by Christopher Barratt

Created on: December 28, 2009   Last Updated: December 29, 2009

$200,000,000 dollars for Avatar? I have come to the conclusion that this movie along with its much hyped 3D experience to be little more than a glorified cartoon with nearly every aspect of it having been done before in some fashion. This does seem to be why many narrow viewed people have deemed the price tag a tad excessive, especially for a movie that could be made for less than half that sum at Pixar.

However this is not taxpayer’s money that is being thrown to the wind to make James Cameron look good once more. This is money that has been provided by the production companies or the studios or sometimes from personal finance to make a profit on the finished product. Why is this a problem for some people? Why does this seem to some to be an over zealous use of money when so many have non.

Well one can do what the hell one wants with ones own money. People bleat on and on about how the global recession or in some blinkered views, depression, is affecting the average family and how many major industries are in their death throws in some form or another. This is life, wake up and deal with it. They are in their death throws due to the fact they have become so big and bloated, gorging on fat of the land, which is also known as your money, that they cannot move or function once their food supply is cut off.

I for one would rather see somebody spending money to make money in such fiscal times, it takes courage to inject millions of dollars on what is basically a gamble. I would also rather see a company or somebody spending this amount of money to guarantee that at least some are kept in employment and paying taxes for maybe two or three years. A movie production can involve thousands of people. Ask yourself these questions. Where would you rather see them? Working on a $200,000,000 movie and paying their taxes? Or would you rather see them sat at home claiming welfare and contributing nothing?

The reason Hollywood is always shining whatever the economic climate is because they do not lose their bottle when the rest of the world’s financial movers and shakers who actually cause these recessions in the first place, have turned into quivering lumps of jelly while hiding much needed investment money in the bank. Here it sits, doing nothing and holding the world’s economy in limbo.

The private sector is what saves economies from melt down, not public sector money and Hollywood is just a small part of the private sector. Here in Britain we

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