Chapter 507: Bad Ideas (Asking for Subscription)
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Outside the window, it was dark and the lights were bright, and Rex Reed sat in his room at the Hilton Beverly Hills, contemplating over his laptop, reminiscing about the movie he had just watched.
He is now one of the top ten professional film critics in the United States, and even if he doesn't like the film very much, he can't just abuse and ridicule it like he did back then, and the criticism must be hidden under the shell of art.
After thinking about it for more than half an hour, he opened his blog and started typing a movie review.
"In terms of technology, although the "Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta" uses the industry's most mature blue-green screen and CGI computer technology, it is a relatively simple multi-layer picture synthesis, and the complexity is not comparable to that of "King Kong". The frequent use of fast and slow motion is also a technique used by MV directors, and directors in the film industry disdain to play with such frivolous techniques."
"There is also the actor Matthew Horner, since he became famous in "The Scorpion King", Matthew Horner has not grown at all, five years have passed, he is still in the low-level stage of showing off his strong body and strong muscles, and his aggressiveness is so low that it is outrageous!
In addition, the film is too disrespectful of history and grossly exaggerates the role of the Spartans in the Battle of Thermopylae. ”
"In fact, history is never just history, history is a reality that was once vivid. The reason why we shoot and watch epic films is not because we love to watch things that have become dead, but because people in the past have been excited, dull, sad, and happy like us, because they have a blood relationship with us. ”
"The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta has fallen into the abyss in terms of history......"
A director who is too showy, a leading actor who shows off his body too much, really doesn't make Rex Reed feel good.
After uploading a short review, he gave "The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta" a two-star rating on the blog.
Rex Reid hopes that these two stars can drag down the box office of this film, in addition to not liking the film, and for Matthew Horner as a person, he really doesn't like it.
Every time he sees Matthew Horner, he always thinks of the donkey's butt, and the stench on the butt.
I hope that "The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta" will hit the street at the box office, kill Matthew Horner, make Matthew Horner's position plummet, fade out of Hollywood quickly, and never appear in front of him again.
Ding Dong –
The text message prompt on the mobile phone sounded, Rex Reid hurriedly took it, and the text message sent at this time must be a friend of his in the theater, almost every time an important new film is released, he will send him a text message notification as soon as he gets the box office data.
Compared with most pretentious professional film critics, Rex Reed, who dares to hype up with a pro-donkey ass, understands the importance of the market better, and Hollywood relies on commercial profits to survive and develop, and the same is true for film critics.
Therefore, he knows one thing very well, the bad reviews of film critics have little effect on Matthew Horner, who only focuses on commercial development, and what can really drag Matthew Horner and prevent him from going further in his career is very poor box office data.
Rex Reid opened the text message and only glanced at it, the figure of $13.5 million cleared his head full of hopes and thoughts in an instant.
"The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta" grossed $13.5 million ahead of schedule, what else does he have to hope for?
"Hey......"
glanced at the blog page on the laptop screen, the bad review was already hanging on it, Rex Reed could only sigh in disappointment, he understood the general laws of the film market more thoroughly, with such an early box office, the first weekend box office of "Spartan Three Hundred Warriors" must not be bad.
Thinking of this, he directly buttoned the laptop screen, no longer thinking about this, the more he thought about it, the more annoying he became, and if he thought about it again, he wouldn't want to sleep if he was depressed tonight.
As the sky in Los Angeles had just lit up, and it was approaching work time in New York, Moschenster walked into a building near Times Square, went to the locker room to change into new equipment, carried props spears and shields to a conference room, and after meeting dozens of companions, he drove into Times Square under the leadership of a bearded leader.
As soon as this pedestrian appeared, it immediately caused a sensational effect, and the tourists in the square, the passers-by, and the reporters who have been reporting here all the year round cast curious glances, and even the patrolling New York police officers took a second look.
Moxonster was worried that the police would drive them away, after all, after 911, many aspects of New York were much stricter than before, but the patrol just looked at it and didn't care about it at all.
Needless to say, he could also realize that it must be the people who organized them who had already completed the various procedures in advance.
Since he had no worries, Mosenster shook his spirits, showed the red trousers in his red cloak, and together with his companions, he showed off his developed muscles to those curious people in a very stylish manner.
At this moment, they are Sparta!
