Heh, when I first heard he was doing LOTR, I still thought of him as the guy who did Bad Taste.
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It literally made no sense how he would be able to do that kind of movie. I'm curious how he was selected, actually.
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Replying to @pervognsen @nothings
IIRC, Jackson made increasingly more expensive (and increasingly higher grossing) movies, steadily.
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I believe they were not wildly successful, though. Nothing in Frightener's box office justified giving him 10x.
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But I think they don't hold it against the director if the movie isn't wildly successful--too many variables.
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Of course if you investigate this stuff too closely, it becomes disturbing: box office highly correlated with budget.
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Which I can only explain by: budget drives marketing budget, and marketing budget (significanty) drives box office.
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Which, if true, or at least perceived to be true at studios, you can see why they could give someone 10x the budget
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But anyway, I can't think of anything I give less of a shit about than videogame-movie-of-the-day.
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Yeah, I was just weirded out by the budget look, and I want to know what the deal is.
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I mean the movie will be awful, that much is expected, but I'm surprised it also _looks_ awful :P
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