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Chapter 485 Disappointed Again

Chapter 485 Disappointed Again
After the box office rankings for the week from August 8th to August 18th were released, it was a little different from what most people speculated: the new film "Martial Arts" ranked at the weekly box office with a total of 8 million box office in the three days of its premiere weekend. No. 24 on the list, above it is "Hot Pot Heroes", which was shown in the third week. This black drama seized the rare period when the film strength of the same period in the summer period was weak, and successfully won the box office with 2.6 million. Ranked No.2 in the box office rankings for the third week.And the cumulative box office of the movie has reached 2.7 million. Not to mention the surprise of the media, even the director, several leading actors, and the investment place are all surprised by this result. It's like winning the lottery!

However, for the entire film market, a weekly box office of 2.7 million can win the No. 1 weekly box office, which also shows how embarrassing this year's summer vacation is!
You know, last week, "Hot Pot Heroes" also won the weekly championship with a box office of 3.5 million.

However, this week, there was an extra big-budget "Martial Arts", Zhou Champion only had 2.7 million left. Although the position in Asia was changed from "Sewing Machine Band" to "Martial Arts", although the release time of martial arts was cut off, but in the summer In this golden period, a production with an investment of over [-] million yuan and a publicity cost of nearly [-] million yuan has ushered in such a first-week result. Cool!
Looking at the results alone, it seems that the No.2 "Martial Arts" has 1000 million less box office than "Hot Pot Heroes", which seems not much, and "Martial Arts" has nearly five days less screen time than "Hot Pot Heroes", however, look There may be some reasons for the rating of "Martial Arts" on Douban.

Like "Hot Pot Heroes", "Sewing Machine Band", which has been screened for the third week, fell to the fourth place in this week's box office list with a score of 7976 million. This figure is naturally much worse than the previous week's 2.6 million. With the decline in attendance and the decrease in film schedule, it can be predicted that the box office performance of this film will continue to decline.However, its total box office has accumulated to about 4.3 million yuan, and there is no problem with profitability. When the painting is finally released, it is estimated that the final box office will be about 5 million yuan.This movie has run out of potential.

Up to now, even if Dapeng apologizes and begs on Weibo, it is useless, everything has been settled!

For this reason, many people who have always disliked the greenhouse and this movie cheered and celebrated on the Internet as if they had won, as if the movie in the greenhouse had failed.

For this reason, some media specially wrote an article on the Internet "This is the reason why "Sewing Machine Band" failed!"!

The contributor is said to be a senior rock fan. He wrote in the article, "There is nothing so-called explosion, and I don't think it is funny. This is the most direct impression of "Sewing Machine Band" to me. This movie is like The name of the band in the story also has an embarrassing and inexplicable taste."

"Obviously, this is a movie that tries to use comedy as a foundation, but ultimately sells feelings and dreams, but unfortunately, the two eventually cancel each other out, scratching it hard but in the end, and trying to be sensational also backfired. Alone Looking at the plots set in the comedy, it is not even as good as the "Father and Son" produced by Dapeng before, and "Sewing Machine Band" has been reduced to almost relying on a little bit of joy in the Northeast accent itself to save itself."

"Back then, the first feature film "Pancake Man" directed by Dapeng was criticized by many people-collage of jokes, showing off cleverness, etc., but it is undeniable that the story is full of dense and solid jokes, and more importantly, even the last The sensational passage can also be seen as a retelling of Dapeng’s true mental journey over the years. That movie allowed Dapeng to confirm his story routine-the helpless and tenacious low-level people working hard for their dreams, and a mix of ridiculous situations With the spirit of self-deprecating and maintaining his firm ideals, he tried to reproduce all of this in "Sewing Machine Band", but lost his soul and left empty shells. "Sewing Machine Band" presented passages without suspense one after another , leading to a more suspense-free ending."

