Independent Films?

[Sugar_Nads]

Has anybody seen any GOOD independent films lately? Unfortunately, there's alot of crap that you have to weed out before you find a good one.

Also, doesn't the site Administrator/Owner review any of these films? Technically, they do pass the "B-film" criteria.

[nobody]

I don't know how "independent" you're looking to get, but "Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind" and "Garden State" aren't exactly big budget flicks, and they were both fantastic.

[Sugar_Nads]

Wow, those titles sound interesting... as for independents... Well, I don't really look at the dollar figure that goes into a production as much as who is staring in it and which company produced it.

A true independent will have underground or unkwown actors and also be produced by unknown companies.

For example: Films by companies like "Full Moon" don't count because they are backed by larger Hollywood subsidiaries.

[saintmort]

Napoleon Dynamite totally looks like a film of Full Moon's quality cameras and stuff, and it was doen independently and then MTV Films bought it and released it.

[Sugar_Nads]

Yeah, I can totally understand a major studio picking up an independent later after it's original release. It's just all those "fakes" that I have a big problem with.  Although. I am suspicious of certain titles that are "said" to be later picked up by a major studio as opposed to being funded by one to begin with.

Does anybody have any idea how impossible it is to get a film purchased by a major studio? You'd have better luck getting struck by lightning and winning the lottery all in the same day.

[Dave Munger]

I never trust anything that's associated with MTV in any way. I'm convinced "Joes Apartment" was an attempt to rip off "Twilight of the Cockroaches". I know it was a short on "Liquid Television" or something first, but that still could have even been a trick to make it look like an original idea.

[Max Gardner]

Cabin Fever was a halfway decent indie film, and Bubba Ho-Tep was amazing.  Shaun of the Dead - also good.  The thing you have to look out for when it comes to independent films is that they're so busy trying to be independent ("Look how edgy and unconventional THIS movie is!") that they forget to be entertaining or accessible.