Do you think you have enough money to make a movie? Well, after looking at some of the most successful low-budget movies…it may not seem as far away as you might think! Let’s take a look into what defines a ‘low-budget’ movie vs. how much money an average movie takes to make. Mike reviews Jackass Forever which is in theaters now. And in the trailer park, takes a look at Texas Chainsaw Massacre coming later this month to Netflix.
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Movie Mike A K eight Mike D. I'm just the
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some of the most successful low budget movies. These are
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all films that got made for a pretty small amount
of money and ended up doing really well at the
box office. I'll get into my review of Jackass Forever
and in the Trailer Park you had another Texas Chainsaw
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Nashville Podcast Network. Movie So I usually get a lot
of good feedback whenever I do episode it's discussing some
movie math. It's one of my favorite subjects to dive into.
And this week I wanted to get into movies that
made a lot of money with a pretty small budget.
And first of all, I just kind of want to
set the stage or what a normal movie cost to
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make nowadays, and I think that will be a little
bit better of a reference we get into some of
these low budget movies now. A typical movie now cost
around sixty five million dollars to make. It depends on
who is the lead in it, because now actors are
getting paid twenty thirties, sometimes upward of fifty million dollars
for a single role. Streaming has greatly changed how much
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an actor can make because when you go and do
movies or streaming services, there's really not a whole lot
of money to make on the back end with ticket sales.
But generally a movie can get made for sixty five
million dollars. Of recent note, Joker, which was made in
twenty nineteen, was fifty five million dollars to make. Joaquin
Phoenix made about four point five million dollars for that movie,
but then you have bigger production movies, the Marvel movies,
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the big action movies, and a movie like Spider Man
No Way Home cost about two hundred million dollars to make,
and that goes on to make you know, one point
seven billion dollars. So that's kind of a range for
a normal movie, and you think, oh, maybe an animated
movie will cost a little bit less. Well, No and
Gonzo also cost a hundred and fifty million dollars to make,
and that has made around two hundred and thirty three
million dollars. Another movie for reference, Don't Look Up, which
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came out on Netflix, that costs about a hundred and
ten million dollars to make, and thirty million of that
was paying Leonardo DiCaprio. Twenty five million of that was
playing Jennifer Lawrence. So a great deal of a movie
like that is paying the big star actors. And when
you talk about low budget movies, generally the consensus is
anything made under two million dollars would be a low
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budget movie. This is a very independent movie. Anything under
the two million dollar range is probably gonna have relatively
unknown actors or maybe bigger actors taking a lower salary
in order to get a movie made or it's the
very first in the franchise of movies that later the
sequels will make a lot more and the actors will
get paid a lot more for I think it's very
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rare to find a movie under two million dollars, So
we'll get to some of those movies under the two
million dollar mark. But I didn't want to start a
little bit higher just to kind of get a bigger
range on this topic with the movies that got made
for less than ten million dollars. So we'll start first
with Little Miss Sunshine that came out in two thousand
and six that had a budget of eight million dollars.
The movie stars Steve Carrell. It's like a drama t
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slash comedy road trip movie. And with it only costing
eight million dollars to make, after Fox Searchlight Pictures bought
the rights to it, we're able to put it out
in theaters. After it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
It went on to make a hundred and one million dollars.
But not only that, this movie was highly critically acclaimed,
one Oscars for Best Original screen Play, Best Supporting Actor.
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So I feel like sometimes with these lower budget movies.
Almost the idea is for it dictor to awards season.
I feel like in between the ten million dollar and
the five million dollar range is where a lot of
these movies live. Because another movie that came out in
two thousand and seven, Juno, costs six point five million
dollars to make, ended up making two d and thirty
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one million dollars at the box office and also just
had a lot of critical acclaim. And with both of
these movies, they have a low five feel and a
lot what goes into having a successful movie with the
lower budget is the story. I think you'll see a
theme in all of these movies. There has to be
something so dynamic about the story that would have people
you know, really pick out and want to watch this movie.
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And I think that's where the real success is with
a low budget movie. It's something that you want to
tell your friend about whether the subject matter alone is
worthy of wanting to watch the movie. And sometimes in
Juno's case, it doesn't hurt to have a really good soundtrack,
but also just really good actors who put up a
performance that is worthy of winning an Oscar. Along with
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that original screenplay, that's something that hasn't been done before.
And this is really something that I kind of feel
is like a win for a director, a win for
an actor to be a part of a production like this.
And sometimes it is the lower budget movies from an
actor that becomes some of fans just favorite movies. So
those are a couple under the ten million dollar mark.
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Now let's get into movies that got made under five
million dollars. And right at the five million dollar mark
is twenty seventeens Get Out, directed by Jordan Peel and
with the relatively low price tag of four point five
million dollars to make this movie, and went on to
make two hundred and fifty five point four million dollars.
That's a pretty good profit margin. And this is the
first time in this list I'll talk about horror movies,
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but I feel like horror is a really lucrative genre
when done right, when you have a unique concept, you
don't really need a whole lot of other movie magic
making effects. It's all about the story. It's all about
creating that feeling of of stress, of anxiety when you're
watching a movie. If you can create that energy of
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keeping people on the edge of their seat while watching
something that you know invokes a feeling of being scared
in the theater at your house. That's all you need.
It's just that feeling. And horror movies can do that,
and they can do that for a pretty low budget
if done right. And also in this category of movies
made under five million dollars, you have movies that are
cult classics. And I want to talk about Donnie Darko,
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which came out in two thousand and one, cost only
four point five million dollars to make. And while this
movie wasn't a box office success in any means, it
only made seven point five million dollars at the box office,
But Donnie Darko has become a cult classic, which almost
goes further than any amount of money you can make
at the box office. Sometimes movies come and go. A
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movie that made a lot maybe just a few years ago,
we kind of forget about. But a movie like this
that lives on forever and becomes people's favorite movie of
all time, I think that's almost worth more. And even
though it doesn't have that commercial success to really hold
on too, if you can make a cult classic, you
can almost live forever through that. Johnny dark it was
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probably a movie that this next generation will watch again
in generations to come, we'll keep watching because it has
this following. So while it's not successful financially, I think
you can measure success in other ways of you know,
how long this movie is going to last and how
much people are going to continue to watch this movie.
