Responses to this message:
Hey, Cranky, give poor old Hank a break. He makes these little movies in his backyard for two and a half dollars and has to enlist his wife to act in them and co-write the script. If he had only half the money budgeted for your beloved Tom Cruise's kleenex allowance on Jerry Maguire (another film that could've been filmed in the director's back yard, only what a yard -- it cost $60 million), maybe Henry Jaglom could've come up with something great (he's done it before -- check out New Year's Day or Eating). This is a guy who was a protege of Orson Welles. Now, I know that doesn't make him a Cameron Crowe or anything, but it should count for something. Don't get me wrong -- I'm not saying that all crappy independent films should be lauded just because they were so dang hard to get financed, but what should the piss poor filmmaker do to find an audience without getting the world's most famous actor on board (either pre or during his or her latest "comeback") or else serve up some low budget version of mainstream junk and hope that S&E take a liking to it. Give the struggling indy crowd some encouragement, Crankala. You usually seem to know what you're cranking about.
Responses to this message:
Post a response to this discussion thread