’s Spring Festival movie review is finally here.
This tap water review was supposed to be introduced to everyone at the beginning of the Spring Festival, but it was almost late when the Spring Festival was about to end. It's not because I haven't watched the movie, but because during this Spring Festival, compared to the prosperity of previous years, this year's movies seem a bit "bland".
It is not like "The Wandering Earth 2" and "Detective Chinatown", which immediately make people know that it is the leading blockbuster in the Spring Festival. The participating contestants also seem to be a bit "Xiaojiabiyu", and the number and magnitude of the films overall show All relatively mediocre.
But compared to this kind of mediocrity, in terms of film quality, it is not an absolute lousy film that people can’t help but criticize in the cinema. The overall quality is basically maintained at an average level, so it doesn’t seem that bad. Uneven.
At the same time, its box office trend has also shown an unpredictable trend. Some people are leading the box office, while others choose to withdraw. The cruelty of the market is vividly displayed at this moment.
Well, these "nonsense" are over, so this time we will also check out the "Spring Festival" movies. We have selected the ones that are the most discussed. We have not been able to record the movies that are still in theaters one by one. The following are Comments are purely tap water reviews. If you have different opinions, please see the comment section:)
01
" Hot and Spicy ": Jia Ling's sincerity is worth five stars
Title: Hot and Spicy
Director: Jia Ling
Starring: Jia Ling Ling, Lei Jiayin, Zhang Xiaofei, Li Xueqin, etc.
Type: Comedy/Inspirational
"Hot and Spicy" has become the box office champion during the Spring Festival. I wrote a brief review of my movie-watching experience before: Jia Ling is talking about: What is the essence of human beings?
The discussion it received in the public opinion field was about Jia Ling's 100 kilograms of weight loss. Many people rushed to battle. If there are huge benefits at hand, whether losing 100 kilograms is a simple and natural thing.
What is equally negative as this answer is that the focus of this film is definitely not the 100 pounds lost. This section of the film only lasts for less than two or three minutes. Jia Ling also said that if it becomes a hot search, I hope it will be Topics like “love yourself”.
Yes, the most annoying thing about Le Ying in the movie is not her fat figure, but her lifestyle and attitude towards work. She and her partner Hao Kun both have an almost pathological worldview. Le Ying is not good at communicating with others and passively withdraws from the world. Hao Kun is unable to integrate into the general environment and is ostracized in the workplace. So the lives of the two are like a mess, one is bullied everywhere, and the other is looked down upon by no one.
When you are so depressed that you refuse to communicate with the world and lose the ability to love yourself, that is the beginning of disaster. You will find that all bad things happen one after another, and your body and soul will be tightly bound by malice.
So what kind of way to survive is what Jia Ling wants to explore. Weight loss is only the most obvious and visible of these changes.
All viewers knew that there must be a high-octane Nirvana scene in the film. Even though they were mentally prepared, they were still severely moved by Le Ying's every move, including punching, blocking, dodging, lifting barbells, and big swings. Rope, the huge grievances and sorrows accumulated in the bloated body for many years were released and evaporated at this moment.
After Leying successfully lost weight, she did not focus on the various resource bonuses brought by cheating the character to flaunt her weight loss. This further proves that the core of what it wants to express has nothing to do with body shape. Le Ying's transformation is far more than just her body shape and temperament. What's more important is that she reopened her heart after being hit hard by life and re-established the courage to "I can do it, and I won't end it." When Hao Kun met again, Le Ying said, "It depends on my mood." "At that time, she had established a strong and self-consistent digestive system in her heart, that is, she no longer needed others to prove her existence.
Jia Ling used this "reality show" watched by everyone to declare that self-respect and self-love are the most precious things about being born.
——Youli
02
" Flying Life 2": Han Han and Shen Teng's Double Comfort Zone
Title: Flying Life 2
Director: Han Han
Starring: Shen Teng, Fan Chengcheng, Yin Zheng, Sun Yizhou, etc.
Type: Comedy/Sports
The quality of "Flying Life 2" is undoubtedly online.
If Han Han's favorite car is used as an analogy, "Flying Spur 1" is like a 911 turbo S that focuses on track performance and ignores ride comfort, then "Flying Spur 2" is like an M4 M Power with balanced performance and comfort. Or the Audi SR4, the film is more delicate in terms of lens processing and plot coherence than the previous film.
"Flying 2" omits many niche jokes and details in plot advancement, the comedy structure is more reasonable, and the character creation is more complete because it is close to the general public.
Han Han is also a smart enough director. He will not hit a wall by trying everywhere like many of his peers. Almost all his works are within his comfort zone. As a sequel, "Flying Speed 2" is naturally even more so, which is full of Han Han's passion. The best elements: racing, feelings, old men and idealism, and then using an uncomplicated single-line story as the "chassis" to carry them.
