[Galadriel55]

That's the thing though. It's just good enough to get your interest - a great idea, a very decent Tolkien effort - but then it flops. It's one thing when the whole thing is completely off mark (*coughROPcough*), then you just shrug and stop watching. But this one actually has so much good potential!

Now, I am not well-versed in movie costs. Is 30M a little? But gotta keep in mind too that it's anime and not live action. However, that is beside the point. Brilliant movoes have been done on a shoestring budget, and expensive movies have been very stupid. The money doesn't make the movie - especially here, where it's more a matter of script writing that makes the difference. Just to illustrate, you could write a more plausible and interconnected sequence to deal with a rabid mumak rather than having a random Watcher there with the exact same screen time and animation effort. A good script is not a question of money.