"In today's era, the Internet has changed many things, making everything trivial and floating, but it has also enriched and diversified many things, such as music fans and channels. Even small bands have found sticky channels. Listeners and musicians no longer need to draw their swords at anyone. Looking at the story of "Sewing Machine Band" on the basis of this reality, Hu Liang's behavior seems very strange-a man who claims to love rock and roll, only writes He wrote two lines of lyrics, but inexplicably spent huge sums of money to find an outdated manager and asked him to build a band for him? What kind of existence is Cheng Gong played by Dapeng? What is the value of this character? His What was the impetus for his appearance? Since Hu Liang himself can distribute leaflets to attract musicians, and since he himself knows hidden rock masters one after another, why did he go all out to find Cheng Gong? Could it be that his purpose is to re- Inspire Cheng Gong's ideals and passion? The foundation of this story itself is very suspicious and almost untenable."

"Whether the land acquisition of "Rock Park" or the removal of the guitar totem in the story, all these are just to express the engulfment of some beautiful memories by a rolling forward era, and Hu Liang uses it to solve and save this All the methods are even more bizarre than inviting an agent with a high salary—he tried to use a performance to show the local ZF that the rock spirit of this small town is not dead, so as to withdraw the economic plan to develop the land. What is this like? What kind of logic? Is this obsession or stupidity? Will a local government give up real estate development just because some people like rock music? What's more, when did rock music be approved by the Huaxia ZF with such fanfare? Not a realistic story?"

"Some of Dapeng's works quickly attract people because of his ability to grasp and convey the details of real and secular life, but these characteristics are completely missing in "Sewing Machine Band", and there are logical loopholes everywhere. It’s more like a way of creating a theme first, with a given genre, and then weaving stories. In order to express ideals, passion, and resistance to vulgar life, it has fallen into imagination.” “Leave the theme and story construction aside, let’s take a look at this The rock and roll complex that the movie cannot get rid of makes everything more ambiguous. Is this movie for rock music fans or for ordinary audiences? Dapeng has embedded a lot of details that only music fans can decode. "Choose All" has the classic prelude of Nirvana, the ingenious integration of the name of the AC/DC band, and the appropriation and rewriting of John Lennon's chicken soup... These little easter eggs are buried everywhere. For music fans, it seems like a joke, but for ordinary audiences, it is obviously impossible to substitute, not to mention the scenes of real rock musicians appearing at the end of the film, which are even more inexplicable. It’s a movie that separates it from the real reality, and from Chinese rock music.”

"Perhaps, one of the few respects for rock and roll is that Dapeng really pays attention to asking everyone to put their thumbs up when they pay metal salutes, but here comes the problem again, this standard heavy metal salute and their band singing What does it have to do with that high school student-level inspirational song? A group of people who shouted that rock and roll is immortal, and those who are willing to defend rock and roll with their lives, finally sang a song that has nothing to do with rock and roll. The subtlest irony of a film."

However, compared to the billion box office of the first "Pancake Man" in the greenhouse, although the box office of this one in the greenhouse is a bit disappointing, if you only talk about whether a movie is profitable or not, then this "Sewing Machine Band" is obviously It was successful, and some people have done analysis. Although the box office performance of "Sewing Machine Band" is not very good, for the studio, because the film itself participated in the investment, the income that it puts in its own pocket On the contrary, there will be more!
Therefore, as far as Dapeng is concerned, his reputation seems to be consumed too much, but in terms of business, it is successful.

Perhaps it was because the movies in the entire schedule were not doing well, so the vicious circle caused the box office of other movies to be even worse. In the second week of its release, "Single Men and Women" ranked third in the box office list with a score of 8956 million.A total of 2.3 million in two weeks.

The fifth place at the end is "Being a Rich Man" starring Shishi and Yu Entai. Although the reputation is not very good, many fans who came to watch the movie were purely for the two leading actors, so those On the contrary, the negative comments did not have much impact on this part of the fans. What's more, even those negative comments were mostly complaints about the plot, and most of them praised the two leading actors, so they received another 5638 million this week, a total of 1.45 in two weeks [-] million, it is a small profit, and I am satisfied!
Seeing the newly released weekly box office rankings, everyone, including entertainment reporters, theater owners, theater bosses, etc., sighed—"Martial Arts" that everyone had placed high hopes on seemed to be disappointing again. up.Although the media had tried their best to promote this movie, it was easy to talk about, but the audience didn't quite buy it.