And the thing that director James Gunn kind of explains
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so well that I was able to take away from
recently is that he said that a lot of his
favorite movies he didn't watch in theaters, like Jaws is
one of his favorite movies, but he's never seen that
movie in theaters. Really none of us have. But that
movie lives on forever and never because we watch it
at home streaming her on the DVD on the Blu Ray.
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So when Donnie darkos case, that's how I measured this
movie's success. Other movies in this bracket are from two
thousand and three. Lost in Translation cost four million dollars
to make, ended up making a hundred and eighteen million dollars,
also got nominated for four Oscars and one for Best
Original Screenplay. And also in this bracket, The Oscar Wins
Keep on Coming. Steen Moonlight came out cost four million
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dollars to make, ended up making sixty five million dollars
at the box office, and then the following year won
the Oscar for Best Picture. A few more movies here
to mention. Garden State, which came out in two thousand
and four, was made for only two point five million dollars,
ended up making thirty five million dollars at the box office.
Another case of a really good soundtrack really helping this
movie and helping it live on. Then in two thousand
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and four, Saw came out, only cost one point two
million dollars to make, but ended up making a hundred
and three million dollars at the box office. Movie that
everybody talked about when that movie came out, how just
shocking and in credit a bull it was, and with
just one point two million dollars, that spawned an entire
franchise that has now grossed over a billion dollars. And
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then one more in this bracket. In nineteen Quentin Tarantino's
Reservoir Dogs came out. He made that movie for one
point two million dollars. It went on to make about
two point nine million dollars at the box office, but
really kick started his career after Reservoir Dogs. Basically everybody
wanted to mimic that movie and make their own version
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of Reservoir Dogs. All right now, I want to get
into movies made for a million dollars or right around it.
In the first movie from nineteen seventies six, it's just
a little bit above a million. But I feel like
this is a pretty amazing feat for this movie. And
the movie is Rocky, which was made for one point
one million dollars, went on to gross two hundred and
twenty five million dollars in a movie that has become
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Sylvester Stallone's signature movie has also spawned one of the
best movie franchises. It went on to win Best Picture.
And what I love about the Rocky movies is much
like Rocky in the real movie, it really was a
sleeper hit. Nobody expected this to be the biggest movie
of nineteen seventies six and then continue to make money
and was the second highest grossing movie in nineteen seventies seven,
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right behind Star Wars. And a rare thing to happen
is a movie like this to have such of a
box office impact, a movie that a lot of people
end up going to see because sometimes movies that get
nominated for Best Picture. You know, not everybody has seen
these movies. But a movie that had this much power
going into it was up for ten Oscars and ended
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up winning three, including Best Picture. Like that's amazing. That
really hasn't been heard of in a very long time.
So with all that considered, out of all the movies
I put together on this list today, I think that
is one of the most impressive things. But now we'll
get into movies made for less than a million dollars.
A horror classic which came out in nineteen sixty Psycho
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from Alfred Hitchcock. Was able to make this movie for
eight hundred thousand dollars, which back in was probably a
lot more money, but it went on to make fifty
million dollars. An interesting thing I recently found out about Psycho.
It's basically credited for being the movie that created movie times.
Alfred Hitchcock had to make it a point that if
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somebody was going to watch Psycho, they had to watch
it from beginning to end. And before that it was
a little bit more normal for movie theaters just to
keep playing movies on a loop, and people would come
in and watch them and you wouldn't necessarily start right
at the beginning and finished right at the end. You
could just walk in at the beginning, maybe you're in
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the middle, maybe there's another movie starting right after. The
environment really wasn't made to watch a movie. People in
there were, you know, just hanging out. But when it
came to Psycho, that's when the movie times were set, like,
you have to arrive at this time. You have to
see the movie from the start to the end to
get this movie. So not only was it a successful,
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low budget movie, it also changed the way we go
and watch movies. Now, how about we go even cheaper?
In the blair Witch Project comes out, the movie only
cost six hundred thousand dollars to make, and you probably
watch it thinking I could have made this for five
bucks in a VHS tape, and you're probably right. But
the movie went on to make two and fifty million
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dollars and really just created its own genre with being
the first movie to really adapt the found footage horror movie.
I think the first one was called UFU Abduction, but
blair Witch is the one that really put this type
of movie on the map, and the way they did
this was really all in the marketing and the thing
that some horror movies do is they create these concepts
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and these ideas that you wonder to yourself as the viewer,
did this actually happened? And that was the biggest thing
behind the Blair Witch Project is it was kind of
marketed and pitched as this actually happened somewhere and you
were just watching this, And that's what made it a
little bit more scary. I know what they did with
Texas Chainsaw massacre to where some people kind of forgot
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whether or not that was a real event. And when
you watch something in that type of way, it becomes
more scary because you wonder, what if this happened to me,
what would I do? And with something like The Blair
Witch Project, it almost sounds like something that could actually happen.
So the movie was such a pop culture hit then
paved the way and set the stage for other found
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footage movies, but at the time was a totally original concept.
And yow, from six hundred thousand dollars to two and
fifty million dollars, that's a really good profit margin. Let's
go down even further. In two thousand and four, Napoleon
Dynamite comes out. The movie costs only four thousand dollars
to make and ended up making forty six million dollars
at the box office. I think the most interesting thing
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about this is that John Heater, who plays Napoleon Dynamite,
was only paid a thousand dollars for his role. And
this is the movie that really put him on the
map allowed him to have other major movie roles. It
really Napoleon Dynamite is the one movie that John Heater
will always be known for. And luckily he still makes
money off the royalties. After this movie was a success,
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he was able to renegotiate and get a percentage of
the movie's profits, so he's made a lot more than
a thousand dollars now from this movie. And I've seen
other stories of people who were extras in this movie.
They weren't paid. They were just like, Hey, you want
to be a part of a movie. Hop on this
bus and we're gonna film this scene. And I think
that is my new goal in life. I just want
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to be an extra in a movie. So if anybody
has any leads on that, hit me up a few
more movies I want to mention before I get to
the most profitable movie of all time based on returning investment.
From nineteen seventy nine, you have Mad Max, which was
made for a three hundred and fifty thousand dollars and
ended up making a hundred million dollars at the box office. Now,
if you want to compare that to Mad Max, Fury Road,
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which came out in that movie cost about a hundred
and fifty to a hundred and eighty million dollars to
make and went on to make three hundred and seventy
four million dollars, So it ended up making a lot
more money, but also had to spend a lot more money.
