First of all… This is the most bloated, ChatGPT article ever.

Second. Godzilla Minus One just looks OKAY. Let’s not kid ourselves here. When half your story takes place in very simple, small sets, and another 40% can be shot in a water sound stage or on the open water with little set design needed, no shit it’s gonna save you a lot of money.

Do people think these Star Wars sets just exist already or something? They take huge teams to conceive of and dress them. And then you’ve got the volume stages where not only are you spending a fuckload to rent out for the day, but your CG artists have to generate those environments ahead of time.

Articles like these are fucking idiotic.

The power of one, the power of two, the power of millions of dollars down the drain. shakes violently in a trance

Absurd amounts of cgi will do that.

I was worried as soon as the "GMO cost $15 million" mindvirus got started that it would be weaponized for bad faith arguments. To replicate Godzilla Minus One, you need a leader with an unhealthy approach to work/life to throw himself into hours of work. Another way to get that budget is to exploit the shit out of your workers

There is obviously a ton of waste in Western entertainment budgets, particularly from Disney. But online commenters are doing the work of Disney's executives by holding up an outlier as an example of the new benchmark for budget success. You shouldn't fixate on the profitability of the endeavor, but instead on the effectiveness of the investment.

Executive cocaine and underage hooker binges don't pay for themselves.

Godzilla Minus One was a risk. Any Star Wars content is a cash cow they're not worried about throwing money at.

I read that headline and thought it meant:

(Cost per Episode) = 2 × (Cost of Godzilla Movie) - $1

https://youtu.be/OZ28knLt5Rs?si=6jkjdaaP61EFfVnK

The Acolyte. All my friends said it was such utter shit that I didn't even bother to give it a chance.