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How much is a $100 million budget cut?

Original: craschworks - comments

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[girlvinyl.livejournal.com]

$100 million is a joke. I'm into pop culture and have a weird memory capability for movie grosses. I don't know why, I just keep them in my head. Probably useless. "Revenge of the Sith" the one where Darth Vader is "born" grossed $380mm domestically. I believe it did a little under half of that on it's opening weekend which was a 4 day weekend. In fact, no star wars movie has ever grossed under $250 million.

Star Wars is pretty popular, but gross is the amount of ticket sales while the film is in theatres, it doesn't count DVD or television or anything like that. So if you take a much, much less popular movie like the flop Daredevil, you see how little $100 mm is. Daredevil made $102mm from ticket sales. Studios considered it a major, major disappointment.

So if movie studios consider $100mm in sales to be a fail, how can the government consider $100mm in budget cuts to be a win?

[vyus.livejournal.com]

by not creating a movie along the lines of "daredevil," we can all consider the government to have won. at least a little bit.

[zarex.livejournal.com]

Brilliant!

[spc476.livejournal.com]

Another way of looking at it: Out of 3,500,000 million, Obama wants to cut 100 million.

Yeah, that'll help.

[cramer.livejournal.com]

In other words, if you had $3.5T, you could lose $100M in your couch and not care enough to look for it. It's not even enough to be a rounding error.

Or (for a car analogy) it's like the change rattling around in the floor of our cars. We care about it only enough not to suck it up in a vacuum. Usually.

[ladykalana.livejournal.com]

That video makes baby Jesus cry.