Which one of those would be your favorite? I would
still lean to probably Mad Max Fury Road, but for
being able to make Mad Max for three hundred and
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fifty thousand dollars, as intricate as that movie is, that
is also pretty impressive. From nine Clerks was made for
only two hundred and thirty thousand dollars, and this was
coming from an original budget that Kevin Smith only had
about twenty seven thousand dollars to make this movie. He
sold off a bunch of his like rare comic books,
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maxed out every single credit card to get this movie. Made,
and I love that this movie feels very low budget.
You watch Clerks in black and white and it almost
feels like it was a movie made by a group
of your friends. But it's one of my favorite Kevin
Smith movies, and of everything he's made since, I think
it's the one that resonates with Kevin Smith's fans the most.
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And this movie made three point one million dollars at
the box office, but as the movie responsible for putting
him on the map and allowing him to make another movie,
you know there's another Clerks movie in the works. I
thought Clerks too was great. My other favorite Kevin Smith
movie is without a doubt, Mall Rats. I love that
all of his films don't really have like this well finished,
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Hollywood polished to them. It's all about the writing, It's
all about the comedy and all about the character stories.
Another low budget movie was Swingers, from cost two hundred
thousand dollars to make and made four point six million dollars.
That was directed by Jon Favreau, who has done The Mandalorian,
who has done the original Iron Man and has really
become an underrated director and writer. And the way he
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saved a lot of money while making this movie was
well casting himself. You also have a couple of documentaries
here in two thousand and four, Supersize Me was made
for sixty five thousand dollars, that's it, and ended up
making twenty two point two million dollars at the box office.
And then Catfish from twelve was made for thirty thousand
dollars and that made three point seven million owners of
the box office. Documentaries can usually be made for a
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lot less money, but with Catfish and Supersize Me, those
were documentaries that a lot of people talked about, so
a lot of their success came from word of mouth
and also just the power of them being able to
storytell in these documentaries. And then finally the movie that
is the most profitable movie ever made based on return investment.
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It is from two thousand and seven, Paranormal Activity, which
was made for just fifteen thousand dollars. That's right, one
five zero zero zero dollars, and for that low budget
it went on to make a hundred and ninety three
million dollars. They've made sequel after sequel spinoffs in this movie,
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and it borrowed from the Blair Witch Project in the
same way if you're watching this movie feeling like this
actually happened to the people living in this house, and
it's a pretty crazy and freaky concept that you'll go
home and be a little bit freaked out at every
single noise in your house. And where the paranormal activity
movies took it a bit further, it was really marketing
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towards the last fifteen minutes of the movie. Like in
all the trailers that played for this movie, it was like,
you'll be shocked by the last fifteen minutes. You're not
gonna want to miss that, And that creates the sense
of like, oh, well, I really got to pay attention
to this movie to the very end. I gotta go
see this movie in theaters. So there is such clever
filmmaking and the paranormal activity movies that they don't get
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enough credit for to be able to take not a
whole lot of money a movie that looks like it
was just shot on some old cam quorders from you know,
the two thousands. So there you go. I hope you
enjoyed that. Coming up next, actually the movie that kind
of inspired this entire list, I want to talk about
Jackass Forever and some of the Jackass movies that came
before it. They were made for a relatively low amount
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of money. We'll get into that review next. You're gonna
get into a spoiler free movie review. Now I want
to talk about Jackass Forever, which is playing now in theaters.
Movie that was on my most anticipated movies of two
I'll just say it did not disappoint. But before I
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get into my full review, here's just a little bit
of Jackass Forever. You're still blowing people up. It's not
hard enough. An Jackass Texas rat Snake Minimus for insis
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hits harder than any heavyweight. To Aaron, it was a lightweight.
That's not a lightweight. Then, even that trailer makes me smile. Still,
let's talk about Jackass Forever, like, this is what I
want out of a comedy going experience in the movie theater,
because the Jackass movie is unlike any other comedy that
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you'll see in theaters, because it's a movie that you
experience with strangers and can all collectively just laugh and
then wind it a movie. And I haven't laughed so
effortlessly in a movie in a very long time, and
I think a lot of that is because of the
format of a jackass movie, which is unlike anything you'll
really go to the movie theater to see, because it's
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skit after skit. There's no following a plot line, there's
no act one at two, act three. It's just funny
moment after funny moments. Sometimes the bits are seconds long
and that's it, And that's just a lot of creative
details that goes into something so juvenile, and it's just
funny that after so many years, some of the same
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gags of like hitting somebody in the junk are still funny.
But in this movie they also step up the creativity
a lot because they are now older. Johnny Knoxville is
fifty years old, Stevo is in his late forties, and
all the other original casts are right around that age group.
So some of the more physical stuff was a little
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bit toned down a bit, not to say they didn't
really go for it in some scenes, but they brought
in some new cast of characters that are younger and
more vibrant and able to take on a little bit
more of the stuff that would result in broken bones.
Because what I learned from, you know, hearing them talk
about this movie, that it's a lot harder for their
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bodies to recover from this, and there were a lot
more hospital visits in this Jackass movie than any other
Jackass movie given their age. So this movie was ninety
minutes of just fun. Like that's a plain and simple.
I feel like this is a movie we all deserve
to watch right now, a movie where you can really
turn off your brain and just laugh. Now. Was it
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my favorite Jackass movie? I don't think so. I think
for some reason, for me, a good Jackass movie also
has some heart to it, and I think for me,
Jackass three will always be that Jackass. The first one
has a special place in my heart because it was
the first time that they could be more themselves and
do the things they couldn't do on TV. I think
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Jackass two has some of the best us and most
memorable bits. But the cool thing about Jackass Forever is
that they were one able to make another Jackass movie,
but too it just felt like going to hang out
with some friends you've had forever again. And I love
the sense of community that the Jackass movies have created,
and really the promotion around this is it really creates
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almost a sense of community with a movie and with
things like Johnny Knoxville and Stevo we Man going into
movie theaters to surprise fans. It's a really like fan
driven movie, and they're able to connect with people unlike
any other movie franchise because I feel like they don't
really consider themselves movie stars, and it's the only kind
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of franchise where it takes somebody like Cris Pontius or
Preston Lacey who are otherwise would it be in a
Hollywood movie and really allows them to be able to shine.
