There's an outfit called The Asylum whose entire schtick involves making "mockbusters." Basically, these are cheap B-movie knockoffs of popular movies. Snakes on a Plane becomes Snakes on a Train, Transformers becomes Transmorphers, and The Day the Earth Stood Still becomes The Day the Earth Stopped. You get the idea.

All of the movies are uniformly horrendous and would even give SyFy Originals a run for their money, though they can make for great riffing fodder if you are Netflixing with a friend on Xbox Live. But I think what makes them so awful is that they play the material completely straight. Everyone is stonefaced and serious, as though the B-movie has actually deluded itself into thinking it's the same as the Hollywood blockbuster it's ripping off. And I don't mean this in a so-awful-it's-awesome Ed Wood sort of way. Because Plan 9 from Outer Space is awesome. *alien salute*

How different would these movies be if they just embraced the corny low budgetness of it all and actually emphasized the mock part of mockbuster. Wouldn't there be a market for a movie that makes fun of a blockbuster? Come on, admit it, doesn't Michael Bay deserve to be ripped a new one after Transformers 2? I think some of the best B-movies know exactly what they are and revel in this. :)