Most Expensive Movies Ever Made

Now that 'Captain America: Brave New World' has a reported budget of around $350 million -  We discuss every movie that cost $300 million or MORE to make!


We also discuss Bob's Stores closing, back to school shopping & what Gu watched during Covid break.


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Episode Transcript

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Well, look what the cat draggedin. Look who is back after their
roommate not on the internet cable cool, I'll tell you what. And then
this doesn't. This is a Wewere just talking about first world problems off
of the air. It's a veryfirst world problem. For months, if
not years now, my internet willjust shit out for like five minutes at

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a time twice a day. Usuallyhappens between like three and five o'clock in
the afternoon, and then again latenight, like sometimes between ten and midnight
for no apparent reason. We hadsomeone come out a couple of years ago
put some sort of filter on theline going into the modem, claim that
would fix it. Never did,but we just kind of learned to live
with it. The other night,as we were getting ready to record,

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the internet just stopped working altogether,not for five or ten minutes, for
almost five hours, and I waslike, this is fucking It was patently
outrageous. Like there was no outagesin the area, it just was very
specific to our home. So itended up kicking on later on in the
evening, well well into the night. So I set up an appointment with
Comcasts. Lady comes up to night, very nice, she went out of

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her way to say that the filterthat the other guy put on might have
been the reason why it's been happening. So I'm like, I don't know,
it was like happening before. Soshe said, everything's good. I
don't know. Internet. Internet,it seems to be fine right now.
But it's it's a very first worldproblem to lose internet for like twenty minutes
a day. That's that's for sure. Do you think that either your mother

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or father has parental controls on yourhouse and is just trying to take you
off the Internet for a little while. It might it might be that.
It's it's just very frustrating. I'veI've sort of learned to like time.
It like certain times, like allright, I'll go in a shower,
all right, I'll eat now becauseI know we're gonna lose internet for three
minutes or something like that. Butsometimes when you forget in your middle of
an intent show and the internet justshits out, you're like, motherfucker.

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It's and we live in a worldsuch as as like the world we live
in is so internet driven, andthe home I live in went off cable.
I mean, it's sort of oneand two with the Internet anyways,
but when you lose internet, it'salmost as bad as losing power. You
can bury yourself in your phone,but like you got nothing, you get
absolutely nothing. Yeah, I haveone television. I'm like an older television

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in my house that does sometimes loseInternet. While every other thing in my
house is absolutely fine. It doesn'tmake any sense to me, like it
just can't grasp onto it. Otherfirst world problems that we have here is
today my wireless keyboard stopped working,and it was just a real hassle having
to have my laptop open while lookingat another screen and trying to figure out

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like, hey, which way amI dragging this onto this screen and that
onto that screen? And I don'tlike the feel of my think Pad laptop.
Sure sure. So basically, betweenour first world problems and our sicknesses
over this last week, it's beena tough week for Mack and good what
idiots do you have? Phil?In the other day, I had Keith
on and I pointed out to him, it's like a Twilight Zone episode,

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right now, yeah, right right? He also did an amaze is an
impression of you. I'll post thaton social media. Good enough, And
speaking of Keith. He is aNew England broadcaster. What a fucking transition
you just had there in New Englandright now, big big news in New
England, hot off the presses isthat after seventy years, which fucking blew

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my mind. But Bob's I'm nottalking Bob's discount furniture, but the Bob's
stores that sells clothing, shoes,etc. We'll be closing. They're remaining
twenty one stores across our six GreatStates. Mac, what is your hashtag
Bob's memory. I used to goto Bob's every year back to school,

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back to school shopping. Whoa schoolbob shopping back and go wow. Before
you clarified, I thought we weretalking about Bob's discount furniture. So I
Bob's discount furniture means nothing to me. Bob's, the store with everything,
means everything to me. Unless Bob'sDiscount Furniture wants to sponsor us, they
can go eat shit. I rememberspecifically this is it was either freshman or

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sophomore year of high school. Probablysophomore because I would have had more confidence
in this. I remember buying forlike my a my A one shoes.
You know you always had a couplepair of shoes, but my new A
one shoes headed ended the school yearwas a pair of white echoes with red
laces and the silver Echo logo onthe side, And that coincided with my

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new one strap backpack back and redEcho backpack. Wow, And I thought
I was the coolest kid on theblock. So you said that you were
Were you confident in this look orwere you concerned confident? That's why I
think it must have been sophomore becauseI don't think I would have done it
for freshman year. I didn't knowwhat to expect for freshman year, played
a little more conservatively sophomore year,your fucking Dobella de Baus. Well,

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back to school shopping every year wasalways a little bit of like, is
this two thousand and late? AmI getting in on this too late by
on a trend? Or am Ipass a trend? Or am I doing
something that is going to get meridiculed? Like one year out of that?
And I thought this was a greatidea. I bought two pairs of
k Swiss shoes, the exact samepair. One was white, one was

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black. Sure, and when Iwore the black pair, people thought that
I went emo. I think mybiggest one. This wasn't a hiccup.
I think I was on it.Seventh grade I bought a visor, a
Nike visor, which I enjoyed,but you would wear backwards and upside down
Yep, no doubt, especially onfield trips. And then also I had

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it in a Nike puffy vest thatwas reversible. It was red one side,
like a dark charcoal gray on theother, all over the trends rough
rough that one's rough. There mightbe a photo of us in either seventh
or eighth grade, and it mightbe both of us doing this where we
had backwards upside down visors going toCanoby Lake Park final day. There was

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also there was also this was seventhgrade. I think I remember showing up
to school on the first day witha short sleeve button up and the short
sleeve button up had flames coming fromthe bottom of the shirt. We called
him guy fe Mackey, and Iremember our pal Stefano's Galoozi said the same
fucking shirt. So number one,I was mad that he had the same

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shirt stole my swag. Number two. Looking back, I'm glad I was
not the only idiot there. Onegood three YEAHO three, King of Queen,

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Marl Street entertain and I'm man andwe are the Mac and Goo program.
We bring you three hundred million dollars. Yes. Recently we learned news
dump Captain America, The Bold andthe Beautiful has a budget of over around

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roughly reportedly so right now, Yes, three hundred and fifty million dollars,
which to put that in perspective,in my mind, I expect blockbusters to
be like one fifty to two hundredmost movies, or fifty to one hundred.
A lot of small like a twentyfour movies might be twenty five million.

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Three hundred and fifty million is aboveand beyond most movies ever made.
Well, when compiling this list,it's pretty much if it is a tent
pole movie, it is a moviethat they are guaranteeing to themselves will be
a one billion dollar movie. They'refine with doing a three hundred dollar not

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three hundred three hundred million dollar budget. And that's just production budget. Because
when we go over these numbers ina second, this is just their production
budget. So you can add anywherefrom one hundred and fifty, two hundred
or even double the budget of thisfor their advertising too. Yeah, and
just a little peak behind the curtainhere. Some of these are older movies

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that have been adjusted for inflation,so not technically three hundred million at the
time, but the equivalent of whatthree hundred million was then. And going
through this list, So what's today'stopic? By the way, what's today's
topic? Oh? Right, right, right? This is movies that got
made for lots of money. Threehundred million dollar movies. Yes, there's

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been thirty six of them ever,and at three hundred and fifty million reportedly,
the New Captain America movie has onlybeen surpassed by seventeen other movies in
the history of movie making, andby the end of it go that number
might be close to four hundred million. That's just what we does right now.
Yeah, so, uh, thiswill be very a very interesting list
to go through. And to yourpoint, yes, they're okay spending this

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if they think they're gonna double theirmoney, but a lot of these did
not happen. Once again, like, you gotta make a billion dollars.
Yeah, yes, if you include, especially these days, including an advertising
budget, you have to make abillion dollars just to what make your money
back or double your investment. Like, I don't have the math works out.
You almost have to just double whateverthe budget is. That's pretty much

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it. And then also, Iknow they got tax returns back on some
of these, so you're off byfifty I'm not counting tax returns. I'm
not clicking through a thousand fucking Wikipediapages here, guys. So without further
ragoo, let's take a look atthe thirty six three hundred million dollar movies.