I guess for me being such a big Jackass fan
from the very beginning, I did feel a little bit
like there was something missing from the movie, and maybe
it's because Bamar Jira wasn't in it after getting kicked
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out of it. He really adds a lot to the
Jackass movie, which I realized afterwards. He isn't it for
a very brief moment. He doesn't get any kind of line.
But I guess there was a stunt that they did
that they wanted to include the movie that at the
time he was still a part of the crew, so
they didn't cut him out completely. And it's also the
first Jackass movie they've made since Ryan Dunn passed away. Tragically,
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so it was either not having them too in the movie,
and then what they kind of did was show a
little bit more of danger errand in the movie and
a little bit more of women, and I felt like,
for the first time I kind of saw what Jackass
could evolve into, because they are saying this will be
the last one they make, but that kind of saw
Johnny Knoxville take a little bit more of like a
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ring leader, which he has always had that role, but
a little bit more of like the next movie could be.
Jackass presents like a movie that just Johnny Knoxville hosts,
and he has these newer, younger talents doing all the
crazy stunts, maybe revisiting some stunts they've done before, just
with new people. And although he really did risk a
lot of his health for this movie, he takes some
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very hard blows to some really crazy things, proving that
he is the ultimate leader in this the ultimate Jackass.
But I did enjoy the new cast. I will say
it's a little bit more of shocking gross humor than
maybe any other Jackass movie I've seen for that reason
of them leaning a little bit away from the physical comedy.
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The other thing, I kind of feel like it missed
was the grand finale. While it was a little bit
more elaborate than some of the other final ending scenes
in the other movies, I just feel in the past
that's been a little bit grander, and I wonder if
it has a little bit to do with them making
this movie in during the pandemic. It's probably just harder
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to make a Jackass movie when you have to deal
with all those protocols. They started talking this movie back
in twenty nineteen, started and it got kicked off by
Johnny Knoxville and Stevo both ending up in the hospital
pretty early on. Then the pandemic hit shut him down
until about September. They were able to get the movie done,
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was supposed to come out last year, and now finally
came out now this year. So I also did kind
of get that feeling too of it being a hard
movie to make given the circumstances. But I also think
they made up for that a little bit with some
of the celebrity cameos, which I all thought were pretty funny.
So I will say, if you're a fan of all
the other Jackass movies, you will go into this one.
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You will laugh. Be aware. I feel like there's more
male nudity in this one than any other Jackass movies.
If you don't like things with fluids that come out
of animals vomiting or blood and people getting injured, probably
not the movie for you. But if you're going into
a Jackass movie, that's just something you have to expect
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out of it. I would give it four out of
five broken ribs and in a world of people being
able to put up these ridiculous things on YouTube and TikTok,
I really loved how they were able to differentiate themselves
and show that they are the best at what they do.
Now tying this movie back into the theme, this movie
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was made for ten million dollars, and all the other
Jackas movies were made for relatively low budgets. The first
one cost only five million dollars to make and went
on to win eighty million dollars at the box office.
Jacks two was made for a living point five million
and made eighty four point six million dollars, and then
Jack Asked three was the most expensive one, which came
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ten years after the original. That one cost twenty million dollars.
I think a lot of that was due to the
use of three D technology for that movie, but it
also went on to make the most making one and
seventy one million dollars. I wish this movie all the
success at the box office because with that ten million
dollar budget really allows it to grow. And I hope
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more movies come from the Jackass universe, whether it be
another Bad Grandpa or something like I was talking about earlier,
where it's Johnny Knoxville kind of being the ring leader
and just hosting a Jackass movie because from what I've read,
he can't take another blow to the head without risking
his life. So that's what I think about Jackass forever.
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Now it's time for the part of the podcast where
I break down a new movie trailer of a movie
coming to you very soon in theaters or on streaming.
It's time to head down to movie Mike Troi La Paul.
This week, I want to talk about Texas Chainsaw Massacre,
yet another reboot of the Texas Chainsaw franchise. This one
is coming out on Netflix on February. Before I get
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into what I think about this movie, here's just a
little bit of the trailer. Fifty years I've been waiting
for this night, just to see him again, who leather Face,
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try anything in your cancel bro. Oh. So I was
excited about this movie until I saw this new trailer
which made it look very cheesy, very formulaic. And maybe
it was that last line of everybody taking pictures with
their phones of leather Face and like a bus and
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the guy says, hey, you do anything, we get canceled.
I feel like there was a very cringe line for
this movie and already kind of took me out of
what I thought this movie could be. The other thing,
I kind of feel like it's following the formula of
bringing back somebody who you know, had to deal with
leather Face twenty years ago, and now it being the
ultimate showdown between the two, and it's almost exactly the
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plot of Halloween Kills and with them rebooting Scream, with
them rebooting Chucky into a you know, a series. Now,
with Texas Chainsaw now doing this movie on Netflix, I
feel like it's only a matter of time before we
get another Friday the thirteenth and then another Nightmare on
Elm Street. The other thing I don't particularly love about
this is every Texas Chainsaw movie has oddly unique title
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and it doesn't really make any sense of what film
happens when the original one is The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,
and then there's the part two. But then you have
the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which came out in two thousand
and three, which I thought was still a really good movie,
and then you just have Texas Chainsaw from leather Face
in sev So a lot of these have been hid
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and miss But with all those factors, when you go
into a movie like Texas Chainsaw, you only want to
see one thing is leather Face. Tearing people at a
stress with a chainsaw doesn't really take a whole lot
of thought to figure out. But the thing that I
think will make this the hardest movie to watch is
the actual mask and the way leather Face looks in
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this movie. Like I thought it was a parody. I
didn't realize that was watching the Texas Chainsaw trailer because
it didn't even look like leather Face. I guess if
you're rebooting something this amount of times, you have to
give it a totally different look. But I kind of
feel like that's going to take me out of wanting
to see this movie altogether. But if you want to
check that out, it hits Netflix on February. All right,
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of good feedback whenever I do episode it's discussing some
movie math. It's one of my favorite subjects to dive into.
And this week I wanted to get into movies that
made a lot of money with a pretty small budget.
And first of all, I just kind of want to
set the stage or what a normal movie cost to
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make nowadays, and I think that will be a little
bit better of a reference we get into some of
these low budget movies now. A typical movie now cost
around sixty five million dollars to make. It depends on
who is the lead in it, because now actors are
getting paid twenty thirties, sometimes upward of fifty million dollars
for a single role. Streaming has greatly changed how much
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an actor can make because when you go and do
movies or streaming services, there's really not a whole lot
of money to make on the back end with ticket sales.
