gHacks technology news » science fiction http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:36:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Watch free B-movieshttp://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/16/watch-free-b-movies/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/16/watch-free-b-movies/#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:22:04 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/16/watch-free-b-movies/ B-movies are low cost or budget movies set in a certain genre like Horror or Science Fiction. Not all have been bad movies and some were the first part to fame for actors such as Jack Nicholson or John Wayne. Bmovies.com is a website that makes available hundreds of B-movies to viewers from all over the world. The real beauty is that those movies can be streamed – and thus watched – on the website .

Currently four categories are available, those are: horror, science fiction, kung fu and wild westerns. The main website lists the top five movies of the four categories with brilliant masterpieces such as Metropolis, Battle of the Worlds and Carnival of Souls.

Each movie has its own website with additional information about actors, year of release, playing time and rating which can be a good indicator of the quality of the movie. All movies begin with a one minute commercial which is understandable because of the bandwidth costs of streaming those movies.

I would say the quality is a little bit better than that of Youtube videos. It looks like a 800×600 resolution that the videos are played in. Most movies have a running time between 1 and 1.5 hours.

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Without further ado, here is the top 5 list of the Androids of this world that resemble humans in many aspects already. I personally find that a bit scary, maybe because I did watch to many Science Fiction movies, or maybe because it is..

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Enjoy the show.

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