To make a movie, to turn it into something that looks like it could have been made with the biggest budget, the best pyrotechnics, the most impressive cast and crew, and the one passionate director that has just as much vision and stamina as James Cameron, is a movie to take away from, at least for up-and-coming filmmakers.
"Ink" is a low-budget movie with a great original vision of the sci-fi/fantasy, and is very well written and directed by it's creator, Jamin Winans, an unknown indie movie man with his own production company (Winans was even the movie editor, though his constant cuts to show his various coverage I would have done without, but he did it with flash). With "Ink's" minimal resources, the movie is an impressive feat. It has scope, a well structured narrative, convincing visual effects, and interesting characters. Not too rounded, I admit, but carry the movie like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise would.
The movie needed, I'm sure at times, bit sets, lots of planning, and a large cast and crew to put it underway, but who says you can't do it? Though on a bigger scale, and budget, than the recent sleeper smash "Paranormal Activity" (that was made for $15,000, and "Ink" $250,000), "Ink" is a great example of undertaking a big feat with just a hint of the dreams that go through the vision of some of the world's greatest Hollywood directors. It's an amateur's masterpiece.
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