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For the price of all the bad movies

posted 12 years ago by avortac
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For those that like to wake up from their daily, robotic-sheeplike slumber for a moment, and entertain a thought for awhile.

A thought;

Think about all the huge budgets all these crappy movies get. How many movies have had millions of budget, and turned out to be awful? How many?

How much money would that make - how many people could you feed with that? How many homeless could you give an apartment with that money? How many improvements could you have made in the world with all that money?

Just wondering about all this waste .. it's like there are no better places to pour enormous amounts of money than making bad movies, when 100 000 people die of starvation every day, when the world is filling up with pollution and garbage, when there are countries like North Korea coexisting with us all on this same planet, when there are countries so poor that their roads are full of potholes and people are generally lucky to have enough food to stay alive, when there are children sniffing glue just to have some escape from the harsh reality.

Wars are waged for polluting oil, huge particle accelerators are built with enormous cost, lots of drug trafficking is done in order to fund "black ops", new tech is developed so fighter pilots can murder more efficiently and destroy people's homes and nature, while polluting the atmosphere, the 'wealthy' fly around the planet every day with polluting airplanes, without any real purpose or benefit for humanity.

How much money is wasted, that could be used to improve things, to bring every human being a life worthy of a human?

I am not even going to mention the horrible destinies of brutally and savagely slaughtered animals, whose flesh people gladly eat, while never being exposed to HOW that bloody flesh ends up on their plates.

What could be done with JUST the amount that hollywood (and others) have poured (without hesitation) to make bad, awful, worthless films, formulaic, misandristic and politically-correct?

How many millions, or billions, would that be, and how much food/shelter/free energy devices would that money buy?

Just a thought for the day. Now you can go back to continuing making this world a more miserable place to live for all of us.

[–] LeonardPine 12 years ago

Movies are an industry like any other. They employ thousands of people. Actors, writers, craftsmen, make up artists, etc. Movies are expensive. Some make a massive profit others flop. Whether these films are good or not is a moot point.

The middle east has money in abundance and could probably feed the world over many times. The Vatican sits on massive wealth, yet still people are starving to death. Is this what the Roman Catholic God wanted?

Its not a perfect world and never will be. Too much greed and corruption. Movies are there to entertain.

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[–] ghostdog2041 12 years ago

Spider-Man 3 was my waking moment with that thought. I remember walking out of the theater thinking, how much GOOD could that 250 million dollars do for people?!

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[–] Wombstar 11 years ago

well it did good for the people employed to work on it, promote it and so on.

This movie was indeed pants, but so was Avatar and that made a fortune, in fact I can think of many popular films which I dislike.. so the idea of a 'bad' movie is different for us all.

Maybe they should stop throwing money at these movies in the first place. Stop using CGI, and build sets and props.

[–] midnightspookshows 11 years ago

So you're saying that you didn't like the film?

[–] Vega_Lyra 11 years ago

This is the difference between a communistic economy and a capitalistic one.

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[–] TrevorAclea 10 years ago

And of course, if not for movies those would be the only things businessmen and investors would think of putting their money into.

Of course, another question is without the millions poured into paying hundreds of thousands of people to make these movies, how many of them would be able to afford to donate to charities or causes that address any of those issues? Just to take one example, without investing in dumb movies would George Lucas have been able to donate $4b (on top of earlier donations of up to $175m) to charity?

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[–] HwajangshilAgashi 10 years ago

I was with you until I got to "misandristic". Then you lost me.
Seriously?! Sure, some movies might qualify, but Conan? It's misogynistic if anything!