But generally a movie can get made for sixty five
million dollars. Of recent note, Joker, which was made in
twenty nineteen, was fifty five million dollars to make. Joaquin
Phoenix made about four point five million dollars for that movie,
but then you have bigger production movies, the Marvel movies,
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the big action movies, and a movie like Spider Man
No Way Home cost about two hundred million dollars to make,
and that goes on to make you know, one point
seven billion dollars. So that's kind of a range for
a normal movie, and you think, oh, maybe an animated
movie will cost a little bit less. Well, No and
Gonzo also cost a hundred and fifty million dollars to make,
and that has made around two hundred and thirty three
million dollars. Another movie for reference, Don't Look Up, which
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came out on Netflix, that costs about a hundred and
ten million dollars to make, and thirty million of that
was paying Leonardo DiCaprio. Twenty five million of that was
playing Jennifer Lawrence. So a great deal of a movie
like that is paying the big star actors. And when
you talk about low budget movies, generally the consensus is
anything made under two million dollars would be a low
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budget movie. This is a very independent movie. Anything under
the two million dollar range is probably gonna have relatively
unknown actors or maybe bigger actors taking a lower salary
in order to get a movie made or it's the
very first in the franchise of movies that later the
sequels will make a lot more and the actors will
get paid a lot more for I think it's very
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rare to find a movie under two million dollars, So
we'll get to some of those movies under the two
million dollar mark. But I didn't want to start a
little bit higher just to kind of get a bigger
range on this topic with the movies that got made
for less than ten million dollars. So we'll start first
with Little Miss Sunshine that came out in two thousand
and six that had a budget of eight million dollars.
The movie stars Steve Carrell. It's like a drama t
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slash comedy road trip movie. And with it only costing
eight million dollars to make, after Fox Searchlight Pictures bought
the rights to it, we're able to put it out
in theaters. After it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
It went on to make a hundred and one million dollars.
But not only that, this movie was highly critically acclaimed,
one Oscars for Best Original screen Play, Best Supporting Actor.
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So I feel like sometimes with these lower budget movies.
Almost the idea is for it dictor to awards season.
I feel like in between the ten million dollar and
the five million dollar range is where a lot of
these movies live. Because another movie that came out in
two thousand and seven, Juno, costs six point five million
dollars to make, ended up making two d and thirty
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one million dollars at the box office and also just
had a lot of critical acclaim. And with both of
these movies, they have a low five feel and a
lot what goes into having a successful movie with the
lower budget is the story. I think you'll see a
theme in all of these movies. There has to be
something so dynamic about the story that would have people
you know, really pick out and want to watch this movie.
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And I think that's where the real success is with
a low budget movie. It's something that you want to
tell your friend about whether the subject matter alone is
worthy of wanting to watch the movie. And sometimes in
Juno's case, it doesn't hurt to have a really good soundtrack,
but also just really good actors who put up a
performance that is worthy of winning an Oscar. Along with
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that original screenplay, that's something that hasn't been done before.
And this is really something that I kind of feel
is like a win for a director, a win for
an actor to be a part of a production like this.
And sometimes it is the lower budget movies from an
actor that becomes some of fans just favorite movies. So
those are a couple under the ten million dollar mark.
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Now let's get into movies that got made under five
million dollars. And right at the five million dollar mark
is twenty seventeens Get Out, directed by Jordan Peel and
with the relatively low price tag of four point five
million dollars to make this movie, and went on to
make two hundred and fifty five point four million dollars.
That's a pretty good profit margin. And this is the
first time in this list I'll talk about horror movies,
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but I feel like horror is a really lucrative genre
when done right, when you have a unique concept, you
don't really need a whole lot of other movie magic
making effects. It's all about the story. It's all about
creating that feeling of of stress, of anxiety when you're
watching a movie. If you can create that energy of
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keeping people on the edge of their seat while watching
something that you know invokes a feeling of being scared
in the theater at your house. That's all you need.
It's just that feeling. And horror movies can do that,
and they can do that for a pretty low budget
if done right. And also in this category of movies
made under five million dollars, you have movies that are
cult classics. And I want to talk about Donnie Darko,
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which came out in two thousand and one, cost only
four point five million dollars to make. And while this
movie wasn't a box office success in any means, it
only made seven point five million dollars at the box office,
But Donnie Darko has become a cult classic, which almost
goes further than any amount of money you can make
at the box office. Sometimes movies come and go. A
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movie that made a lot maybe just a few years ago,
we kind of forget about. But a movie like this
that lives on forever and becomes people's favorite movie of
all time, I think that's almost worth more. And even
though it doesn't have that commercial success to really hold
on too, if you can make a cult classic, you
can almost live forever through that. Johnny dark it was
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probably a movie that this next generation will watch again
in generations to come, we'll keep watching because it has
this following. So while it's not successful financially, I think
you can measure success in other ways of you know,
how long this movie is going to last and how
much people are going to continue to watch this movie.
And the thing that director James Gunn kind of explains
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so well that I was able to take away from
recently is that he said that a lot of his
favorite movies he didn't watch in theaters, like Jaws is
one of his favorite movies, but he's never seen that
movie in theaters. Really none of us have. But that
movie lives on forever and never because we watch it
at home streaming her on the DVD on the Blu Ray.
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So when Donnie darkos case, that's how I measured this
movie's success. Other movies in this bracket are from two
thousand and three. Lost in Translation cost four million dollars
to make, ended up making a hundred and eighteen million dollars,
also got nominated for four Oscars and one for Best
Original Screenplay. And also in this bracket, The Oscar Wins
Keep on Coming. Steen Moonlight came out cost four million
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dollars to make, ended up making sixty five million dollars
at the box office, and then the following year won
the Oscar for Best Picture. A few more movies here
to mention. Garden State, which came out in two thousand
and four, was made for only two point five million dollars,
ended up making thirty five million dollars at the box office.
