I watched 'Hero for a Day' this morning while browsing the IMDb movies that are available. About four hours later, this afternoon, I went to the theater to watch Terminator: Salvation. Now I'm a person who likes to give all movies a chance, but being human, I tend to go into indie-films with a bit of bias, thinking they'll be considerably long due to too much dialog - let's face it, most independent films are dialog heavy because they have absolutely no budget! Between the two movies I watched today, I must say this one stands alone as a better movie on so many levels. While the production value of Terminator was of a higher caliber, it was not a better movie - mainly because of content. There is so much more content in this low budget 20 minute video than in that multi-million dollar feature film. How can this be? What has Hollywood come to? Anyway, I am giving the director five years before he suddenly blows up and makes it big. Based on what I saw here, his talent is worth an investment by Hollywood execs. There internal character struggles, the subtly of their dialog, the action scenes - there are indie-films with higher budgets that don't achieve what was done here. Imagine what he'll do when given some real $$$$.
Anyone who truly appreciates motion pictures should pick this up. I just ordered the DVD off Amazon about ten minutes before writing this up. I can't wait to see the extras. I originally gave it 5 stars, but decided to give it 10 out of spite for Hollywood.
