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  • #16
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    I'd settle for a bus roll-over.


    R.O.T.

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    • #17
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      Originally posted by J off course View Post
      Spy movies.

      Is there any chance maybe that old wall might
      go up again?

      I love those stories.
      Ditto! Stuff like The Ipcress File and The Man Who Knew Too Much... I've actually got something like that I'm shopping around. I pitch it as an "updated version of North by Northwest."

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      • #18
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        Get rid of: bad action films.

        Put out more: good action films.

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        • #19
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          Originally posted by cynicide View Post
          I'd like to see a return of independent movies that don't all have depressed main characters living in the fringes of life and make you want to kill yourself after watching them.
          Blame Sundance for that - they cultivate that kind of crap.

          Remember back when Independent = Exciting? Stuff like Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Sex/Lies, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, Clerks, Traffic, Boogie Nights, Usual Suspects, etc.

          Maybe it is like Tarantino said, every 20 years or so, Hollywood gets stagnant and audiences demand something new. Is so, we'll have to wait til maybe 2012 for the next wave.

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          • #20
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            Originally posted by cynicide View Post
            I'd like to see a return of independent movies that don't all have depressed main characters living in the fringes of life and make you want to kill yourself after watching them.
            But I thought that's what an indie was. I don't any of the majors spending millions of dollars to finance a tearjerker.
            "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
            -Maya Angelou

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            • #21
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              No, an indie is a movie that cannot, for whatever reason, be financed through a traditional studio. That can be for many reasons: story, profanity, content, violence, sex, marketability, etc.

              But that doesn't mean it automatically has to be depressing crap with loser protags and a non-existent plot.

              Every single major studio passed on Pulp Fiction due to the violence and language, but I walked out of theater after seeing it, feeling energized and upbeat like no studio picture had done before.

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              • #22
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                Originally posted by vmf View Post
                No, an indie is a movie that cannot, for whatever reason, be financed through a traditional studio. That can be for many reasons: story, profanity, content, violence, sex, marketability, etc.

                But that doesn't mean it automatically has to be depressing crap with loser protags and a non-existent plot.

                Every single major studio passed on Pulp Fiction due to the violence and language, but I walked out of theater after seeing it, feeling energized and upbeat like no studio picture had done before.
                There are few truly indie movies that get both financed and major distribution. Juno, and Lars and The Real Girl had major studios behind them. I wish there was a sign that independent prodcos and talent was converging to make for a revival of indie films that aren't by definition depressing and energy-zapping.

                Paradigms involving major prodcos vs. indie prodcos seem like a thing of the past.

                Of course, not if you count porn as indie filmmaking.
                #writinginaStarbucks #re-thinkingmyexistence #notanotherweaklogline #thinkingwhatwouldWilldo

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