Another case of a really good soundtrack really helping this
movie and helping it live on. Then in two thousand
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and four, Saw came out, only cost one point two
million dollars to make, but ended up making a hundred
and three million dollars at the box office. Movie that
everybody talked about when that movie came out, how just
shocking and in credit a bull it was, and with
just one point two million dollars, that spawned an entire
franchise that has now grossed over a billion dollars. And
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then one more in this bracket. In nineteen Quentin Tarantino's
Reservoir Dogs came out. He made that movie for one
point two million dollars. It went on to make about
two point nine million dollars at the box office, but
really kick started his career after Reservoir Dogs. Basically everybody
wanted to mimic that movie and make their own version
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of Reservoir Dogs. All right now, I want to get
into movies made for a million dollars or right around it.
In the first movie from nineteen seventies six, it's just
a little bit above a million. But I feel like
this is a pretty amazing feat for this movie. And
the movie is Rocky, which was made for one point
one million dollars, went on to gross two hundred and
twenty five million dollars in a movie that has become
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Sylvester Stallone's signature movie has also spawned one of the
best movie franchises. It went on to win Best Picture.
And what I love about the Rocky movies is much
like Rocky in the real movie, it really was a
sleeper hit. Nobody expected this to be the biggest movie
of nineteen seventies six and then continue to make money
and was the second highest grossing movie in nineteen seventies seven,
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right behind Star Wars. And a rare thing to happen
is a movie like this to have such of a
box office impact, a movie that a lot of people
end up going to see because sometimes movies that get
nominated for Best Picture. You know, not everybody has seen
these movies. But a movie that had this much power
going into it was up for ten Oscars and ended
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up winning three, including Best Picture. Like that's amazing. That
really hasn't been heard of in a very long time.
So with all that considered, out of all the movies
I put together on this list today, I think that
is one of the most impressive things. But now we'll
get into movies made for less than a million dollars.
A horror classic which came out in nineteen sixty Psycho
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from Alfred Hitchcock. Was able to make this movie for
eight hundred thousand dollars, which back in was probably a
lot more money, but it went on to make fifty
million dollars. An interesting thing I recently found out about Psycho.
It's basically credited for being the movie that created movie times.
Alfred Hitchcock had to make it a point that if
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somebody was going to watch Psycho, they had to watch
it from beginning to end. And before that it was
a little bit more normal for movie theaters just to
keep playing movies on a loop, and people would come
in and watch them and you wouldn't necessarily start right
at the beginning and finished right at the end. You
could just walk in at the beginning, maybe you're in
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the middle, maybe there's another movie starting right after. The
environment really wasn't made to watch a movie. People in
there were, you know, just hanging out. But when it
came to Psycho, that's when the movie times were set, like,
you have to arrive at this time. You have to
see the movie from the start to the end to
get this movie. So not only was it a successful,
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low budget movie, it also changed the way we go
and watch movies. Now, how about we go even cheaper?
In the blair Witch Project comes out, the movie only
cost six hundred thousand dollars to make, and you probably
watch it thinking I could have made this for five
bucks in a VHS tape, and you're probably right. But
the movie went on to make two and fifty million
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dollars and really just created its own genre with being
the first movie to really adapt the found footage horror movie.
I think the first one was called UFU Abduction, but
blair Witch is the one that really put this type
of movie on the map, and the way they did
this was really all in the marketing and the thing
that some horror movies do is they create these concepts
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and these ideas that you wonder to yourself as the viewer,
did this actually happened? And that was the biggest thing
behind the Blair Witch Project is it was kind of
marketed and pitched as this actually happened somewhere and you
were just watching this, And that's what made it a
little bit more scary. I know what they did with
Texas Chainsaw massacre to where some people kind of forgot
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whether or not that was a real event. And when
you watch something in that type of way, it becomes
more scary because you wonder, what if this happened to me,
what would I do? And with something like The Blair
Witch Project, it almost sounds like something that could actually happen.
So the movie was such a pop culture hit then
paved the way and set the stage for other found
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footage movies, but at the time was a totally original concept.
And yow, from six hundred thousand dollars to two and
fifty million dollars, that's a really good profit margin. Let's
go down even further. In two thousand and four, Napoleon
Dynamite comes out. The movie costs only four thousand dollars
to make and ended up making forty six million dollars
at the box office. I think the most interesting thing
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about this is that John Heater, who plays Napoleon Dynamite,
was only paid a thousand dollars for his role. And
this is the movie that really put him on the
map allowed him to have other major movie roles. It
really Napoleon Dynamite is the one movie that John Heater
will always be known for. And luckily he still makes
money off the royalties. After this movie was a success,
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he was able to renegotiate and get a percentage of
the movie's profits, so he's made a lot more than
a thousand dollars now from this movie. And I've seen
other stories of people who were extras in this movie.
They weren't paid. They were just like, Hey, you want
to be a part of a movie. Hop on this
bus and we're gonna film this scene. And I think
that is my new goal in life. I just want
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to be an extra in a movie. So if anybody
has any leads on that, hit me up a few
more movies I want to mention before I get to
the most profitable movie of all time based on returning investment.
From nineteen seventy nine, you have Mad Max, which was
made for a three hundred and fifty thousand dollars and
ended up making a hundred million dollars at the box office. Now,
if you want to compare that to Mad Max, Fury Road,
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which came out in that movie cost about a hundred
and fifty to a hundred and eighty million dollars to
make and went on to make three hundred and seventy
four million dollars, So it ended up making a lot
more money, but also had to spend a lot more money.
Which one of those would be your favorite? I would
still lean to probably Mad Max Fury Road, but for
being able to make Mad Max for three hundred and
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fifty thousand dollars, as intricate as that movie is, that
is also pretty impressive. From nine Clerks was made for
only two hundred and thirty thousand dollars, and this was
coming from an original budget that Kevin Smith only had
about twenty seven thousand dollars to make this movie. He
sold off a bunch of his like rare comic books,
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maxed out every single credit card to get this movie. Made,
and I love that this movie feels very low budget.
You watch Clerks in black and white and it almost
feels like it was a movie made by a group
of your friends. But it's one of my favorite Kevin
Smith movies, and of everything he's made since, I think
it's the one that resonates with Kevin Smith's fans the most.
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And this movie made three point one million dollars at
the box office, but as the movie responsible for putting
him on the map and allowing him to make another movie,
you know there's another Clerks movie in the works. I
thought Clerks too was great. My other favorite Kevin Smith
movie is without a doubt, Mall Rats. I love that
all of his films don't really have like this well finished,
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Hollywood polished to them. It's all about the writing, It's
all about the comedy and all about the character stories.
