There are several reasons people hate bloated movie budgets. The biggest problem is every cent that goes to a bad project is money that could have gone to many other projects. Companies don't have infinite money, and every single project has to fit into a plan of set money they'll spend for the year. All that money represents a new season of a show that got unfairly cancelled, or a couple mid-budget movies from fresh directors trying to get their foot in the door with a unique idea, or even another big budget movie with a smaller budget but a better screenplay. It represents a creator who didn't get a chance, a fanbase that got the cold shoulder, a screenplay that got passed on, and people's time, resources and energy diverted to making it.
If your bloated project is meant to be a series and gets cancelled, that's an entire crew of people robbed of a potential long-term source of income. The bigger the project's budget, the more people end up out of work. Real human labor goes into every single movie you watch, and crappy movies with big budgets soak up all those precious resources from everything else.
Drinker talked about this exact thing in a recent video on The Electric State, comparing its absolutely ridiculous budget to other, better works with significantly leaner budgets. Not only that, but it's questionable where all that money went considering the movie itself looks pretty ass. You'd expect that for spending over
$300 million on a thing, it would actually look pretty good, but I guess not. And that's before getting into issues with the cast, the plot, the dialogue...
Now I will be fair and say it's not necessarily a one-to-one relationship between the amount of dollars spent and the amount of projects you could make. Considering there's only so many cast and crew working in the industry, you probably can't shuffle all those people to multiple different movies in the same timespan. That said, it's still ridiculous that studios are blowing so much money on absolute dogshit like The Electric State (or basically every Marvel project for the last few years) instead of taking even a slight gamble. As he said at the end of his video, it's like every studio is so risk-averse that they're waiting for the next trend to come about that they can hop on to start making money again, not even wanting to take a chance at starting that trend themselves.
Bob is a complete moron who doesn't understand that "Hollywood accounting" isn't something to be praised.
*Why* did "our boy" CD upload his video essay on it?
Why can't these grifters ever just stop amplifying the signal on these things?
If i walk down the street and I see a dog turd in the gutter, I've never once been compelled to pick that turd up and run around making jokes to everyone about how awful it smells.
Everyone knew it was a dog turd when they saw it, and even if I have a funny accent when I complain, at the end of the day I'm still holding dog shit, and pretending I have something worth hearing about it.
This is entertainment in 2025 I guess.
I get the sentiment of "you know it's going to be bad, just ignore it, don't bring attention to it or they'll just make more," but honestly, I don't think that's really an issue. I legitimately do not think that hate-watching makes up any substantial numbers in terms of general viewership of a movie or TV show. Outside of people who make a living out of trashing bad shit, most people will not choose to watch something they're pretty sure they're going to hate. And if one person can make a quick ten-minute video detailing exactly why something is bad, and be funny about it, that will stop a lot more people from wanting to check it out. Maybe a few will take a peek out of morbid curiosity, but most will rightly stay away.
Put another way, if hate-watchers were truly driving traffic towards Snow White, it wouldn't have the lowest box office opening for any Disney live-action remake yet.
And besides, Disney seems content to keep churning these out regardless of public opinion on their quality, for the simple reason that parents who just want something to keep their kids entertained for a couple hours continue to go see them because it's Disney. Even with all the tarnish to the brand over the past decade, there are still a sizable amount of people that keep going anyway, and I don't think any number of videos from Drinker and pals are going to convince them otherwise.
23Mar#06
Someone points out how drone warfare can go wrong under Trump. Bobby and co. cannot abide someone badmouthing the pride and joy of Obama and Biden's regimes.
*Groan* Because you people are only familiar with cheap sci-fi doesn't mean other people are so limited in their world views.
Nice to see Bob's double standards at play again. Remember, Bob has been a full-throated supporter of drone warfare as a reason why we don't need to worry about having capable boots on the ground because we can just drone our enemies to death. But now that someone talks about Trump liking this idea, he immediately flips to saying that if you just punch the drone operator, he can't do anything anymore.
