10 Movies That Did Crazy Things When They Ran Out Of Money

When all else fails? Apparently get the French mob to finance the rest of your movie.
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[@joey_dangerously]

With how this video ended, I guess Whatculture ran out of money, too...

[@RelakS__]

What will be next time? The video will cut the narrator mid sentence? 😅

[@andrearusky]

Ah ah! WTF happened.. why they ended like this 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@banthatracks_gaffisticks]

🤣

[@asteriondeltoro124]

Since Jules got cut off: the punchline to the Masters of the Universe entry is that the final fight between He-Man and Skeletor was shot while the set was literally being dismantled around the cast and crew. The dark lighting and liberal use of close-ups are meant to disguise it.

[@chykim1]

😂😂

[@joshportal2808]

The first Mad Max paid local motorcycle gangs with beer and local cops with gas. Half of the movie’s production was paid with different consumables instead of money.

[@jamesallan5914]

Also, Mel Gibson's costume was the only one made of real leather. All the more minor characters had to make do with PVC.

[@jessewilley531]

According to Campbell (and backed up by Raimi) in late 1982, the Raimi brothers tried to pay their own parents back once the film made money. Their folks said: 'No. We gave you the money because we believed in your dream. You have a lot of friends who worked on your movie who have similar dreams. You don't owe us, you owe them.' So a few months later their former film editors on Evil Dead mentioned they were working on a feature. They gave Raimi access to script, originally just wanting feedback. Raimi said: 'How much do you need to make this happen?' They told him... but he couldn't give them quite that much. But he gave them quite a bit. Those two film editors were Ethan and Joel Coen and the movie was Blood Simple. (Raimi and the Coens went to film school together.) Nor was Evil Dead and Blood Simple the only Coens and Raimi's only collaboration. Raimi got a special thanks credited on Fargo and Big Lebowski for loaning them his Delta '88. That's right... The Dude and Ash Williams drive the EXACT same car. And I don't mean the both drive Delta '88s. I mean the EXACT SAME exact same car.

[@snowdenwyatt6276]

Mostly. Joel was involved in Evil Dead as an assistant film editor to Edna Ruth Paul (who then consulted with the Coens on Blood Simple). Other Raimi/Coen crossovers include (but are not limited to) Frances McDormand appearing in the Raimi film Crimewave and Raimi showing up in a cameo in Miller's Crossing.

[@jessewilley531]

@@snowdenwyatt6276 Plus Bruce Campbell appearing in Fargo and Intolerable Cruelty. Though Campbell in Fargo was footage from an actual local soap opera he was in for a while. Whereas the Coens actively sought out Campbell for the Intolerable Cruelty. They claim they didn't write that character for him, but when they blew a lot of the casting budget on George Clooney and they found out Campbell was available, they knew they could afford him, and sort of became their first choice.

[@BR-jw7pm]

I’m surprised Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail WASN’T #1

[@donnywilliamson5807]

It would have been nice to show what errors were kept in El Mariachi

[@andrearusky]

Exactly… 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@David-dc3nk]

Indeed

[@nicknoble9693]

It looks like WhatCulture have also run out of money... what happened to Juleseseseses usual affirmations at the end?!

[@user-jw9wo4ew5o]

I think that only on Tuesdays lol

[@dhenderson1810]

It's boring.

[@IAmWBeard]

Cutthroat island is a good movie. Doesn’t deserve the hate

[@Theghostdogmadderkayne]

Cutthroat island is a fun movie and is better than it gets credit for

[@PitFriend1]

I have heard that the reason Monty Python and the Holy Grail had coconuts instead of actual horses was that they couldn’t afford them. There’s only one horse in the entire film and that only for a moment.

[@starscreamthecruel8026]

That's a rumour, not sure if its actually true but they probably thought it would be a hilarious attention to the movie so fans knew this was a true comedy. I saw it on TV decades later but friends told me they heard the audience couldnt stop laughing just from the intro part alone.

[@sarahkinsey5434]

I heard somewhere too so can't be confirmed that the chainmail was just yarn crocheted and painted

[@brianjensen3047]

Was That a flying horse?

[@SuperLuigiSixty4]

Pretty harsh cutoff at the end there. Was this recorded before the outros were discontinued?

[@a35362]

Terry Gilliam, three syllables, not "Gillam." Jeez.

