Who’s fault is it when movies with money seem low budget?

[Bedrockgames]

There's definitely a lot of sketchy accounting in Hollywood. I heard somewhere that most of the Star Wars movies officially "lost money" according to the studio accountants. They lost so much money thet they decided to go ahead and make eleven of them.

The the money fell off a truck

 

[Bohandas]

Motion Smoothing.

No a strangely named Hollywood exec, but a feature most people's TVs, particularly 120hz TVs, have and which with very many TVs defaults to on, and even if turned off, likes to find exotic ways to turn itself back on. Motion smoothing will make anything look cheap. Indeed it is particularly good at making everything look like it's on a set (which to be fair, it usually is) and any kind of framerate above 30 seems to be pretty good at making props look cheap (you can fight this, but it requires special attention and using very realistic-looking props - more realistic than most movies/shows us).

Several times I've come across someone saying "X looks cheap" or whatever, and it turns out that motion smoothing had been engaged when they watched it. A friend of mine did this a few years back - turned down the lights, switched the TV to the pre-configured "movie" mode, which engaged a bunch of stuff, but which inexplicably or possibly through the work of the devil or demiurge or similar, turned on motion smoothing. I spotted it pretty quickly, but he was very sure it wasn't on because he'd turned it off. I have another friend who actively turns on motion smoothing - I don't take his advice re: anything about aesthetics or movies/TV!

As a bonus, many TVs rename motion smoothing in order to make it sound like it's some kind of exotic cool feature you want on, which is pretty evil imho.

I went and looked this up. A technology that adds bad CGI where there was no CGI before? That's diabolical!

 

[Retros_x]

As a bonus, many TVs rename motion smoothing in order to make it sound like it's some kind of exotic cool feature you want on, which is pretty evil imho.

Why is that? Everytime me or one of my family members or good friends bought a new TV and I watched the first time a movie with them I had to tell them that they have their "soap opera filter" on. And everytime its a new search for this feature in the settings - Why are they doing this? What is the benefit of making good movies and series look like a cheap soap opera?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

It’s new and high tech, so it must be good, right?

 

[EthanSental]

My movie com0plaint for bad cgi in general is the Venom movies. Wow for as much money as the first one made (800m worldwide) they 2nd and 3rd still look like a budget b movie.

 

[Bayushi_seikuro]

There's definitely a lot of sketchy accounting in Hollywood. I heard somewhere that most of the Star Wars movies officially "lost money" according to the studio accountants. They lost so much money thet they decided to go ahead and make eleven of them.

The thing that blows my mind is that Alec Guiness was going to get a percentage on everything... including the toys. That's an insane amount of cash.

 

[Bayushi_seikuro]

Has Boll ever made a good movie? I don't mean one that might be so bad it's good, but a genuinely good movie.

He has more 6/10 movies on IMDB than I expected. No. But, I don't see a lot of big budget movies, so to me, it's chicken/egg. What could he do with a solid script and solid budget? We'll never know.

I suspect also alot of his films, since most seem to be video game adaptions, are like Corman's Fantastic Four - they're not there to make money, they're there to placehold the name.

 

[Parmandur]

He has more 6/10 movies on IMDB than I expected. No. But, I don't see a lot of big budget movies, so to me, it's chicken/egg. What could he do with a solid script and solid budget? We'll never know.

I suspect also alot of his films, since most seem to be video game adaptions, are like Corman's Fantastic Four - they're not there to make money, they're there to placehold the name.

His movies were money laundering schemes. Not saying that as an insult, or to be sensationalist, he was just a cog in a money laundering scheme.

 

[Bedrockgames]

The thing that blows my mind is that Alec Guiness was going to get a percentage on everything... including the toys. That's an insane amount of cash.

There is a very good interview with Alec Guinness on this subject

 

[MGibster]

be video game adaptions, are like Corman's Fantastic Four - they're not there to make money, they're there to placehold the name.

Boll didn’t make movies he made tax shelters.