After ordinary viewers "get in the car" following the protagonist's perspective, they will not feel that the racing theme is unfamiliar and "hard", and the experience will naturally be more comfortable. The "happy reunion" ending also perfectly suits the atmosphere of the Spring Festival.
Of course, if you ignore its comedy shell, the inside of Flying Speed is a very familiar narrative: how people persist in their dreams and awaken their inner strength in real difficulties.
In this plot and this emotional state, can the protagonist team fail? No, the film has given countless cheats to the protagonists, including the recording star of a team's technical team, the old car repairman from a music factory who hides in the city, and the guy who drove the car countless times in prison after winning consecutive championships. "The King of Bayinbulak" Zhang Chi overlaps with the protagonist...for what reason? Just to let the ideal win.
The world has become so cold. When people talk about their ideals, a literary and artistic work must make the ideals win in order to make the audience feel emotional warmth.
(As an aside, in the movie, idealism wins, but outside the movie, I hope that I can also be "idealistic" about stolen photos)
- Mr. Hippo
03
"Article 20": The one with obvious advantages and disadvantages. Written by
Title: Article 20
Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Lei Jiayin, Ma Li, Zhao Liying, Gao Ye, Wang Xiao, etc.
Type: Comedy/Family
My feelings about "Article 20" are a little complicated.
Do you think it looks good? It's good-looking. In terms of story content and concept, it's a bit like a modern version of "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit". This somewhat confusing title is taken from Article 20 of the "Criminal Law" "Legitimate Defense", which determines that although it has a comedic shell, the core must be serious.
It explores legal principles and human relationships, and is the most ambitious film in the Spring Festival.
The film has a three-line narrative around the theme of "justifiable defense". While prosecutor Han Ming and colleague Lu Lingling were handling Wang Yongqiang's case, they were also faced with the attack of the other two lines. Legal principles and human feelings collided: What is the use of "ex post facto rationality"? "People" "act according to the rules", like pulling a film to play back the behavior of the parties frame by frame, defining which frame is considered legitimate defense, and which frame is considered intentional harm? Or should we put ourselves into the situation of the parties concerned and understand and evaluate it from the perspective of "ordinary people before the incident"? After all, a case is the life of a person, a family or even several generations.
The contradiction between "rational people after the fact" and "ordinary people before the fact" is not only the core argument of the film, but also an issue to be elaborated in Article 20 of the Criminal Law.
But at the same time, putting such serious content into a comedy shell means a greater challenge for the director and actors.
Lao Mouzi never fails technically, but in terms of the overall tonality, I still feel a little disappointed. As mentioned in many film reviews, it feels too "large-scale sketch", so that I regret this subject matter. Content and actors, could have been better.
Speaking of actors, I have to talk about Xiao Zhao. The bullied hearing-impaired mother Hao Xiuping should be her most special role since she started acting.
She can only perform the whole film using sign language, body movements and eyes, but she has a strong sense of belief. When I saw the hearing-impaired mother's thin and frail body standing up to a group of Kangcun gangsters, tightly protecting her daughter behind her, with tears of fear in her eyes but shining with perseverance, I was really immersed in it for a second.
——Youli
04
"The Bears Reversed Time and Space": Steady happiness during the Spring Festival
Title: The Bears Haunted: Reversing Time and Space
Director: Lin Huida
Dubbing: Tan Xiao, Zhang Bingjun, Zhang Wei, etc.
Type: Comedy /animation
As an absolute hit at the box office during the Spring Festival, "Bear Bears" is the stable and happy one in this period every year.
But there is one thing to say. The quality of the movies produced by this IP every year is actually quite stable, and there are even merits every year. This year’s theme is “Reversal of Time and Space”, but I think it’s more like “Strong Multiverse”.
This time, Bald Qiang is no longer the lumberjack, but has become one of the 996 troops in the big city. In an accident, he realized that the current life in 996 was just another life he chose after traveling back in time. In the original timeline, because of Bald Qiang's absence, his good friends were all in danger. So in order to save his friends, Bald Qiang went to Time Shadow alone, and started a series of time and space adventures.
This story text may be commonplace in mature movies, but when put into an animation, it still seems very conscientious. Its conception and expression are actually more like a story for adults, especially among my circle of friends, who cried after reading it.
Even going deeper, it is actually a topic worthy of discussion. If you had a choice, would you give up your current life and choose another life that looks more colorful but is also more tiring?
However, this kind of story understanding is obviously a thinking perspective that only adults have. For children, they may not necessarily think so deeply. They also have their own way of thinking.
