THANK YOU for saying that set design is (or can be) art. Same is true for costume design. The thousands of hours put into a set or costumes, often painstaking, is often overlooked. It's a shame, since it really IS art.
@@CashelOConnolly many potentially good movies have been ruined by awful sets and equally many utter shit movies have been massively improved by epic sets, costumes and/or sound tracks
You forgot the James Cameron movie “The Abyss” the back story of the sets and what the cast and crew went through for that movie is worthy of an episode of its own Simon...
Back story, indeed. I don't know about the project as a whole, but Earl definitely banked a profit -- E.O. Studios filmed all the underwater stuff in the half completed reactor building of the Cherokee nuclear power plant site, bought from Duke power because NIMBY's made it an impossibility. (Earl sold off all the heavy equipment on the site for more than the cost of the site.)
Apparently, the most expensive film ever made is the fourth movie of the Pirates of the Caribbean quintet, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, which cost a total of $378.5 million!
At least, a good chunk of this cash had an affect on what ended up on screen in some way. The same cannot be said for the generic mediocrity which is The Lone Ranger! Why would anyone ever consider putting $150,000,000 into a western film? ruclips.net/video/DZG0lUXjxfY/видео.html
I remember small pieces of the Waterworld set washing up on the California beaches and the local news saying not to worry its movie set pieces not a shipwreck.
When Cleopatra abandoned filming at Pinewood studios, the Carry on team moved in quickly to film scenes for Carry on Cleo. Sid James even wore Richard Burtons' costume from Cleopatra.
amazing video as always. while "most" of these movies were great... the astronomical spending is such a problem in that industry. kind of makes me cringe how much they spend on just entertainment instead of something that's actually beneficial
I'm surprised Howard Hughes's movie Hell's Angels didn't make the list. Sure the ground set wasn't massive, but the sky was filled with more planes than some countries. Not only that, the release production was massive.
6:55 Oops. 1M lbs is 450 metric tons, not 450kg. Unless there was yet another SI convention that changed the definition of the kg yet again that I didn't know about.
I know one thing my mom loved that movie Titanic so much in fact she went out and bought the soundtrack which is basically five and a half hours of music you can sink a boat to.
I was actually in a movie in 2003 that had a budget of $200 million it also had an entire ship built that I had the privilege of serving upon for 3 months. The movie was Peter Pan and was filmed at the Village Roadshow Studies on the Gold Coast in Queensland. At the time I remember hearing that it was the most expensive movie to date but there was probably some proviso to that. For me the story behind the movie was the most interesting as it is dedicated to Dodi Al-Fayed and co-produced by his Dad Mohammed Al-Fayed in the aftermath of his sons death in a car accident that claimed the life of Diana Princess of Wales. It was a pretty intense movie set with whispers of SAS personal being 'around' though I cannot confirm or deny anything to do with that, though the set was shut down for one day when Fergie The Duchess of York came to visit.
Back then my neighbor was the Key Grip and a family friend a set designer for Titanic. They kept coming home saying how it’s going to be a huge flop and biggest bomb ever because they’re so over budget. They or one at least also worked on the White House scene in Independence Day and Pulp Ficiton. I got to see all those at home before they came out at 16 and 17. Wait except titanic but did get a titanic merch whe. Filming. A lot of the main crew totally thought Titanic would flop.
Hell these days you don't even need to build anything. Hell you don't even need real actors anymore with CGI indistinguishable from live action. CGI, AI actors, and a building full of server racks will do just fine if the plot doesn't suck. A lot has improved since Simone (2002). In a few years an AI can make a movie from start to finish, even writing the script itself while figuring out what humans like to watch (from box office sales/ facial recognition average from a crowd/audience while they watch it) and improving from Rotten Tomato and critics' reviews. $200M worth of server equipment can make 100's of movies, not just 1. Far easier to make a profit if there's no humans to worry about other than initial programmers to get it started. Even if a movie only makes $10M in home sales only who cares if it only cost $100,000 worth of electricity and 2-3 months to make.
This channel is quite fun because you injected just the right amount of blaze into it to make videos more entertaining while still focusing on the facts so no one can complain Factboy isn't delivering his facts. Did I say facts often enough?
The Matrix chase scene was probably the BEST chase ever. It is up there with the chase scene in Bullitt. Back to the Matrix; the chase scene and Monica Bellucci were it's most redeeming features.
I'm kind of impressed that the set for Iron City from Battle Angel Alita* wasn't on here. The practical bits were kind of impressive *i know, Cameron can suck it
Yeah. As I heard that it felt like an elastic band was snapped against the back of my brain. I wonder if anyone else gets that feeling when they hear bad conversions?
@@liamhudson7726 spot on.. Investing in the right things really matter, I have actually invested into the stock market and also the crypto market trust me crypto trading is more profitable than stock.
OK my attention was distracted by the trim around the door handle behind Simon, which had become detached and lose on the door handle. The compulsion to fix it...
The Roman Forum in Cleopatra actually measured 1115 feet wide by 1640 feet in length, not height, 1640 feet high would have put it higher than the former WTC towers
It's official, I'm weird. I like Water World and The Postman for that matter. Now the 14 hour long Dance With Wolves was not a fan of but the critics loved it.