[@clarencewalker3925]

[@KylarRaynor]

William, 2 syllables 😊

[@David-dc3nk]

It's just his accent 😆

[@dinomonzon7493]

Great to see/hear Jules host these videos again. 👍

[@pirobot668beta]

'Cut-throat Island'...the movie that will have you asking "Why is everything made out of gunpowder?"

[@georgeharvey4226]

Let’s not forget that Walt Disney went into his own savings and even mortgaged his own home to finish production on Snow White.

[@curiousgemini]

I love how the lack of money in some of these movies actually made it a better movie.

[@myredenvelopes]

What? No Deadpool? The duffel bag full of weapons "conveniently" left behind in Dopinder's taxi was the result of the fact there was literally no more money left to shoot the climactic battle Tim Miller & Co. wanted to bring to the screen. Deadpool himself exclaims that he had forgotten the ammunition. He also fired several jabs at Fox (the studio which had produced the movie) for not providing enough of a budget to show more members of the X-Men than Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead.

[@scottmiller8617]

You sure about this? I think that the smaller budget was a decision made by Reynolds and the director, not the studio. Deadpool 2 didn't have a huge budget either.

[@myredenvelopes]

@@scottmiller8617 yeah, pretty sure. Both that and a motorcycle chase were removed from the script because Fox slashed the budget by about $8 million right before shooting started.

[@Pedone_Rosso]

Meta-finale? Thanks for the videos!

[@bobchurch6175]

There's an ancient running joke about how somethiing looks like "a film student's movie" but the problem for film students wasn't their skill, they tend to have a lot of that, but the incredible expense of film and processing. When, as Joe Bob Briggs said, it costs $100 anytime you pull that trigger it cuts into what you can make.

[@jeremyadams932]

Darren Aronofsky's Pi was so low budget that he got family and friends to each give him $100 and raised 60k. Once it was a success, he gave each of them $150 back. Also, he never secured any locations for filming and had crew members watch out for cops so they could stop filming and vacate the premises at a moment's notice.

[@jeremyadams932]

Peter Jackson's Bad Taste was so low budget that the cast and crew would work their regular day jobs during the week and film all their scenes on the weekends. It took 4 years to make.

[@user-mg5mv2tn8q]

There was a bottom-of-the-barrel horror movie in the mid-1960s called Monster a Go-Go (believe it or not), in which a space capsule goes up into orbit with a human astronaut, then comes back down to Earth with an alien monster, which the authorities tried to track down as it went on a rampage. When they ran out of money and everything came to a screeching halt, the producers just had a narrator tell the audience that the whole thing didn't really happen.

[@melissawickersham9912]

The ending of a Monster a Go Go ended up being a combination of a mind screw and a total cop-out that still enrages and bewilders B-movie fans to this day.

[@BeeHash]

I read “Rebel Without a Crew” it’s a fantastic read.

[@davidponseigo8811]

500th like here, Cutthroat Island may have sucked but Geena Davis was still gorgeous !

[@robbperez1278]

"Carolco...had no further funds to give." I'm sure that's not the only F they couldn't give...

[@jhubjrbrbr]

You did this one about two years ago

[@Terastas]

Fun fact about Monty Python and the Holy Grail: The coconuts were also the result of a budget constraint. They originally planned to have horses but couldn't afford them, to which Michael Palin suggested they just use the radio method to create the sound of hoof beats instead.

[@arashimifune2853]

I have watched Cutthroat Island long time ago and I liked it a lot xd Was surprised when I heard many years later it was such a massive flop... Gotta rewatch it out of sheer curiosity xd

[@ericpode6095]

Rewatched it the other day, enjoyable movie IMO.

[@Reggie2000]

Gina Davis drags it down.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a really fun film.

[@jamesallan5914]

My favourite El Mariachi guff is in the opening, where he gets the coconut. RR realised afterwards that he forgot to film him paying, so he worked the notion of getting it for free into the narration.

[@D00r3]

The removal of the 2nd unit from Masters of the Universe was nothing compared to the ending. The producer wanted to end the movie right before the climactic fight between He-Man and Skeletor, but as luck would have it, Goddard was able to get one more day of shooting. The lighting scheme of that scene was to hide the fact that most of the set pieces had been cleared out

[@jaymogrified]

It’s been decades since I saw Holy Grail and I still remember being furious at the end. I fast-forwarded for several minutes, convinced that it was a gag and the rest of the movie was going to be there (well, technically, the fact that the rest of the movie wasn’t there WAS the gag lol). I think I’d’ve found it funny and appreciated how perfectly absurd it was if I saw it for the first time now but at the time I just felt cheated 😄

[@63mckenzie]

Reminds me of Lyndsay Anderson's movie IF. Critics praised his inclusion of black and white scenes that they said gave them a dream like quality. Truth was he had run out of colour film and couldn't afford any more so was forced to use black and white film to finish the movie.