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That's even toplations three, top twelves. That's what we call it.
We just invented that. Mac.Let's start off with The Dark Night Rises
that came out in twenty twelve.At the time cost anywhere between two hundred
and thirty two hundred and fifty milliondollars. With inflation, that's around three
hundred and five but it did crossworldwide one billion dollars. The reason for

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this cost is that over an hourof the movie was shot in imax.
The cast, by the time ofa third movie cost a lot more than
the first movie. The effects arethere, and the shooting locations lots of
shooting locations for this movie. Yeah, this one is like, okay,
I understand it. This was gonnabe a ballooned budget, no matter what
they did coming off The Dark Knight, which is a lot of people's favorite

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movie ever, a lot of people'sfavorite comic book movie ever, especially the
end of that trilogy, you knewwas gonna be gonna have to try to
surpass that if you were to try. This makes sense to me. I
have no issue with this movie closingout a trilogy and no one trilogy costing
this much. But like, ifyou compare that to Brave New World,

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which we don't have to do forevery single No, we're doing that for
every single one. This is thestart of a new trilogy. It's not
the end of an old trilogy.No, but no, and it's not
to do this different scenario, notto do this with Brave New World,
with all of these but this justseems like it's just a big miss that
they're trying to fix. I betat some point while watching that movie,

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we're gonna be like, Okay,they basically combined two movies, or when
they started this, the movie wasone vision, here's another, and that's
why, so not to two movies. Not to once again bring this up
with every single movie, but likecompare it to Solo that had tons of
reshoots, tons of rewrites, JusticeLeague, tons of reshoots and rewrites.
I don't believe they swapped directors onthis movie. I think it's just that

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they've tried to make two different moviesthat they're having a difficult time with.
It sounds like a square peg,roundhole, and they've had to do a
lot of shaving of the peg.Focus on the list now, Okay,
Coming in at number thirty five,Go a movie that I unabashedly like that
good love, but I like itmore than most. Two thousand and six

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is Superman Returns starring Brandon Routh.The budget for this was two hundred and
four million with inflation, that's aroundthree hundred and eight million in today's money.
This made two hundred million at thedomestic box office, a massive disappointment
since that's that was what it costto make only three hundred and ninety one
million worldwide. Didn't even double upworldwide considering advertising and whatnot. I'd be

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surprised if this movie made much money. Of course, directed by Brian Singer,
who probably got this based off theX Men movies. It just this
movie didn't do well. I actuallythink this movie is pretty decent. I
don't know really, so it isI believe a continuation of the Reeves movies
right supposed to believe same character,So I guess maybe that's where they lost

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people. But I Kate Bosworth playedLois Lane. I enjoyed that movie again
at seventeen years old. I'm notthe smartest moviegoer. I enjoyed that thirty
five. If you aren't the smartestmovie doll I've seen that movie a dozen
times. I do not dislike thatmovie. Also, a bunch of big
set action pieces in this as well, where you can tell that's where the

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money went. That airplane scene isgreat. And speaking of big action scenes,
they actually cut a ten million dollarscene that they filmed, did the
whole thing for and they said itdoesn't fit into the movie, and that
is Superman returning to Krypton. Yeah, it's that's interesting because obviously we know
the theatrical edit of that movie.It literally would make zero sense at any

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point of that movie for Krypton tocome into play. So that's that's pretty
interesting. But it would have lookedcool. I guess so at number thirty
four, a movie that at thetime only cost thirty one million dollars,
but that was in nineteen sixty three. And that is Cleopatra, the movie
that almost bankrupt Hollywood with inflation coststhree hundred and ten million dollars. It

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eventually did make its money back andbecome profitable after a theatrical run and selling
itself to television with fifty eight milliondollars. And this is according to Reader's
Digest. It began in nineteen fiftyeight. The filming began in nineteen fifty
eight with a two million dollar budgetand eventually after five years, ballooned to

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twenty times the amount of that price. Elizabeth Taylor played the titular Cleopatra,
and of course during this movie therewas a scandalous romance between her and her
star Richard Burton. The original director, Ruben Mammollian, only had eight minutes
of footage after two months of filmingin England, had a lot to do

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with Taylor having health issues at thattime. They relocated the cast and director.
Sorry a new cast and new director, so they got rid of everybody.
They moved them from England to Rome, which cost a lot more money.
They had five thousand wigs and twentysix hundred costumes, and this movie
was eventually condemned by the Pope thousandplastic meatballs. Gotta be good, Ami

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in a no fucking deal. Ihave not seen this movie. I'll be
honest. I've almost watched it acouple times. Yeah, just because it
is so notable. And again innineteen sixty three to thirty one million.
To put that a little bit inperspective, people were like building homes,
large homes in nineteen sixty three forlike thirty thousand dollars, So for twenty

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eight dollars million, Yes, isa shit ton of money. It is
an awful lot of money that,of course now makes sense why it almost
bankrupted fucking Hollywood. I might watchI might watch this soon, to be
honest with you, just because ofthis. Yeah, it's like an interesting
story behind the whole thing. Soit's it's I don't think it's a bad
movie from what I've heard. No, it just costs a shit a ton

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of money to I remember watching mostof it with my grandfather and him telling
me, like, this movie costa lot of money, And now that
really speaks to me. Like theybuilt their own pyramids, they built like
giant cities to have it fit intothis and like that's just crazy that around
every turn they're like, should wecancel this? No, let's throw more
money at it. And obviously,you know, I don't know what the

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geopolitical landscape of Egypt was in nineteensixty three. I bet it would have
made more sense just to go tofucking Egypt, right, I know.
I bet they probably couldn't have,and that's probably why they ended up where
they did. But that would havebeen interesting to see how that would hap.
Oh. I would say that.When I was in Rome this past
year, I said to myself,this looks a lot like Egypt coming in

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at night, oh sire, comingin at thirty two at ninety four.
One of the nineties most anticipated movies, at least for Goo and I,
who were ten years old in nineteenninety nine, was Wild Wild West,
which at the time was made forone hundred and seventy million with inflation that
is three hundred and eleven million intoday's money. What a colossal flop.

