Have readers ever rented movies from movie stores like Blockbuster with titles they've never seen or heard of? Have readers ever searched these "movies" on the Internet with little or no search results?
It has happened to me a few times. I've picked films from Blockbuster with titles I've never heard of and show almost no search results on the Internet.
And every single time, these movies such as Junior Pilot or Stranded are not only unheard of, but are so poor in quality. The worst part of all of this is that I am paying an estimate of the same price that I pay to rent regular movies.
Junior Pilot was so terribly made. A movie about a plane being hijacked by a pair of mad doctors with syringes pointed at anyone who came near them. The plane showed in the movie consisted of different shots of different airplane models. Models as in the type or airplane, not scale models. It's like shooting a video of a racing sports car and then shooting another shot of a regular car and depicting them to be the same car in the movie.
If that's not bad enough, then I don't know what is. Paying the same amount for cheap acting, poor storyline and dialog as a good movie with the opposite quality is simply a rip off.
Is it a wonder why corporate film makers such as Hollywood seem to dominate the film industry? Many defenders of these independent films claim that corporate filmmakers have a larger audience due to massive advertising. I totally disagree.
Corporate filmmakers or any filmmaker who properly invests in their films seems to get a huge audience and profit.
Take for example the first Star Wars movie (A new hope) released in 1977. It became a huge hit in America and the world, not due to the massive advertising, but the money it's makers put into it.
Even the most famous Star Wars fan film, Star Wars: Revelations catches up to the quality of the Star Wars franchise due to money being invested into it. This amount was only a few thousand, but it worked.
Until and unless, these independent filmmakers invest a reasonable amount in their movies, it's unfair for their productions to be sitting on Blockbuster shelves and costing the same approximate amount for rental as a heavily invested movie does.
I urge readers to search a movie on the Internet they see at their local video store if they never seen or heard of it's title before wasting their money on it.
