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  1. Re:Shouldn't be surprising by Wyatt+Earp · · Score: 1 · on Average Budget For Major, Multi-Platform Games Is $18-28 Million

    Thats apples to oranges.

    Compare Blackhawk Down to Modern Warfare I, compare the Pacific to World at War.

    Blackhawk Down - 95,000,000 in 2000/2001 dollars
    The Pacific - 200,000,000 in 2008-current dollars

    http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/06/trailer-hbos-the-pacific.html

    As for Into the Wild, the location shots didn't even happen at the real locations from the true story, and it doesn't cost that much to come rough it up here in Alaska, fly crap into Anchorage or Fairbanks and drive to the location with some generators. How much of that budget went to the director, the writers and the principal actors?

  2. Re:Dances With Smurfs. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Anti-Technology Themes in James Cameron's Avatar

    I'm sure you'll watch 2012 too, and love it up. Here's a link for your "entertainment". Enjoy!

    http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/10/2012-trailer-without-special-effects.html

  3. Why does it matter what night a show is on? by klausboop · · Score: 1 · on What Has Fox Got Against Its Own Sci-Fi Shows?

    I've had a DVR for a number of years now (first from Time Warner, now Tivo), and I have to tell you, they make it completely irrelevant what time or day a show is on. When my son was growing up he didn't even know when his shows were on: to him, when it was time for SpongeBob or Power Rangers, they were always just there.

    While I understand not everyone has a DVR, when people say they don't watch Conan O'Brian or Robot Chicken or SNL or whatever because they can't stay up that late...well, neither can I. But I record(ed) Conan every night and would check it out the next day. Sometimes I'd listen to a monologue while shaving the next morning.

    For a long time, that kind of activity was transparent to the networks from a Nielsen perspective, but Nielsen is finally tracking DVR usage, and its making a difference, i.e. Nielsen Reports DVR Playback Is Adding To TV Viewing Levels. My family is watching Dollhouse, but have never watched it on Friday. On Monday March 9 we watched the episode that aired Friday Feb 7. We still have an episode on the Tivo from Friday March 6. And I know I'm not the only one that's doing that...reports are that viewership went up 30% once time-shifting was factored in.

    So while I think that Fox are boneheads because they have canceled and/or otherwise botched a number of my favorite shows (Futurama and especially Firefly), I genuinely don't think that being on a Friday night matters anymore, especially to a possibly more tech-savvy (and likely to DVR or internet time-shift) sci-fi audience.