If you're spending that much on a pretend boat, make a real boat, then you can sell it to the cruise industry. Particularly if it's the Titanic. Just don't go near the arctic or Antarctic. And why would you make a fake freeway, then destroy it. I'm sure plenty of other people will have a use for it.
The 1999 movie The Haunting is worth mentioning. The exterior of Harlaxton Manor, in England, was used as the exterior of Hill House. The billiard room scene was filmed in the Great Hall of the manor, while many of the interior sets were built inside the dome-shaped hangar that once housed Howard Hughes' H-4 Hercules, near the permanently docked RMS Queen Mary steamship, in Long Beach, California. The kitchen scenes were filmed at Belvoir Castle. The cost of the interior set at the hanger was £8 million or $13 million of 1999 (equivalent to £14 million or $20 million as of 2020). The movie total was $80,000,000, roughly, in 1999, which equates to approximately $124,959,903.96 today. It earned $180,000,000, or $281,159,783.91today, at the box office, at the time, which recouped most of the costs and made a bit in the process.
"Waterworld." Wasn't a flop at all , to date it's grossed $264 million US so that's a profit of $89 million US. It's a great film that load's of "Kinema enthusiasts!" love to knock but hardly ever have actually seen, the actual acting is no better or worse than any other big budget blockbuster so if you're expecting "Dances with wolves." It's not. It's not a flop and the only damage it did was to the acting reputation of Costner, so stevie speilberg $89 US Millions in profit suck it up buttercup.
On a side not to Cleopatra, went production moved to Rome the already built sets did not go to waste as Carry On Cleo made use of the costumes and sets used in the film were originally intended for Cleopatra (1963). Carry On Cleo was filmed between 13 July and 28 August 1964. The film premiered at London's Warner cinema on 10 December 1964 and went on to become one of the 12 most popular movies at the British box office in 1965.
Now a good followup would be the longest lasting standing sets for TV and movies, being in continuous use or re-used without having been torn down, like the Star Trek: The Motion Picture sets, which were first constructed for Star Trek: Phase II in 1977, which were still going right 'til the last episode of Star Trek: Enterprise (albeit in modified form) in 2005, or, y'know, cornonation street, which is a bit dull, but also long-standing sets... :P
A couple of rumours i heard about Ben hur A car was briefly seen in the background After numerous takes to get crowd reeaction of horror when the chariots crashed, they blew up the lunch trolley and recorded their reaction.
Simon you forgot about avatar 2009 You only briefly mentioned it 😔 That film took more. Than 2 decades to create an during 1990s animation wasn't up. To it Staggeringly James cameron the director beat his own record he originally had from titanic To this day well over a decade Later it still Remains kingpin of all film costs and revenue EVER MADE!
I almost fell out of my chair when Simon said how much Cleopatra production costs were. By comparison I've known for years about Waterworld's crazy costs, as well as Titanic's.
On Cleopatra, I read somewhere that Taylor's contract covered X days of shooting, with the studio having to pay an exorbitant sum of money for each day of additional shooting beyond X. Which they did, and Taylor ended up with a small fortune on top of her already considerable salary.
Which is why Steven Spielberg still directs and Kevin Costner still is an actor 🤨🤔😲😉🤭✌️🤟.. Your AWESOME SIMON 👍👍🤟✌️💯.. Thank you for all your research on all of the Topics , As well as your other sites. Keep up the good work and stay safe and Healthy !!!
Waterworld was a good movie, not great. But think of this.... Hundreds of years later, after the world flooded, there was "no" land. So WHERE IN THE HELL DID THE CIGARETTES AND BOOZE COME FROM??? hmmm
The battle ships for Ben-Hur were radio controlled and, according to one person who worked there, they were all triggered into action one night by a plane flying overhead. Rather freaky! ;)
Simon! This is ABOUT YOUR LIGHTING!! In terms of light spectra, cool blue tones appear to recede in space, and warm red tones appear closer. It's the same principle as the atmospheric effect. For example, mountains in a landscape appear more and more blue the farther away they are in space. In your lit space, the background lighting emits warm amber tones, and your foreground lighting is very cool and blue. This results in making you exceedingly pale, diminishes the hierarchy (you should be front and center), but your lighting says the opposite. This results in a very shallow depth of field, a lack of finer foreground details, and makes one look cadaverous! A warm face is welcoming! Swop your specta! You'd be blazing forward as opposed to fading away. Don't fade away, BLAZE! Do not go quietly into the blue night!!!!! BLAZE, BLAZe! against the receding of the blue light.
Unlike many people, I actually liked Water World :) Suggestion, how about a kind of opposite of this video? I mean, there are very low budget movies which have been very successful. 'The Blair Witch Project' is a good example. It had a budget of just $60.000, and ended up grossing some $248,6 million.
