Say the Latest Transformers movie was a bust, and I mean bust like $ 10 million opening week. Should that movie get a bail-out?
Should movies that are to big to fail get a bail-out?
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Are we doing Baba threads here now?
Baba?
If you are suggestion we send Christian Bale to trash the Transformers movie for sucking, I whole heartedly agree. But he should start with T4.
^Hollywood productions like Transformers typically compensate the government for military participation, though sometimes they are able to use regular training exercises as a resource at a lesser expense.
The Pentagon isn't paying Hollywood to feature them in movies. No one would deny the public relations value of such endeavours, however.
Public relations endeavors in which the military provides equipment and personnel at low cost...in exchange for creative control over the script that usually forces films to re-write scenes to put the military in a better light (this even happened to Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home) or pay for their own equipment at much higher cost in order to keep their scripts as written (like, for example, Platoon and Apocalypse Now).
Uwe Boll is able to make unprofitable films because of a unique German tax law. Most movies need to make money, yes.
Yes, the government should give movies that tank a bailout. If the US taxpayers covered the losses of movies that tanked we would actually get more good movies. Studios would be more willing to take risks on movies that may not be huge commercial successes because they know that the US government would pony up the cash.
I of course say that as a Canadian.
And I say it with my tongue in my cheek.
I of course say that as a Canadian.
And I say it with my tongue in my cheek.
Yeah, I think I gotta agree with you there.
I'm not sure where this question comes from. Hollywood is likely to do just fine this summer with most of the expected big hits. People want to get the hell out of the house, and the movies are sadly somehow becoming one of the cheaper options for doing that.
I think miraclefan may be trying to point out the hypocrisy inherent in the concept of bailouts. If so I approve. 
Instead, I think it should be like the government program that pays farmers not to grow crops we don't "need".
So, they can pay Ewe Boll to NOT make any more movies. We can create a formula and any movie that gets, say a 7 on the crap-o-meter, gets bought out and not filmed. That leaves theaters hungry for GOOD movies and then maybe someone will make some.
And, more importantly, they can pay ME to not make my blockbuster action/romcom "Sleepless in Seattle on Independence Day". I believe $25 million should be enough to make me give up on the idea.
So, they can pay Ewe Boll to NOT make any more movies. We can create a formula and any movie that gets, say a 7 on the crap-o-meter, gets bought out and not filmed. That leaves theaters hungry for GOOD movies and then maybe someone will make some.
And, more importantly, they can pay ME to not make my blockbuster action/romcom "Sleepless in Seattle on Independence Day". I believe $25 million should be enough to make me give up on the idea.
The problem with your premise is that there are no such thing as movies that are too big to fail.
*BING*BING*BING* we have a winnah!I think miraclefan may be trying to point out the hypocrisy inherent in the concept of bailouts. If so I approve.
Give the man or woman a MARVEL comics NO prize!
*Hey, if the GOBMENT can pick ''n'' choose who gets a bailout and who dosen't then I have a problem with that! give everyone a bail-out (to be fair
) or don't give bail-outs at all*There are no movies that are too big to fail.
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