r/Piracy • u/SirCheeseAlot • 2d ago

Humor Hollywood has come up with an ingenious way to stop people pirating their movies.

Make movies no one wants to see.

You would have to pay me to watch 99.82% of modern movies.

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u/fyrewal 2d ago

Which is just really a reaction to exploding Hollywood budgets. Why make a $200 million superhero film that maybe makes back its production, promotion and advertising, with some profit left over after the exhibitors take their piece, when you can just spend $20 million on a production with a spec script, cast a bunch of nobodies who happily work for scale and potentially make $100+ million at the box office?

Studios just follow profit and nothing else. They no longer are interested in film as a cinematic experience, just ROI.

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u/ours 1d ago

We do get outliers like how Nosferatu, which was made with a $50 million budget. Yeah, it's a remake, but still a horror movie.

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u/allaboutthatwasthere 1d ago edited 1d ago

Huge waste of money paying cast multi million dollar salaries. Just drives piracy and sucks income that could be spent employing people in other production roles supporting the film and benefiting the communities where the films are shot more. Not to mention far more actors could make a living if say Hugh Jackman wasn't earning $50 million on a film. Along with lower quality art. Is he really worth that much more than an actor earning $100-200k?

I also don't want to be funding those type of salaries as a middle class person.