The weirder a movie gets, the more I'll like it. Not unconditionally, but close. My expectations for Ink were extremely high so it's pretty astonishing that it took my several years before watching it. Now that Jamin Winans released his third movie recently, Ink got my attention again. After watching it my feelings were mixed. Although it is a very strange story indeed, a lot of the movie felt very conventional. The acting was pretty mediocre (as if the movie was made for television in the 1990s), the storyline was drenched in too much pathos (with a soundtrack that magnified this feeling a lot) and the visual style felt all a bit too much "post-production editing". I get why Ink is labeled a cult movie, as I think its following is indeed very small yet passionate, but it didn't do all that much for me. Too bad, 'cause I really wanted to like this film a lot...
All the imaginative concepts and camerawork can't hide bad acting and a bad script that is simplistic and eventually tips into cheesy sentimentality. I also thought it looked horrible, with almost every scene run through various types of crude filter so it ended up looking like a teenager's instagram gallery.
Sorry, didn't like it. Visually unique, but contains too many fantasy tropes, the opposing sides are extremely dualistic (VeryBad and VeryGood), action scenes are really poorly edited, and the overwhelming sense of melodrama came off as cloying and manipulative. Since this was on a low budget I can understand, but they bit off more than they could chew here. What I will say is that the young girl was a terrific actress, the Pathwalker was an interesting character, and there were a few moments that rose above the baseline. This is the kind of film that really wants to be liked much more than it actually deserves, as it wallows far too much inside itself to the point of singlemindedness, and then proclaims itself 'high concept/compared with The Matrix, Dark City'...etc, which it certaintly isn't. There's nothing wrong with coming from the heart, but when it's at the expense of the mind I draw the line.
I normally sit through even the biggest garbage until the end but I had to shut this off after 20 minutes (and I did not mark it as watched here on iCM). Painfully bad.
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Cuadie
The start was a bit rough for me. But I'm sure as hell glad I watched the whole thing. Very unique and underrated indeed!Darkness_prevails
It was a good movie. I would say that it is underrated.Nightwalker
The weirder a movie gets, the more I'll like it. Not unconditionally, but close. My expectations for Ink were extremely high so it's pretty astonishing that it took my several years before watching it. Now that Jamin Winans released his third movie recently, Ink got my attention again. After watching it my feelings were mixed. Although it is a very strange story indeed, a lot of the movie felt very conventional. The acting was pretty mediocre (as if the movie was made for television in the 1990s), the storyline was drenched in too much pathos (with a soundtrack that magnified this feeling a lot) and the visual style felt all a bit too much "post-production editing". I get why Ink is labeled a cult movie, as I think its following is indeed very small yet passionate, but it didn't do all that much for me. Too bad, 'cause I really wanted to like this film a lot...ChrisReynolds
All the imaginative concepts and camerawork can't hide bad acting and a bad script that is simplistic and eventually tips into cheesy sentimentality. I also thought it looked horrible, with almost every scene run through various types of crude filter so it ended up looking like a teenager's instagram gallery.jlfitz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfcVCK6_YNMScratch47
Sorry, didn't like it. Visually unique, but contains too many fantasy tropes, the opposing sides are extremely dualistic (VeryBad and VeryGood), action scenes are really poorly edited, and the overwhelming sense of melodrama came off as cloying and manipulative. Since this was on a low budget I can understand, but they bit off more than they could chew here. What I will say is that the young girl was a terrific actress, the Pathwalker was an interesting character, and there were a few moments that rose above the baseline. This is the kind of film that really wants to be liked much more than it actually deserves, as it wallows far too much inside itself to the point of singlemindedness, and then proclaims itself 'high concept/compared with The Matrix, Dark City'...etc, which it certaintly isn't. There's nothing wrong with coming from the heart, but when it's at the expense of the mind I draw the line.camilajafelice
I really liked it. Worth watching.halftome
The end was amazing... Great moviejlwizard
Very Good! Interesting!hugeposuer
It was okay.afan
this movie is grossly underrated and not NEARLY as popular as it should be. perhaps that is part of what makes it so amazing!kurisu1974
I normally sit through even the biggest garbage until the end but I had to shut this off after 20 minutes (and I did not mark it as watched here on iCM). Painfully bad.Mr Jack
This is one of the best movie i've seen in years.