Good Low Budget and Independent Flicks
POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
UPDATED: Tuesday, September 1, 2026 02:34
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The Monkees - 'Head' - Theatrical Trailer
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You ever get around to watching Ink, Jaynez?
First time I heard of it was this thread, Jamin Winans?
should give it a watch soon
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If you didn't know or had totally forgotten that Nicolas Cage put out a movie called The Surfer earlier this year, then I apologize to you for reminding you of it now.
I think I'm quickly falling out of love with the idea of Cage. That's something like three bad Cage flicks in a row now that I've watched, and I'd put this one up there somewhere VERY high on the list of worst movies I've ever seen in my life. Quite possibly, even giving it the crown.
It's nothing at all like Nobody, which is what I thought I'd be getting into with this one based on the blurb and Nic Cage.
MINOR SPOILERS: (Although, seriously, do not watch this crap)...
If you're predisposed to depression, or currently in the middle of a bout with it, everything I said goes double. You will not walk away from this movie feeling good about what you just watched no matter what mood you went into when you started it up. No light at the end of the tunnel, no matter how much you're hoping for one, and no real kick ass action that turns any of this around by the end either.
All you're getting here is a half-assed, totally-ambiguous redemption(?) arc in the 11th hour and 59th minute that leaves you not giving a single shit about what happens after they say "Fuck You" with that end title screen card when they did, and depending on how big your cynical side is, a good idea that there was ZERO redemption arc that ever took place.
Fuck all the bad guys. Fuck Cage's character along with his 4-line son's non-personality robot of a character and his exe's character who we never see on screen either, and are given no reason at all to cheer for. Outside of the very small chance that his whiny rich son who doesn't get anywhere near enough screen time to make you care enough to know more about him or to even bother remembering his name by the time it pops up in the end credits, the only (presumably) decent people in this movie come out of it worse than they went into it.
Not only that, but I called how the ending of this flick was going to play out only halfway in because the several instances of foreshadowing they put out there are so on the fucking nose that only the dumbest of people will have not figured it out at least by the end of the 2nd act. And at least no less than 6 major plot points were easy to predict long before they manifested themselves. By 1 hour in, I was laughing at every single thing that happened the rest of the movie because treating it like a comedy was the only way to make it to the end.
I think that the 80+ Critic score this one has is upper-middle class white college "educated" folk celebrating the downfall of an actual rich dude, while completely ignoring the fact that he still kind of wins in the end, even if he left part of his soul behind to do it, and that he most likely sold his own son's soul down the road long after the credits roll. Not only don't we care, but we are given absolutely no reason at all to believe that won't be exactly how this story would play out in a theoretical sequel.
Not to mention the entire waste of a life he's had to get to this terrible, terrible point, including a failed marriage which he may or may not get back now depending on how materialistic his soon-to-be Ex Wife is, and just generally regretting everything he's done and the choices he's made to get something that by the end of the movie he should have, but didn't, learn that he wants no real part of.
If you want to see what Sandra Bullock's "The Net", Kevin Kostner's "Tin Cup" and The Karate Kid would look like all mashed up in a blender, every ounce of comedy, levity and hope were completely stripped away, to be replaced with a relentless sense of somebody else being peer pressured while voluntarily burdening yourself with the terrible weight of somebody else's guilt and regrets of how they lived their own lives by sitting 5 minutes through this shit, and every character in t
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You ever get around to watching Ink, Jaynez?
First time I heard of it was this thread, Jamin Winans?
should give it a watch soon
Oh crap. Somehow I missed your reply here, Jaynez. Sorry about that.
Yeah. Jamin Winans.
Odd though... I was always under the impression it was a Joint venture between him and his wife. I thought they at least co-directed it if they didn't also co-write it. I don't see her credited on IMDB right now. Going to look into that a little deeper since I'm interested. I see he's had quite a few other movies that could be interesting given that Ink is probably my favorite flick.
Now don't go expecting perfection. I hate it when I over-hype something and other people are underwhelmed. It may or may not be my favorite movie now, that's such a hard thing to really say. But I will say that for at least 6 months after I first saw it I knew that it was.
Just go into it with an open mind when you see it, and be impressed by what an extremely small budget can accomplish if talented and disciplined people are in charge of the money.
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Oh... Cool.
