What do you think about indie film?
 

I love film like Little Miss Sunshine and Juno....and you?:)

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Love it....seen a few in recent weeks, Prince Avalanche, The Kings Of Summer, Grizzly Man, etc.

Indie cinema works brilliantly well to contextualize the blockbuster, it allows you to actually differentiate when a blockbuster has heart and decent story.

For me anyway.

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I like all sorts of films. A small budget doesn't deter me at all.

Juno, since you mention it in particular, is an excellent movie!

I love indie film, it's produced some classics over the years.

Shallow Grave
Donnie Darko
Brick
Memento
Lost in Translation
Eraserhead
Clerks

to name a few.

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Love em'. There have been some absolutely incredible indie films over the years..

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Independent Films are awesome. They are always the oddest bunch of movies, since they have so much more creative control than more studio-centric films, which sits perfectly well with me. Little Miss Sunshine, Being John Malkovich, Memento, Ruby Sparks, Safety Not Guaranteed... all of them great (and in great company).

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I love em cos they tend to be more intimate experiences, you really get a feel for whose making the movie.

I really like indie movies. They're all over the place, some suck, some are great, but I really like that they are not big corporate products, extensively market tested. I like the individual enterprise that goes into spending a little but of money to make a movie that I will probably enjoy as much as a blockbuster.

A few more to add to the list ---

All Is Lost
Blue Jasmine
12 Years a Slave
Wristcutters, A Love Story
Mud
Take Shelter

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Well, it's just a label, really. Independent films offer just as much variety in content and quality as studio-made ones do. If you want to define it by that "indie feel", though, one of the very best of the last few years is Evan Glodell's Bellflower. It's never talked about but deserves to be, I think - he does extraordinary things with effects on a minuscule budget yet makes it intimate and very powerful.

I really liked both of them...good humor and good drama, small budget, excellent acting, no FX...all things considered, the kind of movies I actually think twice about....the NOT-Thor movies.

Another fine indie film - Nebraska. In the spirit of rural eccentricity, an old guy fantasizes that he has won a million and needs his son to drive him to Nebraska to pick it up. Family, rural decay, odd comedy and sadness permeate this fine movie. Bruce Dern is great as the old guy, Will Forte (ex-SNL) as his indulgent son. In spite of a slow start, this gets quite good.

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i agree big fan soo sick of hollly wood!

I think "indie" as a designation, has something in common with porn...I may not be able to define it, but I know it when I see it.

I've seen indie films that vary widely in production value, budget and star-quality, but what they have in common is that they present something unique, not the corporate committee, focus group, market research, product development view of movies. With less money on the table and a crew that believes in the project, they usually have a lot to distinguish them from the cineplex, popcorn movies that dominate the sales figures. The results are not always good, but usually, even when I'm not that crazy about the movie, I'm glad it got made.

As the likes of Disney come every closer to banking their entire corporate future on a retread of last year's big hit and teeter on destruction when it's not a billion dollar hit, indie movies just might be the survivor in the corporate wars.

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Hi, I'm Hanako875. I'm a Japanese student!
I love Little Miss Sunshine and Juno too. Nice to meet you!

Nice to meet you hanako875! I really love also Me And You And Everyone We Know. It' s so delicate and poetic

I don't know about Indie but I do like Italian:p.

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Blockbusters have one purpose. It is profit. Indie film is art.

I would disagree with this. Simply being a blockbuster is not exclusionary to being art. The reverse is also true; being independent of a major studio does not inherently make a film artistic. Auteurs have and will continue to work within the Hollywood studio system. It is merely harder to create a unique experience with so much studio oversight, though not impossible by any means.

I think art film is art. Indie films can be just as dull and unimaginative as the dullest blockbusters, and we get examples of that yearly.

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Sometimes directors, writers,actors and staff creates something original. Also make something simple in something awesome.

Love Clerks...but I didn't love since the beginning. I started watching Jay & Silent Bob Strikes Back. And before that I watched Chasing Amy without knowing that were Kev Smith's movie. When I started to explore the ViewAskiew universe, was when I started to love Clerks.

Half Nelson was a lay back type of movie. When you just want to chill with a movie with no murders, action, or any type violence. Just makes you think. Like Lost in Translation.

Reservoir Dogs was awesome. Enough said.

I'd like to see American Milkshake. Just watch the trailer and looks fun.

But I can't distinguish between an independent film from a regular. I have to look for a list and I watch 10 from 50 movies. Some of them did not look like Clerks.