• nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
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        How did they manage to spend that much lol. The whole LOTR trilogy cost $300m and even adjusting for 25 years of inflation I don’t think that price makes any sense.

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          Trying to mask boring characters and stories with expensive CGI, compensating for lack of fan enthusiasm and word of mouth with big marketing campaigns.

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            Yep it’s largely the increased amounts of cutting edge visual effects which require a LOT of man hours and the unnecessary amounts of pixel-fucking that producers and directors are allowed to get away with all the way up to (and sometimes after!) release.

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          Adjusted for inflation, the budget for the trilogy would be around $450 million, which still doesn’t seem to bad considering the scale of it.

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            450 million dollar spread over 10,5 hours of film. That’s about 64 million dollar per regular film length (90 mins), which is a very tight budget for a filmof that size in a complex universe like that.

            M$/film is a weird metric, but it works.

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              Way more than 10.5 hours. The full extended edition is 12 hours long, and in the commentary PJ kept hinting at an even longer 25th anniversary edition where they’ll add in even more deleted scenes.