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Is this a whole new genre? What do we call it?

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little children too

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indie??

For now we see through a glass, darkly.

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Bubba Ho-Tep is indie, so is Evil Dead. Come to think of it, pretty much anything with Bruce Campbell in a leading role is indie.

Greatest thing achievable; understanding between people. Sadly IMDb is not the place to find it.

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From wikipedia...

An independent film, or indie film, is a film that is produced outside, "independent", of the Hollywood Studio system. Additionally, the term is used to describe less commercially-driven art films which differ markedly from the norms of plot-driven, mainstream classical Hollywood cinema.

But I still wouldn't consider Bruce Campbell flicks as "indie".

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Your mom uses wikipedia...

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i don't think that little children is anything like these movies. they really aren't all that similar. only the fact that they have a certain quirkiness, but really, other than that, they aren't completely alike.

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Indie is a good name for it. But it doesn't apply to as wide of a spectrum. As far as those specific movies, I would also put it into the "dark comedy" category. These types of movies are my absolute favorite.

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Good.

"Close your eyes. Open your heart."

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Actually if you notice, these films were not made by the Conglamerate Studio Hollywood Titles, but by Independant Filmakers

The genre is Indie

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The Onion Av Club has an interesting article about this sort of film

http://www.avclub.com/content/node/67779

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The Onion Av Club has an interesting article about this sort of film

http://www.avclub.com/content/node/67779


The only problem is that out of all the movies from the list that I did see, I like them all, but I can't stand Anderson. I think he can only make a good movie with a help of Baumbach, not the other way around :(

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Is this a whole new genre? What do we call it


With the exception of Little Miss Sunshine, I call it "sucky"!

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Chumscrubber, Thumbsucker, Little Miss Sunshine, Me and You and Everyone We Know, and Little Children have absolutely nothing in common other than being made independent of a big studios. The content and style of these films is completely different.

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how about boring and self-indulgent.

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its tragicomedy

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Let's make up a new word for it...
How about 'Satire'?

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The squid and the whale is another one of these type,i will call them "a breath of fresh air" great film!!

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content-driven
not for ADD ITLS(as in not for people with attention deficit disorder in the literal sense)
towards normal
quirky


the last post is host and roast toast

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The "How Much Life Sucks" genre.

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