The bug had millions of kids, do they even get names?

The only thing that pulls its weight around here is my god, damn, truck! <kabooom>

Get your big butt back in the house.

Orthopterous Exomorphs. A bug, essentially.

Edgar the bug is the best you're going to get I think.

https://meninblack.fandom.com/wiki/Edgar_the_Bug

The gallop-running gag is so silly but so goddamn effective.

I thought it was a load of shite. I almost burst out laughing at the end when the whole cinema was just sat staring at a black screen.

Carpenter’s Halloween (1978) had a low budget even by 70s standards iirc & it became one of the largest & easily recognizable horror icon franchises ever. the original film still holds to this day & is underrated as hell. carpenter spent something like 1/3 of the budget on just a free-moving camera dolly that was new tech at that time & had to cut a bunch of corners with the budget bc of it. that risk ended up being the right one. the netflix doc “the movies that made us” did an episode on it & it was super interesting

Speilberg & Cruise decide to not recieve salary for Minority report because Speilberg didn't want the production cost over 100M

Him & Cruise recive 15% from movie total gross around 55M each

Robert Rodriguez used some really clever jump cut techniques out of necessity in the action sequences of El Mariachi which I only noticed because he pointed them out in the commentary. Of course that is the film that put him on the map.

The girl who’s mom goes to college choreographed Napoleon’s dance at the end.

Primer looks very low budget

1.2 million was the budget for Reservoir Dogs.

Resevoir Dogs had a budget of 1.2 million.

Was it ever supposed to be a physical entity though (perhaps that’s because of the budget like you’re saying). I always imagined it as a presence the characters feel rather than see

I remember learning about how the space ships in Alien where basically Star Wars models/miniatures that were mixed and matched for the external ship shots. And I never would have known if I hadn’t watched that making-of documentary.

Which makes the budget of the film more than 15k

Carlos forgot to pay a vendor for a Cocoanut so Rodriquez fixed it with narration..Carlos talked about getting a free Cocoanut.

It probably started at 15k. I think the budget went up when keitel signed on

....you thought they had real dinosaurs?

Monsters was Gareth Edward's. Who went on to Direct Godzilla and Rogue One.

Tarsem Singh was primarily a Commercial Director, a career which took him all around the world.

When he was on location in various exotic locales, he would seek out the most striking environments and then assemble his cast there to shoot a single scene from The Fall. In this fragmented way, he eventually put together a breathtakingly beautiful epic film which feels very expensive --but which was made for just 30-million.

Primer was done with 7k.

All the stuff done in El Mariachi. Like if you flub a take you just cut just before it to not have to refilm the first part so you save film..

Resevoir Dogs - get Harvey Keitel