Quote Originally Posted by NeoTifa View Post
i personally like independent films. they are usually low budgeted and the wise independent directors spend their money o good actors and use the rest on visuals or sound. they use good storylines and scripts and acting to make up for the lack in other stuff. mainstream films are full of cg and lame effects that stupify the movie. indep. is the real stuff
How you spend money has nothing to do with the quality of the film. There movies made with very little needs for effects and technology which are a fortune for talent.

Saying independant is real because they have less money is a cop out. If a good director has hold of a good script and has good talent they can make a great movie Hollywood or independant, it doesn't matter. Independant movies are a stepping stone to Hollywood most of the time. Considering how many people in independant go Hollywood kind of tosses the whole ideal of 'real'.

I'm not bashing independant movies. A movie is a movie. Not even sure why this whole Hollywood vs. Independant war started. Hollywood movies are worse due to the act studios want to make their buck 75% of the time because the good movies don't make money. Movies like Spiderman, Transformers, Pirates of the Carribean is where the money is made. Stomp The Yard made 25 million opening weekend. It's not very often the high quality movies make the money. You can blame audiences as much as the studios.