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This was one hundred and fourteen milliondomestically two hundred and twenty two million worldwide.
Considering all the money they put intoadvertising for this movie. No doubt
in my mind this movie lost liketwo hundred million dollars. Well, they
had to have that giant spider.They had to have the spider that was
in the movie. That cost aton of money, and because of audience

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feedback, they had to do aton of reshoots. I you know Will
Smith when he gets higher for thismovie, and what ninety seven is maybe
the biggest action star in the planet. Andy famously chose this movie, this
role over the Matrix, Over theMatrix, which was notable and made news
even then, especially in ninety ninewhen the Matrix comes out and blows people's
minds. So what a colossal failthis was. I don't I haven't seen

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the rest of the list, butI would be surprised if this isn't the
biggest failure on the list. Ohno, there's way more. Oh oh.
At thirty two, we have TheFate and the I'm sorry Fate of
the Furious from twenty seventeen, twohundred and fifty million dollars budget at the
time with inflation three eleven, itmade two twenty six domestic and it did
pass one billion at the box officeone point two three six worldwide. You

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got stunts, You've got casts,you've got cars, lots of cars that
they are crashing. These movies justdo well internationally, and I think it's
because they don't need to dub overlots of stuff. It's just straight action
runs. It's easier to sell internationally. I can't stand the fearest movies.
I haven't had a desire to watchone since the third one, so I
don't know why people keep going back. Quite honestly, well they're starting to

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slow down. Yeah, it onlytook eleven movies. Yeah, coming at
thirty one specter. Of course.The James Bond movie from twenty fifteen made
for two hundred and forty five million. That is the equivalent of three hundred
and fifteen in today's money. Itonly made two hundred domestically, did make
eight hundred and eighty one million worldwide, starring Daniel Craig. Was this the

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one with Javier bardem Is the badguy? I know Dave Bautista was in
this one, right, Dave BautistaI believe was in this one as well.
You have a great note here theycrashed seven DV ten Ashton Martin's.
That that alone cost fifteen million dollars, which is crazy. I can only
imagine, like the car people onset, Like, just from what I

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saw, for what I read,there were only ten of these cars in
existence. Oh and they crashed sevenof the ten, so they had seven
of them. Yes, oh my, that's what That's what I saw.
I could be wrong, that's eitherway. Even if there was twenty in
existence. The fact that they hadseven and crashed seven is insane. Like
you would think that they would havea beat up car that they continually use

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for stunts. That you would youwould think again, with today's digital technology,
you could paint up on CGI tomake it look not damage to use
for those live action shots. Itjust that seems like an incredible waste of
automobiles. I think. Also bythis point twenty fifteen, Daniel Craig was
getting a real nice paycheck on thesemovies. Yeah, that makes sense too.

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At twenty nine X Men the LastStand from twenty oh six two hundred
and ten million to make I thinkat the time it was the highest priced
movie of all time. Right now, if you look at Inflation three seventeen
at the box office two thirty fourdomestic, four sixty worldwide, and that's
not great. The visual effects weredone by eleven different companies. That was

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a huge issue with the cost,and by the third movie, the cast
was quite expensive. Uh, thefirst X Men movie does not hold up
tremendously well. X two does,however, And it's funny to think about
this in two thousand and six versusDark Knight Rises six years later. How

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it's not the same, It's notroughly equivalent, but it's a similar scenario
where it's a much anticipated third moviecoming off a very successful first two movies.
Yeah, and this went one wayis not great as Dark Knight Rises
to a lot of people. Iwould say that was pretty successful. Oh
yeah, it made a billion dollars. It's stunning to see how how how

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bad this one was compared to that. HM at number twenty nine, you
tied with X Men in the laststand Beauty the Beast and Not the Og
the twenty seventeen version starring Emma Watson. That I was made for two hundred
and fifty five million, three seventeenin today's money. This did, however,
gross a shit ton of money fivehundred and four domestically over one point

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two billion worldwide. This was Ithink their first venture into the live actions
jungle Book. Jungle Book oh,Jungle Book. That's right, this was
much anticipated. A lot of peoplereally liked this movie. I thought it
was pretty lazy. I didn't Andthis you could kind of say about all
their live action remakes. I supposeoutside of Aladdin, I think Aladdin still

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holds up best. It is kindof stunning. I guess it is a
whole new generation to watch Beauty andthe Beast, But it's stunning how many
people really like this movie has agood Rotten Tomato scores too. And of
course, you know you're doing theentire animation with this that has to do
with the live action then, youknow, Stevens. Yeah, most of
the World is also a mix ofanimation and live just regular. And then

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the cast cost a lot of moneyat twenty eight. The Chronicles of Narnia
Prince Caspian from twenty oh eight madefour two hundred and twenty five million dollars,
which is kind of incredible to believeon inflation is three eighteen. It
made one forty two domestic and fortwenty worldwide. Yeah, another movie that

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undoubtedly lost a lot of money.I never really got it with the Chronicles
of Narnia, never really. Iremember as a Kid the books being popular,
or at least popular with the Olds. I was never drawn into them.
You know, we're talking Lion whichand Wardrobe here. I never saw
these movies just never got the appeal, and it seemed like they eat they
each got worse with each sequel theymade. At number twenty seven, another

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entry into the Furious world, Furiousseven from twenty fifteen made for two fifty
then that is equal to three hundredand twenty one million. Now again,
this movie made a shit ton ofmoney three fifty three domestically, over one
point five billion worldwide. That's fuckinginsane. Cars cars, cars, cars,

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cars, effects at twenty five.King Kong from twenty oho five two
hundred and seven made for at thetime, and with inflation three p twenty
three it made two eighteen domestic fivep fifty seven worldwide. And with any
Peter Jackson movie, he's always tryingto innovate and do something new. So
with innovation, with new things,you're gonna have stuff that costs more money.

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The Kong animation looks amazing in this. I think the animation on some
of the other beasts aren't as good, but they put their money towards Kong,
which makes sense. And then themovie is long, and when a
movie is long, it also costsmore money to make. Yeah, this
is jack Black Naomi Watts, Right, that's the movie we're talking about here.
The other thing that you're getting intowith Peter Jackson is also long shooting

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schedules. He takes a while tomake movies, and of course that means
obviously more money in the long run. Another movie I really don't mind gu
not a bad movie. Not abad movie. Didn't do all that well,
but not a bad movie. Comingin at number twenty five tiede I
guess with King Kong because of inflation. There you go. Spider Man two
Sam Raimi spider Man two from twothousand and four. It made Oh it

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costs two hundred million in two thousandand four. That has equivalent to three
hundred and twenty three in twenty twentyfour. It did go on to make
three hundred and seventy four domestically andseven hundred and ninety million worldwide. I
will say this, though, isthat it's crazy how much better Spider Man
two looks compared to Spider Man one, just the effects, how doc oc

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operates his body in there compared toGoblin, it's just a better looking movie.
Yeah. I would say of allthe early comic book movies, it's
probably the best made movie of those, the most well made movie of all.
Do you think that it is thebiggest improvement from sequel to original,
not storytelling wise, but just theway that they were able to fix the

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CGI? Yeah? Maybe I stillthink X two is a greater provement,
just because I think the first SpiderMan holds up better than the first X
Men. I know, but hehas rubber legs in the first one,
whereas in the second one doc Hawkand granted it is a mix of effects,
puppetry, everything else, but hisarms look so fucking good. Yeah.
No, you're right there. Andthere's a couple of great set pieces

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in the movie. I still wouldlean the X Men when it comes to
that though. Coming out last yeartwenty twenty three, Indiana Jones in The
Dial of Destiny cost three hundred andtwenty six million dollars to make. It
made one seventy four domestic and threeeighty four worldwide. Harrison Ford makes a
big old paycheck. He's also old, so they need a lot of CGI

