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You can make a decent movie for 5 mil. ( SPOILERZONE)
posted by TheynineSTAFFMOD on June 13, 2018 at 3:14 PM
Decent production values, a guy gets his face ripped in half, not sure where their notions of what futuristic cars are supposed to look like came from, but... ok! It had its moments. It didnt go all happy ending on me or anything, and that always works.
Reply by Xsploit
on May 22, 2019 at 6:21 PM
sometimes i sese two films because paying the busfar is almost as much as a ticket anyway
Reply by thebarnman
on May 23, 2019 at 3:44 PM
Sorry you don't have a car. I usually watch two movies a night at the drive-in for $5.50
Reply by Xsploit
on May 23, 2019 at 5:34 PM
We dont have drive ins over here and parking in town would cost a shitton more than busfair would
Reply by thebarnman
on May 23, 2019 at 11:53 PM
Damn dude, now I know why it's easier to watch two movies at a indoor theatre while your out!
Reply by CheekyMonkey
on February 6, 2021 at 9:46 AM
The movie felt a lot more expensive then it was... Very well done. I guess the advantage of having a smaller budget is that you can have more freedom artistically as long as you keep your budgeting under control.
I know that in the late 90s/early 2000s a genre movie like this would have a had 10x the budget (even before considering inflation), but I'm still glad they're able to be made... I hope we can get to see these again and the the business model isn't broken due to the various 'coofs...
Reply by thebarnman
on February 24, 2021 at 12:59 PM
There might be more of a return to actual story telling as apposed to time filling action scenes. At least that's what I've been seeing more at the drive-in this past few months. The only exception recently is the new Wonder Woman movie, but then again; that was made before Covid-007.
Reply by CheekyMonkey
on February 25, 2021 at 8:33 AM
@thebarnman I think this is produced by Blumhouse. They keep their budgets small because they know they can make a few million off of a sci-fi or horror movie (genre fans)... So it allows directors to tell their stories they way they want to.
It probably won't apply to big studio movies, but lets' see how things change given what's happened to the industry over the past year
Reply by movie_nazi
on February 25, 2021 at 10:44 AM
They better do something to shake things up. Pre-COVID Hollywood had a serious lack of originality problem that had them going to the tired comic book well over and over. I hope COVID scares them into innovating again.
Reply by thebarnman
on February 25, 2021 at 9:35 PM
This is exactly what I'm talking about even with big budgets. The whole industry has changed and without the revenue stream they were used to from exhibition (not as many in the theatre) video on demand/downloads (much higher cost now that many are not seeing at the theatre and don't want to pay the higher price) and home video such as DVD, Blu-ray and UHD Blu-ray (apparently not as many are collecting because of streaming) who are going to have risk budgets like what we were used to seeing as in the above 100 million or anywhere near that at least in the next year or longer. One example I can think off from the top of my head is that new James Bond movie...it keeps getting pushed back as they know it will be one hell of a struggle to make back what they've spent. Sooner or later it will be released and obviously we'll see how a movie like that does in today's Covid-007 environment.
One day we won't be all walking around with masks and when that happens is probably when we'll start to see budgets for movies start to rise again...that is if today's environment doesn't bankrupt and destroy movie theatres.