what did they spend it on? LOTR trilogy cost 150 mil (admittedly in 2000)
Lady Gaga don’t come cheap
Especially since they had her record like an entire album for the movie
I bet the movie might be 10x better if the budget had been 1/10th as much which is ~$20m. Hollywood budgets can be like the F-35 program. Throwing gigantic amounts of money at problems can make the issues worse.
Joaquin Phoenix insisted on actually doing this to get into character
See if they’d made it $400 million I bet it would’ve done better.