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Good Low Budget and Independent Flicks

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Friday, September 5, 2025 8:25 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Got a good one for you guys. Especially if you like time loop movies.

Triangle (2009)



It's no Edge of Tomorrow, and unless I'm missing something it's not going to leave you with many questions at the end like a lot of time loop/time travel movies do, but for a $12 Million budget, I thought it was pretty excellent.

The "lesser" Hemsworth Liam was the only name I recognized from it, and I'm pretty sure it's the first time I've actually seen him in anything. Lead actress Melissa George and did a great job... and she was gorgeous. Australian actress, which is probably why we don't see too much of her here. Did a search on IMDB though and was surprised to see that I've seen her at least three times before. She did an episode of House. She was in 5 episodes of the TV show ROAR from 1997 starring Heath Leger even before he was in 10 Things I hate about you.

But the one that got me was Mulholland Drive. She played Camilla Rhodes. Not the Camilla Rhodes that got more screen time as played by Laura Harring who also played Rita, but the blonde glammed up version of Camilla Rhodes that only showed up early in the movie, if memory serves. No wonder I didn't realize that was her though. It was 12 years earlier and this was very much a different character. I can't even remember if she really had any lines in Mulholland Drive, actually. I don't know... been too many years since I've seen it.

She was also in 23 episodes of Alias, but I never watched that show.



As always, I recommend going in blind and not checking out the trailer first.

IMDB blurb doesn't give anything away, so here it is:

Quote:

Five friends set sail and their yacht is overturned by a strange and sudden storm. A mysterious ship arrives to rescue them, and what happens next cannot be explained.


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Friday, September 5, 2025 8:30 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


I should mention too, that this movie was made in a time when we kept the movies at a reasonable length. With credits included, the runtime was only 1 hour and 39 minutes.

This lead to what I would call nearly perfect pacing. Today they would have made this movie 2 1/2 hours long and filled us in with all the unnecessary backstory for all the characters that was not at all necessary to the plot.

I was thrilled that just about 15 minutes into the story we're already getting to the action, and I didn't have to sit through 45 minutes to an hour of douchey rich people gabbing away about douchey rich people bullshit on a yacht before we get to the meat of the story.

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Saturday, September 6, 2025 2:57 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Got a good one for you guys. Especially if you like time loop movies.

Triangle (2009)



It's no Edge of Tomorrow, and unless I'm missing something it's not going to leave you with many questions at the end like a lot of time loop/time travel movies do, but for a $12 Million budget, I thought it was pretty excellent.

The "lesser" Hemsworth Liam was the only name I recognized from it, and I'm pretty sure it's the first time I've actually seen him in anything. Lead actress Melissa George and did a great job... and she was gorgeous. Australian actress, which is probably why we don't see too much of her here. Did a search on IMDB though and was surprised to see that I've seen her at least three times before. She did an episode of House. She was in 5 episodes of the TV show ROAR from 1997 starring Heath Leger even before he was in 10 Things I hate about you.

But the one that got me was Mulholland Drive. She played Camilla Rhodes. Not the Camilla Rhodes that got more screen time as played by Laura Harring who also played Rita, but the blonde glammed up version of Camilla Rhodes that only showed up early in the movie, if memory serves. No wonder I didn't realize that was her though. It was 12 years earlier and this was very much a different character. I can't even remember if she really had any lines in Mulholland Drive, actually. I don't know... been too many years since I've seen it.

She was also in 23 episodes of Alias, but I never watched that show.


As always, I recommend going in blind and not checking out the trailer first.

IMDB blurb doesn't give anything away, so here it is:
Quote:

Five friends set sail and their yacht is overturned by a strange and sudden storm. A mysterious ship arrives to rescue them, and what happens next cannot be explained.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

I don't recall if I saw Triangle.
If so, I might have thought it similar to Virus. There were a few ghost ship films out around then, IIRC.
Melissa George is gorgeous. She also had a character arc on Good Wife, which I saw on reruns.
That role had similar feel to Alexandria Daddorio in Modern Family.
This was Liam's first year of films.
2009 also had Chris Hemsworth as George Kirk in Star Trek, and in Cabin In The Woods.

