When Scorsese finally won his belated Oscar for Best Director, for "The Departed," from 2006, he needed it: en route from his past heroism to his latter-day renaissance, Scorsese, who works on a colossal scale with colossal budgets, needed to pass from the age of the studios to the age of the Medici, and that Oscar did the trick.
Besides, the colossal budget makes it harder to forgive a screenplay that isn't quite as deep or original as it thinks.
In a field that included diminutive actor Gary Coleman, former baseball commissioner Pete Ueberroth, publisher Larry Flynt, and political pundit Arianna Huffington, former bodybuilder and action star Arnold Schwarzenegger emerged as the winner, inheriting the state's colossal budget crisis.
WHAT THEY NEED TO DO NEXT: May need more of a goal threat but there is not a colossal budget - so Sunderland may have to set their sights lower than Fabio Borini, who did so well on loan last season but declined to move from Liverpool to the Stadium of Light in the summer.
Saudi Arabia has been drawing down its vast foreign currency reserves while running up colossal budget deficits.
Meanwhile, the public shells out big bucks for criminally awful trash including (but not limited to) colossal-budget CGI cluster-fucks like the Transformers franchise and shallow, unprogressive jerk off, gross out, star driven comedies like Grown Ups while superhero movies are crossing barriers so close into Oscar territory to no avail.
Still, the nation's economy has grown faster than the level of military spending, and even the current colossal Pentagon budgets for regular operations and the war efforts consume a smaller portion of gross domestic product than in previous conflicts.
"Although most vendors are still trying to enter the high-end of the market attracted by higher margins, they struggle to compete with Apple and Samsung, due their strong brands and colossal marketing budgets," said Mr Jeronimo.
The 0.02% of sales it spends on this effort is a fair tradeoff for the colossal advertising budgets other funds must maintain in order to sell directly to investors.
It finds specific expression in the vast arsenals of conventional weapons, the colossal defense budget and the plans for weaponizing outer space.
Its colossal defence budget has declined, in relative terms, from 23% of GDP in 1980 to around 10%, now that its most immediate foes are not armies but guerrillas and suicide terrorists.
