2012 made $800 million, plus DVD sales. That's 600 million dollars more than they spent on it.

One hundred and twenty really good movies can be made with that.

It's the same way SyFy can afford to make 22 episodes of Caprica even though no one watches the show. They know that wrestling and ghosts aren't sci-fi, but they know two things:

1. They can make those shows
2. They will make money on those shows

You can't convince a studio that has no money to make your $20 million indie movie. You CAN convince a studio that has a ton of money because they just released 2012 to do so.

Not to mention all the kids of grips and sound guys and electricians and boom mike operators that that $200 million put food into the mouths of.

Although actually, the 'make something up' is actually eyes pointed down. Up and to the left is recall.

This is the first time you've done a movie that I've never even heard of before. I was hoping that when you finally posted the release thread, you'd include some sort of description or explanation of why the movie is worth checking out, if it was.

I didn't start out being uninterested, I started out just not knowing what it was. When I did a Google search to find out what it was, all I found was people saying it was mediocre at best.

So I continued to try to get from someone here a description of the movie or a recommendation that wasn't 'buy this movie to support indie movies.'

You pull my 'Nope, not interested' completely out of context to help your point. I wasn't uninterested because it was an indie movie, I was uninterested because the review I found (it has a 62 on Metacritic, including reviews such as "Wait a second, is this a horror movie or an episode of The Hills?") gave me the impression that the movie wasn't worth looking into. And yet, I still asked you guys for a recommendation, because I trust your judgement.

But as ShadowDuelist said:

I think his point was that he can use the iTunes app on his iPhone to download the podcast file just like from iTunes on his PC, not that he can access the site from his phone.

I'm actually not sure. Show notes come in the file that I can download through iTunes on my phone, and just playing the file with my music player rather than in a streaming app runs down my battery less. I'm not sure what you could add. The only apps I really use are ones that don't require connecting to the Internet, or are Twitter or IM clients.

So you made assumptions about what I was asking rather than just spending thirty seconds answering a legitimate question that other people in this thread also had? Nice.

And my point is, if you want me to try something that I otherwise might not, you should try to pitch the movie a bit. Not just tell me that it'll help your business if I throw money at it, not just copy-paste the ad copy, but actually tell me what about it might interest me. If I tell someone to check out Down In Front, I don't just tell them 'listen to it because it'll support podcasting; do a Google search if you want to know what it is.'

No one in this thread can even tell me what the premise of the movie is? Is that really too much to ask?

And yet $8 is way too much if no one has bothered to make me care about seeing it. I mean, I get 'help the indie filmmaking' as an argument, but, as far as me being a filmGOER, and not a filmMAKER, I'm more likely to want to see a movie that costs $300 million than one that cost $15K, so why would I spend my $8 on one of those instead of one of those?

So the pilot episode of Walking Dead leaked, but I've been trying to will myself not to watch it. Mostly because the file quality is really low, but I also think it's missing a lot of the effects. When does the actual show premiere?

That is an extremely thin article…all Cameron said is that he encouraged Lucas to convert the whole trilogy after seeing some test footage Lucas had done.

This was not the thread to happen upon whilst pretty girls are in the room attempting to eat dinner.

I love (love) Avatar, and can't wait to see the extended version of the movie.

This 'family language audio track,' is this something they're doing these days?