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Among them, the movie "About Time" has the shortest release time, but it is also this movie with the highest number of ratings and rating values on the IMDB website in North America.

In just three days, more than 30,000 users participated in the rating, and the rating number was as high as 8.5 points, ranking 35th on the world film history list and first among love movies.

Below it is the classic "Angel Amelie".

This is an incredible score for a romantic light comedy.

In addition to the influence of Yu Wei because "The Country Teacher" has just been released, the popularity of "About Time" can be seen.

Of course, this is just the rating of the movie that has just been released, and as the number of ratings increases, the IMDB score of the movie will decrease by about 0.3-0.5 points.

But even if the score of this movie drops to 8 points in the end, it is beyond everyone's imagination.

In Xingqiguo's Facebook and Huaxia's Weibo, the topic of discussion about this movie is also the hottest in the past few days.

On Facebook, there are 380,000 messages related to "About Time".

On Weibo, there are 7e".

However, compared to the fans' pursuit of this movie, many professional film critics in Xingqi Country feel that "About Time" is not even a qualified movie, let alone a classic.

Film critic Madley Roderk, who once praised "The Country Teacher", commented in the film edition of the Chicago Bulletin:

"From beginning to end, the film exudes a strong smell of chicken soup. Those clichéd philosophies of life, and a silly time-traveling setting, that's what this movie is all about. Is Peng Yichen really the director who once filmed "The Country Teacher"?"

In his column, Fitice Johnson of The Miami Times also wrote angrily: "This is a fancy show of affection movie with no logic, no interest, no intelligence." Can a movie for one's unborn child be completely illogical?"

But you can clearly see that those who don't like this movie are often "straight men" film critics born in science and technology.

One of them is Ron Rivers, a full-time film critic for the Los Angeles Film Journal.

He is the most famous film critic on the West Coast, but graduated from Yale University with a degree in chemistry and medicine.

On his Facebook page, he commented on "About Time":

"He's clearly on the path to becoming the greatest director, but now he's willing to fall into a movie about Chicken Soup for Love?"

The film critics who scolded Peng Yichen the most this time are often not those film critics in Xingqi Country who have always hated him.

On the contrary, they are those who have praised him so much.

What they can't stand is that a young man, who, in their opinion, can become a truly great director, embarks on the path of "self-destruction".

It's not that great directors can't make romantic comedy movies.

But even if a super director shoots a love movie, he will play some different tricks......

But Peng Yichen didn't, he was honest this time and told a love story about the boy's growth.

That's why they feel unacceptable.

If this is just an ordinary 30-year-old young director, even if they don't boast a few words, I'm afraid they will say that this is a movie above the standard.

But for Peng Yichen, a 27-year-old director, they couldn't accept it, he just shot a "mediocre" love movie.

San Francisco News' Richard Bruns lamented: "He's only 22 years old after all, which is the age when he messed around in college. ”

However, after all, there are only a few people who express this attitude.

On the Star Flag Country Tomato website, 105 fresh movie reviews representing positive reviews far exceed 31 rotten movie reviews representing bad reviews.

Most film critics who graduated from liberal arts majors obviously enjoyed this romantic comedy journey about the "true meaning of life".

Among them, especially those female film critics, almost unanimously said that they loved the movie.

Betsy of The New York Guardian wrote in his film review: "This is a psychological massage journey that changes your attitude towards life. In every beautiful shot, you will gradually sink into the love and life of this movie, and you can't extricate yourself. ”

Julis Lorre, a famous female best-selling author, also expressed her love for this movie on her Facebook:

"'About Time' is one of the best romance movies I've ever watched in my life, and even though the perspective of this movie is through a boy, I have rediscovered the concept of love for women because of this movie. ”

The Hollywood Reporter's Jack Widley, although also a straight man, praised the film:

"This is the coming-of-age history of a man learning to live, to be responsible, and to love, and every plot is incomparably real and moving. Don't feel like it's fake because of the time-traveling setting. In fact, every time he crosses, it is just a kind of review and introspection of the actor's past life. ”

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Of course, the most authoritative film critic in the Star Flag Country, Peng Yichen's long-time fan, Roger Albert, also expressed his opinion on the film in his main position "Chicago Sun-Times".

He commented: "This is the kind of romantic comedy I want, where you can see sweet love, beautiful scenery, warm family, and real life that constantly hinders your happiness." In the end, the boy finally grows up, and instead of using the ability to travel through time and space, he relies on his own wisdom and strength to achieve true happiness for himself and his family.

