ccomley

So the budget is big. Some expensive actors. Lots of expensive special effects. Either lots of location filming or very good simulation, you can usually tell when they're not really there...

Pit they didn't reserve some of the budget for the writing team. Plots that make no sense, even on casual examination, and mediocre dialog.

Often doing things in an un-necessarily complex way in order to facilitate the FX shot, but not even trying to come up with a plausible explanation WHY they didn't just do it the easy way. Bad guy escaped? Well you didn't tie him up whilst he was unconscious ,for why?