Avatar budget -> 270M dollars
Star Wars 7 -> 200M dollars
Not counting marketing/inflation
Where did the money go ?
Avatar was 240m not 270
>>63723647
Avatar scrimped on writers. It's literally Pocahontis with blue people.
Why is this considered fine
>>63723904
But this isn't?
>>63723722
Yep you're right.
Running time : 161 minutes
$237 million
$9 million+ (re-release)
Box office $2.788 billion
>based cameron if i was a producer he would be my waifu, you get what you're paying for.
The movie is far from perfect but it's a 3h long flawless special effects
SW7 seems technicaly poor when reading the reviews.
>>63723937
Because Star Wars...and... reasons...
>>63723885
yeah if they'd splashed out and paid for Lawrence Kasdan and JJ Abrams imagine what they could have accomplished :DDD
by the way the OP pic isn't even a contest. Avatar has already won
filming in desserts costs a shitload. you have to transport all the equipment and cast far and the sand cause damage to the equipment. A camera usually goes for about 150'000 dollars these days. Paying a dozen people to keep makeup, clothing and shit ready for 12 hours a day costs a shitload and with logistics being a nightmare it consumes so much time that you barely can get about half a minute of film shot but even that gets cut into a couple of seconds.
>>63723937
can we remake this but with episode 4 and 7?
>>63723974
I just hate sand
>>63723974
Lawrence of Arabia would have cost around $300 million in today's money, and it built entire town-sized sets.
the budget went to the old cast members and on CGI.
>>63723937
He wrote Avatar before Pocahontas.
Not that this movie is some good OC donut steal, but still...
>>63723937
Same franchise, which is why Rocky/Creed was okay.
>>63724071
that's the rationale, but it's a fucking retarded rationale especially given that Pocahontas is non-fiction like Titanic.
>>63724071
That actually makes it worse imho.
It's hard to come up with purely original ideas, but the least a film can do is NOT copy one of its predecessor plot-point for plot-point.
I'm not the biggest Avatar fan, but it is actually less guilty of being unoriginal than TFA imho.
>>63723940
>avatar
>flawless special effects
>>63724052
>>>63723974
>Lawrence of Arabia would have cost around $300 million in today's money, and it built entire town-sized sets.
>the budget went to the old cast members and on CGI.
>>63724052
Don't know f.am, this fat fuck seems pretty expansive to me.
CGI is very mature (smaug was great imo) and with practical effect you have to pay electrical engineer, sculpture artist, painters.
doing both practical and special is expensive
>>63723647
>Avatar budget -> 270M dollars
What?
What happened to that $500 million budget? It was all people were talking about.
>>63724884
Wasn't that an Avengers film that had a $500 million budget?
>>63724884
>Not counting marketing
>>63724884
Most of that included marketing and/or research and engineering of the tech developed and used for Avatar. The actual budget was 237 millions.
We're talking only about production value.
Avatar = 240M$ + 250M$ in marketing and other things
Same for star wars. Son the marketing budget will be more than the production
>>63723647
A chunk of it went into developing the proprietary 3D camera tech it was filmed with
>this thing must cost more in r&d and hardware than a NASA satellite
>>63724993
what's wrong anon?
you don't like a movie being made after the marketing plan is established?
you didn't like star wars toys ranging from action figures to legos months before the movie came out?
gotta get that sweet 4b ROI
>>63723940
>$2.788 billion
>2.788.000 milions
lmao, America
>>63723647
Mucking around with new tech on Avatar probably slowed things down.
Plus it's Cameron. He wants the best.
The Force Awakens is Disney. Just look at the Marvel films. They're all cheap and ugly.
I saw The Force Awakens last night, and it's a very nice looking film, BUT the CGI is pretty fucking mediocre in parts. I mean, it's definitely only as good as the original three pirates films, and not even as good in some parts.
>>63724984
>>63724974
>>63724884
Avatar's rumored budget was well over 300 million. When it came out Fox said this was all wild speculation and that it was officially 240 mil.
Same thing for Tron: Legacy.
Now, Spider-Man 3...
>>63725219
Yeah i don't know how they spend the money, Disney vault everything, It feelt pretty cheap like an average 80-100M $ movie.
>pic related
It's a petty big flaw for SW but maybe i'm too oldschool and people just want a dark story and "emotions"
>>63724676
r u joking nigger
>>63725372
lmao these rocks looks like they're from old star trek episodes
>>63725440
No, are you?
>>63725603
kek
>>63725603
Even Star Trek has better rocks.
Only Hollywood are retarded enough to put fake rocks on a set.
>>63725210
Lmao, brits
We do the same thing with the metric system
Officially "use" meters etc but no one gives a fuck and measures in feet
And you dumbasses put way too many zeroes in your billions and shit despite technically switching
Actually it costed 200 M plus 4 B.
4,200,000,000.
=420x10^7
7 stands for episode vii
420 stands for weed
(you have to snoke weed to understand the force awakens)
