there should be a way to keep that type of junk off of my Roku--especially when I just want to watch the cheesy 1940-1960s films that are just stupid enough to know "that can't happen," yet commercial enough to make you go "did that just happen?" 

But there is a greater risk here--and that risk is letting things that aren't moral be seen in our homes. It's taking a free license for people to say "your morality doesn't matter." There was a time, when it was shameful to be addicted to porn or to even look at porn. I remember as a young child, going to the mailbox one day and someone had taken various pages from a Playboy/Playgirl magazine and stuffed them in my parents mailbox. My family was mortified and I was ultimately embarrassed because I had to tell my parents what I found in our mailbox...even though I had not put it there. Eventually I would hear it was a young man in our neighborhood who had a "porn addiction" and he had hit several houses that had little girls in their families. 

Psalm 101:3 says I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me." 

1 Corinthians 15:33 states "Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals"

And Romans 12:2 states "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect."

There are those that say "Sex sales." To that I say "If it sales so well, why are these "soft porn" movies "B-Movies?" And it is in these moments that I realize that maybe there is still some morality in Hollywood--because a lot of these "pornographic" B-Movies aren't ever making it to theaters...nor are they making it to Film Festivals...but they are making it into our homes; and that is the sad reality.