successfully launched the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) in "MAN OF STEEL" (MOS), in order to catch up with Marvel's footsteps, director Zach Schneider took advantage of the hot shots and launched the DCEU No. Two works, namely "Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice" (BATMAN V SUPERMAN, BVS for short)
, but the final result was very unexpected. This movie, which all fans and audiences have high expectations, has a very low reputation in the end. The freshness index of foreign Rotten Tomatoes film reviews is only 28%, and even IMDB, MTC and many other famous websites have very low ratings.
In addition to word of mouth, BVS’s box office performance is also very average. BVS’s North American box office on the first day of drawing was as high as 81 million U.S. dollars. , The global box office of 1.671 billion US dollars entered the top ten clubs in movie history, while the BVS North American box office was only 330 million, and the global box office was only 873 million. was almost twice as bad as "Jurassic".
Even, BVS is the only film in the history of that has a box office of more than US$100 million (166 million) but the final box office stamina is less than twice (1.99 times).
So, what aspect of this movie has problems? Why is it that neither word of mouth nor box office can meet the expected results? The meaning of
BVS
To know the reason for the failure of BVS, we must first understand the meaning of this movie for DCEU and its owner, Warner Bros.
From the outside, the third stage of Marvel has already begun in 2016, and DCEU has just launched the second work, and the progress has already fallen behind others by a lot. Therefore, if the film fails, there is no time to slow DC. Rejuvenate slowly.
is also because of this, BVS also undertakes the important task of opening up the DC universe worldview , because the sequel of the plot bordering BVS in the planning is the "Justice League" where DC heroes gather, and the Flash, Aquaman and Steel in "Justice League" Bone has not appeared before.
Of course, in addition to the Flash and others, the protagonists Batman and Superman, and even Wonder Woman are also key. As the DC Big Three, these three heroes are bound to become the core roles of the entire DC universe in the future.
In addition, as a work that connects the past, BVS also needs to leave the entire DCEU with sustainable development. After all, as a movie universe, development is the most important link , why can the Marvel universe almost Continuously launching movies? In fact, it is because the development of the movie universe is handled quite well.
is also so important because BVS is so important, so at the beginning of the filming of this movie, received a lot of resources from Warner Bros. and DC to support , including:
's budget of up to 250 million US dollars (and "Relink" Level)
director Zach Schneider has full power including selection and casting.
DC chooses the themes of all comic stories in the past 80 years
has a production time of 3 years.
In fact, the BVS movie also has a lot of advantages inherently, including:
Superman and Batman, the world's best partner on the same stage for the first time.
DC’s history of the strongest biological weapon Destroy Day debut.
The gimmick of Batman and Superman battle.
Wonder Woman debuts. From the perspective of resource investment and inherent advantages, can say that the "hardware" of BVS is very complete, and there is almost no possibility of failure for . Therefore, the last such unbearable result of BVS is obviously related to production budget and duration. The factor has nothing to do.
Therefore, to explore the reasons for the failure of this film, we still have to look for the reasons from the film itself. The film rhythm of
completely collapsed
In fact, from the point of view of the film itself, BVS is almost the same as the previous MOS.MOS has its shortcomings, and it is even more enlarged.
once said in the previous article analyzing MOS that one of the major problems with MOS is that the rhythm of movies is not controlled enough. All literary operas are piled in front, and martial arts are piled behind, so that the audience can watch literary operas for almost 90 minutes The big scene, leading to the perception is not good enough.
And BVS did not correct the problems of the previous game, but instead made it worse.
For the director’s cut version, the BVS is 3 hours in total, but the battle between Batman and Superman did not really begin until 2 hours after the movie.
and 2 hours before? Basically it’s all literary. Only in the 70th minute, there is a short Batman chasing car scene, but because the design is very ordinary (after all, most action movies have car chasing scenes, audiences are used to it) and the scene is dark night It's very dark, so this car chase can't fill the current two hours of "flavoring".
Even in the edited cinema version, the battle between Batman and Superman officially began after 1 hour and 40 minutes.
MOS also has the problem of film rhythm imbalance, but it is not as serious as BVS anyway. More importantly, the action scene of MOS is almost perfect, which makes up for the rhythm problem to a certain extent.
In terms of martial arts, BVS not only loses the visual impact of MOS's sonic boom effect, but also has a very problematic design.
Sandbag turn-based and free viewing of VR movies
After 2 hours of the movie, the audience can finally see Batman fighting Superman.
After all, the battle between the two is a publicity gimmick for this movie, and many viewers buy tickets to enter the theater to watch this scene.
However, the result is very disappointing, because this so-called war basically embarked on the routine of the old Superman movies. To put it simply, as long as the opponent takes out Superman’s weakness, Kryptonite, Superman will be beaten as a sandbag. Once the effect of Kryptonite has passed, the opponent will be used as a sandbag hammer by Superman.
The battle between Batman and Superman is designed to be like this. When Superman inhales the smoke made by kryptonite, he instantly transforms into a sandbag. Batman tortured almost as he pleased. This kind of tactical battle can be said to be complete. Nothing to watch, the audience wanted to watch the battle, not the sandbags. In the original
, Batman’s power armor is very powerful. Of course, this suit is actually not as good as Superman, but it can still fight against Superman when Superman is weakened. It could have been designed to inhale Kryptonite bombs. Afterwards, there was still a very fierce and exciting battle with Batman wearing armor. However, in the movie, this suit was weakened into a set of ordinary armor that only resists the impact. Therefore, Batman also completely lost the ability to "play wonderfully" with Superman. condition.