From 16 years ago on Reddit. I didn't even know Reddit was around that long.
I am Kiowa Winans, Executive Producer of the movie, "Ink," which was bit torrented by pirates and consequently became one of the top 20 most popular movies online. AMA.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/a2zyy/i_am_kiowa_winans_executi
ve_producer_of_the_movie/
Making ‘Ink’ with Jamin and Kiowa Winans
https://chrisjonesblog.com/2013/04/making-ink-with-jamin-and-kiowa-win
ans.html
So she produced it, and he wrote and directed it.
Those two links are hella-interesting.
But now that you're interested in watching the movie, I'd go into it as blind as you can and come back to the links later if you want to know more.
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There is a lot of good stuff with Nick Cage his brief appearance in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Raising Arizona he's the star, Leaving Las Vegas dark bleak, Con Air strange wild its action and funny, Face Off is very good but it also starts to go to crap...Gone in 60 Seconds, The Wicker Man remake is dumb...its quantity not quality
Nicolas Cage is gone that whole hollyweird odd, weird, nutty route and I think he went on that journey long ago, I respect his early stuff but then I started getting put off by his films. Performances that burn or just rub you the wrong way, some performances were 'Just Wingin' It' to pay bills, divorce expenses, Bizarre Facts, not inept or incompetent but all his expenses, he bought a masonic Pyramid Tomb, naming kids after comicbooks, after taking mushrooms his cat was his brother, A Haunted Death Mansion...that was supposed to help him wrote books but this never happened...he just ran out of the Mansion screaming one night, expensive wine collections and crazy quirks and antics were costing 'The Art'. He seems to be paying off all these new young Korean or Japanese wives with costly divorces, even during his normal days I think he was 'out there' Brooke Shields seemed less than normal and he was known for an excessive party guy with booze and substance abuse.
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Sho Miyake’s ‘Two Seasons, Two Strangers’ Wins at Locarno
https://www.screendaily.com/news/sho-miyakes-two-seasons-two-strangers
-wins-golden-leopard-at-locarno-2025/5207890.article
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Good Boy Trailer
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that thing called Film Shorts again
'Dust'
you also get some on Vimeo, Odysee, Bitchute,k Dailymotion
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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
There is a lot of good stuff with Nick Cage his brief appearance in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Raising Arizona he's the star, Leaving Las Vegas dark bleak, Con Air strange wild its action and funny, Face Off is very good but it also starts to go to crap...Gone in 60 Seconds, The Wicker Man remake is dumb...its quantity not quality
Nicolas Cage is gone that whole hollyweird odd, weird, nutty route and I think he went on that journey long ago, I respect his early stuff but then I started getting put off by his films. Performances that burn or just rub you the wrong way, some performances were 'Just Wingin' It' to pay bills, divorce expenses, Bizarre Facts, not inept or incompetent but all his expenses, he bought a masonic Pyramid Tomb, naming kids after comicbooks, after taking mushrooms his cat was his brother, A Haunted Death Mansion...that was supposed to help him wrote books but this never happened...he just ran out of the Mansion screaming one night, expensive wine collections and crazy quirks and antics were costing 'The Art'. He seems to be paying off all these new young Korean or Japanese wives with costly divorces, even during his normal days I think he was 'out there' Brooke Shields seemed less than normal and he was known for an excessive party guy with booze and substance abuse.
He's made a lot of poor decisions, sure, but he owns up to them. He had every right at one point to file for Bankruptcy, but he never did that. He just went back to work and took literally any role he was offered to dig himself out of all that debt.
Gotta give him respect for that.
I liked Willy's Wonderland. It wouldn't even be watchable without him in it, and the fact that he doesn't say a single word in the whole movie is a good gimmick for him.
The Color Purple was Okay. I didn't realize it was an H.P. Lovecraft movie until after my dad and I started watching it and when his name popped up I had to pause the movie and apologize ahead of time that it probably wasn't going to be very good. I'd say it's better than your average Lovecraft movie, but still not very good. Another movie that would have been terrible had Cage not been in it, but the movie itself was so crazy that it overshadowed Nic's crazy acting.
I can't even remember the name of the one where he was showing up in people's dreams now. That one had so much potential, but the last 15 minutes were terrible and the ending sucked hard.
And then there's The Surfer. God awful movie that nobody should ever watch.
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