Depressive Screenwriter

Generally, the ratings of a movie are not released by major websites and film media until one or two days after its release.

However, among the audience, the word-of-mouth for this movie began to spread as soon as they left the cinema.

By noon, the comment sections on major websites and forums regarding the movies released during the Spring Festival had become extremely lively.

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"OMG, 'Raging Tides' is awesome! Ying Rui's acting is really amazing, and the script is superb. It's definitely the box office champion of the Spring Festival."

"I watched 'The Imposter Detective' this morning and laughed throughout the whole movie. I think 'The Imposter Detective' should be the box office champion of the Spring Festival."

"The quality of this year's Spring Festival movies is much better than last year's. 'Raging Tides' unexpectedly kept me engaged from beginning to end without a single minute of distraction. It's not a masterpiece, but it's definitely a great film."

"I just finished watching 'Raging Tides' and now I'm waiting to enter and watch 'The Imposter Detective'."

"Why is there no reaction from the audience and fans of 'Rurouni Kenshin'? The pre-sale box office was over 170 million, and the real-time box office has already exceeded 200 million. Logically, the first batch of viewers should be showing up and commenting, regardless of whether the movie is good or bad!"

"Could it be that the movie is not good, and the fans of that actor named Su Yan are embarrassed to say it?"

"Don't say that. I thought the 'Kenshin' trailer looked interesting. I just finished watching 'The Imposter Detective' and now I'm waiting to watch 'Rurouni Kenshin' at noon. I hope it's not a trailer scam."

"Stop bragging here. I just came out after watching 'Rurouni Kenshin' and I don't want to talk right now. I'm waiting to enter for a second viewing."

"Same here. How should I describe this movie? In one word, it was shocking. It's the best action movie I've ever seen."

"Damn it, I still have the image of Kenshin's Hiten Mitsurugi-ryū in the movie in my head. It's really awesome!"

"It's just that the plot isn't too dramatic."

"It's already good enough. Actually, the plot is very good. There's no filler, and the characters are well-developed. However, the action scenes of the main actor far exceed the level of the story, so you'll have that feeling."

"I've finished watching it, and I can only say it's a masterpiece! But I only give it 99 points. The one point deducted is for Su Yan, because he didn't revive Yukishiro Tomoe!"

"Yeah, Utō Jin-e was able to control others with his killing intent. With that kind of ability, why couldn't they have included some resurrection techniques in the plot?"

"I'm a fan of Shen Liqian, and I can only say that in 'Kenshin', Kaoru Kamiya's charm is far inferior to Yukishiro Tomoe's. Kaoru Kamiya's character design in the movie version is actually very good—strong, independent, and idealistic—but she's still outshone by Yukishiro Tomoe."

"An 80-point standard player met a 120-point god-level character. Kaoru Kamiya is actually not bad, but her competitor is Yukishiro Tomoe. Sigh."

"Why are you 'Kenshin' viewers all silent and then suddenly you all pop up at once? Is this movie good or not?"

"Isn't that obvious? Of course it's good! But what's good is not the plot of the movie version. The plot of the movie version is different from the TV series. The plot of Yukishiro Tomoe in the TV series touched me more, but the overall movie version is better than the TV series. Su Yan's fight scenes in the TV series were awesome. Ignore the plot and just watch these fight scenes, it's worth ten times the ticket price."

"Are you people from Dimension Pictures paid promoters? Who watches a movie and praises the fight scenes instead of the plot? How awesome can the fight scenes be in a martial arts action movie? It's just trailer level. I admit the action in the trailer is cool, but how many of those shots are there? If your plot is not good, you rely on action to support it?"

"Did I say the plot of 'Rurouni Kenshin' is not good? I said that it is different from the plot in the 'Rurouni Kenshin' TV series. A 90-point plot is not as good as a 100-point plot movie, but is 90 points bad? A movie with a 90-point plot has 1000-point fight scenes. What else should I praise if not the fight scenes?"

"Upstairs, if you want to know why we 'Rurouni Kenshin' viewers are all praising the action scenes in this movie, go buy a ticket and watch it. Also, I can tell you that the amateur level action in the trailer is present throughout the entire movie. As long as it's a battle scene, the level is consistently high."

"I finally know why so many of Su Yan's TV series have imitations and follow-up works, but there is no 'Rurouni Kenshin' TV series. It can't be imitated at all."