_Oh come on!_ The criterion for cost [overrun] _should_ be the ratio of Hollywood _glam_ per shiny good _clam._ _Titanic?_ Cuppa tea! The 80 percent scale Titanic was at least reutilized to serve as a prop in a _Rick and Morty_ episode. _Cleopatra?_ Didn´t mattra! After a bulletin was addressed to all cast and crew requiring paper cups to be saved and reused, the production squeaked by. No, the winner for the -most- least film for the -least- most money ever spent is _The Highlander 2,_ a nothing movie of $200M (adjusted) budget spent on... star salaries. On the other hand, for the 1920s version of _Cleopatra,_ at least one could _see_ its absurdly expensive, huge backdrop of the _night_ sky -- in the exact configuration that would have been seen two millennia ago. _Good for a trivia question, I suppose._ On the other hand, Akira Kurosawa was fired after two weeks co-directing _Tora, Tora, Tora,_ because he couldn´t get a wall painted the exact shade of _white_ he wanted. _What means this saying, time is money?_ There was the case of the production of _World War Z,_ executive produced by an ex-Mossad spymaster, with 12 associate producers and four directors: The movie collected enough live assault weapons to support a political coup, only to have them all be confiscated by Hungarian customs. _Brad, we have a problem._ At least these were movies that were _made._ Stanley Kubrick spent 12 years, working 6 days a week and 12 hours a day, painstakingly planning production _peripherae_ such as how to costume 10,000 Romanian soldiers in Napoleonic uniforms (make them out of paper). _Seen it?_ The classic book of the production hell of one movie is _My Life with Cleopatra,_ but for a calamitous compendia of critical cockups, read _Tales From Development Hell._ Tall tales of the cautionary kind! All this is from memory, so....
My husband & I really enjoyed Waterworld. Feels a little prophetic. Plus, I'll watch anything with Costner in it. Only he can make a 3 hour film (Dances With Wolves) has made me think "hey!!.. that was a shor... what time is it?!?"
Honourable mention: The Roman Forum in the 1964 Samuel Bronston production 'The Fall Of The Roman Empire' which starred Sophia Loren and a huge cast including Alec Guinness and was directed by Anthony Mann. The film was a massive flop but still holds the world record for having boasted the largest outdoor movie set ever built. They literally rebuilt the entire Roman Forum outside Madrid and it was impeccable . Despite the film been a flop it is now a classic and one of the more intelligent epics of it's time, and was the inspiration to Ridley Scott's Gladiator.
Anyone else weirdly intrigued by Gal Godots upcoming Cleopatra biopic? At first I wasn’t, but when I saw her very accurately clap back at the morons claiming Cleopatra should be played by a black woman, I felt a strong urge to support her. Going back at cancel culture will always get my support, and Gal is 100% right, Cleo wasn’t black, more likely lightly tanned, much like Gal.
Simon: why not just hire people with beards. There are plenty of us. Me: Yes, perfect time for a Beard Blaze plug. Simon continues with script. Me: Wait, what the hell, where is the Beard Blaze promo. C'mon Simon perfect segway for it.😁 Beard Blaze great stuff. A must try if you have a beard or want to grow a full, amazing beard that you and your significant other with love.
I'm hoping the Blaze is spreading. Let's hope it cannot be contained and ends up ransacking TiFo and TOPTENZ as well oh and Bio/Geographics those would be fantastic BLAZED
Watch the video Simon referred to regarding movie budgets. The huge number given, isn't the actual cost, its a cooked books, tax dodging, scheme number to maximise tax deductions and incentives. All costs are ballooned massively. If a piece of wood costs you and I at the store costs $10, the set building company (owned by the parent production company via a numbered company), paperworks the value of the same piece of wood back to the parent company ... for $500. In the end, as Simon already knows, the actual cost of any movie made in the last 4 or 5 decades is completely unknown and hidden behind this facade of expenses. The only accurately portrayed cost are the humans (stars) acting costs ... but lately even those are hidden behind the 'production company' nee holding companies that the star owns, which allows them to write off their income as well. Many acting stars now actually produce the films they are in, further ballooning costs and hiding true values. No corporate created movie or TV show has paid corporate tax of any kind for many decades now. None. Not one penny. Its a publicly known scam, taking advantage of tax law not designed for this kind of industry. In the end the owners of these companies dont pay ANY income tax, permanently hiding behind deductions and shell companies ... which is what they, in essence, are. Not unlike the mob. The movie industry in America needs the hammer of tax law dropped on it, forcing it to restructure. No one in the movie world (other than pure employees) ... pay tax. Think of that as you fall asleep watching a movie ... because you're so damn tired ... because you worked hard to pay your taxes. Then think of the Health Care you can't afford because government doesn't have the tax revenue to provide it.
Am I right in thinking the only ones who can waste more money on projects than Hollywood is the U S Government? I mean, there were things like $1200 toilet seats that, adjusted for inflation must match some of the overinflated prices for Hollywood just blew the budget on that was either dismantled or left abandoned... "If I had a buck for every..." Stay safe, everyone.
You might be surprised to learn that John Carter cost $500,000,000 and was Disney's biggest loss in history. This is the INSIDE real number and not the public number.
How about covering the movie "Tora, Tora, Tora."! Big budget, real airplanes, many modified to resemble Japanese aircraft, make sure you cover the B-17 crash. I have a personal attachment to the aircraft and some pilots.
