Only $15 million?
Yes,
only. Considering modern movies tend to cost in the range of 9-digits, $15 million is low. For a movie. Btw, you're lazy for not closing tags. It looks so unbalanced and ugly. But anyway..
That would suck. I much prefer big budget movies, since then they have a larger special effects budget.
On one hand, that's true. On another, the "best" special effects are the home-made ones. It seems like any idiot with the right software can do spectacular special effects now (maybe that's untrue), but back in the day it took a special talent.
Of course, the software and computers and stuff are getting cheaper, too, and using them to make it look like you exploded something is cheaper than actually exploding something, and it probably looks better. So maybe that won't be so bad?