"You guys are exaggerating too much. Can it be more beautiful than the action scenes of the deceased kung fu star Bu Jinhua?"

"To be honest, the fights are much better than Bu Jinhua's movies. I haven't seen 'Raging Tides' and 'The Imposter Detective', but I don't think those two movies will be better than 'Rurouni Kenshin'. I'll leave my words here. If anyone says we are paid promoters from Dimension Pictures, we'll know when the scores for all three movies are released tomorrow!"

From noon onwards, the trending topics about the nine movies released during the Spring Festival came one after another.

But among the nine movies, only the 'Kenshin' audience praised the movie's action scenes throughout.

However, action is something that cannot be visually expressed through posts, and many passersby are just puzzled.

What kind of movie is it that makes this group of viewers praise it so much? Basically, few 'Kenshin' viewers criticize this movie.

Even if someone directly says that the plot is far inferior to the Yukishiro Tomoe plot in the TV series, they still have to add, 'The action scenes are awesome'.

As time gradually passed, the box office numbers for each movie on the first day of the Lunar New Year were released at twelve o'clock at night.

And the result was the same as what a group of film media in Xia predicted before the start of the Spring Festival.

The box office data for the first day of the Spring Festival movie market basically met everyone's initial expectations.

'Raging Tides' had a first-day box office of 328 million, 'Rurouni Kenshin' had a first-day box office of 309 million, and 'The Imposter Detective' had a first-day box office of 250 million.

The total box office for the day was 1.132 billion, and these three movies, with 63% of the screenings, accounted for 79% of the total box office.

Moreover, the word-of-mouth for all three movies was extremely high, each catering to different moviegoers.

Historical war themes, martial arts action themes, and hilarious wit themes.

The first wave of moviegoers for each of the three movies gave extremely high ratings to the works they were looking forward to.

But among them, the 9.6 rating given by over a million viewers for 'Rurouni Kenshin' still gave the Xia film media a great shock that night.

The opening scores for all three movies on the first day were above 9, but 'Raging Tides' was 9.0 and 'The Imposter Detective' was 9.1.

And 9.6...

This was another level of word-of-mouth.

After obtaining the first-day box office and word-of-mouth data, the theaters quickly adjusted the screenings for the second day. The screenings for all three movies increased, and the screenings for those movies with low first-day box office numbers were directly cut and given to these three movies.

The screenings for the three movies thus became 24%, 23%, and 21% on the second day.

And the news media and film critics started their work at this time. Of course, there were also many people who took money to smear their competitors.

['Rurouni Kenshin' Released, the Greatest Action Movie in Xia in the Last Twenty Years!]

[A True Genius, Su Yan, a 25-Year-Old Filmmaker, Can Fight, Can Write, Can Compose Music, Can Act... 'Rurouni Kenshin', the Best Movie of This Year's Spring Festival, Bar None.]

[A Boring and Sentimental Movie, a 9.6 Rating Can Only Prove That 'Rurouni Kenshin' Fans Have a Low Standard!]

['Raging Tides' Lives Up to Expectations, Winning the First-Day Box Office Champion of the Spring Festival.]

['The Imposter Detective' Has Incredibly Positive Word-of-Mouth, the Only Comedy Movie of the Spring Festival That Makes People Laugh.]

[Watched Three Movies in One Day, 'The Imposter Detective' and 'Raging Tides' Are Definitely Worth the Ticket Price, You Won't Regret Watching Them. But 'Rurouni Kenshin' Is a Masterpiece That You Will Definitely Regret Not Watching in the Cinema Later!]

[Min Jialiang, a Famous Action Movie Superstar From the Last Century, Praised the Movie 'Rurouni Kenshin', Calling It a Milestone Masterpiece in Xia Action Movies With the Best-Looking and Most Realistic Action!]

The news media's and the internet's reports made a group of movie fans in Xia excited.

Xia has a large number of movie fans who are extremely cautious.

A movie ticket is not worth much, but the viewing time is valuable. Many movie fans will choose whether or not to watch a movie after the first wave of word-of-mouth is released.

And the reality is...

The word-of-mouth for the three movies that were highly anticipated by the market before the Spring Festival all exploded.

Among them...

The word-of-mouth for 'Rurouni Kenshin' was the most exaggerated.

Audiences in Xia who like action and martial arts movies almost put it on a pedestal in just one day!