Signs You're Watching a Low-Budget Movie

[TexasStooge]

Most of the special effects involve Legos.

View out the spaceship "window" looks an awful lot like your screen saver.

Flushing sounds heard before waterfall scenes.

Something tells you that "Star Wars Episode II: Porky's Revenge" isn't a George Lucas production.

That "LOW BATT" you see isn't a subtitle.

Hard to believe an International Superspy would drive a Gremlin.

During the dramatic shot of the ocean liner sinking, you can clearly see a gigantic bar of Ivory Soap in the background.

Either that's a zipper or Godzilla has had a vasectomy.

"Starring Tae Bo master Billy Blanks as Nelson Mandela."

[Janice]

There are no actors you can identify in the movie and they are all horrible.

[HurriCat]

Whenever you see "stock footage" spliced in to show world events or "big" scenes. Another is when it's a Sci-Fi movie, way into the future, but everyone is wearing jeans and carrying firearms as we have now in this time. Ditto for the sets that are in some "Apocalyptic desert" or what is obviously the back corridors of a mall or factory. Also weak is when the "aliens" are just humans in road-warrior leather and spikes, maybe with striped faces or something.