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to fix some of the issues ofhim moving around. They also deaged him
for twenty minutes of the movie.It's long. It is a very very
long movie. It's also a periodpiece, so things are gonna cost money.
A twenty minute part of an alreadyexpensive movie. To have to go
in and fix his face in everysecond of that scene is arduous, and

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to me it is the best partof the movie and worth every single penny
fair enough, just to help youthere. Three hundred and twenty six million
in twenty twenty three is three hundredand twenty six million in twenty twenty four,
so still still the same you suckcoming in at twenty three. Wo
mentioned this a couple of minutes ago. Solo, a Star Wars story that

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came out in twenty eighteen, wasmade for two seventy one. Then that
translates to three hundred and twenty ninemillion dollars in today's money. This was
a colossal flop, especially in termsof Star Wars money. Two hundred and
fourteen domestically, three hundred and ninetythree million worldwide for because this came out

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in the middle of the sequel trilogy, I believe, right after Jedi,
So that's those two movies making abillion and a half dollars each, and
then you bring this one out thatcan't even crack a half billion, and
it's weird, and you and Iboth like this movie. We don't love
it. We admit it's pretty decentcase. It's a Han solo Wikipedia page.
It could have been better, nodoubt. And this dealt with originally

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having Lord and Miller as its directors. They had creative differences with the the
head of Star Wars, which nowI think we've been saying for six years
now we would love to see thatLord and Miller movie. Ron Howard famously
comes on to direct X Sir.Makes it very safe, makes a very
safe movie. So a lot ofmoney went into that overall change. But

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again, two hundred and seventy onemillion then or three twenty nine now with
a Star Wars movie, you're expectingto make triple that no matter what,
and the fact that it barely didn'teven make four hundred million worldwide is insane.
At number twenty two, Batman v. Superman Colon Dawn of Justice from
twenty sixteen cost two hundred and sixtythree million dollars today's money. That is
three hundred and thirty four million dollars. It made domestically three hundred and thirty

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million, eight seventy four worldwide.Very expensive cast, especially when you're dealing
with the likes of a Ben Affleck. Lots of effects, tons and tons
of effects. It's pretty long aswell, and uh, most of it
was also shot in three D.I think they spent a lot of the
budget on the Wonder Woman guitar rifftoo. That was that's money well spans
though, because if you're if youthink back to one thing from the DC

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universe, it's the tough to sayanything new about BVS that hasn't already been
said. I think now looking backwith some hindsight on the quality of what
we got and that DCEU, thisis probably right in the middle. It's
not even in the bottom tier ofthat that's a lower bottom middle. Yeah,

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but it's not in the bottom tier. It's not well, it's it's
not their garbage films. Yeah.So you know, hold your head eye
BVS. You you and your bellcurve, you always you're always blast half
you get to contextualized stuff. Yeahyeah yeah. Coming in at number twenty
one, I guess maybe the mostsuccessful movie on this list is Avatar.

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James Cameron's Avatar, of course,came out in two thousand and nine,
created a whole society of people thatare obsessed with this fucking franchise, even
though it didn't come out with asequel until thirteen years later. Made for
two hundred and thirty seven million dollarsthen, but admittedly created new technology while
making the movie, so that makessense. That's the equivalent of three thirty

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seven now made seven hundred and eightyfive million domestically, almost three billion dollars
worldwide now it has had a couplere releases. This took James Cameron years
and years to make, both withcrafting the script, getting people to buy
in, creating the technology to evenmake the movie make a bowl. This
was I don't know, a twentyyear process for him or something like that.

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Yeah, a lot of James Cameronmovies. And then, like we
talked about a couple of weeks ago, with The Phantom Menace, George Lucas
did some things on that movie thatcost a lot at the time, but
then it saved movie makers moving forwardfor sure. Wh you when you invent
movie making technology for better or worse, you whatever you made was worth it,
at least in my mind. Atnumber twenty is Pirates of the Caribbean

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dead Man's Chest, made in twentyoh six for two hundred and twenty five
million dollars with inflation three hundred andforty million. It made four to twenty
three domestic over one billion worldwide.You have cast you have sets, you
have costumes, you have locations.When you film at sea, it costs
a lot of money and you gota lot of special effects. I'm a

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Caribbean guy. I just discovered you'rea Caribbean guy. I prefer Caribbean.
Are you caramel or carmel Caramel?I think shack also was I can't think
of that commercial right now. ThePirates franchise, another franchise, couldn't be
more out on. Don't understand theappeal. Never will We'll never see you
know, I might see the MarchBob one. I will never see another

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Pirates movie. If it weren't forthe Pirates of the Caribbean, Marvel would
have never been bought by Dizzy.Also probably yeah, you're right number one
about that. Oddly, like thisweird thing where they created a movie franchise
based off a ride in their themepark, and it was so massively successful,
fucking insane that that happened. Andthen I don't know so as a

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kid, I remember going to disneyLand. Still haven't been a disney World.
But when I went back, thePirates movies has been made in between,
at least two of them, andthey went in and added a Johnny
Depp character in the ride after theFacts, as they should. That's a
nice station on fact right there.Number nineteen. The best movie on this
list, the one I am mostexcited to talk about, is water World.

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Nineteen ninety five's water World made forone hundred and seventy two million dollars.
Then that is the equivalent of threehundred and forty four million dollars now
insane. It made under one hundredmillion dollars domestically eighty eight Eric Lindross.
It made two hundred and sixty fourtotal worldwide, a colossal failure in terms.
It eventually did make its money backgoing to cable, So keep that

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in mind. I have watched thismovie I don't know, one hundred and
thirty times on cable TV between whatnineteen ninety seven and twenty fifteen. I've
seen this movie so many times,and I didn't realize people didn't like this
movie until I got to college myfreshman year two thousand and seven. I
don't remember how the fuck it cameup or who was talking about it,

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but water World came up, andI was talking about how much I liked
water World more I guess the conceptof the water World than anything. But
I digress still water World, andone of my friends was like, you
realize that's like one of the worstmovies ever, and I was like,
fuck, no, no chance.And seven was also right around the time
where I think Rotten Tomatoes had beenmade, but it was slowly becoming more

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and more relevant in the movie industry. What's crazy, though, is that
you famously dislike the Mad Max movies. Yeah, this is Mad Max on
water infinitely better, infinitely more intriguing. No boats, the water way,
greater than motorcycles and cars. Allright, let's get into some of these
costs here. They built floating city. I'm getting into this. That Max.

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They built a one thousand ton floatingisland off the coast of Hawaii that
was a quarter mile wide and usedall of the steel from the island.
If this was such a failure.Why is the water World attraction at Disney
World, wherever the fuck that is? Why is that such a big hit?
Is it universal? Yeah? Universal, wherever the fuck it is?