Another low budget movie was Swingers, from cost two hundred
thousand dollars to make and made four point six million dollars.
That was directed by Jon Favreau, who has done The Mandalorian,
who has done the original Iron Man and has really
become an underrated director and writer. And the way he
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saved a lot of money while making this movie was
well casting himself. You also have a couple of documentaries
here in two thousand and four, Supersize Me was made
for sixty five thousand dollars, that's it, and ended up
making twenty two point two million dollars at the box office.
And then Catfish from twelve was made for thirty thousand
dollars and that made three point seven million owners of
the box office. Documentaries can usually be made for a
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lot less money, but with Catfish and Supersize Me, those
were documentaries that a lot of people talked about, so
a lot of their success came from word of mouth
and also just the power of them being able to
storytell in these documentaries. And then finally the movie that
is the most profitable movie ever made based on return investment.
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It is from two thousand and seven, Paranormal Activity, which
was made for just fifteen thousand dollars. That's right, one
five zero zero zero dollars, and for that low budget
it went on to make a hundred and ninety three
million dollars. They've made sequel after sequel spinoffs in this movie,
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and it borrowed from the Blair Witch Project in the
same way if you're watching this movie feeling like this
actually happened to the people living in this house, and
it's a pretty crazy and freaky concept that you'll go
home and be a little bit freaked out at every
single noise in your house. And where the paranormal activity
movies took it a bit further, it was really marketing
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towards the last fifteen minutes of the movie. Like in
all the trailers that played for this movie, it was like,
you'll be shocked by the last fifteen minutes. You're not
gonna want to miss that, And that creates the sense
of like, oh, well, I really got to pay attention
to this movie to the very end. I gotta go
see this movie in theaters. So there is such clever
filmmaking and the paranormal activity movies that they don't get
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enough credit for to be able to take not a
whole lot of money a movie that looks like it
was just shot on some old cam quorders from you know,
the two thousands. So there you go. I hope you
enjoyed that. Coming up next, actually the movie that kind
of inspired this entire list, I want to talk about
Jackass Forever and some of the Jackass movies that came
before it. They were made for a relatively low amount
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of money. We'll get into that review next. You're gonna
get into a spoiler free movie review. Now I want
to talk about Jackass Forever, which is playing now in theaters.
Movie that was on my most anticipated movies of two
I'll just say it did not disappoint. But before I
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get into my full review, here's just a little bit
of Jackass Forever. You're still blowing people up. It's not
hard enough. An Jackass Texas rat Snake Minimus for insis
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hits harder than any heavyweight. To Aaron, it was a lightweight.
That's not a lightweight. Then, even that trailer makes me smile. Still,
let's talk about Jackass Forever, like, this is what I
want out of a comedy going experience in the movie theater,
because the Jackass movie is unlike any other comedy that
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you'll see in theaters, because it's a movie that you
experience with strangers and can all collectively just laugh and
then wind it a movie. And I haven't laughed so
effortlessly in a movie in a very long time, and
I think a lot of that is because of the
format of a jackass movie, which is unlike anything you'll
really go to the movie theater to see, because it's
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skit after skit. There's no following a plot line, there's
no act one at two, act three. It's just funny
moment after funny moments. Sometimes the bits are seconds long
and that's it, And that's just a lot of creative
details that goes into something so juvenile, and it's just
funny that after so many years, some of the same
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gags of like hitting somebody in the junk are still funny.
But in this movie they also step up the creativity
a lot because they are now older. Johnny Knoxville is
fifty years old, Stevo is in his late forties, and
all the other original casts are right around that age group.
So some of the more physical stuff was a little
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bit toned down a bit, not to say they didn't
really go for it in some scenes, but they brought
in some new cast of characters that are younger and
more vibrant and able to take on a little bit
more of the stuff that would result in broken bones.
Because what I learned from, you know, hearing them talk
about this movie, that it's a lot harder for their
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bodies to recover from this, and there were a lot
more hospital visits in this Jackass movie than any other
Jackass movie given their age. So this movie was ninety
minutes of just fun. Like that's a plain and simple.
I feel like this is a movie we all deserve
to watch right now, a movie where you can really
turn off your brain and just laugh. Now. Was it
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my favorite Jackass movie? I don't think so. I think
for some reason, for me, a good Jackass movie also
has some heart to it, and I think for me,
Jackass three will always be that Jackass. The first one
has a special place in my heart because it was
the first time that they could be more themselves and
do the things they couldn't do on TV. I think
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Jackass two has some of the best us and most
memorable bits. But the cool thing about Jackass Forever is
that they were one able to make another Jackass movie,
but too it just felt like going to hang out
with some friends you've had forever again. And I love
the sense of community that the Jackass movies have created,
and really the promotion around this is it really creates
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almost a sense of community with a movie and with
things like Johnny Knoxville and Stevo we Man going into
movie theaters to surprise fans. It's a really like fan
driven movie, and they're able to connect with people unlike
any other movie franchise because I feel like they don't
really consider themselves movie stars, and it's the only kind
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of franchise where it takes somebody like Cris Pontius or
Preston Lacey who are otherwise would it be in a
Hollywood movie and really allows them to be able to shine.
I guess for me being such a big Jackass fan
from the very beginning, I did feel a little bit
like there was something missing from the movie, and maybe
it's because Bamar Jira wasn't in it after getting kicked
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out of it. He really adds a lot to the
Jackass movie, which I realized afterwards. He isn't it for
a very brief moment. He doesn't get any kind of line.
But I guess there was a stunt that they did
that they wanted to include the movie that at the
time he was still a part of the crew, so
they didn't cut him out completely. And it's also the
first Jackass movie they've made since Ryan Dunn passed away. Tragically,
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so it was either not having them too in the movie,
and then what they kind of did was show a
little bit more of danger errand in the movie and
a little bit more of women, and I felt like,
for the first time I kind of saw what Jackass
could evolve into, because they are saying this will be
the last one they make, but that kind of saw
Johnny Knoxville take a little bit more of like a
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ring leader, which he has always had that role, but
a little bit more of like the next movie could be.
Jackass presents like a movie that just Johnny Knoxville hosts,
and he has these newer, younger talents doing all the
crazy stunts, maybe revisiting some stunts they've done before, just
with new people. And although he really did risk a
lot of his health for this movie, he takes some
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very hard blows to some really crazy things, proving that
he is the ultimate leader in this the ultimate Jackass.
