I'm sick of indie quirk
06-29-09 | 03:43 PM
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Re: I'm sick of indie quirk
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06-29-09 | 04:31 PM
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Re: I'm sick of indie quirk
Mallet & I agreed on quite a bit (except for his lack of taste not liking Garden State 
)
But creekdipper completely misses what my contention was with the original post in this thread.
It was just these two lines by Mallet:
"the only way an indie film gets recognized is if it's quirky or kooky in some way."
&
"What happened to indie movies that actually took chances?"
The first quote he states as a fact, which isn't true, there have been serious indies in the past years that have been nominated for mainstream Oscars. And the second I was just pointing out that there are a lot of indie films made recently that very, very much take chances. But you have to sometimes seek them out, & not wait for MTV or Entertainment weekly to tell you what indie movies to see.
)But creekdipper completely misses what my contention was with the original post in this thread.
It was just these two lines by Mallet:
"the only way an indie film gets recognized is if it's quirky or kooky in some way."
&
"What happened to indie movies that actually took chances?"
The first quote he states as a fact, which isn't true, there have been serious indies in the past years that have been nominated for mainstream Oscars. And the second I was just pointing out that there are a lot of indie films made recently that very, very much take chances. But you have to sometimes seek them out, & not wait for MTV or Entertainment weekly to tell you what indie movies to see.
06-29-09 | 04:58 PM
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Re: I'm sick of indie quirk
I have to jump on the bandwagon here.
At some point there was a transition from making movies with characters who have little quirks to making movies about characters' ridiculous quirks. I can appreciate that somewhere out there might live a fifteen year old with the vocabulary of a Rhodes Scholar who drives a watermelon-shaped car and spends all day talking with like-minded friends about existentialism and the cultural implications of dragons being blue instead of green, but it gets old fast to see a half-dozen new movies every year with that.
It's just the usual waxing and waning of genres, though. One thing makes big money, studios spend the next few years making it again and again until it stops being popular. What exacerbates this particular situation is everything being promoted the same way, as in the half-photo, half-illustration, handwritten font posters, or "THIS YEAR'S JUNO!" critic's quotes.
At some point there was a transition from making movies with characters who have little quirks to making movies about characters' ridiculous quirks. I can appreciate that somewhere out there might live a fifteen year old with the vocabulary of a Rhodes Scholar who drives a watermelon-shaped car and spends all day talking with like-minded friends about existentialism and the cultural implications of dragons being blue instead of green, but it gets old fast to see a half-dozen new movies every year with that.
It's just the usual waxing and waning of genres, though. One thing makes big money, studios spend the next few years making it again and again until it stops being popular. What exacerbates this particular situation is everything being promoted the same way, as in the half-photo, half-illustration, handwritten font posters, or "THIS YEAR'S JUNO!" critic's quotes.
06-29-09 | 05:44 PM
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06-29-09 | 06:52 PM
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Re: I'm sick of indie quirk
Loved Napoleon Dynamite...loved Garden State...love Michael Cera. Love Wes Anderson movies.
I'm glad they're making these types of movies.
(did not like Juno or Nick & Norah at all, so maybe the genre is just getting too polluted)
= J
I'm glad they're making these types of movies.
(did not like Juno or Nick & Norah at all, so maybe the genre is just getting too polluted)
= J
06-30-09 | 12:31 PM
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I actually like some of these movies, but I hate the way they are shoved in my face months before I even get a chance to see them. With Juno it went from being a film nobody had ever heard of to this ridiculously buzzed about thing overnight, where EW spent every issue celebrating Diablo Cody and Ellen Page as if they were the biggest stars on the planet before the movie even came out. Same thing with Napoleon Dynamite... our Hot Topic was shilling the catchphrases and quirky elements on t-shirts within weeks of the movie's limited release -- long before we actually got the movie in our area.
06-30-09 | 01:00 PM
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Re: I'm sick of indie quirk
I actually like some of these movies, but I hate the way they are shoved in my face months before I even get a chance to see them. With Juno it went from being a film nobody had ever heard of to this ridiculously buzzed about thing overnight, where EW spent every issue celebrating Diablo Cody and Ellen Page as if they were the biggest stars on the planet before the movie even came out. Same thing with Napoleon Dynamite... our Hot Topic was shilling the catchphrases and quirky elements on t-shirts within weeks of the movie's limited release -- long before we actually got the movie in our area.
06-30-09 | 01:21 PM
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Re: I'm sick of indie quirk
I actually like some of these movies, but I hate the way they are shoved in my face months before I even get a chance to see them. With Juno it went from being a film nobody had ever heard of to this ridiculously buzzed about thing overnight, where EW spent every issue celebrating Diablo Cody and Ellen Page as if they were the biggest stars on the planet before the movie even came out. Same thing with Napoleon Dynamite... our Hot Topic was shilling the catchphrases and quirky elements on t-shirts within weeks of the movie's limited release -- long before we actually got the movie in our area.
06-30-09 | 04:35 PM
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