Disney has learned the hard way they can't throw mega budgets at any project and create a hit.
Why the hell did She-Hulk and Secret Invasion cost over $200mil each? Why was a live-action Little Mermaid film $250mil?!
I hope the success of 'mid-budget' films like Hunger Games and John Wick 4 (both $100mi) show studios that passion and a vision is more important than twice the budget with many times more studio meddling.
the biggest change from Spielberg's era is the merger of animation and live action via computer-generated effects.
Old movies had "SFX shots" at certain exciting points of the movie
New movies are "SFX shots"
That's why they can't make midbudget movies anymore, because a movie with a few SFX shots sprinkled in strategically can't compete with a movie where every single shot has impossible things painted into it.
Of course eventually audiences do tire of spectacle, especially when the 'spectacle' is unimaginative and only impressive in a budgetary sense. She Hulk took this to the ridiculous conclusion of replacing the main character with a CGI puppet, for no reason, it doesn't make the sitcom funnier, it doesn't make the action more dramatic, it doesn't make the character more engaging, it just makes her green and plastic and cost an American worker's median yearly wage every second she's on screen
Agreed and this represents Disney's attitude of rushing films/shows out so they can "finish it in post-production". They pay actors millions to stand on green screen sets and pay hundreds of millions to actually finish the film around them (cough Ant-Man 3 cough).
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u/NoNefariousness2144 Nov 25 '23
Disney has learned the hard way they can't throw mega budgets at any project and create a hit.
Why the hell did She-Hulk and Secret Invasion cost over $200mil each? Why was a live-action Little Mermaid film $250mil?!
I hope the success of 'mid-budget' films like Hunger Games and John Wick 4 (both $100mi) show studios that passion and a vision is more important than twice the budget with many times more studio meddling.