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I remember seeing indie comedies and horrors. I dont think indy implies serious, altrough there are also sad indie movies.

> . If a viewer wants 'fun' then they're stuck with formulaic superhero blockbusters.

I dont think this is true either. The industry producing formulaic is not because it is only way to have fun. If you look at series that came out lately (Money Heist, Westworld ... ) they are not formulaic and are fun.

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For anyone looking for a fun and surprisingly heartwarming indie gem, I can highly recommend 2017's One Cut of the Dead [1]. Budget: $25,000. Worldwide box office: $31,200,000.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7914416/

Haha yes, this one is great.

Anyone up for laughs can check out Timo Vuorensola works.

Or the whole Troma Entertainment corpus.

Srsrly, cinema isn't limited to just the cali crap that gets on the networks.

Take this with a grain of salt and bias on my part. But indie movies from my perspective seem to be stuck on the "weird". They have to be "weird" (or "different") otherwise they're not "indie" but rather low-budget "b-movies" that I think everyone despises to some degree. Unless of course they end up being a hit in which case they're cult-classics.

Interesting observation! I think it's the same with music. I love all kinds of music, from the very weird/experimental to big budget larger than life sounding mainstream productions. Being also a bedroom music producer with limited time, I would love to match these big budget productions, but I don't have the ability to get to that level. So instead of trying to make a weak imitation, it's more fun and rewarding to create something different or weird.

Agreed. 'Indie' = low budget and weird/niche/slightly pretentious/not for me but grudging respect for it; 'B' = low budget and I think it's bad; 'cult' = low budget and I think it's good.

It's not obvious that one would rather apply 'cult' than 'independent' to something one likes, but there we go, language!

Seems inevitable that streaming services would cannibalize some of that low-invest fun media. The format is just more relaxed and if I want to see something kinda silly and fun, I'd rather just pop on my TV.

I only watched the first season of Westworld and I found it very formulaic and full of common trope but it's been too long now for me to discuss it.

Last série I really appreciated: the OA.

Westworld tied itself in knots trying to "gotcha" the audience. At the end of the day I think a more straightforward storytelling method probably would have worked better.

Westworld was also more or less my serie fatigue point. I was not a big consumer of TV shows and certainly didn't ever binge but nonetheless it was a tipping point.

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