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Saturday, September 6, 2025 6:20 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


the original Alien back in 1979 before Xenomorph Aliens became a thing, I mentioned it on the previous page a Budget $8.4–14 million

update on the 'franchise'

Fede Álvarez Will Not Direct ‘Alien: Romulus’ Sequel
https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3898455/fede-alvarez-will-not-dire
ct-alien-romulus-sequel
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Saturday, September 6, 2025 8:31 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
I don't recall if I saw Triangle.
If so, I might have thought it similar to Virus. There were a few ghost ship films out around then, IIRC.
Melissa George is gorgeous. She also had a character arc on Good Wife, which I saw on reruns.
That role had similar feel to Alexandria Daddorio in Modern Family.
This was Liam's first year of films.
2009 also had Chris Hemsworth as George Kirk in Star Trek, and in Cabin In The Woods.



You ain't kidding. Melissa George is gorgeous.

I mean, she's almost 50 now, so I hope she aged like a fine wine like Jennifer Conneley did. But I got 10 teeth left and I'm a only a few years younger, so what do I know.

I only know Alexandria Daddorio from a few episodes of It's Always Sunny, but talk about another stunner. Never watched Modern Family, or The Good Wife either. I did see that Melissa was in that though because I looked her up on IMDB while my old man was still here and mentioned some of the things I know I'd heard of and he said he never watched that show but he remembered that it was a pretty big deal when it was out.

Triangle was pretty damn good, and I would give it a solid recommendation to anybody who likes movies about time. I wouldn't call it a "Ghost Ship" movie though, but I really don't want to say much more because I like going into movies knowing as little as possible myself.


I'll have to see if there's a good movie called Square or Rectangle now. I know years back I recommended a movie called Circle, so maybe there's a good movie for all the shapes.

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Sunday, September 7, 2025 2:35 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Pretty sure there are some pyramids released. I think Sphere was made into film. Cube films that I recall were not good. Don't recall if trapezoid was made into film. How about Star, curve, arc?

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Sunday, September 7, 2025 3:43 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


I was thinking more along the lines of 2D flicks.

Looks like there aren't going to be any winners with Squares, Rectangles or Pentagons though, unless you like romcoms, woke DEI trash movies, or bullshit about Ukraine/Russia.

Bummer.

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Sunday, September 21, 2025 5:20 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


not sure if good...its possible these Japanese cartoons are dumb but...

Japan Demon Slayer, it makes these cinema toons for something between 10-20 Million

https://web.archive.org/web/20201231165034/https://www.the-numbers.com
/movie/Kimetsu-no-Yaiba-Mugen-Ressha-Hen-(2020-Japan)#tab=summary


Box Office = $505 million - 510m box office (so far ...and for each movie)

does not even include the whole Anime / Manga / Tshirt merch sales, which Marvel, DC and StarWars no longer has


Pixar / WB / Disney is currently looking at the movie and not understanding WTF is going on
they will launch another SJW DEI Black islamo transexual version of Superman, Captain Marvel and Ironman and expect the audience to eat it up

the days of launching another bla bla X-Men, Wonder Woman movie and expecting an easy 200 Million Domestic and 200 Million international are over, the days of easy money are long gone

Budgets should be lower and WTF happened with Snow White 270 million remake budget?

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

He's made a lot of poor decisions, sure, but he owns up to them. He had every right at one point to file for Bankruptcy, but he never did that. He just went back to work and took literally any role he was offered to dig himself out of all that debt.

Gotta give him respect for that.

I liked Willy's Wonderland. It wouldn't even be watchable without him in it, and the fact that he doesn't say a single word in the whole movie is a good gimmick for him.

The Color Purple was Okay. I didn't realize it was an H.P. Lovecraft movie until after my dad and I started watching it and when his name popped up I had to pause the movie and apologize ahead of time that it probably wasn't going to be very good. I'd say it's better than your average Lovecraft movie, but still not very good. Another movie that would have been terrible had Cage not been in it, but the movie itself was so crazy that it overshadowed Nic's crazy acting.

I can't even remember the name of the one where he was showing up in people's dreams now. That one had so much potential, but the last 15 minutes were terrible and the ending sucked hard.

And then there's The Surfer. God awful movie that nobody should ever watch.




Raising Arizona Budget $5.5 million
https://www.ranker.com/list/nicolas-cage-movies-and-films-and-filmogra
phy/ranker-film

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Monday, September 22, 2025 5:01 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


10 Fantastic Low-Budget Horror Movies That Made Millions, Ranked
https://collider.com/most-successful-low-budget-horror-movies-ranked/

10 low-budget movies that are still surprisingly popular
https://www.aol.com/lifestyle/10-low-budget-movies-still-175700101.htm
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