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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henadic Theologian" data-source="post: 8805162" data-attributes="member: 7030526">"The three films were shot simultaneously and entirely in Jackson's native New Zealand from 11 October 1999 until 22 December 2000, with pick-up shots done from 2001 to 2003. It was one of the biggest and most ambitious film projects ever undertaken, with a budget of $281 million (equivalent to $457 million in 2021). " A billion dollar budget was absurd, that doesn't even count the ton of money spent on marketing. With that kind of budget it needed to be nearly perfect, instead it's been shredded across the internet, even the Guardian and got is ass massively kicked by Cobra Kai (CK had like twice the viewership with a fraction of the budget). The higher the budget, the higher the bar is to justify it. To justify a billion dollar budget, nothing less then the top spot is acceptable, never mind being way down the list from the top spot. No way Amazon gets that money back, Bezos might as well lit a billion dollars on fire. That not even a comment on the quality, it's on the fact that it will never earn that back in subs or advertising, perhaps not even close to that even with massive tax breaks. For comparison Star Trek Discover with it's 55 episodes over 4 seasons at roughly 8.5 million per episode comes out to $457,500,000 (it's actually a high end estimate given that many episodes cost closer to 8 million dollars). STD has incredible SFX, it's no slouch on SFX, it's major sci Fi show, and the Flagship show of Paramount. Seriously they spent an entire high end Sci Fi/Fantasy series budget on 1 season of RoP and all they seem to have to show for it is a ton of angry fans and even friendly media shredding it. A complete disaster financially. Again this isn't comment on the show's quality, just the business angle.</blockquote>

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