That wasn’t the case. In 2023 dollars, the LotR trilogy had a budget of around $513 million, eventually resulting in about 12 hours of finished product. RoP has a budget of about $150m for around 9 hours. So the trilogy spent $42m per hour compared to RoP’s $16m per hour.
You’re talking about the franchise that perfected product placement in the 60s and never looked back.
? They handled it as if it were a member of their family. It was their father’s legacy. Many of the key creatives and technicians are the kids of those there at the beginning, learning their trade over decades and handling it with the same dedication. A true cottage industry.
Blofeld was just an enterprising employment creator lynched by woke fake news…
Was anyone wondering why? It’s a licence to kill print money.
Eh, some do. Others need to keep their powder dry. It’s a long 4 years. There needs to be some people he still sort of listens to.
It should also be pointed out that Germany saying anything at all about foreign military intervention is a big deal, given their longstanding policy against it.
Although the US has spent more on bangs than Europe, which has spent on bangs but also helmets and armour and transport.
He doesn’t have the range. He’d be entertaining for an episode or two but it would wear thin very quickly.
Anyone who saw Rings of Power knew this.
Brexit wasn’t left/right wing. Eurosceptics on both sides. I’d also point out France where right-wing populism ultimately lost out despite an increase in protest votes.
There’s also a greater tradition of public service broadcasting, meaning politicians are more rigorously interrogated than in the highly commercial, partisan American system.
The EU and EC are somewhat stabilising influences too. An EU member government simply wouldn’t be allowed to do some of the stuff Trump is doing.
Public opinion? Whose? Europe’s, who look down on rampant American capitalism and Trump? Africa’s, who have just been screwed by Trump and Musk? The Middle-East, who have been screwed by America for decades? Asia, who are waiting to hear what China says?
Trade waste too. Got 20 tons of rubble but don’t want to pay the processing fees? Dump it on a farm somewhere.
Vincent Price was quite the chef. He even had a cookery show on British TV in the early 70s.
They’re still nefarious if they are incompetent. See: Fascist Italy.
Pity SpaceX doesn’t believe it has to obey the law, and thinks it can just buy land and dump waste on it.
And a ceasefire does not mean the war is over.
Ticket prices in Britain aren’t due to privatisation. They were a side-effect of the unexpected success of British Rail in its final years at attracting more passengers. As demand went up, the ailing infrastructure struggled to cope. Upgrades can take decades to plan and execute correctly, so the answer was to raise prices to ease off demand.
This also fulfilled the longstanding policy of both parties for rail users to carry the financial burden of rail operation and maintenance. So, under privatisation, 40% of tickets were priced directly by the Department for Transport. The rest were priced by the train operators, who often engaged in price wars that lowered prices compared to the controlled fares.
Now of course privatisation is effectively over and 100% of tickets are priced by government. Prices will still be maintained high because of the desire to make passengers pay for the system, and to keep demand manageable. Already some routes have reached saturation.
Did the title and the photo have to match up with “sniper choosing his nest” vibes?
It’s Warner Music, not Warner Bros.