But I did enjoy the new cast. I will say
it's a little bit more of shocking gross humor than
maybe any other Jackass movie I've seen for that reason
of them leaning a little bit away from the physical comedy.
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The other thing, I kind of feel like it missed
was the grand finale. While it was a little bit
more elaborate than some of the other final ending scenes
in the other movies, I just feel in the past
that's been a little bit grander, and I wonder if
it has a little bit to do with them making
this movie in during the pandemic. It's probably just harder
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to make a Jackass movie when you have to deal
with all those protocols. They started talking this movie back
in twenty nineteen, started and it got kicked off by
Johnny Knoxville and Stevo both ending up in the hospital
pretty early on. Then the pandemic hit shut him down
until about September. They were able to get the movie done,
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was supposed to come out last year, and now finally
came out now this year. So I also did kind
of get that feeling too of it being a hard
movie to make given the circumstances. But I also think
they made up for that a little bit with some
of the celebrity cameos, which I all thought were pretty funny.
So I will say, if you're a fan of all
the other Jackass movies, you will go into this one.
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You will laugh. Be aware. I feel like there's more
male nudity in this one than any other Jackass movies.
If you don't like things with fluids that come out
of animals vomiting or blood and people getting injured, probably
not the movie for you. But if you're going into
a Jackass movie, that's just something you have to expect
(25:55):
out of it. I would give it four out of
five broken ribs and in a world of people being
able to put up these ridiculous things on YouTube and TikTok,
I really loved how they were able to differentiate themselves
and show that they are the best at what they do.
Now tying this movie back into the theme, this movie
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was made for ten million dollars, and all the other
Jackas movies were made for relatively low budgets. The first
one cost only five million dollars to make and went
on to win eighty million dollars at the box office.
Jacks two was made for a living point five million
and made eighty four point six million dollars, and then
Jack Asked three was the most expensive one, which came
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ten years after the original. That one cost twenty million dollars.
I think a lot of that was due to the
use of three D technology for that movie, but it
also went on to make the most making one and
seventy one million dollars. I wish this movie all the
success at the box office because with that ten million
dollar budget really allows it to grow. And I hope
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more movies come from the Jackass universe, whether it be
another Bad Grandpa or something like I was talking about earlier,
where it's Johnny Knoxville kind of being the ring leader
and just hosting a Jackass movie because from what I've read,
he can't take another blow to the head without risking
his life. So that's what I think about Jackass forever.
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Now it's time for the part of the podcast where
I break down a new movie trailer of a movie
coming to you very soon in theaters or on streaming.
It's time to head down to movie Mike Troi La Paul.
This week, I want to talk about Texas Chainsaw Massacre,
yet another reboot of the Texas Chainsaw franchise. This one
is coming out on Netflix on February. Before I get
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into what I think about this movie, here's just a
little bit of the trailer. Fifty years I've been waiting
for this night, just to see him again, who leather Face,
(28:03):
try anything in your cancel bro. Oh. So I was
excited about this movie until I saw this new trailer
which made it look very cheesy, very formulaic. And maybe
it was that last line of everybody taking pictures with
their phones of leather Face and like a bus and
(28:25):
the guy says, hey, you do anything, we get canceled.
I feel like there was a very cringe line for
this movie and already kind of took me out of
what I thought this movie could be. The other thing,
I kind of feel like it's following the formula of
bringing back somebody who you know, had to deal with
leather Face twenty years ago, and now it being the
ultimate showdown between the two, and it's almost exactly the
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plot of Halloween Kills and with them rebooting Scream, with
them rebooting Chucky into a you know, a series. Now,
with Texas Chainsaw now doing this movie on Netflix, I
feel like it's only a matter of time before we
get another Friday the thirteenth and then another Nightmare on
Elm Street. The other thing I don't particularly love about
this is every Texas Chainsaw movie has oddly unique title
(29:10):
and it doesn't really make any sense of what film
happens when the original one is The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,
and then there's the part two. But then you have
the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which came out in two thousand
and three, which I thought was still a really good movie,
and then you just have Texas Chainsaw from leather Face
in sev So a lot of these have been hid
(29:31):
and miss But with all those factors, when you go
into a movie like Texas Chainsaw, you only want to
see one thing is leather Face. Tearing people at a
stress with a chainsaw doesn't really take a whole lot
of thought to figure out. But the thing that I
think will make this the hardest movie to watch is
the actual mask and the way leather Face looks in
(29:51):
this movie. Like I thought it was a parody. I
didn't realize that was watching the Texas Chainsaw trailer because
it didn't even look like leather Face. I guess if
you're rebooting something this amount of times, you have to
give it a totally different look. But I kind of
feel like that's going to take me out of wanting
to see this movie altogether. But if you want to
check that out, it hits Netflix on February. All right,
(30:20):
and that'll do it for this week's episode. But before
I hop out of here, every single week I give
a listener shout out at this part of the podcast.
All you have to do is post on your Instagram
story that you're listening to the episode, send me a message,
tweet me at Mike Destro, or hit me up on
email movie Mike d at gmail dot com. If you
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forget any of that, it's all in the episode notes.
You can just click on that. And this week's listener
shout out goes to at Halo Barbie two on Instagram,
a k A. Olivia. She posted a picture and tagged
me in her Instagram story of her listening to the
podcast on her iPhone and said, always listen to Mike
Petro's podcast when I get ready in the morning. Finally
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saw Spider Man still listening to this one first, then
the new one for Monday. So she was listening to
the spoiler version that I put out of Spider Man
No Way Home. So if you had a chance to
watch Spider Man now as it's about to cross the
two billion dollar mark at the box office, and if
you haven't listened to that episode yet, you can go
back and listen to all the spoilers that I talked
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about in that episode. It's a very rare thing I do,
and with a movie as big as Spider Man, I
had to do one. So thanks Olivia for tagging me
in your Instagram story. That's probably the easiest way to
get a listener shout out because I love to repost
those on my Instagram story. So if you want to
be a part of this next week, just tag me
in your Instagram story. I'll repost that and give you
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a shout out. And also if you have any movie
related question, I will answer those at this part of
the podcast as well. Send those questions over to my
email movie Mike d at gmail dot com. Thanks again
for listening this week and for making it to the
end of the podcast US. Hope you have a great
rest of your week and until next time, go out
and watch good movies. Later m MHM
Host
Mike D
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