Take a look at the comments and comments of "Martial Arts" on Douban. There are tens of thousands of comments, and the total score is only 6.8 points. The three-star rating accounts for half of the data. It can be seen that everyone is really not satisfied with this movie. !This is really a bit sorry for such a top-level configuration!
Netizen “Taotao Movie Ticket” left a message, “What’s more interesting is that this movie called martial arts is basically anti-traditional and anti-martial arts. The director is trying to show his martial arts complex in his own way. It's fresh, it's becoming less and less a taste, and the narrative is somewhat broken. It is divided into two halves, and the more it goes, the more it goes wrong. The soundtrack and sound effects are impressive, and I finally know why some people always say thunder. Two and a half stars, in view of the recent There are too many bad movies, give it three stars!"

Zhang Xiaobei commented, "This is not a martial arts film. This is a sad "History of Violence". It only deserves two stars!"

Zhou Wuyang said, "Chen Kexin's first martial arts film, relying on Chinese medicine, meridians, blood flow and other words, tries to explain the lightness skills, internal skills, and acupoints that Chinese people are familiar with, in order to present a different kind of "microscopic martial arts" and " "Science Martial Arts", and it turned out to be full of thunder! I gave it three stars because I slipped! It should be two stars!"

Zhang Fei gave two stars, and he wrote in a comment with a joke, "If the whole film is about Kim Sung-woo splitting his personality, chopping Donnie Yen a few times from time to time, only to find out that he is really a farmer, then it will be What a great movie—"

Cui Jian only gave one star, and he felt a little complaining in his speech, "One star is a friendly call to Tang Wei and Hui Yinghong-after watching it, I want to ask: Why did you make this movie???"

Although the first week's box office was unfavorable, but the summer season is not over yet, everyone will naturally not give up, especially "Wu Xia", who is not satisfied with this result at all.

In a recent interview, Director Chen of "Martial Arts" revealed the news to the media: "At the China Star Awards next month, Tang Wei will be nominated for Best Actress for her role in "Martial Arts." At the new Asian Film Awards held in Seoul, South Korea, "Martial Arts" also received multiple nominations!"

This is undoubtedly for hype, in order to increase the exposure, increase the aura of the film, use various award nominations to continue to stir up the popularity of "Martial Arts" and attract audiences to enter!
"Martial Arts" will be hyped, and "Hot Pot Heroes" is naturally not far behind. Now the main creators of "Hot Pot Heroes" have almost no pressure. They are already very satisfied with both the box office and word of mouth, so it will be easy to publicize Very, Ning Tong and the others’ publicity activities have ended at this time, but because the box office was too unexpected, the investors hope that they will promote for another week. After all, even if they win another [-] million next week, for this movie, It's also great news. Now investors and directors have some ideas about hitting the billion mark at the box office in private.I was just worried that failure would end badly, so I didn't tell others.

So during the publicity, Director Yang became more active. He told the media in another publicity note: "Currently, our "Hot Pot Heroes" crew has also received invitations from multiple film awards such as the Starlight Award and the Asian Film Awards. , There are quite a few nominations, although there is no such award as Best Actor and Actress, but any nomination is an affirmation of us, we are very happy!"

Then the director Dapeng of "Sewing Machine Band" broke the news that "their leading actor Qiao Shan was nominated for the Most Popular Actor Award at the [-]th "Huaao International Film Festival"!"

"Being Rich" broke the news that "it was nominated for the best feature film at the [-]th Omen International Film Festival and the Golden Lotus Award for Best Actor at the Omen International Film Festival!"

It seems that all of a sudden everyone is breaking the news about the nominations for various awards. Even "Surprise All the Way", which can't be seen on the box office list, has caught up with this wave of enthusiasm. It was revealed that their movie won the "18th Magic City International Film Festival, Movie Channel Media Awards, Organizing Committee Special Award!"

(End of this chapter)

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