Let's face it: DC2 is a LOW BUDGET movie!

[Laszlo]

The first DARK CRYSTAL was a high budget + state of the art movie, back then (1982). You can see by everything on-screen that it was VERY expensive and time-consuming.

Now the sequel (at a 20-30 millions cost) is a low budget movie by today's standards.
Imo it would cost about 100-200 Millions to make it "right".

 

[travellingpat]

Jeez 20 million thats all? Well i mean they're not hiring big actors or doing huge special effects...so idk maybe itll be ok...

 

[Laszlo]

Yes, I really hope they manage to make a good sequel... even without much money.

 

[travellingpat]

I hope its gonna be good, was the muppet movie or any other of theirs low budget? i bet they were...does anyone know?

 

[Fragglemuppet]

Well, while I understand that some things cost money to pull together, and of course the people working on the film need to be payed, I don't think you should judge the movee just by the amount of money that is spent on it.Perhaps it will not be very good; perhaps it will be great! I don't like to think though that just because you don't have, or don't choose to spend a lot of money, you can't make a good film.

 

[Meepsterboy]

Yeah, don't judge based on budget. If you use that, then Star Trek: The Motion(less) Picture was a better film than Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and we all know that isn't true.

 

[dabauckham]

Yeah, don't judge based on budget. If you use that, then Star Trek: The Motion(less) Picture was a better film than Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and we all know that isn't true.

Yeah - Star Trek II blowed the socks off of I. (I'm kinda surprised I was higher budget, actually, which goes to show that money is far from everything).

I definitely am still excited about the new movie. The most important thing, when you come down to it, is the storytelling, so let's hope that piece is good.

 

[JMPrater]

100-200 million dollars is outragious and frankly I wouldn't want to see a sequel that expensive. 20-30 million is an adequate budget of a film of this size.

 

[dabauckham]

I agree, often the really high-budget movies are pretty lousy anyway. And it doesn't exactly seem in the spirit of JH to break the bank for a movie. Creativity should make up for what is lacking in money.

 

[Laszlo]

"300" is a movie with all CG backgrounds and costed about 60 Mio.
And that's a movie without big stars or high- tech animatronic characters.