Good Low Budget and Independent Flicks
POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
UPDATED: Tuesday, September 1, 2026 02:34
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Got a good source of Run Lola Run after an aborted attempt yesterday. The one I watched seemed to be "jarring" in how it began and was just slightly over 30 minutes long.
Being that it was French cinema, I thought this was odd, but it was perhaps intentional. But after about 10 minutes I decided to look into it more and discovered it was a full feature length movie.
It looks like that's one of the rare flicks that the critics and audience are in complete agreement with. 93% critic score with 83 reviews, and 90% audience score with over 100,000 reviews.
What little I saw so far has my interest piqued.
I would advise not putting on subtitles along with the dub though. That's a habit I've started to get into when watching action movies just so I don't miss any dialogue. But it ends up with hilarious results here since the dub and the subtitles don't match at all and you end up with a sort of schizophrenic feeling if you're reading different words than what is being spoken.
I'll let you know what I think of it after I watch it. Hopefully I'll be able to get Delicatessen soon too. Who knows? Maybe I'll even watch Amelie and feel super cultured.
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Oh... Since we're on the French kick, anybody here ever see Banlieue 13, aka District B13?
I believe it was actually made in French Canada, does that still count?
That was one of the better action flicks I've seen over the years. At least with the Dub, it doesn't seem to be the deepest movie ever written, but the parkour stunts are amazing.
If you got a kick out of the opening scene from Casino Royale, Banlieue 13 is a must watch.
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Subtitles are supposed to translate what was said on screen, although that doesn't always happen with fidelity.
Dubbing is supposed to attempt a match at both meaning, inference, and lip-syncing. Dubbing of old Chop-Saki fliks from the 70s where the Asian person runs his mouth for a minute, and the Dub says "no" are not good examples of dubbing.
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It was kind of funny to see swears show up in the subtitles, but none spoken... only a minute later to have swears said on screen, but no swears in the subtitles.
If I hadn't already decided to watch the dubbed version instead of subtitles, the choice was made for me. I don't have the option for a French audio stream. At least the dub seems passable.
Assuming there aren't any problems with it again, I'll probably watch it tonight.
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(Edited post on 4/23/2021):
Run Lola Run is a German film. Not a French film. My mistake.
Ended up with a subtitle version when it was fixed. That's alright.
Run Lola Run was good. Anybody who's a fan of Time Loop movies should enjoy it.
I think I'm possibly suffering from high-expectations syndrome though. Not only were the RT critic/audience score 93 and 90 respectively, but my brother said at one point during the conversation that he thinks it was better than Groundhog Day.
Spoiler Alert: It is not better than Groundhog Day.
In fact, I put it at number 5 on a list of the top 5 Time Loop flicks I've seen:
1. Edge of Tomorrow
2. Groundhog Day
3. 12:01 PM (a dark half-hour made for Showtime mini-flick from the late 80's/early 90's)
4. ARQ
5. Run Lola Run
I'm still glad I saw it though. I love me a good Time Loop.
But damn dude... That girl could run. I got tired just watching her.
Delicatessen is up next...
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Watched Delicatessen. Loved it.
*POSSIBLY SOME MINOR SPOILERS*
It doesn't quite fit in my genre of films that take place in a single spot, but the majority of the movie takes place in a single high rise apartment complex and the sewers underneath.
The only "sci-fi" involved, at least that I noticed on a first viewing requiring me to read subtitles was that we're living in a post apocalyptic world seen through the lens of the people who still occupy the building.
I really like how they don't throw in any exposition to try to explain what happened like most Hollywood flicks would feel compelled to do. You don't need to know. Use your imagination to fill in the blanks.
It's got some of the goofiness and goofy character traits seen in CoLT (goofy to an American at least... Maybe the French actually acted like this in the late 90's/early 2000's?), and I think that's a good thing. I'm new to Dominique Pinion, but I like the dude. Even more in this movie than in CoLT.
I thought it was crazy that the butcher who ran the complex (Jean-Claude Dreyfus) looks like a spitting image of a childhood friend of mine, just fatter. I have to show him this flick and tell him he should find out if there is any shared genes there.
I think I'm going to put Amélie on the list. This whole French cinema thing is kind of growing on me. I'm hoping it's not just Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet that I like and there's more hidden gems to find overseas.
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Have you seen Meet The Feebles? An early film from Peter Jackson. I know several people who claim this is their favorite film. I don't recall if there are live-action humans in the film.
Joe's Apartment was a lesser, later work, but somewhat similar in style.
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I've seen Joe's Apartment back when it was newish, but I don't remember much of it.
Haven't seen Meet the Feebles. I'll check it out.
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You've got to check out Nobody.
That's all I'm going to say about it.
Great flick. 
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You've got to check out Nobody.
That's all I'm going to say about it.
Great flick.
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