#Video Idea for this channel, mega projects or one of your many other platforms. The new age of 3D stages & virtual sets being created and designed by ILM are stunning and will massively help cut down on these mad budget films. Which is lucky what with Cinema starting to become much less popular and not bringing in anywhere near the £$€£$¢¥€$€ as they used to. No longer does an actor have to pretend to be seeing a specific thing in a certain spot, the view angle is usually done with a green tennis ball on a Stick. Not exactly conducive to helping the actors give their best performance. Now they can basically play the 3D graphics on to a 380° screen and actual real life objects can be used as they can just film as they used to but with whatever background, objects they want behind and all around them. The only issue is the size they can currently manage and its a hell of a lot of hard work for the 3D artist and those who have to operate the stage as they are constantly having to make slight alterations and keep up with the action. Honestly it's a truly next generation of film creation, takes virtual super computers to handle the data and would make an incredibly interesting video.
It always surprises me how much hate Waterworld gets. I thought it was a great flick, though I admit I wasn't exactly looking for incredible depths (my own small ba-dum-tiss). It was just Mad Max on the ocean to me, hehe
THANK YOU for saying that set design is (or can be) art. Same is true for costume design. The thousands of hours put into a set or costumes, often painstaking, is often overlooked. It's a shame, since it really IS art.
and a movie ain't shit with shit costumes and sets
@@LordInter what are you saying🤔
@@CashelOConnolly many potentially good movies have been ruined by awful sets and equally many utter shit movies have been massively improved by epic sets, costumes and/or sound tracks
@@LordInter you’re stating the obvious
I was DELIGHTED to see Simon do his "Ba-da-bump-bump" on something other than the Blaze.
BRING ME MY BLAZE!
I treat each channel as a different one of Simon's personalities
where are my blaze boys at
@@savejeff15 Reporting in!
(Allegedly!)
Now we need him to bring in Danny, Sam, and Cocaine on every other channel.
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"Tom Cruise is insane-" YES! "-ly dedicated." Oh, yeah, that, too.
He’s overrated
Don’t make fun of Scientology’s blue eyed boy! 😅
@Rick Armstrong Who said I was Christian? And I was making fun of Cruise for being batshit crazy, not for his religion.
That’s separate teasing.
When ya can feel the blaze creeping in
Ba-da-bump-bump ... Tshhhhhhhhh
DANNY!
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*SMASH* that dislike button!
Absolutely!
Water World is still one of the greatest classics of all time though, come fight me!!!
I remember it didn't do well with critics or moviegoers, but I liked it! In spite of the tiny useless size of his gills.
I really enjoyed the movie. I have a copy and enjoy rewatching it when I get a chance.
I'll underwater fight you like James Bond
Spoiler alert - it’s the Exxon Valdez at the end. Allegedly.
I remember the film should have been great, but just wasn't lol. Incredible sets!
@6:52 I think you're missing a few zeros on the kg there....
Movie Producer says, " I have good news and bad news."
What?
I have a James Cameron Movie.
Ohhhhh sh
Soooo, you have a James Cameron movie for me?
@@spddiesel _cha-ching!!!_
@@spddiesel it will be super easy, barely an inconvenience.
You forgot the James Cameron movie “The Abyss” the back story of the sets and what the cast and crew went through for that movie is worthy of an episode of its own Simon...
Back story, indeed. I don't know about the project as a whole, but Earl definitely banked a profit -- E.O. Studios filmed all the underwater stuff in the half completed reactor building of the Cherokee nuclear power plant site, bought from Duke power because NIMBY's made it an impossibility. (Earl sold off all the heavy equipment on the site for more than the cost of the site.)
Yes!! Loved that movie!!
Hasn’t everyone forgotten about that dud?!
@@CashelOConnolly Nope.
Didn't Ed Harris nearly die on that one?
Apparently, the most expensive film ever made is the fourth movie of the Pirates of the Caribbean quintet, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, which cost a total of $378.5 million!
Watch the video Simon referred to regarding movie budgets.
At least, a good chunk of this cash had an affect on what ended up on screen in some way.
The same cannot be said for the generic mediocrity which is The Lone Ranger! Why would anyone ever consider putting $150,000,000 into a western film?
ruclips.net/video/DZG0lUXjxfY/видео.html
Would have been a better movie for $37.9 million.
Movie Studio "How expensive is THIS movie gonna be?"
James Cameron "Yes"
"all of it"
"I'm king of the world"
The lane markings of the Matrix Freeway were left behind and showed up regularly on Mythbusters
Topic Idea: The german desert, yes we have a desert in germany. The Lieberoser Wüste :)
You always learn something new about your country....
What? Where? How? What? lmao...
I second this topic
I wouldn't consider that to be a desert more of an arid plain
@@jamesweir139 it actually is a desert without having the typical desert climate
I remember small pieces of the Waterworld set washing up on the California beaches and the local news saying not to worry its movie set pieces not a shipwreck.
They also made a full size, fully operational tri-maran... And destroyed it.
It was a super expensive French one they bought. I saw it Kawaihae side.
Oh, _Waterworld_ was a wreck, all right.
