Cranjis McBasketball
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Dec 28, 2017 18:27:21 GMT -5
They kept the budget lower by using real dinosaurs. Of course that was before dinosaurs unionized. Don’t laugh.
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Dec 28, 2017 18:34:56 GMT -5
They kept the budget lower by using real dinosaurs. Of course that was before dinosaurs unionized. Don’t laugh. I sincerely hope he can't live that down. I hope he is made fun of to this day.
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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on Dec 28, 2017 20:14:39 GMT -5
Pretty mind boggling when the graphics in the majority of those films became laugh-out-loud dated years ago. Yeah the plane crash at the end of Air Force One today looks like a very shitty cutscene ripped straight from a 3rd rate PS1 game.
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Post by msc on Dec 28, 2017 20:17:07 GMT -5
I saw Volcano and Dante's Peak again earlier this month on TV. Volcano is hilariously bad in places, and has some right idiotic characters. Plus, idiotic science. Dante's Peak is actually quite good. Nice build up of tension, with events loosely based on Mount St Helens in real life. A shame they were going for the realist (compared to Volcano) route then blow it with the standard "out run the pyroclastic flow" bit, but then, I guess you couldn't get a Hollywood happy ending in real life from the moment they go to save the kids on.
Anyhow, Dante's Peak beats Volcano in the "being a good film" stakes, imo.
I saw Men in Black (which had a lot of SFX spots plus Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones - there's your budget!), Contact, Batman and Robin and Lost World at the cinema at the time. Lost World is amazing when you are 10. Contact is sleep inducing, despite the cast.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2017 20:18:51 GMT -5
Since I already made my guess I decided to look up the answer. {Spoiler}It's something of a trick question - going by official budgets it's Batman & Robin but Speed 2's is rumored to be higher than what they say it is.
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Post by Fade is a CodyCryBaby on Dec 28, 2017 20:57:33 GMT -5
Pretty mind boggling when the graphics in the majority of those films became laugh-out-loud dated years ago. Yeah the plane crash at the end of Air Force One today looks like a very shitty cutscene ripped straight from a 3rd rate PS1 game. I loved Air Force One, but I vividly remember thinking that looked shitty even when it first came out.
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Dr. T is an alien
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Dec 28, 2017 22:11:29 GMT -5
And yet despite this Hollywood has learned absolutely nothing about trying to keep budgets within reason and not blowing money on stupid shit. Actually, there is little chance they change their ways. Economically, the only real change is that they make very few mid-budget films anymore. Low budget films are low risk/high reward and big budget films are big risk/bigger reward scenarios. Even massive flops can earn back money through the various markets. If not, they are valuable ways to dump costs as losses for tax purposes. Mid budget films don’t offer as much flexibility for the studio.
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Jonathan Michaels
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Post by Jonathan Michaels on Dec 28, 2017 23:39:06 GMT -5
According to Box Office Mojo, Speed 2 cost $160 million dollars.
Batman and Robin $125 million.
Speed 2 is part of a long tradition of movies involving boats costing way too much money.
Another example: Evan Almighty cost $175 million dollars.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 28, 2017 23:54:21 GMT -5
Was it Speed 2, the 2nd most expensive I remember it costing quite a lot you would think since so much of the earth is water, they wouldn't be so expensive Gore Verbinski once talked about why movies set at sea often cost so much, having experienced all the problems while working on the first three Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Building and maintaining giant water tanks and large-scale (or sometimes full-scale) replicas of ships takes much more manpower and resources than land-based sets, and filming on location (ie. the sea) presents all number of variables that can severely screw up your timetable (bad weather, uncooperative tides, etc.), which can lead to delays of weeks or months, leading to a production going massively over budget. CGI has enabled filmmakers to avoid a lot of those problems, but that by itself is often as expensive, and oftentimes more expensive, than doing it the old-fashioned way.
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