What was the budget for Primer or Pi? (Score 1)

Seems to me that a real problem is what people expect from SciFi. Fundamentally the genre isn't about effects, but ideas. Sure, it's gonna cost some serious cash to convince me that the park is full of dinosaurs, but a computer network coming to life is basically just screenshots. There is a wide range of stories that can be told, and not all of them require running and action. Will it be a blockbuster hit? Not likely, but maybe the scale of production doesn't need the broader audience. This is actually a surprising conversation because I'm currently knee deep completing a SciFi series that was funded by Kickstarter. I will be the first to admit there are a handful of shortcomings that are caused by our smaller budget, but I believe that the story is unique enough (and people are hungry for real sci fi enough) that it will be a scaled success.