Mosenster is a fitness maniac, but he has no regular job income, which is difficult to support the high cost of fitness, and just last week, he took a job at his fitness club, looking for someone to help, the job is not complicated, is to dress up in New York areas such as Times Square and Central Park as the red pants like in the trailer of "Spartan 300 Warriors", and the pay is quite good.
A group of Spartan warriors circled around Times Square, taking away a large crowd of people, some running over to take pictures, others asking about the situation, and others trying to pinch their muscles......
Soon, Mosenster followed the Spartan warriors to the AMG chain cinema in the corner of the square, and above the entrance of the theater, a huge poster of "The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta" was hung.
Many people were brought into the theater in this way.
After a pause, the Spartan warriors, including Mosendhorst, went into action again.
Mosunster noticed that there were already reporters filming them, and he waved at the camera, thinking that it would be nice if he could show his face on TV or in the newspaper.
At the same time, Spartan warriors with red cloaks, red trousers, and muscular muscles appeared on the streets of Boston, and they also met many reporters just right.
A little later, the Spartan warriors managed to capture Chicago's Millennium Square.
In many large cities across the United States, Spartan warriors have appeared, they are tall, sturdy, and with red capes and red trousers, it is difficult not to attract attention.
In the Westwood District of Los Angeles, Niebora personally led the team out of the fitness club, he was similar to Matthew, and specially asked for Leonidas's full set of equipment from the crew, and specially asked a makeup artist to paste a fake beard, saying that he wanted to live the addiction of a movie actor.
The dark gold helmet on his face is indeed very bluffing, and when he entered the Santa Monica Mall Plaza, many people mistook him for Matthew.
In just ten minutes, Niebola was overwhelmed by a sea of people, and hundreds of fans who wanted to take photos and sign autographs surrounded him.
"How did Matthew end up here?"
The young reporter with a TMZ tag on his chest asked his older companion next to him, "Let's come over, is it to shoot Matthew?"
The older reporter said, "It's not Matthew, it's just a lot like it, and the equipment on his body is almost the same as Leonidas' in the film." ”
The young reporter adjusted the camera angle so that all the Spartan soldiers were filmed, and as he went, he asked, "How do you know?"
"Because the head told me. The older reporter pressed the shutter, took a few more photos, and reminded, "Hurry up, we have to go back at noon, and we will publish it in the afternoon." ”
The young reporter kept in his hands and mouth, "Who thought of such a bad idea to let these sturdy men run to crowded places to sell strong." ”
These two men, who had not gone anywhere in the morning, followed this group of Spartan warriors, and by the time they left near noon, more than a dozen waves of reporters who followed these Spartans had already arrived.
Before noon, various pictures and videos of the Spartan invasion of the United States appeared on the Internet, especially on several social networking sites that had just come out, and instantly became the focus of attention.
"The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta" naturally went crazy and occupied the front pages of major entertainment media and websites.
Similarly, in the media and online comment columns, "The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta" is also the most commented.
Like most films starring Matthew, "The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta" did not get good reviews from critics as a purely visual kei and a commercial film with the male lead selling body action.
Roger Albert's column even gave only one sentence and seemed too lazy to make an evaluation - a lack of human care!
David Denby, a columnist for The New Yorker, believes that "The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta" is useless, with empty themes, shallow tones, questionable positions, bloody scenes, and basically brainless stories...
Not all critics think it's a bad movie, and many feel that the film has merit.
The Los Angeles Times' Kenneth Turan is a must-see for masculine men: "The Three Hundred Spartans" is a must-see movie for masculine men. Majestic scenes, passionate and incendiary dialogues, shock your nerves with visuals and lenses. Matthew Horner's domineering style is full, the last cry is straightforward, his performance is full of appeal, especially the momentum and picture of taking the lead in rushing to the overwhelming Persian army is very shocking, in addition, his action scenes are as brilliant as ever, and the fight scenes are textbook classics, and the effect is one scene after another of U.S. violent aesthetic pictures.
Of course, praise like this is rare among film critics.
One day after the release of "The Three Hundred Spartans", Rotten Tomatoes collected 56 film critic reviews, and the Rotten Tomatoes index was unexpectedly rotten, with a freshness rate of only 55 percent, and an average critic score of 5.2.
But none of this stopped David Ellison from excitedly breaking into Horner Manor early Saturday morning.