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's movie viewing report after half a year, it is here again.
Compared to the bustle of movie theaters in the first half of the year, I clearly feel that the box office market in the second half of the year is a bit "deserted". It seems that all the entertainment has ended in the summer season, and even the National Day season seems a bit decadent. In contrast, concerts are extremely prosperous, and touring and ticket grabbing have become the norm in my circle of friends (even Taylor Swift’s concert documentary is competing at the box office with movies).
As one of the workers in this industry, when faced with this phenomenon, I can certainly tell something from an industry perspective, but from the perspective of an ordinary audience, I wonder whether the quality of our cinema movies is indeed Missing some appeal?
Especially at the end of the year, if you take a look at this year's top ten bad movies, you will find that even ten boxes are not enough. The quality of some movies with high box office is also different from the same level a few years ago. It is an indisputable fact that the box office is deserted, but it is not necessarily a bad thing. For the industry, it is also a reflection brought by the market.
Let’s talk about the “New Year’s Eve” again. There are not many new films this time, only seven or eight heavyweight films, but the genres are very rich, from comedies to romance films, crime suspense to concert scenes, there is basically no conflicting theme. .
So, this time we will also test the "New Year's Eve" movies. We have selected the ones that are the most discussed. We cannot record the movies that are still in theaters one by one. The following comments are purely tap reviews. If there are any differences Views, see the comment section:)
01
"If You Are the One 3": Feng's humor is a double-edged sword
Title: You Are the One 3
Director: Feng Xiaogang
Starring: Ge You, Shu Qi, Fan Wei, Li Chengru, etc.
Type: Comedy/Romance
"If You Are the One" is an IP that I am fairly familiar with. Director Feng also considered the audience who have never seen it before and did a plot review in the first 10 minutes of the movie, so that it would not be too restrictive.
Compared with the urban background of the first two parts, the third part is set in the era of rapid development of artificial intelligence in 2030. Although Qin Fen and Xiaoxiao are together, Xiaoxiao has been gone for 10 years. Ge, who misses Xiaoxiao, The uncle chose to customize a smart robot that simulates a smile in the smart company of his friend Fan Wei, and the story begins.
Throughout the movie, Feng's humor is very prominent, but it is also a double-edged sword. People who can get it will find it funny, while people who can't understand will think, "Can carbon-based creatures come up with this plot?"
For example, Jianguo, played by Chang Yuan, chose to make a bionic robot of Qin Fen after repeatedly failing to woo him, and then brought his "mechanical double" to encounter the genuine Qin Fen. This is Feng's humor that I can get.
Of course, there are also things that I don’t like, such as the occasional naughty jokes in the movie. Ge You complained to his friends about the biggest shortcoming of the robot, which is that it can’t do things; Xiaoxiao came back ten years later, and Uncle Ge’s way of expressing his feelings was to sleep with her. Sleep.
There is not much to say about the actors. Shu Qi is 47 years old and she can still amaze me with her beauty. Yu Shuxin, who was acting in a movie for the first time, played a role that suited her very well, and her expressions and reactions were quite appropriate.
As the end of a series of movies, it can be seen that Director Feng wanted to give this IP a decent farewell. In addition to burying the plot of the first and second movies, he also gave several minutes at the end of the film to let Ge Youshu Qi and the character say goodbye. But it is this mentality that makes me feel that the movie's treatment of "love" is not exciting enough.
In other words, viewers who have feelings for the IP "If You Are the One" may like it, but for this generation of young people whose views on love have long been shaped by the Internet, this love movie still seems "outdated".
——Chunmei
02
"Twinkle, Twinkle, Shining Star": It's really not good to change the drama into a movie
Title: Twinkle, Twinkle, Shining Star
Director: Chen Xiaoming/Zhang Pan
Starring: Qu Chuxiao, Zhang Jianing, Fu Jing , Jiang Yunlin, etc.
Type: Romance/Fantasy
The drama was well shot, mainly because the male protagonist Wansen’s character design was perfect (by the way, Qu Chuxiao was born with good career luck, and no matter how much black material he has, it will not hinder his excellent acting skills + The cake is good).Marketing is also expensive. "Zhang Wansen, it's snowing" should be considered a hot meme of the year.
However, there are very few people who are not scolded when the drama is changed into a movie. "Flash Star" also stepped on many pitfalls of the drama being changed into a movie:
1. The plot of the movie version cannot be said to have nothing to do with the drama version. It can only be said that they have not the slightest connection. , it is considered an official fanfic, and fans of the show may be upset about this.
2. It’s okay to remake a fan story, but it’s so good that it’s not dead. The rhythm of the film version is similar to that of the TV series. The first half is very slow and flat, and it doesn’t have a bit of drama until it enters the perspective of the male protagonist in fast time travel. This may make passersby piss off.
3. I personally feel that in the literature of secret love, the redemption of double-wearing is not as good as the redemption of single-wearing. This is a matter of opinion.