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More production problems. They filmed thatopen sea, even after Steven Spielborg warned
them not to, said, don'tdo this. When you're at sea,
you deal with storms, you dealwith other things that you have no control
over. Yeah, like orcas,like orches that were out to kill everybody.
Speaking of killing everybody, a stuntcoordinator almost died. Yeah, Not

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only is the sea rough when you'rein the fucking South Pacific, that is
also like the roughest part of theocean. So that's that's not the greatest
of decisions. Several people nearly drown. Yep, that also makes sense.
Kevin Costner was going through divorce andapparently at the time was a real bitch.
Wow. The role called for it. It was just method acting.
Sixty five million dollars was the originalbudget. It then jumped to one hundred

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million for realism, and then theirshooting schedule that started at ninety six days
ballooned to one hundred and fifty sevendays, which brought the budget to one
seventy five. I challenge those thathave not seen this movie to go watch
this movie and tell me it's bad. We've already agreed that if Deadpool is

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bad, we're going to talk aboutwater World for all of August. I
any of our listens out there thathave not seen water World, which I'm
sure is fun far between since itwas on cable TV for twenty straight years,
I dare to go wash this andtell me it's bad. Go right
ahead, guys. At number eighteenis John Carter from twenty twelve, made
for two hundred and sixty four milliondollars. With inflation, it's three hundred

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and fifty. It made seventy threemillion dollars domestic too, eighty four worldwide.
Director Andrew Stanton, this was hisfirst live action movie. They gave
him a big budget movie to do. He had only done Pixar at the
time, and he just tried toshoot a bunch of set pieces, giant
set pieces, some of them theydidn't even use. Yeah. Also playing

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into this was I believe this wasTaylor Kitch's first massive movie role or starring
role in a movie, and hewas his co star. Was her name?
Escapes Me? She also played Tyraon Friday Night Lights. These two
from Friday Night Lights were love interestson Friday Night Lights were love interests in
this movie. This movie's not good. This is a movie that I felt

(35:45):
like maybe could have been good witha better story. I don't even like
Kitchen and the girl I forget hername once again, aren't really all that
badness. The movie around him isjust pretty bad. And I think that
Disney was looking at it as likethis can be another Pirates of the Caribbean,
and for sure just did not takeoff. Yeah, fell fell flat

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on its face, coming at numberseventeen. Harry Potter and the Half Blood
Prints, Uh, this is thatthe is that part one? Or I
don't know. I never forget thetitles of the last two or three of
those books. Two thousand and ninemade for two fifty then equivalent to three
fifty five now made three hundred andtwo domestically, nine hundred and thirty five
worldwide. This is again. Wetalked about this a little bit at the

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top some of these movies, whenyou're getting to the end of the franchise
and you're tying up the story,you just got to pay what it takes.
It's there's no cutting corners when you'rein the fucking seventh, eighth,
ninth, tenth movie of a franchisethat just is what it is. This
next one is really interesting to mebecause when I saw it, I'm like,
really, this is what is atnumber sixteen with inflation of all time,

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and that is twenty ten's Tangled,Disney's Tangled, which was made for
two hundred and sixty million dollars withinflation, that is three sixty three.
It only made two one domestic andalmost six hundred worldwide, which actually that's
not that bad. It made itsmoney back. It made enough for them
to then go and make Froze andMowan and everything else. And speaking of
those other movies, this movie changedits animation style midway through and reinvented a

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three D animation technology that Disney thenreused for those other movies. I actually
specifically remember about this movie around whenit came out, or before it came
out, them talking about the animationand the new style and them showing and
zooming in on the hairs and howthe hairs would move free. It was

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made specifically for the hairs to makethe hairs, Yes, and then,
like to your point, has nowbeen used in all of their movies going
forward. So actually Tangled is obviouslynot a cult classic because it's a Disney
movie. Tangold probably doesn't get enoughlove, but there's there is a hardcore
Tangled audience. And like you said, it enabled them to use this new
technology going forward. Coming at numberfifteen, the thirteen years in the making,

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Avatar The Way of Water twenty twentytwo made for three hundred and fifty
million in twenty twenty two, andget this queue, Yes that price has
gone up three sixty four in today'smoney. Oh yeah, it made its
money back and then some six pointeighty four domestically two point three to two
billion worldwide. Again, everything wesaid about the first Avatar applies to this

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one. Not only did they createnew technology for that first one, James
Cameron's whole thing, And I getthis doesn't sit and mean that they're worth
watching, but I get why hewaited. He needed CGI technology to get
better for him to greatly expand theworld in universes telling these stories. And

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so actually a little bit like Tangled, the CGI and creative process here for
digital graphics have improved so much thathe was now able to make this movie
in twenty twenty two as opposed totwenty twelve, when you would have thought
a sequel would have come. It'salso a lot longer. Is it much
longer the first one? I don'teven know. It felt a lot longer.
Is it longer? I don't know. Also, shooting in three D

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costs money four at uh fourteen.Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness cost
three hundred and fifty one million dollarsin twenty twenty two with inflation three sixty
five. It made four to elevendomestic almost one billion worldwide, and according
to screen rants, this sequel createdtwenty two new universes and filled them with

(39:29):
visual feasts, visual feasts of newlocations, and had different appearances for each
one so that they would not bealike. I don't remember these twenty two
worlds. That was gonna be myfirst point. I remember first of all.
One of the great disappointments of theMacagoo program was this movie and one

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coming up in two movies. Thismovie is not bad, however, Yeah,
this movie promised a lot and deliveredon almost none of it. We
thought we we were getting twenty twonew universes we got three two played in
two? Really were we shown morethan what we got? Like maybe while
they well they're going really fell throughlike seven of them, but that doesn't

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really fucking count. Yeah, andalso like if they spend all their money
on that, that is just stupiddumb dumb? Is that that more like
dumb or strange? Am I right? Doctor Summer? Okay, yeah,
that's not that one. Yeah,coming in at number twelve, tied at
twelve twenty seventeen's Justice League. Sothis is not the Snyder effect? Right?

(40:37):
Is this separate or is this I'mnot sure if this adds the Snyder
one at the end of it though, Okay, so maybe it is included.
I don't know. Made for threehundred million then equivalent to three seventy
three now, so maybe this doesinclude the Snyder money. I'm not really
sure. Made two twenty nine domesticallysix sixty one worldwide, probably broke even
all things considered. We don't haveto go into this too much. There's

(40:59):
been a million articles and interviews aboutthe nightmare it was to work on that
set and what Josh Wheden apparently didor didn't do, and then of course
we got the Snyder cut in twentytwenty or twenty twenty one, which again
I would argue is actually worse thanthe Justice League. Either way, the
amount of money and effort that wentinto those two movies did not produce what

(41:22):
they should have in terms of whatDC was looking for. Just colossal,
colossal failure there. Yeah, andthe movie started out with a giant budget.
I think that Weeden only got abouttwenty five million for his reshoots,
and then the Snyder cut later ongot anywhere from forty to seventy million mac.
Also at number twelve is Star WarsThe Last Jedi, made in twenty

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seventeen for three one hundred million dollarswith inflation three seventy three. It made
six twenty domestic and one point threebillion worldwide. You are paying a pretty
big cast. The effect look amazing. Say what you want about the story,
but this movie might be one oftheir better looking movies. But when

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dealing with the new sequel trilogy,it's all rush production, so they're really
paying to get these done. Youknow what, We should have made this
point at the top. We kindof alluded to it a little bit,
but when we talked about Solo atnumber twenty three. A lot of the
reason why that movie did not getmany theater goers was because of this movie

(42:27):
right here, the year prior,you had The Force Awakens in twenty fifteen.
I believe that was a smashed success. However way you want to cut
it, sure that it had itsdetractors saying it was too much like the
original, YadA YadA whatever. Fans, everse they gave us something we really
really enjoyed, still really liked thatmovie. This movie comes out, and
due to the lack of oversight forthe people running Star Wars, blame whoever

