Indie movies are soo much better!

[tonnerre]

Don't you think?? I really can't say I've seen a decent mainstream movie that came out this year.

Most everything is either an adaptation of a book, or worse, a REMADE movie. Yuck. Complete loss of originality.

So I make my own =)

But really. I mean all 5 of the Academy Award nominees for best picture were adapted from something (even Sideways).

Christ.

[arjue]

Originally Posted by tonnerre

Don't you think?? I really can't say I've seen a decent mainstream movie that came out this year.

Most everything is either an adaptation of a book, or worse, a REMADE movie. Yuck. Complete loss of originality.

So I make my own =)

But really. I mean all 5 of the Academy Award nominees for best picture were adapted from something (even Sideways).

Christ.

Alot of people give "indie" movies alot more credit than they deserve. The fact of the matter is that for every good one you've seen there has been a plethora of others which were too shit to get any distribution. That said, 2 of my top 3 movies this year were "indie" films, being Mysterious Skin, the Life Aquatic, and Sin City (a landmark of a film which you're shitting on you cunt). Go look at your DVD collection, I bet you that there are more mainstream than "indie" films.

[the mongoose]

I think both types of movies have their purposes..... the mainstream stuff is there to visually wow us and provide mindless escapism. Indie films shock us or make us think about things from reality.....not very feel good stuff usually.

Apples and Oranges but neither are better...

[Forgotten Sanity]

I think that deciding that one is better than the other is pretty silly. Besides, most indie movies (not all though) are so deadpan, anti-climactic and slow that they put me to sleep. I don't mind cerebral movies, but there should really be a warning on some indie movies: "Warning, this movie contains 90 minutes of nothing but talking and philosophizing."

[Animal Boything]

Also:

-The only good film directors are left-handed.
-Good films are only released on prime-numbered days.
-All the good actors eat on screen.
-Close-up shots of anything inorganic are a surefire mark of poor cinematography.
-Widescreen movies suck.
-Static camerawork is the only good camerawork. Pans, zooms, and handheld shots are the work of idiots.
-Credits that roll with images in the background ruin the whole movie. Credits must be against a blank background. Non-scrolling credits are an eysore.
-Good movies always list the cast in reverse alphabetical order, by names of characters.
-The only good movie scores are played on solo fiddles. Songs in movies MUST NOT contain words.
-Sets in good movies always have blue walls.
-Movies with evergreen trees in them suck.
-There has not been a good movie made since 1979.
-Black and white movies don't count as real movies. I mean, who watches that shit? You can't even tell if the walls are blue.

I WILL FIGHT ANYONE WHO SAYS OTHERWISE

[ndrwrld]

thems fighting words.