Live your day as if this day was your last.

It's a very clichéd theme, but in my life, I've only come across 3 movies that can tell this theme well.

Now Part 4 has finally appeared. ”

At the end of the review article, he expressed his attitude.

"The lines are humorous, the love is sweet, the scenery and music are beautiful, the movie is profound, everything is almost perfect! This is not a science fiction movie.

Therefore, my opinion is: highly recommend everyone to watch this movie and give it two thumbs up!"

Film critics have absolutely no influence on young girls, the most important audience for romance movies.

What's more, most film critics are more supportive of "About Time".

Therefore, even on the Monday of the second week of release, the audience still maintained a huge enthusiasm for the film, and they flocked to the cinema to watch the movie.

Countless audiences rushed into their cities, and the theaters where the movie was released almost shouted at the ticket seller: "Give me a ticket to 'About Time' right away!"

Early the next morning, the North American box office charts for last week were finally announced.

"About Time" topped the charts without suspense, making a huge difference from the second place, and won the box office title this week.

Over the weekend, the film grossed a total of $58.13 million!

Broke the first-week box office record for romance films, which was previously held by "My Grand Greek Wedding" at $42.01 million.

The total box office of the top 10 box office charts this weekend is 118 million, and the box office of "About Time" alone exceeds 50%.

The other 9 movies can only share the other half of the box office. Almost all the movies released in the North American market at the same time were bombarded by "About Time".

"Rise of the Apes", which was scheduled for the second week of release, received a total of $29.3 million, and the film had a good reputation, but the market response was not hot.

In third place was "Captain America" in its fourth week of release, which earned $12.3 million in a week.

In fourth place is "Bridesmaids" in its second week of release, which is the same romantic comedy as "About Time", which failed in both word-of-mouth and box office, and only earned $7.23 million in a week.

The total box office of the remaining six movies is only more than 10 million in total......

In October, because of the influence of "Country Teacher", the "hot schedule" of North American movies formed is about to be occupied by "About Time" again.

The popularity of this movie by the audience far exceeded all expectations.

The strength of the box office results also made everyone who doubted that the film would fail to keep their mouths shut at this time.

In Hollywood, the box office is everything.

Fortunately, "Twilight 4: Breaking Dawn (Part II)", which was released on October 18, overshadowed the box office results of "71e" on the first day, and saved some face a little in order to win the person who insisted that Hollywood movies are the best films.

For this reason, they deliberately pretended not to know the fact that a fan movie like "Twilight" had the highest box office three days before its premiere, and then the box office would dive, and forcibly advertised in newspapers and magazines that "About Time" had been completely defeated.

"It's good, but it's still not as good as Twilight, that's reality!"

In the Wall Street Journal, film market forecaster Rofok Garrod easily determined the final results of "About Time" and "Twilight" in terms of box office in his column.

It's a pity that what he didn't expect was that the speed of Peng Yichen's movie slapping his face came so quickly and so violently.

Just two weeks after the release of "About Time" and a week after the release of "Twilight", the North American box office results and global box office results of the two films were all out.

When these two sets of data were placed in front of them, all the filmmakers who saw the Star Flag Country were greatly surprised.

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Halloween is coming, and in the evening in the editorial office of the Los Angeles Times' cultural and entertainment section, yellow jack-o-lanterns are hung everywhere, and witches wearing black cloaks are everywhere, which is very festive.

The editors were busy, and the editor-in-chief, Emmadilis, who was sitting in the editor-in-chief's room, stared at her computer screen as if something incredible was on it.

It wasn't until her editor walked into the office that she came to her senses.

Looking at her most effective editor, David Bikti, she smiled softly and said: "My prediction has come true, and the result is even more exaggerated than I predicted! ”

David Bikti immediately knew what the editor-in-chief was talking about, and he couldn't believe it, and he leaned over to the computer, looking at the information on it, dumbfounded.

Seeing his incredulous expression, Dilis shook his head with a smile and commanded, "All right, David." Looking at the facts, it won't change. You immediately take down your comment, change the data from the comment I wrote, and put it on the front page of tomorrow's newspaper's entertainment section. ”

David shook his head, still a little unacceptable, and as he walked out the door, he muttered to himself, "Is this kid a wizard from the East?"

Dilis looked at his back, and a shallow smile was drawn on the corner of his mouth: "Whether he is a wizard or not, I don't know! But I know that he must be the cash cow of our media!"

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