Especially later, when all the characters in the previous movies appeared together, they were obviously happier; when Bear Big Bear II always saved his friends unconditionally, the children were also more moved.
However, as an old user who takes his children to watch movies every year, I still have to say that this year’s bear content is a bit lower, and there are fewer laughs than before, but the bear is still the same, and it will not make you feel that tens of dollars are wasted. The steady happiness of walking out of the cinema with a smile on your face.
- Chunmei
05
" Mr. Red Carpet ": "Durian" in the Spring Festival stalls
Title: Mr. Red Carpet
Director: Ning Hao
Starring: Andy Lau, Shan Liwen, Yu Weiguo, Ning Hao, Lin Xilei, etc.
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Just when I wanted to complain about how difficult it was to watch "Mr. Red Carpet", it suddenly announced that it would be withdrawn. So far, its box office performance is not even as good as "Shaking the Sun" which exited the battle earlier.
Many people said that this film was also picked at the wrong time. However, it may have the same effect no matter which time it is placed. Because it can't sink in at all, people who are a little far away from the industry can't fully understand the plot in the film, let alone its concept and secretly buried Easter eggs for movie fans.
The story is quite simple. It tells about the superstar Liu Weichi (one explanation is that this name is taken from Andy Lau + Tony Leung + Stephen Chow). Both his marriage and career are not going well. In order to make a breakthrough, he plans to make a rural-themed literary film with a mainland director to compete for awards. , because "rural themes can win awards", but starting from the superstar going to the countryside to experience life, the shooting process gradually got out of control...
Some people say that it is too different from Ning Hao's previous works, but it is still full of Ning's black screen Humorous "good ridicule", from celebrities' daily life to capital control and award control to industry chaos, they attack every detail of the industry indiscriminately. Crazy enough to create equal opportunities for every screw in the industry.
Liu Weichi was afraid that he would be videotaped in the hotel, and everything he looked at looked like a pinhole camera; after the award ceremony, he silently moved his poster to position C; he was obviously disdainful but still pretended to say "liaoliaoliao" skillfully; the most popular one was The hotly searched topic is "beating the employer violently". Party A doesn't know how to pretend to know how to give orders. Zhang Zixian jumped in the air and was praised by netizens as an "Internet kicker". Which Party B wouldn't want to see him and let out a bad breath?
At the end of the video, Liu Weichi’s agent raised his fist, which was probably to express his despair of being unable to communicate with the idiot. The film looks like a hammer in one place and a stick in the other, but in fact, every scene is filled with Grandma Rong’s little needles.
It is precisely because these memes are difficult for people who don’t pay attention to the film and television industry or the entertainment industry to get them, which has led to serious polarization between its reputation in the industry and other audiences.
hopes that after the schedule is changed, more moviegoers will be able to calm down and appreciate the secrets.
- Youli
06
" Let's shake the sun together ": a regrettable work that does not match the box office and quality
Title: Let's shake the sun together
Director: Han Yan
Starring: Peng Yuchang, Li Gengxi, Xu Fan, Liu Dan, etc.
Type: Love/Family
"Shake the Sun" has been announced to have been withdrawn. I feel quite sorry to see this news.
I wrote a special post before: Putting it on the Spring Festival schedule, the director must have his reasons to express his love for the movie. As a result, it failed at the box office, so this movie, which is actually quite good in quality, chose to leave the Spring Festival. files.
I looked at the social platform, and many people felt that it was chosen at the wrong time. During the Spring Festival, people would rather watch a family carnival than watch the love and inspiration of two patients. This view is widespread, but I still feel it is a pity. If we abandon this movie because of the so-called taboo, it really does not live up to the positive connotation it expresses.
In fact, I think this is the best one in Han Yan's "Life Trilogy". It achieves the best balance between tear-jerking and the purity of the story. Even the ending of he is an addition to it, not A compromise to popular taste.
Peng Yuchang and Li Gengxi also both contributed one of the best performances in their careers. They perfectly portrayed the fragility and daily life of patients, the licking and tempering of love, and it can even be said that the love line of this film is , one of the best love movies in recent years.
However, no amount of affirmation of the quality of this film can change the status quo of withdrawal. This development once again proves the tragedy of the Spring Festival period. Not all the so-called big period can accommodate the top billionaires. If you are not careful, you may lose more than you gain in this period.
But it doesn’t matter. Good works can always stand the test. The failure of the Spring Festival film does not mean that there is no future. It will be released on March 30. I still hope that I will shout a few more times to prevent it from being missed.
——Sweet and Chili Sauce
Which movies did you watch during the Spring Festival this year?
In your opinion, which movie is the best you have seen so far?
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(You can also nominate those that Sister e didn’t mention)