Which is, y'know,
literally what anyone with half a brain has been pointing out for ages. Drones work until they don't, and they need a lot of capable people to ensure they still do. Take those people out of the picture, and whoops, you're fucked.
It's almost impressive how hard Bob will flip-flop on his beliefs as soon as he thinks the wrong people share his viewpoint.
23Mar#12a
"Oligoarch" becomes the bugbear of the year not because of your favorite capeshit, because this word has Russian connotations.
Furthermore, people have been complaining about oligarchy in the US for years, decades even, by showing how much of the system benefits the ultra-wealthy. It's only when a billionaire starts doing shit you
don't like that you start paying attention. Eat a dick.
23Mar#14
I'd really like if Will Stancil could point to anything tangible that Biden did for the average person that can't be explained by "things slowly crawling their way back to normal after the coof knocked us back." Maybe the reason people don't think the Dems did anything for them is because they
didn't.
23Mar#22
To be fair, I honestly thought NASA's headquarters was at Kennedy Space Center, but I suppose it makes sense it was in Washington with all the other feds. That said, this sounds like a major nothingburger since they'll just move administration elsewhere. And considering DC is so far away physically from basically anything that NASA is actually doing, it would not hurt to get them away from the exorbitantly expensive capital and closer to where the work is getting done.
I took like five seconds to have a reasoned, rational response to this news. Bob chose instead to fly off the handle and type up yet another angry rant about THE FUTURE HE EARNED. "I will NEVER fucking forgive anyone who was even a tiny bit responsible for everything that's happened to MY WORLD since 2016," he bellows impotently, "and I will take every opportunity to ruin them," as though he could do anything beyond screaming into the void.
(You know he's angy because he forgot to self-censor his "fucking" there.)
23Mar#25
The Daisy who plays Rey has another job.
I can see she is playing Rey again, albeit in street clothes. She probably learns all the fighting moves in her womb.
Funny enough, Drinker did a video on this movie too (man he popped up a lot in this post). The reason they probably didn't promote it better is because it sucks. It's basically Die Hard but they added a woman and made her lame and gay. Instead of some grand heist, it's eco-terrorists that want to show how bad Big Company is. Clive Owen also gets killed off by the actual bad guy like ten minutes in, who ends up being more fanatical but also less interesting. Also Daisy Ridley is stuck on the outside of the building for the majority of the movie, and when she finally gets inside, her action scenes are poorly done. It's a total trainwreck that manages to fuck up one of the most tried and true action movie plots.
So yeah, sounds like exactly the sort of thing Bob would enjoy.
23Mar#28
Mike Myers claims he has always been a Canuck.
Canada might not be the 51st State of the USA, but it will be sold to China in due course.
At this point, I'm just rooting for Canada's utter collapse. I'm tired of those smug fucking faggots acting like their failed state is so much better than those filthy Americans while they sell off their resources to the chinks, import countless jeets, price everyone out of their homes, and have their vaunted healthcare system fail to the point that doctors would rather kill their patients to lessen the load. And all the while, they still try to keep up their facade of being the nicest, most polite people when they're hurling insults at a much better country on the daily (remember when they booed the US national anthem at the hockey game only to get utterly humiliated by the American team? good times).
In short: go fuck yourselves, Canada.
23Mar#31
Vitalized by peoples' demand for boobies, Bobby pushes an old video of his to the fore.
Bob discovers after 15+ years of doing YouTube that putting boobs in the thumbnail gets views. This is gonna be his year!
23Mar#33
We know full well that non-tenured academics don't have any job security at all. What people are angry about isn't the belief that you have permanent jobs, but the fact that many of you have
undeserved jobs, which I hope God Emperor will rectify.
Bob, nobody, and I mean
nobody, thinks you're rich. We've seen your hovel. We've seen your attempts at cuisine. We all know you're poor. Quit pretending you're one of the elite even tangentially.
AND a lunatic that thinks he was called by God to be Prime Minister.
