B-b-b-but... More Money = Better Product! (Off-Topic)

by someotherguy, Hertfordshire, England, Thursday, September 01, 2016, 19:02 (3010 days ago) @ Cody Miller

Or is that only in games?

Pretty much.

But imagine having 500k vs having 15 million to make Star Wars a New Hope and you get the picture. For any given story, there's always going to be some amount of money under which you won't be able to do it convincingly. So you either get more money, or you rewrite the story so as to lower that number.

Tbh I would have settled for a 50K A New Hope, but I get your point.

That's why it's unhelpful to point out super cheap movies that were very good, and then point to expensive duds and act like that invalidates the point. For every Trans4mers, there's also tons of crap indie films that didn't have enough money to do what they wanted and ended up suffering.

Presumably not all of those failures are monry-related. In the same way that Trans4mers was hot garbage regardless of funding, so too could a cheaply made movie be bad because of its writing, direction or whatever rather than its cost. If a big movie's failure doesn't invalidate the point then nor does its success.