Indi movies used to be called “B movies” (I’m old sue me) but now they are called indi movies. During the B movie days they were always low budget with horrible acting and predictable plot, man I loved them. They were so great to watch on a boring night, or with a group of friends and laugh at all the horrible stuff.
Now you have indi movies. They are different. With computers the CGI is up to par with some A list movies.. the acting has gotten better as well as the plots. Some of them are good enough to be on the big screen.
In conclusion I like indi movies, but miss the carefree don’t look behind that door bad acting fake looking blood no plot and at least one breast shot movies.
Indie movies (just short for independent), have become extremely self-aware, to the point that they are just mostly pretentious now. It isn't any better on the other end of the spectrum, Hollywood is in a bad place right now.