Spinoff thread about movie costs

Variety of factors at nearly every level that’s lead to it, biggest ones being studios consolidated into a few big players, with more focus on bigger returns on each movie - which has led to less movies being made and more budget being concentrated to those bigger movies. In part because they don’t want to risk on smaller films or upcoming visionary directors/ writers and in part because these high budgets make it a lot easier to hide the Hollywood accounting that they are all making a killing off of regardless of a movies success

Then there’s more front facing issues like general inflation, the rise of CGI use which has become more expensive than practical effects but are still more efficient to use in the studios eyes, and the decline in the physical media market doesnt allow for anything to have a second life and they do not allow anything to breathe in theaters before throwing it on a streaming service within 2 weeks


You could write a thesis on all the issues that play a part here

Still does not address why I have watched the Stargate series 4 times when they didn't need a green screen and something to make the stargate work. All you said is that Hollywood is stupid and a cash grab and mostly failing for my movie and series watching.

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Still does not address why I have watched the Stargate series 4 times when they didn't need CGI or any of that crap

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I’m just answering your question, those same issues roll downhill to TV

It’s not that they didn’t need it, they just didn’t have access to neither the budget or the tools available today, so they ran on a shoestring budget and had a long leash to build a narrative with low expectations and grow a fanbase over time

They could time warp all the same actors and writers of that show to today, and the show they would make would end up being a 6-8 episode season that immediately got into a world ending plot to gain quick viewers and then quickly cancelled when it didn’t have huge numbers because they next big thing would be in the pipeline

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All you said is that Hollywood is stupid and a cash grab and mostly failing for my movie and series watching.

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I mean do you want the answer or not

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You miss the point the didn't need it and still holds up today.

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Sounds like you just should’ve made a “I really like stargate” thread. Idk what you’re looking for here

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I can pick others when you explain why I am wrong on this one, w

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Wrong about what? What argument do you think we’re having? I haven’t said anything about stargate not holding up man

To get out of the SYFY genre, how about James Bond, who hates the old ones vs the new ones.

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You explaining why Hollywood needs 100X the money to make a quality product today, when a lot of people still love product from 20 years ago, hell look at the JAWS release numbers.

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I’m explaining the difference in the atmosphere for making movies/TV today in comparison to that era to explain to you why it costs 100 times more and new shows feel more disposable

Jaws was released 50 years ago fwiw

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the film, originally released in 1975, grossed $260.7 million domestically in its initial run, which is over $1.5 billion when adjusted for inflation according to Forbes.

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I am truly lost at what you are trying to ask/make a point about

One huge factor is the cost of talent. “Stars” want star money…
Plus production costs have soared since “Jaws” was made. Equipment,
locations, expert crew, etc.