like bro wrote in a mckinsey consultant in Aliens before most people even knew what a consultant was. Bro is anti-colonial anti-imperial and *kind of* anti-capitalist but then bumps into the issue of being the one who cuts the checks sometimes
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like what is he even complaining about, box office jim still turns mad profit
aug 28, 2025, 8:50 pm • 1 0 • view
I think that's what's maddening. He could pay his people out of pocket and still be mega rich. He started as a VFX guy!
aug 28, 2025, 8:51 pm • 1 0 • view
and like the main reasons VFX houses have to cost so much and grind their staff into paste is because the studios are just winging it the whole time. actually have a dang plan and you don't have to waste everyone's time and effort and spit out some shabby bullshit godzilla minus 1 cost $15M
aug 28, 2025, 8:53 pm • 1 0 • view
toho also was pretty brutal to their fvx house but given the output and the budget they coulda paid em more and still had an astonishingly inexpensive movie with such magnificent effects
aug 28, 2025, 9:14 pm • 1 0 • view