As a film critic, just watching a work like "The Legend of the Great Sage" with rich details and many characters is obviously unable to depict the whole picture of the movie, all in the week before the screening, except for some tabloid news, the long-form film reviews of "The Legend of the Great Sage" are almost extinct, let alone watch "Avatar" and "Inception" for comparison.

The most important question now is...... It's hard for critics to get tickets themselves.

Cai Lan, one of the famous four talents in Hong Kong and Hong Kong, complained in his column: "It's a pity that director Li Xiaole didn't give me a movie scroll, so I can only buy tickets by myself......

In UA theaters in Hong Kong, to see the IMAX-3D version of "The Legend of the Great Sage", you have to book your tickets online nearly a week in advance to ensure that you don't have to be closed when you arrive. This continued at least until last Sunday. At the 2:40 p.m. session, at the box office around 2 p.m., I could only see a few excited people, but more of them were disappointed people. The theater only arranges 4 IMAX-3D performances a day, although there are ordinary 2D digital versions with tickets for sale, but many audiences who can't buy tickets seem to ignore the 2D version and book the IMAX-3D version directly on the spot a few days later.

However, I think people would rather wait than watch the imperfect "Legend of the Great Sage", and I can understand this insistence after watching the IMAX-3D version. If the full score of the film is 100, the score of this version can be as high as 200 points. Because, as a Hollywood blockbuster, if you think the story of "Braveheart" is 100 points better, then the story of "The Legend of the Great Sage" will not be inferior to it; If you think that the special effects of "Transformers 2" are worth 80 points, then the pictures, special effects and imagination of "The Legend of the Great Sage" definitely add up to more than 100 points.

In the theater, you can follow Sun Wukong to the world to feel the beauty of Huaguo Mountain and Tiangong, as well as the evil of human beings and immortals, and you must also relax and put yourself into the vision of a monkey, through his eyes, then you will not spend useless efforts to find some elements in "The Legend of the Great Sage" that you may see in other Hollywood movies, and you will devote yourself to the wonderful world created by Li Xiaole.

There is no doubt that "The Legend of the Great Sage" brought about a visual revolution. When I saw Sun Wukong's first somersault cloud soaring over the valley of Fangcun Mountain, I was really excited~~ The imaginative and exquisite details of the picture depict the world of Suo Po in the Buddhist scriptures with unparalleled beauty, and I feel that only in dreams will appear in the strange demons and fairy roads and other creatures, as well as those exquisite and gorgeous armor, equipment, magic weapons, the whole world can make people feel immersive.

Whether it is the plot or the picture, this movie is impeccable, not because Li Xiaole is Chinese, I say so, because the movie itself deserves such praise~! I have always thought that there are many god-like existences in Hollywood, but at this moment I am extremely sure that Li Xiaole is undoubtedly the god of gods, the king of kings~~"

And when this week passed, making film critics and directors of major media struggle to buy tickets in theaters, and after watching three movies and digesting them, "The Legend of the Great Sage" has won the highest praise from almost all media around the world with an unstoppable momentum.

Greg Beeman, editor of The Sun, exclaimed: "The final battle lasted 20 minutes and was very impressive...... Unstoppable, you are completely brought into the film and integrated with those characters and stories! ”

New York Times columnist John Rearden praised: "There have been a lot of rumors before...... It is said that this 3D stereoscopic film will be disgusting, and it is also said that these 2 hours and 30 minutes are like a disaster, and now we can firmly refute the rumors for "The Legend of the Great Sage" on these two points, put on 3D glasses, and go to a screaming dream~~"

Tom Schulman, a reporter for "Premiere" magazine, exclaimed: "Li Xiaole is indeed a genius!" I can't say enough, wow, but I love this film so much! "The Legend of the Great Sage" is amazing, and it completely shocked me. ”

The Guardian's front page about Avatar today is headlined "The Renaissance in the History of Cinema." ”

Let's take a look at the reactions of those directors who watched "The Legend of the Great Sage", "Alien" director Ridley Scott's first reaction after watching this movie was to go back to his desk and start studying how the 3D effect was made.

Steven Soderbergh, speaking at the Spike Lee School of Acting, openly lamented to his students: "We should now be able to divide film history by 'before 'The Great Sage' and 'after The Great Sage,' and I dare say that many years from now people will look back and comment on how the film turned the film industry upside down." The Armageddon scene lasted for 20 minutes, and it was absolutely heart-wrenching.

And George Lucas after watching "The Legend of the Great Sage" 3 times, as soon as he returned to ILM, he promoted the special effects person in charge of "The Legend of the Great Sage" to become his deputy.