, as a gimmick super bat battle, plus the battle that the audience waited for almost 2 hours to see, how can it be so perfunctory that it is so perfunctory? In addition to this, the design of the second half of the decisive battle is also confusing. In the final stage, Superman and Batman and Wonder Woman battle BOSS Doomsday. What
is right is that it has immortality, can evolve infinitely, and can slap Superman to the day of dizziness.
believe that everyone can also know what is inconsistent. Since Batman's armor has been weakened to that kind, why let him be an ordinary person to fight against the boss of Doomsday?
is not surprising, in the entire decisive battle, Superman and Wonder Woman take turns to fight Doomsday, and Batman watch the whole process, as if watching a VR movie.
Generally speaking, if you have a character that is obviously inferior to the hard combat effectiveness when playing a BOSS, will open up a second battlefield and arrange for another BOSS not known for combat effectiveness to let him solve it. This is a Hollywood movie. is the most commonly used and the most reasonable routine, , including movies such as "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Age of Mutants".
And does BVS have such conditions? Yes, because the other villain of this movie, Luther, is not known for his combat effectiveness.A plot allows Batman to deal with him, while Superman and Wonder Woman are on the front and on the day of destruction.
has such a big flaw in the martial arts design, which further aggravated the bad perception of BVS. The audience came into the theater, watched the literary drama and for 2 hours, but at the end they watched such a perfunctory action for an hour in the expected battle. Drama, how can this be praised?
In martial arts, the only thing BVS can praise is that the atmosphere is rendered very well, but unfortunately to no avail. The pattern of
is from big to small, and those who deviate from the core set
. After talking about martial arts, let’s take a look at Wenxi. What
BVS has always been praised by some people is that there are many metaphors, including various places where there are many metaphors for religion, and for example, many pictures are completely copied from comics.
But in fact, these points are not factors in evaluating the quality of a film’s story. Just like the article "Please make a good movie first, then make a metaphor", the so-called religious metaphor, or The easter eggs that mirror the original pictures are just icing on the cake. The premise of is to tell the story well and stand up to . These factors can make people smile, otherwise it can only put the cart before the horse.
, and the BVS story frame, in the first half of the film, is actually pretty good. uses two different concepts of Batman and Superman to collide with , plus the secret operation of the villain Luthor, making the conflict more difficult. It's getting more intense.
Unfortunately, in the second half of the film, this correct path was not fully implemented. Why does
say that? Because in the movie, the cause of Batman and Superman's fight was not the conflict between the two concepts, but Luther kidnapped Superman's mother and forced him to fight Batman.
Since the reason for the two people fighting in the end was because of this kind of kidnapping, the two-thirds of the previous film spent two-thirds of the difference and collision of the two concepts, which instantly seemed meaningless. What use is it for
to spend so much time describing the conflict of ideas between the two? Finally, it was not for this fight.
At the same time, the reason for the final reconciliation of the two is because Superman and Batman’s mother are both called Martha , which has evolved into a stalk and has been circulated on the Internet. Everyone knows the reason. This reconciliation method is too forceful. Embarrassing. The
movie did not describe Batman's obsession with his mother in the front. Instead, there are many scenes showing his dislike of Superman's belief that he will put him to death.
When Superman was about to be killed, his line turned out to be: "You are helping him kill Martha."
Huh? Wouldn't ordinary people say please save my mother in this situation? Why do you want to say your mother's name, Superman? In the previous MOS, you did not directly call her adoptive mother Martha, but mother.
is awkward, very awkward, is forced, very forced.
In addition to the story, BVS also has a big problem in terms of personality.
Superman, at the end of MOS, smiled with sunshine, which seemed to indicate that he would go in a bright direction. This is correct. The hero of Superman was originally a sunshine.
However, in BVS, his character set went in the opposite direction.
rescued his girlfriend Louis in the hands of terrorists, but because the behavior was too rude and the villain Luthor’s framing made the media have opinions on Superman, when Louis persuaded him, Superman said this:
"I I don’t care what they say.” A line from
, directly caused Superman’s anthropomorphism to completely collapse . Is this the Superman who hopes to use his power of good deeds as an example to lead mankind in a better direction?
A superman who only cares about his own female votes and does not care about other human beings, can he really afford the task of leading mankind forward?
For superheroes, the core spirit of the character is absolutely unchangeable . You can use many different ways to express it (like MOS), but if even the core spirit is changed, then this character is already Not himself anymore.
At the same time, the final death of Superman in BVS was also a very big failure, for two reasons:
Superman had only one movie of his own before, and the audience did not accumulate deep feelings for it. The deaths of Iron Man and Wolverine were preceded by audience fate accumulated over ten years, so they were so tearful.
Because the planned BVS sequel is "Justice League", and everyone in this movie knows that Superman will definitely appear. In other words, Superman will be 100% resurrected. A death like
can only be said to be meaningless.
Except Superman, Batman’s character set also has big problems. The most typical of
is that the Batman of BVS is , and the director Zach Schneider also claimed in an interview a few months ago that he thinks Batman should kill.
However, Batman’s principle of not killing is the hero’s core spirit . If this is changed, is this still Batman?
Therefore, on Twitter, various artists and screenwriters who have written Batman comics and animation for decades have stood up and accused Zach Schneider, and claimed: "Anyone who knows American comics should Know the difference between Batman and the Punisher."
As for Wonder Woman, she gave up 100 years of humanity for unknown things in the setting. This is obviously not a positive direction, but because Wonder Woman will launch later For the personal movie of the prequel, the setting of actually limited the final ending of her personal movie.
In the case of a big problem with the rhythm of the film itself, BVS's martial arts and literary drama have such big problems, it is no wonder that most audiences give this film so low ratings.
From the perspective of DCEU, the failure of BVS made DC completely lose the opportunity to catch up with Marvel. It can be said that the blow to DC is very huge.
But despite this, the road of DC movies is still going on. After BVS, DCEU also began to find a path that really suits its heroes.
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