How can you tell if a movie is bad? Many people, like Matthew sitting in the screening room, have similar questions.

Is it a bad movie if the box office is good?

A bad movie is not necessarily bad at the box office, and a good box office is not necessarily not a bad movie.

There are always a lot of bad movies that sell well at the Hollywood box office and good movies that are so low at the box office that they are outrageous.

Once, Matthew had watched a lot of bad movies, and there were even a lot of them that couldn't be worse, and it was clear that watching a bad movie would never bring pleasure.

I remember a period when I was very skeptical that domestic horror movies were really so bad, so I deliberately watched some of them, but the whole person was not good, and my nerves were once devastated, and I even had insomnia and hallucinations, just like the poisoned master in "Arkham Knight".

He still remembers watching a bad movie one night, and there were always unrecognizable people shouting in his head.

When I went to the construction site to pick up the sledgehammer the next morning, I saw that the newly built building was like a huge monster, the main entrance was a bloody mouth, and the windows were its eyes, flashing countless terrifying and evil white lights, and the building was like being entangled by countless giant pythons, and kept writhing, making a squeaking sound, and sat on the ground at that time, and simply asked for sick leave to rest for a few days.

I have watched too many bad movies, which not only hurt people, but also give people a blow to their hearts.

At that time, he took a leave of absence, and wanted to revisit some of his favorite classic movies, and deliberately chose some popular mainstream movies that were more interesting, such as "Back to the Future", "Die Hard", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "The Dark Knight", "Lethal Weapon", "The Lord of the Rings", and even "Once Upon a Time", "Infernal Affairs" These Chinese films, etc., are useless, I can't watch them at all, I feel sick to my stomach when I watch them, and I can't even watch the love and romantic action movies of the United States and Japan that are treasured by the hard drive and the new United States and Japan.

Play games, play and play dizzy, used to play in the middle of the night to have fun, it's fine, not to mention the reason for getting older, not to mention reading a book at a certain point, and there are nausea and uncomfortable hallucinations when you read it.

Later, after being reminded by a worker who had been baptized by bad movies, he learned that he was suffering from bad films, which was mainly manifested by vomiting, diarrhea, irritability, hallucinations, insomnia and dreams, weakness of limbs, and dizziness.

So he went out every morning to breathe fresh air, empty himself and didn't want to do anything, three meals a day were better, and he went for a run in the afternoon or something, and gradually got better.

What is infuriating is that bad film inflammation can't apply for work-related injuries!

For the sake of physical and mental health, try to stay away from bad movies!

He then specially reminded some workers who like to watch movies, with his own personal experience, to call on everyone to pay attention to exercise, eat reasonably, maintain a certain degree of independent thinking and judgment ability, cherish life, and stay away from bad movies!

As an amateur movie fan with a certain amount of reading, he gradually summed up a basic rule for distinguishing bad movies at that time.

There are three types of movies, which can be assumed to be bad movies before watching them, and eighty percent of them will not be wrong: domestic historical films, domestic magic films, and domestic horror films.

It's not prejudice, it's that he watches films in this area, and the proportion of bad movies is too high.

Compared to these, "Alien Battlefield" is not very bad, because it is really well-made, every shot is beautiful, whether it is background effects or combat effects, it is definitely the top level of this era.

In terms of special effects, the production cost of $250 million was not in vain.

But Matthew is well aware that if Hollywood's big-budget movies are bad, they will never be rotten in all aspects, but there is a fatal flaw in one important aspect.

The "bad Hollywood movies" that can be seen in theaters are often big problems in some aspect of the movie, causing the audience to feel that they are not enjoyable after watching it, and they are sorry for the Hollywood blockbuster.

For example, this "Alien Battlefield" is absolutely well-made, but it doesn't seem to be enjoyable, the content is old, and even many routines are eliminated by Hollywood, plus the narrative is exaggerated and dull, it can be said that it is a typical assembly line product that is not done well, which gives Matthew the biggest feeling, it is like eating a McDonald's burger in a high-end French restaurant, which is naturally very wrong.

In fact, the difference between the big productions and bad movies on both sides of the strait is quite obvious.

Hollywood's big-budget bad movies are that the audience can see that there are problems here, and that they are too hot here and weak elsewhere; the big-budget bad movies on the other side of the strait make people marvel that they are so rotten everywhere and so natural, that people seem to be faced with a rotten fruit, and they can't taste it, they can't put it in their mouths, and they have to rinse their mouths if they want to taste it!

Of course, there are many more bad movies in Hollywood than on the other side of the scale.

Especially those small productions.

