joem18b
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7/9/2007 2:43 PM
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Re: Top Five Movies with Budgets under $10 million
This is one of those movies like, say, Mullholland Drive, where you watch and everything seems to be progressing normally and then all of a sudden you go, huh? where did that come from? and from then on it's a guessing game. So after watching Primer, I went to the Web and read a few threads about what I had just seen. Because if you have Guy #1 and Guy #2 and they each start coming back again and again, trying to get one up on each other, after a while you've got Guy #1 (1), Guy #1 (2), Guy #2 (1), ..., etc., and it becomes a puzzle trying to figure out who is doing what to whom, and why. So yes, the movie becomes a puzzle. With time travel, the potential for paradox is unlimited. If the viewer is in the mood, that can be fun. Otherwise, forget it.
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joem18b
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7/29/2007 8:42 PM
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Re: Top Five Movies with Budgets under $10 million
I printed out a 12-page timeline from the web (http://neuwanstein.fw.hu/primer_timeline.html) and taped all the pages together and then sat there with it in my hand and followed along with the movie and this time I liked it even more. It cost $7,000 to make and covered more time-travel territory than any big-budget film I can think of. Checked IMDB but Shane Carruth hasn't done anything else. Too bad.
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Jymkata
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7/29/2007 11:15 PM
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Re: Top Five Movies with Budgets under $10 million
interesting topic, I must admit I like a lot of films with higher budgets but here is my top 5 without spending too much time looking up the numbers- 1. 12 Angry Men - $350,000 in 1957, about $ 5.6 mil. in today's dollars according to your rules. This is one of my favorite films. Yeah, the setting is a couple of rooms, but the direction is taut and wow, what a cast! 2. Mad Max - est. $350,00 in 1979, about $ 2.8 mil. Amazing low budget film. They got a steal with an unknown Mel Gibson, but it's pretty gutsy to make a futuristic movie with this scale. 3. City of God - This movie looks like it was made with $ 50 mil. thanks to the direction and cinematography, but can you believe it only cost Miramax $ 3.3 mil. ? 4. Donnie Darko - This is another one that looks like it cost a lot, but it was made with $ 4.5 mil. and I loved it 5. Reservoir Dogs - I know it's hip to trash Tarantino as just a hip poser, but he made an outstanding debut for $ 1.2 millionin 1992. Big budgets, small budgets - the guy can direct. I can't find info on his budgets, but a master at making the money stretch was Samuel Fuller. I'd love to find out the numbers on my favorites like Pickup on South Street, The Steel Helmet, The Naked Kiss, Shock Corridor, Forty Guns, and The Big Red One. I think a great director can make a masterpiece out of a small budget but a hack can't make a decent movie out of Titanic's budget. An interesting case is Sam Raimi who made low-budget horror masterpieces with the Evil Dead series, but I feel like every increased budget yielded a worse film. The Spiderman movies are among some of the most expensive ever made and I think they suck.
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joem18b
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7/30/2007 1:31 AM
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Re: Top Five Movies with Budgets under $10 million
 Jymkata:1. 12 Angry Men - $350,000 in 1957, about $ 5.6 mil. in today's dollars according to your rules. This is one of my favorite films. Yeah, the setting is a couple of rooms, but the direction is taut and wow, what a cast!
Lumet's first puts me in mind of Kubrick's early career. "The Killing" was made in 1956 for $320,000.
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joem18b
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7/30/2007 11:08 PM
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Hard to Google what he's doing today because of the thousands of Primer hits. His co-star David Sullivan is still working in movies.
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tmoney
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7/30/2007 11:23 PM
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Jymkata: 3. City of God - This movie looks like it was made with $ 50 mil. thanks to the direction and cinematography, but can you believe it only cost Miramax $ 3.3 mil. ?
Wow. I love this movie, and it does look like a high budget film. $3.3 mil??!!
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joem18b
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7/30/2007 11:39 PM
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#17 on the imdb list of 250 best movies. Wonder if it's a lot cheaper to make a movie in Brazil?
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tinokiev
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7/31/2007 12:44 AM
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El mariachi !! -- rodriguez spent 2.000 $ Clerks, The Blair Witch Project The Idiots
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Risselada
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8/1/2007 1:54 PM
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joem18b:
Holy balls. I didn't realize there were that many timelines that detailed and documented. I'm curios about how much on that timeline was actually specifically implied in the movie or how much was guessed or made up. Do you know if that jpg was created by the writer of the movie or just some fan?
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Risselada
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8/1/2007 2:00 PM
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Re: Top Five Movies with Budgets under $10 million
joem18b: Jymkata: 1. 12 Angry Men - $350,000 in 1957, about $ 5.6 mil. in today's dollars according to your rules. This is one of my favorite films. Yeah, the setting is a couple of rooms, but the direction is taut and wow, what a cast!
Lumet's first puts me in mind of Kubrick's early career. "The Killing" was made in 1956 for $320,000.
And not only that, Kubrick and Lumet were making a movie at the same time that had pretty much the exact same plots. Dr. Strangelove and Fail-Safe.
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