So great news! You can now watch free movies on IMDB.com thanks to Amazon the now owner of the site.
That’s great but what about all the members of IMDB that have a low budget film registered on the site getting some action on the player? What is it with every major company that hes the means to get indie films into the hands of the masses dropping the ball on the indie filmmaker?
Red Carpet, The project from Netflix is no more. Stage Six shut down and now the site that is all about the filmmaker (or should be) with listings by the thousands of independent films is copycatting Hulu and the NBC format of free player with advertising which will again snub the indie filmmaker.
You know I will agree that some of the indie work I have seen is not really up to the industry standard of the major box office films that we are used to seeing. But what about “willing suspension of disbelief”? I guess that’s just a ‘theatre’ term, and “that sucked” is the term heard for even major budget box office films. People are too critical anyway, Yet are sick of the cookie cutter industry.
So now there has to be more explosions, more sex and more gore than would have ever been accepted before.
Take another look at the original “Night of the Living Dead” and compare it to the Horror films of today. The effects were minimal but effective. Why? Because the concept was new, it was fresh and never been done before, there were heated issues in the character structure where a black protagonist being the smartest in the group in a time when the nation was in conflict about racial issues. A series of daring revelations that are still being discussed in film theory today, and it was an independent film.
The time will come when people are willing to put up with a lower budget for effects if the script is good and the acting is good and they will look for their entertainment online. And why not? We get everything else online. I wrote a blog some time ago about the fact that Sundance Film Festival had over a thousand english feature films submitted and only four got picked up for distribution. I stated that I would pay three bucks on a payper view to watch the movies from Sundance, (like renting a movie at Blockbuster) which millions of viewers still do. what if there was a guarantee? and an option to review a film? what if…
It won’t happen if we stay in apathy.
What are you going to do about it?
Tags: distribution, filmmaker, filmmaker loses, IMDB, indie film, Movies online