Everyone gradually realized that this movie invisibly changed the fate of many filmmakers......

At this moment, the leisurely Li Xiaole is lying on the sofa at home, with his head resting on Ha Ji Won's lap, while turning the latest issue of "Hollywood Letter" on the side of the "one-sentence film review column", the reactions given by the above critics are also surprisingly unanimous, Roger Albert left a message: "I can only use one word to describe unbelievable (unbelievable)"

Andrew Salis, a critic who has always been known for his meanness, admired him so much that he said: "For the first time in his life, he gave a full score to the "Great Sage Biography" deservedly, Li Xiaole is simply not a creature on this planet. ”

Susan Sontag gave her love directly to Li Xiaole: "I can't express my feelings in words~~The great Li Xiaole~I love you~~"

Looking at this movie review, Ha Jiyuan next to him was amused, and joked: "Congratulations, you have successfully promoted to become a middle-aged and elderly woman film critic killer~" Li Xiaole shook his head helplessly when he listened, continued to care about the box office statistics uploaded on his iPhone, and sighed: "They have used up these words now, what will they do in the next month......"

"Do you still want to be a box office hit and win the Oscars?" Ha Ji Won said curiously.

"Isn't it impossible?" Li Xiaole looked at her with a smile: "This is the first time we have starred in a movie, you should be confident." ”

"You're big~! My role is only one-tenth of yours, and this heroine is too aggrieved! Ha Ji Won glared.

"Okay then~ Then I'll add you half an hour of bed drama in the second part~~" Li Xiaole squinted his eyes and smiled.

"Okay~ I'm going to go into battle naked! Won the Oscar for Best Actress! Ha Ji Won waved his fist and said excitedly.

"......" Li Xiaole was speechless for a while.

While Li Xiaole and his wife were resting leisurely, fans all over the world were now nervous, and everyone was concerned about the results of the box office battle between "The Legend of the Great Sage" and "Avatar", starting in the second week!

This weekend, "The Legend of the Great Sage" earned $75.01 million in 3,457 theaters in North America with an average of $21,700 per theater, an "incredible" drop in the following weekend.2 6%, second only to the figure of $75.17 million in the second weekend of "Batman: Night Knight", ranking high in the history of film history! For the first time, it surpassed the 74.89 million score of "Avatar" on the same day!

On the 10th day of the opening of the painting to 3. "The Legend of the Great Sage", which crossed the 300 million line with 1.2 billion US dollars, has also become the second fastest master in film history to break through the 200 million level, second only to "Night Knight" and "Transformers 2: The Comeback" in 8 days, and "The Avengers" in 9 days.

This made all fans open their mouths wide, and the more bloody showdown between the two movies continued to unfold every day in the future!

"The Legend of the Great Sage" earned $19.42 million on Monday on the 11th day of filming, second only to $24.5 million on the fourth day of "Night Knight", ranking second in the history of non-holiday Monday box office results; "Avatar" was $19.33 million on the same day.

Tuesday, the 12th day of the opening, surpassed the results of "The Legend of the Great Sage" on the 5th day of the opening last week, with $18.29 million, second only to the $20.87 million on the 5th day of the opening of "Night Knight", ranking second in the history of the non-premiere Tuesday box office results, surpassing "Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Gathering Soul Coffin", "Star Wars Prequel 3: Heath's Revenge", and "Spider-Man 2" by one day, second only to "Night Knight", and the second fastest money in film history in the same period; "Avatar" on the same day was $18.17 million.

The Wednesday on the 13th day of the opening of the film collected 18.47 million US dollars, surpassing the 18.38 million/16.45 million US dollars on the 6th day of the opening of "Night Knight" and "Avatar", second only to the 29.07 million US dollars on the second day of the opening of "Transformers 2", ranking second in the history of the non-premiere Wednesday box office results......

In this way, every day, fans from all over the world will watch the new box office figures, one record after another being refreshed, watching the box office of these two masterpieces continue to explode, without the slightest sense of decay, and "The Legend of the Great Sage" has also begun to slowly catch up with the box office overlord "Avatar" in the same period......

But just when everyone was still paying attention to the outcome of the two movies, a sudden news came, on the fifteenth day of the release of "The Legend of the Great Sage" and "Avatar", these two movies swept the world with lightning speed, and they swept the world close to 6. The overseas box office of 7/6 and 500 million US dollars, the total global box office exceeded the 1 billion US dollar mark!!

Wow wow wow......!!! Movie fans all over the world, filmmakers were stunned, fifteen days! broke through the global box office of one billion in just fifteen days, so that is to say, the global box office record of 1.8 billion for 10 years sealed by the invincible giant ship "Titanic" is not far away!?