4. The frame has black borders! I looked at it and said it wanted to distinguish memories from reality, but the black border lasted too long and affected the viewing experience.
has to lament that domestic youth films still cannot escape Guo Xiaosi's routine, and they did not pay attention to the rhythm issue when the drama was changed to a movie (no matter how slow the drama is, it can be doubled up, but can it be done as a movie?), if this film can have a good reputation , then I recommend "Countdown to Say I Love You" by Arthur and Zhang Jingyi, and "I Want Us to Be Together" by Qu Chuxiao and Zhang Jingyi. Teacher
, "Flashing Star" can be on the table, why can't our "Countdown" and "I Want"? It's almost the same level, so don't favor one over the other.
——Sister e
03
"Stealth": logic bug breaks my bottom line
Title: Stealth
Director: Kwan Chi-yao
Starring: Andy Lau, Gordon Lam, Eddie Peng, Anthony Lau, Simon Yam, etc.
Type: Drama/Action
See the film introduction At that time, I was well versed in hundreds of Hong Kong film routines, and I had already completely sketched out the plot of "good brothers turning into good and evil duo" in my mind. At first, I thought that the film had the blessing of Andy Lau, Lam Jiadong, Peng Yuyan, and Simon Yam. At worst, it was just overflowing with routines. , mediocre and boring, but the logic bug of this film still broke my bottom line.
What is the undercover agent played by Lin Jiadong doing? The efficiency is not as good as Sang Biao, who has been undercover in the Viper Gang for ten years as the "Master and I" team. I have rarely seen a more useless undercover agent than Sang Biao from the Viper Gang in serious undercover films.
The scenes of Liu Yase being insulted by a gangster, the bloody wedding, and the death of both mother and daughter are really arranged with no logic. Did the undercover film turn into pure love halfway through? The relationship can't go on anymore, so how many minutes does it take for pure love to start a bloody wedding? Liu Yase's performance in it was completely nondescript. This role is suitable for the pitiful vase Chu Chu. Liu Yase, you are obviously not the one. The action of stubbing out the cigarette butt fiercely and the eyes that are half cool and half disdain betray your inner sense of belief: Look, you yourself don’t believe that you have played a role. What the hell.
I have pity on my Hua Ge Dong brother. He was in fire and water. Peng Yuyan even climbed on the roof of the car and opened fire intensively... But where is the logic? The police system has been hacked by darknet elements, and the old undercover is still allowed to continue operating? Get on the pole and get killed? The reason why Andy Lau turned from wise to crazy is because of the two words of Simon Yam and Eddie Peng? Wasn't it a South American drug lord who killed your wife and daughter? Why not concentrate on killing him? Do you have to spend so much energy to engage the police?
The most terrifying thing is the last one. The key evidence for conviction is whether Liu Hua himself has access to the darknet. Liu Hua has so many experts that he can hack the police protection network to the point of paralysis and openly engage in dupe on the entire network. , ended up throwing away all the protective armor in the most critical battle and leaving his own body on record?
Not to mention the strange rhythm, the most worth-watching part of the film is the few minutes when Li Jiaqi connects to the dark web. Sister E feels that "Stealth", let alone a legacy of Hong Kong films, would be considered a failure in logic if it was included in a mediocre gangster film like "Tiger of Wan Chai" from the early 1990s. It is recommended that while spending money on martial arts dramas, you should also hire a better literary drama scriptwriter to supplement the logic.
——Sister e
04
"The annual meeting cannot be stopped!" 》: You must watch this one.
Title: The annual meeting cannot be stopped!
Director: Dong Runnian
Starring: Dapeng, Baike, Zhuang Dafei, Wang Xun, Sun Yizhou, etc.
Genre: Drama/Comedy
I really like "The Annual Meeting Can't Stop", especially at the end of the year when there is so much work information When the brain fog started, I realized the happy feeling of leaving the scene while laughing and cursing at the same time.
Fitter Hu Jianlin was mistakenly transferred from the factory to work in the human resources department of the head office. He was highly respected because of his status as a related employee, but he also messed around because he didn't understand the rules of the workplace. A misplaced identity and poor information accidentally allowed the honest and honest Hu Jianlin to go straight to the top of the company.
The final annual event will put everything back in place, including of course the real-life issues that have been satirized in movies such as "airborne landing of related parties", "leadership inaction", "workplace palace fights", "workplace slang" and so on. After all, after Hu Jianlin is gone, there will still be other Jianlins like Zhao Qian, Sun Li and others. I think this is the most ironic thing about the whole movie.
can get a promotion and salary increase by signing up for the annual meeting. He becomes the general manager and becomes the CEO. He marries Bai Fumei and reaches the pinnacle of his life.
At this moment, Hu Jianlin not only became the ultimate goal of the hard-working dog me, but also unexpectedly realized Wang Dachui's daydream. From then on, the two major comedy IPs in the "Ye Qing Hui" series broke the barriers of time, space and platform to achieve magical linkage.
