Kurt Wimmer made a great Sci-Fi movie for just $20m.
It doesn't look cheap at all, in fact it looks like it costs at least $50-60m.
Low Budget Sci-Fi Films That You Enjoyed!
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Kurt Wimmer made a great Sci-Fi movie for just $20m.
It doesn't look cheap at all, in fact it looks like it costs at least $50-60m.
Equilibrium is pretty badass, even for being a cheap Fahrenheit 451 knock-off.
"Ultraviolet" was indeed big a dissapointment.Shame about Ultraviolet, though.
Even if it did have Milla Jovovich walking around in tight outfits the whole time.
The fight scenes were cool, but the plot was a mess.
I was also going to bring up Moon & Primer so I'll just 2nd them.
Primer is considered ultra-low budget by today's standards even though the actors were non-union (non-SAG). (It was in production in 2001.)
Moon would be considered low budget.
I think somewhere between $6-10 million is another category. Above that is called "The Majors".
According to the Screen Actors Guild contracts if a film is over $2 million for the production budget it is considered "low budget". If under $2 million dollars it would be in the "modified low-budget" agreement. If it is under $200,000. it is considered "Ultra-Low Budget".
Primer is considered ultra-low budget by today's standards even though the actors were non-union (non-SAG). (It was in production in 2001.)
Moon would be considered low budget.
I think somewhere between $6-10 million is another category. Above that is called "The Majors".
According to the Screen Actors Guild contracts if a film is over $2 million for the production budget it is considered "low budget". If under $2 million dollars it would be in the "modified low-budget" agreement. If it is under $200,000. it is considered "Ultra-Low Budget".
"Ultraviolet" was indeed big a dissapointment.Shame about Ultraviolet, though.
Even if it did have Milla Jovovich walking around in tight outfits the whole time.
The fight scenes were cool, but the plot was a mess.
You know, that's the conventional take on that film, but I actually had the opposite experience.
I found the world very interesting, and liked the villain a lot, and was intrigued by how his obsessive-compulsive behaviors were an extrapolation of the artificiality, germ-phobia, and ultrafastidious panic of our consumer society.
The fight scenes, OTOH, were repetitive and boring and utterly lacked any sense of jeopardy for Milla. "Oh great, ten more guys wearing tinted helmets. Oh nice, she spun around twice with a sword and a machine pistol and they're all dead. How very, very exciting that was."
Frankly, if the fight scenes in Ultraviolet weren't that gunkata nonsense but were Bourne movie fight scenes instead, that movie would be a scifi action classic.
Indeed. Love this movie to (Substance) Death.
Pi, made on an absolute shoestring. And, if you wish to extend the definition, Eraserhead. And I can't imagine The Man Who Fell to Earth cost an arm and a leg.
Moon
The Hidden
The Arrival
I guess I haven't seen a lot of low-budget sci-fi films. I've never even seen Dark Star ...
The Hidden
The Arrival
I guess I haven't seen a lot of low-budget sci-fi films. I've never even seen Dark Star ...
On that note, Brand Upon the Brain is marvelous. I'm assuming given its content it was a pretty cheap movie. I also need to get around to La Antena one of these days.
Had half a mind to see Cypher but saw middling reviews instead.
Cube is an engaging movie, though, and a very effective (if obvious) use of a single set.
It's got unquestionably the best bomb defusing scene in the history of cinema.
That said it's uneven and is somewhat tiresome in places, but overall it's a movie I liked well enough to make a bad video edit of it and Philip Glass somewhere on youtube.
Robot Stories (great movie)
Then there's the ouvre of The Asylum...generally mediocre to bad, but somehow fun to watch, many of them. GOOD MySTing fodder, usually good nudity, too. Their version of War of the Worlds opens up with a great tit shot.
Then there's the ouvre of The Asylum...generally mediocre to bad, but somehow fun to watch, many of them. GOOD MySTing fodder, usually good nudity, too. Their version of War of the Worlds opens up with a great tit shot.
Cypher is definitely his least effective film, but it's worth watching as a rental. I rather liked Nothing, which is absolutely absurd and definitely elicited a few chuckles.
Nah, I thought the "vampires" were lame, too.
Equilibrium, on the other hand, kicked ass.
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The Arrival
The Man From Earth
The Man From Earth
Both of those, especially TMFE, are EXCELLENT.
Donnie Darko.
Mad Max? Or was that just a high ratio of budget to profit?