[@djorwell]

I love how they have a title card and then just basically restate what it says to stretch this video out. We could just read the title cards and get everything they are saying

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

Evangelion also did weird stuff when they ran out of money. The last episodes were really weird and were apparently very cheap. 1:27 Nice gun ;3. Borrow money from the French Mob? That sounds dangerous. You would be in big trouble if the movie flopped. I didn't realize the Holy Grail ended that way because of budget issues. Monty Python was only $400,000? Is that a B-movie price? It's a shame The Adventures of Baron Munchausen flopped. You think it would do better if someone from Monty Python was involved. 10:18 That's all they had? That's a pretty small budget for a movie. The TMNT movie was made independently because major studios were afraid it would flop like He-Man did.

[@lorenzobaravelli6637]

"He used real guns cause he couldn't afford props" one of the most American phrase I have ever heard

[@CraftySouthpaw]

2017's The Snowman - They released what they had & called it a "movie."

[@MurderMostFowl]

There should have at least been an honorable mention to “Return of the Killer Tomatoes” where halfway through the film they break the 4th wall and shut down the film for running out of money, only to be saved at the last minute by choosing to sacrifice artistic integrity for product placement. The movie then restarts the scene where everything is corporate sponsored and the dialog is thick with advertising nods. It’s was an extremely novel and funny thing at the time, but I haven’t rewatched to see if its schlock has held up over the years.

[@TommyCrosby]

Where's the entry for WhatchCulture replacing outro with fade out before the end?

[@mrmidnight2194]

The Evil Dead was worth every penny, it's such a perfect movie 😈

[@carlosalbertolealrodriguez5529]

There is a movie from Cuba, it´s called "Plaf!". The director didn´t have money for a car crash, so, instead, we see the car turning around a mountain, and then the director appears on screen, saying "I don´t have money for the next scene, our protagonist is going to crash, so I prefer to tell you the story of this particular scene..." "Now, let´s go to the hospital scene"...

[@kimanireid6111]

As bad as cut throat island might have been I'd still watch it if it was on TV right now

[@brianjensen3047]

They forgot Wolf of Wall Street on this list.

[@hoobastank404]

Engagement!!!

[@duncancurtis5108]

Cimino sadly finished himself with Heavens Gate so soon after Deer Hunter. So many bombs went way over budget.

[@bobchurch6175]

Two big problems were run time and budget. In the days before video when you could only see a movie in a theater sitting there for over 3.5 hours was a deal breaker for a lot of people. If he'd cut that ridiculously long battle scene down to a reasonable length it would have helped with both problems and maybe saved the movie.

[@omarpop8706]

Dunno but this list reminded me of fyre festival and that dude that suck someone of for water bottles

[@thac0twenty377]

I would hire that dude in a second. any job. he'll go that extra mile man

[@philswales3814]

GILL-I-AM! Not "Gillum". Try harder, do better.

[@knelle1114]

Monty Python and the Holy Grail had an insanely low budget.

[@BigBadGrun]

Yeah, we are all missing the outros , budgetary cuts suck.

[@nerdbomber]

Just here for Jules

[@jessewilley531]

Umm... no. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier is not the worst Trek movie ever. Not when The Motionless Picture and Star Trek: Nemesis exist.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Love your content guys ❤❤❤

[@StanHalen1936]

So cool how you post that same message on numerous pages. Get a life.

[@Gonzo-76]

Holy Grail went over budget because they spent too much money on that damn moose.

[@johnglielmi6428]

I like how El Mariachi was followed up by Desperado Just as campy. Couldn't get away with blackface in film any longer.

[@Hogtownboy1]

Can What culture stop doing video about it seems the same 30 films.

[@ultimedjsg8716]

What an anticlimatic ending tho

[@cm03591]

finally, jules is back

[@Spawnwick_Boseman82820]

Renny Harlin... what a guy(NOT!)

[@jamesmcdaniel5094]

Y'all adding music to this shit just makes it harder to understand and lots of the music is pointless noise not even music. Why?

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[@StanHalen1936]

Loser

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Monty python is a classic