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Wait, doesn't this mean that someone sat through Pearl Harbor more than once to verify this?
That darkens my soul.
shameless plug
Very often, when you need shots of military hardware in large quantities, you have little choice but to go with stock footage or at least reusing stuff you've already shot, because the Navy couldn't be bothered to divert several billion dollars in weaponry just so you can shoot a movie (for perspective, Transformers cost about 1/30 of ONE of those damn carriers).
Christ, even shooting a scene with cops in it is hellish. The last flick I shot had to set aside a whole day and a fifth of the budget just to sort out the red tape with a police department in the backwoods of Ohio. Bay had two choices: dig up some previously shot and/or stock footage, or call in yet another effects house to do all CG shots, which would've been way too expensive and still not looked quite right.
Yes, even Michael Bay has to cut corners. The days of directors swimming in money and getting everything they want ended with Lord of the Rings.
Then how do you explain the budgets of Superman Returns, Spiderman 3 and Evan Almighty?
also, at roughly $90mil per flick, LotR was hardly swimming in the huge budget
If LotR really WAS $90mil, then I'd wager it's because they shot them all concurrently. They'd be much more expensive individually.
I see what you're saying, though.