Peter Brown wrote:

Brilliant!

MedGen wrote:

Avoid like the plague.

Crocodile Gandhi wrote:

Shot in 11 days on a budget of $19,000 AUD. Made over 10 million at the Australian Box Office.

"This year's full monty" is not something to boast about.

Slum Dog Millionaire on 15 mil budget



the OP was Best yes???

Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight, the most for any film of 2008, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It also won seven BAFTA Awards (including Best Film), five Critics' Choice Awards, and four Golden Globes.

[Rec] (2007) - cost app. 1.5m Euros.



Very good POV/shaky camera movie, if you speak Spanish, or don't mind subtitles.

Tbickle wrote:I'm not saying that it's the best low-budget movie but I still love "Clerks". That's about as low budget as you can get.

Clerks is a classic. It's probably the best you can get with the amount of money it was made.

I wonder if it's true that he actually used a bunch of credit cards in the video store's name to fund the movie.

Mac_Guffin wrote:

Tbickle wrote:I'm not saying that it's the best low-budget movie but I still love "Clerks". That's about as low budget as you can get.

Clerks is a classic. It's probably the best you can get with the amount of money it was made.

I wonder if it's true that he actually used a bunch of credit cards in the video store's name to fund the movie.

Nah, the cards were in Kevin Smith's name.
Trust me on this, I'm a nerd-thority on anything Smith-related. Although I'm pretty sure The Snowball Effect [a doc on the making of Clerks] mentions it.

Oh, and part of it was funded because he dropped out midway through his only year of film school and they refunded half of his tuition. He also sold some laser discs and comic books for money, too.

My vote goes to Primer (2004). Probably one of the most fucked up time travel paradox movies I've ever seen. I still don't understand the last 1/4 of the movie. Cost ~$7,000 to make.

Carnival of Souls (1962) might be a runner up in my book.

mmmcheezy wrote:

Mac_Guffin wrote:

Tbickle wrote:I'm not saying that it's the best low-budget movie but I still love "Clerks". That's about as low budget as you can get.

Clerks is a classic. It's probably the best you can get with the amount of money it was made.

I wonder if it's true that he actually used a bunch of credit cards in the video store's name to fund the movie.

Nah, the cards were in Kevin Smith's name.
Trust me on this, I'm a nerd-thority on anything Smith-related. Although I'm pretty sure The Snowball Effect [a doc on the making of Clerks] mentions it.

I used to be, but I switch up my obsessions. When I was little, it was the Nightmare on Elm Street films. When I hit my early teen years, it was punk music and history. A few years later, it was slew of various directors. Now, it seems to be Stephen King.

Some of my knowledge of former obsessions decay after a while... like Smith in this case.

Cube is good, but the acting was migraine-inducing.

When I learn a bit of trivial knowledge, it pretty much never goes away--I still remember pretty much everything about N'Sync, LOLOLOLOL.

Just remembered that Pi (1998) was pretty good as well.

"Slacker"


I'm pretty sure it pioneered that style of filmmaking that was later used in films like "Storytelling".

Elephant.
Kind of disturbing, but an interesting look at school shootings.

That, Finding Forrester, and Good Will Hunting are the only Van Sant films I like.

tnjrp wrote:I don't know about the best of anything, but Bad Taste, Street Trash and Star Wreck: In the Pirkining all certainly deserve at least a honourable mention in their own ways.

Star Wreck: In the Pirkining is very good for an amateur film (the team who made it are making a new movie with some professional help this time, it is called Iron Sky)

The Gamers is another good very low budget film.

Mac_Guffin wrote:Cube is good, but the acting was migraine-inducing.

Yup! Absolutely awful, but I loved the concept.

br0k3nglass wrote:My vote goes to Primer (2004). Probably one of the most fucked up time travel paradox movies I've ever seen. I still don't understand the last 1/4 of the movie. Cost ~$7,000 to make.

Primer was a great idea too... pity it all just fell apart at the end.

CookieJon wrote:

MedGen wrote:

Avoid like the plague.

Around $250,000 budget.

Cube was shit, should have been a short, it's all the premise deserved. Eraserhead was also shit, I've never understood why anyone though it was worth bothering with. Pitch Black was ok, but only barely (enough that I'll watch it again when I'm really bored and working on a good drunk). Clerks I still love, even if I'm not entirely sure why - it may have something to do with me working in the industry I do these days. Man From Earth I quite like, but that's another one I'm not entirely sure why I like. The particular quirkiness of the premise, and how it's played out, probably.

And Blair Witch was like really bad moonshine. You're only partaking because it's the only thing available and you've been fucking gullible enough to listen to the febrile rantings about how great it is by its victims, but even while you're attempting to swallow it you feel your gorge rise and know that come the dawn you're going to fucking regret this shit. And then you force yourself to swallow, again and again, and when you wake up in the morning and you feel vaguely violated by the realisation that what you forced down your gullet the evening before was so fucking bad, it didn't even contain enough actual spirit of any form to get you high-stinking drunk, let alone feeling more than vaguely shitty. Moonshine containing less alcohol (in any form) than a bottle of orange drink that's a week out of date. Or like voluntarily putting yourself in a position to be date-raped, just so you can have an opinion on the subject, only to find out that the experience consists of some stupid cunt with no social skills and no apparent balls spiking your drink with asprin and drunkenly slobbering on your collar before needing to be helped into a cab so they can get home. in short, not all it's cracked up to be.