Good Low Budget and Independent Flicks
POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
UPDATED: Tuesday, September 1, 2026 02:34
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not sure if good but Low Budgets
From “Hawkeye Pierce” to “The Hunger Games”; Donald Sutherland, 1935-2024
https://musingsofamiddleagedgeek.blog/2024/06/22/from-hawkeye-pierce-t
o-the-hunger-games-donald-sutherland-1935-2024/
Disc Flight Development (1958) development of the Avrocar, the US military's attempt at making a real life UFO shaped saucer
The 4th Man 1983 review - Paul Verhoeven's
https://thegenrejunkie.com/the-4th-man-1983-review/
HOUSE (1977) Japan surreal absurb
REVIEW: Abigail (2024 Film) - Starring Alisha Weir, Melissa Barrera and Dan Stevens
http://www.beentothemovies.com/2024/04/review-abigail-2024-film-starri
ng.html
Aftershock 1990 — Karate and katanas in the apocalypse
https://mutantreviewersmovies.com/2024/07/01/aftershock-1990-karate-an
d-katanas-in-the-apocalypse/
Forbidden Planet: Futurism at its Best
https://www.themoviejunkie.com/post/the-forbidden-planet-movie-review
Infernal affairs vs The departed
A tribute to Roger Corman, the king of B-movies
https://mutantreviewersmovies.com/2024/05/25/a-tribute-to-roger-corman/
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Most will not watch this movie 'It Ends With Us' some critics hate it a chick flick with no deeper art message but its another lesson for Hollywood to make money by keeping budgets low
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Oh sure. You know there's going to be a Barbie 2
For now I will call 'It Ends With Us' the mature adult version of Barbie or a low budget Barbie-2?
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Most will not watch this movie 'It Ends With Us' some critics hate it a chick flick with no deeper art message but its another lesson for Hollywood to make money by keeping budgets lowQuote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Oh sure. You know there's going to be a Barbie 2
For now I will call 'It Ends With Us' the mature adult version of Barbie or a low budget Barbie-2?
What makes you say that?
I know absolutely nothing about it. I don't hate the movie or anything. I'm just trying to wrap my head around its success this weekend. Until Bruce's article on theater counts, I hadn't even heard of it. Without even knowing the budget was only $25 Million, I outright dismissed it as one of the flicks that would get about $10 Million or so on opening and fade away, like the majority of them do every year.
I'm just shocked that a movie with a boring movie poster like that did $50 Million in the US and $80 Million worldwide over the weekend.
As you said in the other thread, a great example for cutting budgets. Good for them. They've already made 18 Million bucks on this one after 3 days. Likely quite a bit more than that because their marketing budget was probably not more than a couple of million.
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Predicting what is going to sell is difficult but
It's a good thing you didn't run a book store, shipping and shopping for book publishers to deliver books for Summer and Christmas and other events and to outsell the other book store down the street. Sure you would have got scifi and maybe the murder thriller books, but women's literature the Chick book what do we know, have we even read this stuff? Japan has manga for women, South Korea have women's dramas, Brazilian and British and French have their soaps, Indian has their own chick lit novel
The West? 50 Shades, the Hogwarths Potter? Bridget Jones’s Diary, Pride and Prejudice, Something Blue, Little Women, Sex in the City?...Memoirs of a Geisha although wrote by a dude its kind of a 'Chick Lit' and most of Joss in a ways is either school drama or is Chick tv / film
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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Predicting what is going to sell is difficult but
It's a good thing you didn't run a book store, shipping and shopping for book publishers to deliver books for Summer and Christmas and other events and to outsell the other book store down the street. Sure you would have got scifi and maybe the murder thriller books, but women's literature the Chick book what do we know, have we even read this stuff? Japan has manga for women, South Korea have women's dramas, Brazilian and British and French have their soaps, Indian has their own chick lit novel
The West? 50 Shades, the Hogwarths Potter? Bridget Jones’s Diary, Pride and Prejudice, Something Blue, Little Women, Sex in the City?...Memoirs of a Geisha although wrote by a dude its kind of a 'Chick Lit' and most of Joss in a ways is either school drama or is Chick tv / film
If I knew how the mind of the female of the species worked, I'd rule the world.
It's a mystery to everyone. Including women.
Men are pretty simple. If we weren't all trying to impress women all the time to fulfill the biological need, we'd be living in caves with our flat screen TVs and tech toys and football.
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It's easy to be critical when you have never directed a blockbuster or an arthouse film loved by all critics, and maybe you can truly criticize if you had done all this art film and global success without the backing of a huge studio, you made your story, drew it out, started filming and did it all on shoestring budgetsQuote:
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I liked Princess Mononoke even less than Howl's Moving Castle.
I understand why people don't like him, I think he's good but I don't obsess over his work. I look at Japan animation and Japanese film as a whole and I can take or leave Hayao Miyazaki
I don't feel that I was being over critical of him, and I certainly don't dislike him or any of his work that I've seen. Maybe you think that I do because you quoted that first sentence and didn't bother to read the rest of my post.
My problem was I went into his work by watching what is probably his best piece first. I've never watched a Studio Ghibli production that wasn't good. But when you start off with Spirited Away you're probably going to be let down by everything else. It was just that good.
I enjoyed both Howl's Moving Castle and Princess Mononoke and I'd even watch both of them again. They're sure as hell a lot better than most animation that comes out of the US.
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Cult hits and maybe a Budget more than $20 million
The Running Man (1987) – Arnie vs Stephen King.
https://manapop.com/film/the-running-man-1987-review/
Drunken Angel - Akira Kurosawa's first major cinematic achievement
https://thegenrejunkie.com/drunken-angel-1948-review/
maybe Docu
Off shore islands, Millions a Bangladeshi minister laundered $ millions in Britain, Dubai and USA with help of British solicitors, traders, bankers and property firm, the Panama Papers etc
Documentary - South Korea and Dark World of Chaebols
South Korea eats itself
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Animated Toons or CGI can be both costly and cheap, B-movies can have bad actors or upcoming actors but are not always "bad" movies
from overseas
SUJO, a Mexico drama
When a cartel gunman is killed, leaving behind Sujo, his 4-year-old son but a strange shadow of violence surrounds Sujo, growing up as a teen he seems to get involved with crime, it won the World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize a co-production between Mexico, the United States and France.
Sundance Film Festival winner Sujo to represent the country Mexico at the 2025 Oscars
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I mentioned this one before
and this one doesn't really qualify, it breaks the rule of $15 Million-20 Million
also its probably not a good movie based on a Woman's Drama Novel a Chick Flick but on profit I think its still worth mentioning
It Ends with Us 2024 - Sony Pictures, Columbia / Wayfarer
Budget $25 million
Box office $349.5 million
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Study: 77 million highly original thinkers would pay for an indie movie streaming network
https://www.avclub.com/study-40-million-indie-movie-streaming-network
and scifi, Low-ish budget and rated very good by a number of critics
Arrival is a 2016, Budget 35+ $40+ million, based on "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang
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