(42:51):
you want, I'll blame Felony andKathleen Kennedy, Ryan Johnson was allowed to
make whatever movie he wanted to make. He did that. I would say
a great majority of fans really hatethis movie. It does have its small
strong minority that say it's one ofthe better Star Wars movies. But this
movie not only lampooned the final movie, Rise of Skywalker, it also lampooned

(43:17):
a lot of what they were gonnado going forward. Ultimately, we still
ended up with the Mandalorian or not. But you remember, right around the
time they now stole. They startedannouncing these side star wars projects where they're
gonna start filling in the gaps.We got Rogue one and what have you
in this movie because it was sodivisive, literally killed a lot of those

(43:37):
projects. Now we are getting alot more now because they've had success in
some of these side side ventures.But man, this movie. I will
always remember this movie because in myadult life, especially once we started the
podcast, you know, a lotof times I just won't go see a
movie. I'm not ampt up fourand therefore I very rare leave the theater

(44:00):
not liking what I just saw orhating what I just saw. This is
one strange It happened a little bit. This is the only movie I was
like over the moon about, likehad been looking forward to for two years,
and left the theater upset, likemad, like couldn't even believe what
we had just gotten. And Idon't know, I'm like jaded now,

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I'm scarred because I don't know ifI'll ever be able to have like I
don't know now, I'm just cautiousabout all of these like sequel movies and
universes we love. This movie justhurt me. It hurt me so much.
Well, what else was a sequel? Mac kicking off our top ten?
Naturally a tie at number ten twothousand and seven, Spider Man three.

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This was made for two hundred andfifty eight million today's money is three
hundred and seventy nine millions. That'sthree made three thirty seven domestically eight ninety
six worldwide. This man a shitton of money because the first two movies
are really fucking good. The secondone was great. Yes, this movie
teased venom. Unfortunately, this moviesucked, not great like X three is

(45:06):
a bad movie. This movie suckedout loud. This movie made me way
more upset than X three did.Like X three, you know what,
is a bad movie, but itdidn't make me angry the way this movie
did. Yeah. This movie,of course the third in a trilogy,
so the actors cost more money onceagain, and they had to pay more
on the effects. Now let's goon to the other number ten, which

(45:28):
is Fast X, which is thetenth of the Fast franchise, made in
twenty twenty three for three hundred andseventy nine million dollars with inflation, three
hundred and seventy nine million dollars oneforty six domestic, seven h five worldwide.
At the box office, we havethe rising salaries of the entire cast,
the characters that have not only beenaround the entire time, but now

(45:50):
you have the ones that have beenaround for two or three movies, four
or five movies. You're also drivingand crashing a lot of cars. Once
again, to your point, though, uh, that world wide money's coming
way down with all these fast movieswe've we've talked about on the list,
so maybe it is coming to aclose coming in at number nine. Titanic
nineteen ninety seven's Titanic made for twohundred million, then that is the equivalent

(46:13):
of three point eighty now made obviouslyall of the money six seventy four domestic,
two point two billion worldwide. Thiswas the first movie to cost over
two earlier. This was the oneYeah, there you go, which makes
sense in the grand scheme of things. This is also the first movie I
remember having two cassettes in the whenyou bought the vhs. Forrest Gump made
it cool. I didn't remember ForrestGump, but you're you're You're probably right,

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But Titanic's first one I remember.This is also the first pair of
Tits. I remember seeing so pivotalmoment here for for Max Resku. A
bulk of this film's budget was spenton recreating the Titanic through practical and digital
effects. The faux Titanic was builtfor the film and likely cost more than
the actual ship did to make it. Actually, I believe cost roughly half

(46:59):
of the to do the Titanic.And then I also read about forty million
on a horizon tank, which isso it's ocean, but just off the
ocean, So you are not shootingin the ocean, but it looks like
you are in the ocean, gotcha. So it's like a controlled condition in
the ocean. Yeah. Also,this movie is directly responsible for the rising

(47:22):
commercial tours that the Titanic saw afterwards, so directly led to the death of
those people. And the fucking submarinethat exploded or imploded a couple of years
ago, which is fucking. Idon't I don't know. I would rather
go into space, to the Moon, to Mars than go to the bottom
of the ocean, like not evenI have a question of my mind.

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I saw a great meme tweeted outby the Devil the other day, and
it's by the Devil. By theDevil, that's the name of the guy,
Satan. I believe that's what hegoes by beesel Bum, but it
was it was a meme of theold lady from The Titanic saying I had
sex with the homeless guy and thenlet him round fucking smashed them. It's

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good stuff. I like that.That's right up my alley, you're up.
I just oh U did Titanic.It's my bad. At Number eight,
Avengers Infinity War made in twenty eighteenfor three hundred and twenty five million
dollars with inflation, that's almost fourhundred million dollars. It made six sixty
nine domestic and over two billion worldwide. Let's just couple that up with number

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seven, which is Avengers Endgame madein twenty nineteen or it was released in
twenty nineteen. These movies were actuallyshot together, took one year to shoot
them both. This was made forthree hundred and fifty six million dollars with
inflation four hundred and twenty four milliondollars. It made eight fifty eight domestic
two point eight billion dollars worldwide.And when it comes to the costs of

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these movies, you are paying themain cast, the cast that has been
around for a while, fifteen milliondollars each. And then you get to
RDJ in Avengers Endgame, who wasmaking seventy five million dollars at that time,
worth everypenny. Yeah, and together, and you really could talk about
these as one movie a little overeight hundred million in today's money to make

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these two movies grossed almost five hundredWe should have said this at the beginning.
So this is economics one oh one. You gotta spend money to make
money. My second and third favoritemovies on the list, behind Water World,
of course, coming into our Goo'sjuicy six pack, here another fucking
stupid Pirates movie. Pirates of theCaribbean at World Zend from two thousand and

(49:37):
seven, the Yeargo and I graduatedhigh school, made for three hundred million
dollars. Then that's four forty onenow made three hundred and nine domestically nine
hundred and sixty two worldwide. Thiswas the world's first three hundred million dollars.
Do you think that the sequel tothese movies the next Buckheimer Bruckheimer,
Bruckheimer, Sorry, the next Bruckheimerone is this thing called another stupid Pirates

(49:59):
movie. Again, I don't getthe deal, especially considering the cost,
but it does make a lot ofmoney. I don't know special effects locations,
you're shooting at sea, and I'mI'm not sure if it's this one
or the next one. When Depthstarts getting paid like fifty million a movie,
I don't think it was this one. I think it was after first
two or three. He was like, all right, this is a pain

(50:20):
in the ass. You want meto come back. Guess what I want?
My wine does anything? This wasthe second one, right, the
third one? Oh, I believethe second one. I'm pretty sure it's
the second one. I don't knowhow years work, so I'm gonna say
third one. It really does notmatter. At number five is another Avengers
movie, made for three hundred andsixty five million dollars at the time.

(50:42):
I believe they did get a bigtax break on this. I think they
shot it in Georgia, Georgia,Peachaja with inflation four hundred and sixty nine
million dollars. Twenty fifteen's Avengers Ageof Ultron made four hundred and sixty domestic
one point four billion worlds locations.This is shot in many locations and also
shot all around the world, andthe effects were done by ten different studios.