When Cleopatra abandoned filming at Pinewood studios, the Carry on team moved in quickly to film scenes for Carry on Cleo.
Sid James even wore Richard Burtons' costume from Cleopatra.
Great movie
6:51 1,000,000 lbs of plaster would be around 450,000 kg of plaster, not 450kg :)
You should make an overview of all your channels, Simon
That would have to be a Megaprojects video.
@@vespurrs lol
Spielberg knows all too well Hawaiian weather. That storm in Jurassic Park was real. They actually got hit by it during filming.
Just want to say what’s up, fellow Old Abe brother!
@@tokyosmash howdy
Simon Blazing twice!🔥🔥
I am in love with Amelie...still after so many years...
Been actually to the cafë where she worked, not stalking her just the cafë...Paris is awesome!
So glad I found you and your 200 channels, thanks for the entertainment!
Side Project: The story of how Danny ended up in Simons basement
Aw, no mention that Liz Taylor was paid $1M for "Cleopatra."
Do a video of the movies who had very small budget or smallest set & earned many folds at box office.
I'd be interested in that.
Clerks would top it.
@@michaelmayhem350 Or the Blair Witch Project.
amazing video as always. while "most" of these movies were great... the astronomical spending is such a problem in that industry. kind of makes me cringe how much they spend on just entertainment instead of something that's actually beneficial
Now you have the Mandolorian, the Volume and virtual sets....
The way they do them is alot cheaper than traditional physical sets and provides alot more options
This is the Way
Came here to say this. The Mandolorian will make massive sets a thing of the past and speed up production while saving massive amounts of money.
@@blairpenny1526 what did they do different with the mandalorian?
@@Wormweed search for "the volume".
I think this is the correct link for a description of it.
ruclips.net/video/VbBBUHXPuvg/видео.html
I'm surprised Howard Hughes's movie Hell's Angels didn't make the list. Sure the ground set wasn't massive, but the sky was filled with more planes than some countries. Not only that, the release production was massive.
6:55 Oops. 1M lbs is 450 metric tons, not 450kg. Unless there was yet another SI convention that changed the definition of the kg yet again that I didn't know about.
I know one thing my mom loved that movie Titanic so much in fact she went out and bought the soundtrack which is basically five and a half hours of music you can sink a boat to.
But your heart will go on.
The biggest grossing movie of all time (adjusted for inflation)
is still “Gone With the Wind”.
Ah, Cleopatra's cost overruns explains why they had Kenneth Williams and Sid James playing Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony! I did wonder. ;-)
I was actually in a movie in 2003 that had a budget of $200 million it also had an entire ship built that I had the privilege of serving upon for 3 months. The movie was Peter Pan and was filmed at the Village Roadshow Studies on the Gold Coast in Queensland. At the time I remember hearing that it was the most expensive movie to date but there was probably some proviso to that. For me the story behind the movie was the most interesting as it is dedicated to Dodi Al-Fayed and co-produced by his Dad Mohammed Al-Fayed in the aftermath of his sons death in a car accident that claimed the life of Diana Princess of Wales. It was a pretty intense movie set with whispers of SAS personal being 'around' though I cannot confirm or deny anything to do with that, though the set was shut down for one day when Fergie The Duchess of York came to visit.
I'm sure the Cleopatra set was re used for Carry on Cleo
They were.
Back then my neighbor was the Key Grip and a family friend a set designer for Titanic. They kept coming home saying how it’s going to be a huge flop and biggest bomb ever because they’re so over budget. They or one at least also worked on the White House scene in Independence Day and Pulp Ficiton. I got to see all those at home before they came out at 16 and 17. Wait except titanic but did get a titanic merch whe. Filming. A lot of the main crew totally thought Titanic would flop.
The shot needs more headroom, I keep feeling compelled to scroll up.
I wish the titanic fever would disappear, like the dinosaur craze.
I get you, though I'd pefer the crazes about vampires, cowboys, and especially zombies to die down.
kewl neat there‘s the Tora Tora Tora full size battleship sets
0:00 Introduction, 1:31 The Matrix Reloaded, 3:22 Titanic, 5:37 Ben-Hur, 8:32 Cleopatra, 10:31 Waterworld 12:48 Outro
Hell these days you don't even need to build anything. Hell you don't even need real actors anymore with CGI indistinguishable from live action. CGI, AI actors, and a building full of server racks will do just fine if the plot doesn't suck. A lot has improved since Simone (2002). In a few years an AI can make a movie from start to finish, even writing the script itself while figuring out what humans like to watch (from box office sales/ facial recognition average from a crowd/audience while they watch it) and improving from Rotten Tomato and critics' reviews. $200M worth of server equipment can make 100's of movies, not just 1. Far easier to make a profit if there's no humans to worry about other than initial programmers to get it started. Even if a movie only makes $10M in home sales only who cares if it only cost $100,000 worth of electricity and 2-3 months to make.
simon, im pretty sure there is enough stuff to make a part 2. ;-)
This channel is quite fun because you injected just the right amount of blaze into it to make videos more entertaining while still focusing on the facts so no one can complain Factboy isn't delivering his facts. Did I say facts often enough?
