Dude, post production is included in the budget. Obviously you don't know that. Any movie budget that doesn't include post-production is going to result in no movie being made--what do you think the huge bulk of that budget is for, location work? No--its MOSTLY post. If you cut the post costs from that, the budget would be only about $70 mil.
I happen to work on the fringes of the business and have several friends IN the business. You can keep going up against me, but I know a lot more about this stuff than you, quite obviously.
You can keep saying this stuff, but you simply don't know what you're talking about, and I do. "What they planned it to be" doesn't even make sense--they planned it to be a big, profitable hit, and it was. You're just trying to deny the success of someone we both don't like, but that's what DUmmies do; we should simply observe reality.
We can keep this up if you want, but maybe you should learn some facts first. I don't claim to know much, but you're playing in my sandbox here.
Dude, they said production costs were $440 million, not marketing and not post production. We can only go by what they say.
Reference,
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=waroftheworlds.htm