(51:07):
Ding podcast Idea Top ten Georgia songsJohn Mayer's why Georgia would be very
high. So Georgia has to bein the title? Maybe never one,
No thematically has to be about Georgia. So can we do peaches by the
Presidents of the United States? Sure? Sure, Age of Ultron is a
movie that a lot of people weredisappointed by, talk about as a disappointment.

(51:30):
I was not. Then. Istill hold this movie in higher regard
than other MCU fans. I wasnot disappointed by this movie. Sure it
could have been better, but like, we didn't have this weighing up against
anything other than the first Avengers movie, and I didn't think it was that
much of a drop off from thefirst movie. So maybe I'm a fucking

(51:52):
moron that that might be true.But I like this movie. Goo.
I think it's too much of Heylook at this, Hey guys, check
this. I'm a fan. Ilike to be survest coming in at number
four surprised. Uh, Force Awakensisn't on this? Oh it is all
right? Well, what are youtalking? Don't spoil it? Of surprise

(52:14):
number one isn't on this list.I had scrolled. I'm surprised Wayne Gretzky
isn't on the list of best hockeyplayers of all time. See I just
like I like being surprised when Icome out of the podcast, go I
just ruined it for everyone, andact just showed off that he has not
read through this list, coming inat number four, starting our Mount Rushmore
Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker fromtwenty nineteen cost four hundred and sixteen.

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Then that's four ninety six now alot made five hundred and fifteen domestically over
a billion worldwide, almost one pointone. Obviously, this was going to
be an expensive movie anyways, thefact that they had to they were trying
to do damage control based off thelast movie. They had to mold their
movie in a way that would mitigatethe Last Jedi. But then all also

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try to propel like stuff going forward, considering they were still trying to do
other projects. So this movie wasdead in the water, which is why
I loved it after I saw it, because all it did was take a
shit on Ryan Johnson's chest, andfor that I will always love this movie.
I thought it was swashbuckling, andI liked that more swashbuckling than the

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Pirates movies, no doubt. Allright, So with that, by the
way, long run time, specialeffects, and once again an accelerated production.
That's a big issue with the StarWars sequels. Actually, did you
know that the Star Wars prequels,the three movies combined were made for less
than any of the I think thewas the last Jedi that was the cheapest

(53:44):
one. So it was actually madefor less combined than that one movie.
I believe it. I definitely believethat. I think because it was they
were fucking around with digital stuff andCGI and whatnot, but it was all
like in house. They didn't haveto outsource anything. Number three is another
stupid Pirates movie. The Caribbean.A Stranger Tides from twenty eleven cost three
hundred and seventy nine million dollars tomake. There is a tax break there.

(54:06):
Get off my back with today's money. It's five thirteen. That's over
a half billion dollars. Butts,it did make two forty one domestic and
over one billion worldwide. Johnny Deppcost fifty five million dollars in this movie.
The set was at Sea, andthey shot this entire movie in three
D, which cost a lot ofmoney. Seems like, if you ask

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me, a lot of the movieson this list were trying to copy water
World, but none of them couldreplicate the success. It seemed like out
of the thirty seven movies here,forty of them are water World, coming
in at number two. This onewas the one that blew my mind.
By the way, Yeah, thisis an interesting one considering none of its
other brethren are on the list,and half the movie is shot at a

(54:52):
fucking house. Uh. Jurassic WorldFallen Kingdom obviously twenty eighteen. This was
the sequel to Jurassic World. Thiswas made for four point thirty two.
Then that is five twenty four andnow it's insane. Did make an awful
lot of money. World was sogood four hundred and eighteen domestically one point

(55:14):
three billion worldwide. They tried toup their game here and change the genre
and what they were doing. Theytook it off island. They introduced a
lot more humans, a lot alot more or a lot more unique dinosaurs.
But you have a good point,and maybe this is why it costs.
Maybe it costs a lot for theCG is painting those dinosaurs in more

(55:36):
real life than against like green treesand backgrounds. But half of this movie
takes place in a mansion, AndI don't know why it costs so much
to make half of this movie takesplace in a mansion. Half of this
movie you have a dinosaur that's theindoor raptor that is pretty much just playing
bugs bunny. It's you know,creeping around the house and like tiptoeing and
like pulling on bed sheets and whatnot. But I will say this is that

(55:59):
this this movie does look really reallygood. And the dinosaurs in this movie
do look amazing. And that finalscene on Eastland, Newblar of the volcano
going off and killing Slash, pushingall the dinosaurs off the island. I'm
sure that cost an extreme amount ofmoney and that might be where most of

(56:19):
it went. Ah, there wassomething there with this movie, like the
idea of people being hunted like alike Michael Myers in a house, but
it's a dinosaur. No, it'sstool, No, get off your nose
stock. It just didn't work.It still didn't work. Good coming at
number one, isn't this my turn? Oh? I don't know, maybe
you want to do it together.Yeah, coming in at number one Star

(56:40):
Wars. The four say it's madein twenty fifteen for four hundred and forty
seven million dollars. That's the equivalentto five seventy five today. It made
three I'm sorry, nine to thirtyseven domestic. That's almost one billion dollars
domestic. It made two billion worldwide. The reason four the price is accelerated

(57:00):
production. I believe. I'm notsure when Disney bought Star Wars, but
as soon as they did, theysaid, we need a Star Wars movie.
Yeah, here we go. Specialeffects cost a lot of money,
Harrison Ford cost a lot of money, long run time, this movie kicked
off which should have been a reallystrong trilogy. Obviously that that didn't happen.

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This is making me think, good, we're on the verge of the
world's first five hundred million dollar movie, and it's probably gonna be a Star
Wars or a Marvel movie or anotherwater World. Oh I see, that's
a movie you just shouldn't touch.So when you say, see as ea,
you can't make a w W two, it's not gonna work. No,

(57:42):
No, you just you remake thefirst one or do you think water
World is a Mad Max prequel?Would you put water World in the Mad
Max world? I just asked that. I don't know if you'd call it
a prequel though. What comes first? Desertally water? Do you think it's
in the future of Mad Max?Yeah, like I want act, everyone
wanted water so badly and then suddenlyit's all water in the careful what you

(58:07):
wish for? I thought water evaporatedor there's a big leak, you know,
all leaking to the center of theEarth, and then you get Mad
Max. I do often question whilewatching Mad Max, is this what Australia
is? Like? I'm pretty sureif you look at the map of Australia.
First of all, there's like nocities on the North coast because it's
like the most dangerous place on theplanet. There so many crazy shit and

(58:28):
I guess the Croc Sea, thesea there is insane, Like eighty percent
of the Australian population is on theeastern and southern coast. And then you
have like three two or three citieslike way out west. But that middle
desert area where presumably Mad Max lives, is like completely uninhabited. There's some
there's some Aborigines. I believe likeliving there, here and there, but

(58:50):
it's like pretty much uninhabitable. Ithink we nailed this list, even though
we just kind of copied and pastedfrom Wikipedia. Yeah, credit to us.
Yeah, we went through, welooked for little things, and we
in it. So Brave New World, by the way, is going to
fall at the very least seventeenth oreighteenth on this list, And by the
time we get to that movie,I wouldn't be surprised if it's closer to

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like ten nine eight seven, becauseit's at three point fifty now and that
there's definitely going to be more costscoming. I think it's gonna get close
to three seventy five, if notfour hundred million, by the time that
movie comes out. So head overto social media and tell us which movie
you were surprised by the price of. Let's get into Maxack and maxac could

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be anything that could be abode inthis week, Mac, I had COVID,
so I had the house to myselffor five straight days while my family
went on vacation. So not onlynot only did you have COVID, you
got a double punishment. I havegotten COVID twice now, and both times
I was supposed to go to Italy. The first time we had to cancel
that trip. The second time,my family just went on vacation without me.