SIMON. Do a video on the Antarctic snow cruiser
I wasn't sure he was allowed to do the rimshot on this channel.
He's his own boss, so...
In that case, you should do what he told you to do and smash that dislike button.
james cameron is selling his winery in the comox valley on vancouver island he just bought it like 10 years ago he likes spending the $$$$$$$$$
1:35 - Chapter 1 - Matrix reloaded
3:30 - Chapter 2 - Titanic
5:40 - Chapter 3 - Ben hur
8:35 - Chapter 4 - Cleopatra
10:35 - Chapter 5 - Waterworld
Simon be bringing that Business Blaze flair to his other channels. Don't forget to smash that dislike button 😉
are you sure about 1600 ft high? That's 200 feet higher than the Empire State Building...
Don't you Blaze my side projects! Don't do it. It's just too much awesome.
The Matrix chase scene was probably the BEST chase ever. It is up there with the chase scene in Bullitt. Back to the Matrix; the chase scene and Monica Bellucci were it's most redeeming features.
I must be one of the few people in the world who actually liked Waterworld. Must be all the apocalyptic novels I read as a kid.
Some of the road for Matrix still existed as of a few years ago, I believe the Mythbusters used it at least once.
Surprised to not see LOTR in this lot :~)
Why?
They didn't have to build any sets.
Those places are all real...
@@eternaldarkness3139 lol. The scenery may be real but most of the sets were just that, sets.
6:54 1 million lbs is equal to 450kg?
he probably meant 450 000kg
Simon Whistler ain't you so good you'd done this like 50 times lol you're the best keep it up
Are i'm alone in scrolling upwards to view the whole head of Simon, just to be disappointed that i scalped himself on camera!
The rideau canal is a great idea!
I'm kind of impressed that the set for Iron City from Battle Angel Alita* wasn't on here. The practical bits were kind of impressive
*i know, Cameron can suck it
6:58 are you sure 1 million LBS is 450kg? ;-)
Yeah. As I heard that it felt like an elastic band was snapped against the back of my brain. I wonder if anyone else gets that feeling when they hear bad conversions?
10:50 "Sent the director's to a watery grave and" almost 'SUNK' Kevin Costner career. Opportunity lost Simon.
Always have this insecure feeling investing in stock. With crypto it's just kinda different.
Both investments are good to go into but if profit must be considered then crypto is far better.
Oh Edward, stock is not for the weak hearted😂
@@thinkingcrypto1894 both are good but investing in the right things matter a lot... And I must say crypto yeilds more profit than stock.
@@liamhudson7726 spot on.. Investing in the right things really matter, I have actually invested into the stock market and also the crypto market trust me crypto trading is more profitable than stock.
I have made over $750000 trading
cryptos, I even made a whooping profit of $40000 on my last trade with a capital of $5,725.
You should do the most expensive movie mistakes on buissness blaze.
9:56 1600 ft high, that can't be accurate...right?
The Ben Hur chariot race is still one of the most insane things over ever seen on film.
OK my attention was distracted by the trim around the door handle behind Simon, which had become detached and lose on the door handle.
The compulsion to fix it...
What about the top of his head being cut off the entire video? Gnnnhhhkekekeke!
Bonus Fact:
The Tremors TV show (spin off of Tremors films) was filmed in Titanic's old soundstage.
I might be one of the only people who loves Waterworld!
The Roman Forum in Cleopatra actually measured 1115 feet wide by 1640 feet in length, not height, 1640 feet high would have put it higher than the former WTC towers
It's official, I'm weird. I like Water World and The Postman for that matter. Now the 14 hour long Dance With Wolves was not a fan of but the critics loved it.
Isn't Alameda where they keep the nuclear wessles
If you're spending that much on a pretend boat, make a real boat, then you can sell it to the cruise industry. Particularly if it's the Titanic. Just don't go near the arctic or Antarctic.
And why would you make a fake freeway, then destroy it. I'm sure plenty of other people will have a use for it.
The 1999 movie The Haunting is worth mentioning. The exterior of Harlaxton Manor, in England, was used as the exterior of Hill House. The billiard room scene was filmed in the Great Hall of the manor, while many of the interior sets were built inside the dome-shaped hangar that once housed Howard Hughes' H-4 Hercules, near the permanently docked RMS Queen Mary steamship, in Long Beach, California. The kitchen scenes were filmed at Belvoir Castle. The cost of the interior set at the hanger was £8 million or $13 million of 1999 (equivalent to £14 million or $20 million as of 2020). The movie total was $80,000,000, roughly, in 1999, which equates to approximately $124,959,903.96 today. It earned $180,000,000, or $281,159,783.91today, at the box office, at the time, which recouped most of the costs and made a bit in the process.
"Waterworld." Wasn't a flop at all , to date it's grossed $264 million US so that's a profit of $89 million US. It's a great film that load's of "Kinema enthusiasts!" love to knock but hardly ever have actually seen, the actual acting is no better or worse than any other big budget blockbuster so if you're expecting "Dances with wolves." It's not. It's not a flop and the only damage it did was to the acting reputation of Costner, so stevie speilberg $89 US Millions in profit suck it up buttercup.