Hollywood produces a very large number of bad movies every year, but there are generally traces to follow: for example, unknown directors and leading actors, at most one or two second- and third-tier actors as the protagonists to fill the façade; for example, the cost is relatively low, and there is no publicity before release; science fiction, fantasy, action, horror and other types of movies are the hardest hit areas of Hollywood's bad movies, so it is best to walk around when you see such films with strange titles and vague story introductions!

Hollywood bad movies, just look at the posters, trailers and stills, you can basically tell the difference.

The number of bad movies is also very consistent - lack of creativity, clichés everywhere, mediocre and boring......

It is actually very difficult for audiences on the other side of the Pacific to see the real bad Hollywood movies in theaters, and even in North America, these bad movies are basically word-of-mouth box office failures, and it is difficult for a director to find a film company to invest in him if he makes two films in a row that are neither popular nor popular! After the successive failures of the two films "Troy" and "Poseidon", director Wolfgang Peterson has no film to direct; and even bad movies by famous actors will affect his career- Look at how miserable Uncle Cage is now, and he can take any little bad movie......

In fact, most of Hollywood's rotten films are defrauding money in the disc market.

There is a company called "Shelter" in Hollywood, which specializes in producing all kinds of copycat garbage movies: when people make "Transformers", they make "Transformers", they make "Transformers", they make "I Am the End", and when they make "10,000 Years Prehistory", they make "100 Million Years Before History".

The cost of each film is basically less than $1 million, and their films will not be released in theaters, and they will directly release DVDs, relying on shoddy productions to make money on blockbusters that have just been released.

This kind of bad movie is outright garbage, without nutrition, and has no pursuit except to cheat money.

"Alien Battlefield" is certainly not such a bad movie.

It's just that no one could have imagined that Andrew Stanton, who won the Oscar, one of the creative Pixar Five Tigers, would bring such a film after leaving the animated feature films he was good at.

After watching this film, Matthew suddenly admired James Cameron even more.

Only with this "Alien Battlefield" that the production cost is higher than "Avatar", can you really appreciate how terrifying James Cameron's directing level is, including him, countless people say that the story of "Avatar" is simple and old-fashioned, and this "Alien Battlefield" with a bad plot can't even tell a simple story.

It's more like a show for Hollywood's most advanced CG technology.

I don't know why, watching this film, Matthew actually recalled what a small foreman said when he was working on the other side of the Pacific.

The little foreman who didn't know how many floors he subcontracted graduated from the architecture department of a fourth-rate university, and he didn't learn professional knowledge in three years of college, but he accumulated a lot of experience in watching films, and he can also be called his guide in film.

This little foreman once analyzed him thoroughly and thoroughly, watching bad movies is not only easy to get bad films.

First of all, human life is limited, and you can watch movies from the beginning of your eyes when you open your eyes, and you can't finish watching them when you die, and if you dedicate this limited viewing time to bad movies, you will have a little less chance to watch good movies...... Oh no, it's missing a meaningful life.

Secondly, the process of watching will be very uncomfortable, originally looking for spiritual pleasure but being ruined by a bad movie to the depths of the soul, and I can't talk to people too much, because some people want to see how bad it is and take the initiative to waste time, maybe they are for the superiority of IQ.

This "Alien Battlefield" actually stimulated Matthew to recall the memories of that time.

The little foreman also persuaded him very sincerely as a passer-by: Be cautious when watching movies, especially if you go to the cinema, people waste your time to strengthen your spirit, and you still pay people, it's really not worth it.

Matthew has watched this film, especially the actor Frog Jump shocked the Martians, and he is basically sure that this film should not have a big turnaround.

Andrew Stanton really should go back and continue directing animated feature films instead of just dabbling in live-action films.

Perhaps live-action films and animated feature films are really two completely different genres.

At the end of the screening, the audience burst into applause, and Matthew, like the other guests, also came to the place where the first row crew was seated to send his congratulations.

"Make a really good film. Matthew shook hands with Andrew Stanton and said.

You can't say that this movie isn't very good, right? That's a fool.

Matthew shook Brad Pitt's hand again but didn't say anything before coming up to Natalie Portman.

"What's it like to be a princess on Mars, Nat?" Matthew opened his arms and hugged Natalie Portman in full costume, "Isn't it special?"

Natalie Portman laughed and responded, "This is my last big commercial production. ”

She was clear about the response to the previous test screening, and returning to independent literary films was the only way out.

Matthew nodded at her, "Good luck with your wishes." ”

Natalie Portman understood that Matthew was talking about "Black Swan" and the Oscars, and smiled confidently, "Thank you." ”

Her energy has long been transferred to the film "Black Swan", which is her last way, either soaring or sinking.

"Black Swan" has already completed production, and even held two critics' test screenings, and the response has been very good.

This has also brought more confidence, and she has developed a more secure plan for the Olympics based on the current situation.