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I didn't want to bring that upwhen you told me you were gonna
have to miss your trip, butI was thinking in my head. The
last time he got COVID was literallylike two days before they were going to
leave for Italy. Yeah, yeah, that's what happened. So this time
I had a host to myself,and I just watched whatever I could find
there. I saw Furiosa. Ithought it was good. I'll get to

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it at some point. I guess, is it better than Fury Road?
No? Oh boy, I didn'tlike Fury Road. Okay, well I
maybe you'll you'll like the character ofFuriosa. I don't so Fury Road.
Again. I didn't see it intheaters, so I guess tell me to
go fuck myself, go fuck it. When I watched that movie the whole

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run time, I was like,did I watch the same movie as everyone
else? Like? How did everyonelove this movie? How did this movie
when fucking eight oscars or whatever?You know. What you might like about
this one, though, is thatyou are a huge Hemsworth fan, and
he is quite good in this.Okay, he's a real good bad guy
in this. Is there more dialoguein this than Fury Road? Or is
it a little bit a little moreset up? But there's there's more of

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a story than people just racing acrossthe desert. I mean, they're still
racing across the desert. She doesn'tsay much. He does ham it up
a bit, which I think you'llenjoy. Okay. I also saw Godzilla
times Kong. This is what wegot, and I hated it. I
could not. I at so manypoints in this movie. I fucking hated

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it. I hated it at pointsin this movie. I'm just like,
I know, I complain about thepeople in these movies, and I want
to see more of the monsters inthis movie. I don't care about either.
I don't care about the monsters northe people. And while Kong looks
really good, Godzilla looks really good, the bad monkey in this look like
shit. I kind of like thebad monkey, to be honest with you,

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I didn't like it. And thebaby monkey too. The baby monkey
looked like Dewey from him in themiddle. I'll tell you what, though,
this movie definitely suffered from me obviously. Uh seeing The Kingdom of the
Planet of the Apes for it,yep, growing that movie looks so much
better than this movie does. Butyou also feel more for the apes in

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that movie. And yeah, youenjoyed how they communicated and how they how
they conveyed their emotions. And thisone there's there's a lot of apes.
Some of the apes are slaves.They have control over this dinosaur. I
don't I don't like it. Ididn't like it. Yeah, again,
I didn't think it was good,but I definitely didn't hate it as much

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as you. It's I can't.I said, if you liked the prior
one, you'll probably like this one. If not, don't watch it.
I got this gauntlet. I'm feelinggood. That's the way God will.
I mean, uh Ko talks inhis head. I don't want to spoil
anything, but when they're like ohno, they're like his arm. Luckily
we had something in the wings readyto go for developing Hulkbuster armor for Yeah,

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I hated that. I hated that. Credit to Dan Stevens. I
thought he was okay for the mostpart, but yeah, he actually was
a good character. I also watchedthe full six episode season of Tires on
Netflix, that is, the ShaneGillis show. I would describe it as
a worse Workaholics. I thought itwas tremendously disappointing. I was disappointed by

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it, but I would compare itto like a mid two thousand's Comedy Central
show where the dialogue doesn't feel real. The hashtag dork putcast. Both boys
liked it quite a bit, andI was confused as to why this felt
like it wasn't written enough. Therewas too much improv like they went into

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the scene with zero written lines andthey just let him figure it out from
there. It just didn't work becauseto me, Shane is like his personality
is too big for the other characters. I thought the straight guy, the
main the GM of the store sucked. I did not like him at all.
Yeah, boys really liked him,so that's maybe that's a different Seshtaggs's

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the difference between us and Dork.I just it wasn't bad. The show
wasn't bad, but Shane Gillis's lastspecial was fucking hysterical, So I had
pretty high hopes for this, andI just it didn't meet those marks.
I watched two YouTube video essays doneby the account Folding Ideas. Both of
these were ninety minutes long. Oneof them that just came out ten ish

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days ago, was all odd,you're like an eight year old kid just
watching YouTube videos all day. Yeah. This was ninety minutes long and it
was called I don't know James Rolf. Who the fuck is James Rolf?
The Angry video game nerd? Okay, all right, I watched it.
I was waiting for something explosive,and by the end he was just telling
everyone it's a you issue. Thereason why you don't like these videos anymore

(01:04:50):
is because you've gotten older. That'sit. He's not wrong kind of a
spoiler. Yeah, I mean II watched him. I think back at
like oh six oh seven for men, that's what everyone says about Star Wars
is we're too old. So thatlike, that's why we criticized Star Wars.
Oh by the way, yeah,by the way, I don't know
if we talked about it on air. The Acolyte's getting a lot of shit.

(01:05:12):
Episode five of the Acolyte was fuckingamazing. Yeah, we talked to
him. I don't know. Yeah, I talked about this last Saturday.
I got I got your COVID brain, that's all right. Speaking of that
account folding ideas, I watched avideo he made three years ago talking about
the Nostalgia Critics review of The Wall, which I remember watching at the time
being like, I'm not watching anymore of his videos of the Wall from

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Pink Floyd's The Wall. Oh allright, you actually might like this one
because it is just shitting on thisthis guy for ninety straight minutes of being
like, how are you this stupid? Okay, all right, I don't
you know what I do? Godown YouTube roudhosts. I go down a
lot of YouTube rabbit holes, yeah, a lot of them. And then
I also watched many videos of JimminyClick He's back boy. So your family

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had a great time in Virginia orwherever they went, and you watched Jimmy
Glick. I remember growing up andwhenever Glick was on Comedy Central, I'm
like, I don't care for thisGlick character. You didn't get it.
Then, Now that I'm older andI've matured, Jimminy Glick is just right
up my fucking end. It's likeSeinfeld. As you get older, you
like it more. Jimmy Glick isequal to Seinfeld. Like when they had

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Glick come back last week and hostJimmy Kimmel fucking five straight nights of gold.
The interview that he did with BillHayter is six straight minutes of just
laughter. You Well, anytime BillHayter is getting interviewed, it always devolves
into laughter. Willie Mays is,Dad, that's not a bad click.

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Thank you. I think you're aperfect example that COVID really does affect people's
brains. I've been in a weirdheadspace the past couple of days. Fucking
sure have Yeah, I've been likeI haven't. And I went into the
weekend being like, Okay, I'mgoing to cut a bunch of videos and
get shit ready for like social media. I haven't cut any Oh you're too
busy walking watching James Rolf and JimmyClick. No I would. I would

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like start something on Premiere and I'dwatch it and be like, this isn't
funny, this is fucking stupid.Got click on the brain? I got
glick on the plane. I'm like, this doesn't compare to glick. Must
big click on the brain? Ohman, I love I love Jimmy Glick.
Yeah, I don't. All right, well that'll do it for this

(01:07:29):
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No, that was like, thatwas not what I liked. No,
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which is great. I love that. Yeah, it's it's more natural.
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