Counterpoint: Godzilla’s budget was so low because Japanese workers get overworked and underpaid, and the JPY is generally weaker than the USD.
I genuinely hope the workers were properly compensated for G–1.0, it’s an excellent film and they truly deserve it.
I think your comment and the one about someone in Hollywood pocketing the money are both true. Money laundering and/or a tax trick may also play a role.
Increasingly convinced that Hollywood is a scam. Someone is pocketing all that money
The Japanese economy is artificially cheap.
At the same time though, you can save a lot of money if you do everything in house. Especially if you have inexpensive labor.
Not really, because you have to maintain that capacity when you aren’t using it.
Idk, could be on a gig labor plan
I would be shocked (shocked, I say) if Hollywood wasn’t mostly a front for money laundering rings.
Always has been.
I mean yeah.
Where do you think all the money for the biggest box office movies goes to? Like 3-5 people on top, then little goes to the main cast/crew, then quality fx and editing are an afterthought.
The whole reason the film industry is on the west coast is that they were trying to avoid paying for Edison’s patent on the motion picture camera. So, yeah, Hollywood was founded on IP violations.
Edison falsely claimed the patent.
Nah, no way. Edison was on the up and up about everything he did.
The fact we acknowledge Edison for anything other than being a piece of shit is a travesty.
A lot of movies get their budgets from hedge funds because they aren’t generally strongly correlated with the overall market but that’s where the earnings of movies return, not the recipients of the 200M$ spent
The cgi in new movies has been getting worse and worse lately; the mandalorian movie was laughably bad in some spots.
They’re not planning their huge productions properly anymore. Everything has to come out yesterday and that’s the problem.
The entire movie looked like a video game cut scene.
They render the sets using Unreal Engine, so that’s probably not far off the money.
Was it also planned to be a season of the show that instead got turned into a movie like Moana 2 was?
I don’t think that was cgi. It think it was stop motion and puppetry.
(Or, cgi that was supposed to look like stop motion and puppetry.)
Eh, the new Supergirl movie had its special effects done by the same studio that did Superman. The issue here is the writing and cinematography.
Agreed. Those kids did a great job acting. The writing and direction were just the worst.
At least they didn’t have to remove a moustache the actor had because of another film they were shooting.
Obsession enters the chat
(surely this won’t blow up my inbox)
