No need to be creative anymore or original anymore in indie cinema

I have to agree. These types of movies are being released every year now, wannabe-Woody Allen filmmakers who think they have "something to say." Most of them don't. I understand Lena Dunham, she is trying to start a career. She is trying to be a filmmaker, and this is a very personal film for her, and its the only kind of film she is capable of making right now, but that doesn't it's going to be any good. The performances were fine, Dunham is not a bad actress, and the girl who played Charlotte was really good and incredibly sexy. But the script was awful, the story was uninteresting, and the characters were repulsive with no redeeming qualities. They were all such @ssholes, I couldn't care less for any of them. I can't believe Jody Lee Lipes wasted his time on this.



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Thank you to all that have replied to my posting and agreed, nice not to feel alone. I'm not trying to slam a filmmaker, or appear to be a bitter filmmaker that some posted as "bitter because our films weren't chosen." I'm a filmmaker second, a movie fan first. Why do people want to make films? Because they see other films that make them want to. Filmmaking isn't what it was, and it's more competitive and also more diverse, allowing a lot of really creative people the affordable means to make something that we wouldn't have seen fifteen years ago.

So it's painful to me and sad (thankfully I'm not alone as I see on this board), that someone with the connections like this filmmaker that also has the resources and people to shoot something well with such little means, would just go and make something so unoriginal and boring that's been done so many times already. But that's besides the point, she's not the only one doing it. The saddest part is that festivals and distributors bought into it. Is this the future of indie filmmaking? Is this the image of indie films now? Will people think it's acceptable now to just make a boring Hannah Takes the Stairs/Tiny Furniture replica? They will if these stupid festivals keep getting $$#%-ons for them.

If the festivals keep accepting this stuff and giving it the recognition it doesn't deserve, this is all we're going to have anymore. Indie filmmaking has already merged into Hollywood, so for films like this with no stars in it, please please please only give the recognition to those that are at least trying to do something new and different, and that are good.

And that's ashame what's happening with Australia's filmmaking community, there's been some good movies out of there.

Another point someone made is true...movies like will get the recognition, but won't make any money. But still, I'd go to GREAT LENGTHS to get this kind of recognition, even if I lost a ton of money. She is very very lucky.

And in terms of being bitter, I'll be modest..my stuff looks like $#$# compared to the quality of this movie...but content wise, I kicked it's $#$.

A new filmaker should be thrilled to be the defining "me and my friends" filmmaker for another generation, according to you. There are competitors. This one was well-done. Viewers could see and hear every shot. Would you prefer they filmed something "more interesting" that they knew nothing about?

This is the most intelligent thing I have heard in a long time, and I totally agree. What's worse is the annoying hipster crowd that fawns over these films every single year. I know some people who only watch these crappy films, just to "stick it" to Hollywood, which is really asinine in my opinion.

For example, I saw the film "It's Kind of A Funny Story" a few months ago. It's basically like these films, but replace the post-grad loser with high school loser. The main character doesn't have any real problems, but he wants to kill himself, and his character is very bland and simplistic, like all of these so called "indie" films. The movie sucked ass, but all the "intellectual" hipster college students grouped up at the local coffee shop and fawned over how it represented "today's society" and what today's youth has to face. I just laughed out loud, because the film was not deep at all, and should not have started any kind of intelligent conversation.

But back to the main argument. In my opinion, the people who make films like these are just doing it either for the money or to get a quick directing credit. Maybe if I talked to the director and asked her about it more, it may be more interesting/deep, but you shouldn't have to do that with films.

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Agreed 100%. I couldn't even finish it. Its so pretentious, so over-done, then I felt like punching someone.
Jeez, what happened to creativity.


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"Hannah Takes the Stairs Part 2: Even More Boring and Unoriginal"!!!!!! That's hilarious, and sadly, too true.

so tired of this cr@p

i agree that this movie sucks.