On a side not to Cleopatra, went production moved to Rome the already built sets did not go to waste as Carry On Cleo made use of the costumes and sets used in the film were originally intended for Cleopatra (1963). Carry On Cleo was filmed between 13 July and 28 August 1964.
The film premiered at London's Warner cinema on 10 December 1964 and went on to become one of the 12 most popular movies at the British box office in 1965.
Now a good followup would be the longest lasting standing sets for TV and movies, being in continuous use or re-used without having been torn down, like the Star Trek: The Motion Picture sets, which were first constructed for Star Trek: Phase II in 1977, which were still going right 'til the last episode of Star Trek: Enterprise (albeit in modified form) in 2005, or, y'know, cornonation street, which is a bit dull, but also long-standing sets... :P
A couple of rumours i heard about Ben hur
A car was briefly seen in the background
After numerous takes to get crowd reeaction of horror when the chariots crashed, they blew up the lunch trolley and recorded their reaction.
Simon you forgot about avatar 2009
You only briefly mentioned it 😔
That film took more. Than 2 decades to create an during 1990s animation wasn't up. To it
Staggeringly James cameron the director beat his own record he originally had from titanic
To this day well over a decade Later it still Remains kingpin of all film costs and revenue EVER MADE!
I nearly lose my cookies when Simon says crack, knowing what he is really talking about.
I almost fell out of my chair when Simon said how much Cleopatra production costs were. By comparison I've known for years about Waterworld's crazy costs, as well as Titanic's.
The Mandalorian's innovative and groundbreaking set has heralded the death of movie sets in this sense
Simone, how about a video from the other end of the dollar. Like the cheapest that did great? Example: 1968 "Night of the Living Dead".
On Cleopatra, I read somewhere that Taylor's contract covered X days of shooting, with the studio having to pay an exorbitant sum of money for each day of additional shooting beyond X. Which they did, and Taylor ended up with a small fortune on top of her already considerable salary.
Which is why Steven Spielberg still directs and Kevin Costner still is an actor 🤨🤔😲😉🤭✌️🤟.. Your AWESOME SIMON 👍👍🤟✌️💯.. Thank you for all your research on all of the Topics , As well as your other sites. Keep up the good work and stay safe and Healthy !!!
What about Stanley Kubrick's 196o's "Moon Landing's earthbound set.......Hahahahahahahahaha!.....why can't we all see the stars???? LOL
Waterworld was a good movie, not great. But think of this.... Hundreds of years later, after the world flooded, there was "no" land. So WHERE IN THE HELL DID THE CIGARETTES AND BOOZE COME FROM??? hmmm
The battle ships for Ben-Hur were radio controlled and, according to one person who worked there, they were all triggered into action one night by a plane flying overhead. Rather freaky! ;)
Simon! This is ABOUT YOUR LIGHTING!!
In terms of light spectra, cool blue tones appear to recede in space, and warm red tones appear closer. It's the same principle as the atmospheric effect. For example, mountains in a landscape appear more and more blue the farther away they are in space.
In your lit space, the background lighting emits warm amber tones, and your foreground lighting is very cool and blue. This results in making you exceedingly pale, diminishes the hierarchy (you should be front and center), but your lighting says the opposite. This results in a very shallow depth of field, a lack of finer foreground details, and makes one look cadaverous! A warm face is welcoming!
Swop your specta!
You'd be blazing forward as opposed to fading away. Don't fade away, BLAZE!
Do not go quietly into the blue night!!!!! BLAZE, BLAZe! against the receding of the blue light.
Unlike many people, I actually liked Water World :)
Suggestion, how about a kind of opposite of this video? I mean, there are very low budget movies which have been very successful. 'The Blair Witch Project' is a good example. It had a budget of just $60.000, and ended up grossing some $248,6 million.
_Oh come on!_
The criterion for cost [overrun] _should_ be the ratio of Hollywood _glam_ per shiny good _clam._
_Titanic?_ Cuppa tea! The 80 percent scale Titanic was at least reutilized to serve as a prop in a _Rick and Morty_ episode.
_Cleopatra?_ Didn´t mattra! After a bulletin was addressed to all cast and crew requiring paper cups to be saved and reused, the production squeaked by.
No, the winner for the -most- least film for the -least- most money ever spent is _The Highlander 2,_ a nothing movie of $200M (adjusted) budget spent on... star salaries.
On the other hand, for the 1920s version of _Cleopatra,_ at least one could _see_ its absurdly expensive, huge backdrop of the _night_ sky -- in the exact configuration that would have been seen two millennia ago. _Good for a trivia question, I suppose._
On the other hand, Akira Kurosawa was fired after two weeks co-directing _Tora, Tora, Tora,_ because he couldn´t get a wall painted the exact shade of _white_ he wanted. _What means this saying, time is money?_
There was the case of the production of _World War Z,_ executive produced by an ex-Mossad spymaster, with 12 associate producers and four directors: The movie collected enough live assault weapons to support a political coup, only to have them all be confiscated by Hungarian customs. _Brad, we have a problem._
At least these were movies that were _made._ Stanley Kubrick spent 12 years, working 6 days a week and 12 hours a day, painstakingly planning production _peripherae_ such as how to costume 10,000 Romanian soldiers in Napoleonic uniforms (make them out of paper). _Seen it?_
The classic book of the production hell of one movie is _My Life with Cleopatra,_ but for a calamitous compendia of critical cockups, read _Tales From Development Hell._ Tall tales of the cautionary kind!