Dapeng is able to play small characters with ease, and the sense of being a guest husband overflows the screen. Sun Yizhou's greasy workplace, Li Naiwen's sinister and vicious... Every character can add a touch of color to the movie, and you can even see talk show actors who do not violate the rules. "re-employment".
But there is an invisible threshold in the film, that is, if you have never experienced an "annual meeting" and don't know how ironic the word itself is, you will never be able to understand the sadness and tears of working people behind such a grand annual meeting. .
Of course, it would be better if the film could be shortened to 20 minutes and lose a few valuable plots. I was really tired after watching the video clip of Dapeng Baikezhuang Duffy on the beach. When I dreamed back to "Sewing Machine Band" that the three of them were all on the mic live together, I was no longer in the mood to carefully ponder the subtext of the heart-warming lyrics.
——Youli
05
"Goldfinger": The story is mediocre, but the sentiment is very touching
Title: Goldfinger
Director: Chong Man-keung
Starring: Tony Leung, Andy Lau, Charlene Choi, Simon Yam, Alex Fong, etc.
Type: Drama/Crime
Home People, I saw Andy Lau and Tony Leung Chiu-wai up close in the first row of the theater (with tears streaming down my face.gif)!
I am not an audience for this type of film, so I didn’t get any so-called sense of satisfaction from Cheng Yiyan (played by Tony Leung)’s meteoric rise. But the whole movie gives me a sense of the atmosphere of old Hong Kong movies from time to time, including its setting, camera movement and color grading. I can see Zhuang Wenqiang's persistence in stylizing Hong Kong movies.
What I like most is the fictional flashback in the movie. Everyone related to Cheng Yiyan tells the ICAC about the "history of the big man's fortune." In each of their stories, which is not true or false, Cheng Yiyan started a travel agency and encountered gangsters in Southeast Asia. The boss, a "white glove" who specializes in illegal overseas income, had a smooth journey and quickly became a billionaire with only one hundred yuan. The entire editing rhythm and line composition of that section are very interesting, with a strong legendary color.
Many people were dissatisfied with the ending of the movie. Cheng Yiyan was able to get away with being arrested 7 times. Why did he surrender obediently the 8th time? Although he had obviously committed so many economic crimes and may have even carried human lives on his back, he was only sentenced to less than 10 years? In fact, after watching the movie, I searched for surrounding information and found out that the movie was adapted from a real incident. The incident was based on the "Caring Group Case" in Hong Kong in the 1980s, which is also a unique case in Hong Kong's financial community.
At the end of the story, there is a key time point when Hong Kong returns. Therefore, I saw a saying that one of the biggest reasons for Cheng Yiyan to commit suicide was that he was afraid that legal punishment would be dozens or hundreds of times heavier after the return, so he came up with this idea. A seemingly outrageous twist in the movie.
Another reason that makes me feel that the time I have been sitting here has not been wasted is that in this crew with more than 50 creatives per person, you can still be immersed in the performance of each character, and at the same time sigh, why? See After more than 20 years of Hong Kong dramas, are these people still active on the screen?
So even though I don't like this movie much because of the story, I still don't think it's a "fraud". If you like Hong Kong movies, Hong Kong dramas, Andy Lau, Tony Leung and Charlene Choi, you can go and you will be satisfied. But if you just want to get the continuous aftertaste-like feeling of "Infernal Affairs", you can also wait for streaming media.
——Avocado
06
"Taylor Swift: The Time Tour": Movie theaters changed ktv
Title: Taylor Swift: The Time Tour
Director: Sam Lench
Starring: Taylor Swift Swift
Genre: Music/Song and Dance/Documentary
I was really surprised when I entered the show without doing any homework. This isn't watching a movie, it's pure KTV dancing!
After a three-hour concert with famous songs, Swift was really shining. She changed her outfits one after another and jumped up and down. I couldn’t imagine how great it would be at the concert.
I am barely a casual fan, but I can successfully sing along to the world-famous song "Lover". Other songs are a bit challenging because they only have Chinese subtitles. I suggest fans review the lyrics before going to the group building.
Because my show started at 13:13, real fans accounted for almost 90%. Afterwards, everyone turned on the flash and stood up and shook their heads. There was also a young lady who went directly to the front of the curtain to dance along. The atmosphere was first class. But I imagined that if it was a pure passerby who entered without knowing it, he would be scared and exit to see if he was in the wrong place.
In the past, it was somewhat derogatory to say that a movie is a fan, but this is the most accurate and pertinent evaluation.
came out and saw that many fans on social platforms have reserved the concert. Driving a train and dancing all the way have become basic activities. Fans must see it. It is not impossible for passers-by to spend dozens of dollars to join in the fun of the concert (after all, a serious concert costs hundreds of dollars. When you arrive at the scene, you can only watch the screen.
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- Sweet Chili Sauce
What movies did you watch during the New Year's Eve this year?
Which movie do you think is the best one you have seen so far?
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