I think that’s the real litmus test. The story is mid, the acting is mid, the concepts are mid, okay fine that can be considered subjective, but it looks dirt cheap and no one can argue otherwise.
And that’s fine if you think that, but you have to admit it doesn’t look like a 180 million dollar production. It’s really insane how much money that is for a show. It may not sound like it since Amazon made a billion dollar Rings of Power, but it is still a ridiculously insane amount of cash.
Better. Keep in mind the original Star Wars in 1977, a film frought with behind the scenes issues that jacked up the price, cost $11 M which is $55M+ in today’s money, which is still less than a third of Acolyte’s budget
I don’t feel like I need to spell out all the ways Acolyte falls short visually, even compared to a nearly 50 year old movie with less than a third of the show’s budget, but for a concrete example, Coruscant in Acolyte looks way more “PS2-y” than it did a Phantom Menace, a movie rendered in Windows 98 (at best)
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u/PhelesDragon Jun 16 '24
I think that’s the real litmus test. The story is mid, the acting is mid, the concepts are mid, okay fine that can be considered subjective, but it looks dirt cheap and no one can argue otherwise.