All this is from memory, so....
My husband & I really enjoyed Waterworld. Feels a little prophetic.
Plus, I'll watch anything with Costner in it. Only he can make a 3 hour film (Dances With Wolves) has made me think "hey!!.. that was a shor... what time is it?!?"
Honourable mention: The Roman Forum in the 1964 Samuel Bronston production 'The Fall Of The Roman Empire' which starred Sophia Loren and a huge cast including Alec Guinness and was directed by Anthony Mann. The film was a massive flop but still holds the world record for having boasted the largest outdoor movie set ever built. They literally rebuilt the entire Roman Forum outside Madrid and it was impeccable . Despite the film been a flop it is now a classic and one of the more intelligent epics of it's time, and was the inspiration to Ridley Scott's Gladiator.
Anyone else weirdly intrigued by Gal Godots upcoming Cleopatra biopic? At first I wasn’t, but when I saw her very accurately clap back at the morons claiming Cleopatra should be played by a black woman, I felt a strong urge to support her. Going back at cancel culture will always get my support, and Gal is 100% right, Cleo wasn’t black, more likely lightly tanned, much like Gal.
Simon: why not just hire people with beards. There are plenty of us.
Me: Yes, perfect time for a Beard Blaze plug.
Simon continues with script.
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I'm hoping the Blaze is spreading. Let's hope it cannot be contained and ends up ransacking TiFo and TOPTENZ as well oh and Bio/Geographics those would be fantastic BLAZED
Watch the video Simon referred to regarding movie budgets.
The huge number given, isn't the actual cost, its a cooked books, tax dodging, scheme number to maximise tax deductions and incentives. All costs are ballooned massively. If a piece of wood costs you and I at the store costs $10, the set building company (owned by the parent production company via a numbered company), paperworks the value of the same piece of wood back to the parent company ... for $500.
In the end, as Simon already knows, the actual cost of any movie made in the last 4 or 5 decades is completely unknown and hidden behind this facade of expenses. The only accurately portrayed cost are the humans (stars) acting costs ... but lately even those are hidden behind the 'production company' nee holding companies that the star owns, which allows them to write off their income as well. Many acting stars now actually produce the films they are in, further ballooning costs and hiding true values.
No corporate created movie or TV show has paid corporate tax of any kind for many decades now.
None. Not one penny. Its a publicly known scam, taking advantage of tax law not designed for this kind of industry.
In the end the owners of these companies dont pay ANY income tax, permanently hiding behind deductions and shell companies ... which is what they, in essence, are. Not unlike the mob.
The movie industry in America needs the hammer of tax law dropped on it, forcing it to restructure. No one in the movie world (other than pure employees) ... pay tax. Think of that as you fall asleep watching a movie ... because you're so damn tired ... because you worked hard to pay your taxes. Then think of the Health Care you can't afford because government doesn't have the tax revenue to provide it.
Am I right in thinking the only ones who can waste more money on projects than Hollywood is the U S Government? I mean, there were things like $1200 toilet seats that, adjusted for inflation must match some of the overinflated prices for Hollywood just blew the budget on that was either dismantled or left abandoned... "If I had a buck for every..." Stay safe, everyone.
You might be surprised to learn that John Carter cost $500,000,000 and was Disney's biggest loss in history. This is the INSIDE real number and not the public number.
How about covering the movie "Tora, Tora, Tora."! Big budget, real airplanes, many modified to resemble Japanese aircraft, make sure you cover the B-17 crash. I have a personal attachment to the aircraft and some pilots.
Side project suggestions. ☺️
Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Sydney Opera House.
Sydney Olympic Stadium.
Apparently the giant David Hasselhoff prop from the Spongebob movie is being auctioned off. Current bid is $975,000.
#Video Idea for this channel, mega projects or one of your many other platforms.
The new age of 3D stages & virtual sets being created and designed by ILM are stunning and will massively help cut down on these mad budget films. Which is lucky what with Cinema starting to become much less popular and not bringing in anywhere near the £$€£$¢¥€$€ as they used to. No longer does an actor have to pretend to be seeing a specific thing in a certain spot, the view angle is usually done with a green tennis ball on a Stick. Not exactly conducive to helping the actors give their best performance. Now they can basically play the 3D graphics on to a 380° screen and actual real life objects can be used as they can just film as they used to but with whatever background, objects they want behind and all around them. The only issue is the size they can currently manage and its a hell of a lot of hard work for the 3D artist and those who have to operate the stage as they are constantly having to make slight alterations and keep up with the action.
Honestly it's a truly next generation of film creation, takes virtual super computers to handle the data and would make an incredibly interesting video.
It always surprises me how much hate Waterworld gets. I thought it was a great flick, though I admit I wasn't exactly looking for incredible depths (my own small ba-dum-tiss).
It was just Mad Max on the ocean to me, hehe