Re:Has the Decline of Knowledge Work Begun?
by milesrout on Thursday March 27, 2025 @04:45AM
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But it wasn't very good. It was good for the time but if something of that quality came out today it would be a joke.
Re:Has the Decline of Knowledge Work Begun?
by physicsguy on Thursday March 27, 2025 @04:57AM
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It was the first full CGI movie but others had been using it before that, Jurassic Park used a mix of CGI and puppets for e.g.
Re:Has the Decline of Knowledge Work Begun?
by ekianjo on Thursday March 27, 2025 @05:56AM
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30 millions was nowhere cheap in the 90s. I guess inflation makes things look this way.
In the same timeframe Jurassic Park cost twice more to make and it was a very expensive movie at the time.
Re:Has the Decline of Knowledge Work Begun?
by KvanteKat on Thursday March 27, 2025 @07:18AM
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Correcting for inflation (I used this tool by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics: https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm), 30M USD in nov. 1995 would have a purchasing power equivalent to roughly 62M USD in feb. 2025. This is below half the budget of Moana 2 (150M USD, released in nov. 2024) for instance.
Re:Has the Decline of Knowledge Work Begun?
by ekianjo on Thursday March 27, 2025 @12:19PM
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I would never use the official inflation numbers (they underestimate the actual inflation). It's easy to see that the most expensive movie ever made back in the day has a much lower budget that the most expensive movie made now, even adjusted for the official inflation rate.
But more importantly, the other half of my point was that $250 million ought to be enough to pay for a high effort production. It's not like "well Blender is free now so of course theatres are flooded with amateur CG films since their production has been commoditized".