Chapter 173: Smith Zhou, I'm going to have a baby for you
Word-of-mouth and box office skyrocketed, and Director Smith Chow's third film "Resident Evil" is as unstoppable as ever!
Among the authoritative Rotten Tomatoes website for movie ratings, in terms of audience preference, "Desert Island Survivors" 88%, "Man 100%" 71%, "Christmas Grin" 79%, "Agent Beauty" 67%, "Transform into a King" 75%, "Dracula" 45%, "Vertical Limit" 74%, and in three weeks, only 143 theaters were released, but the cumulative box office received 6533541 US dollars, and the Chinese proud director Ang Lee directed the Olympic blockbuster "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", which has 83% likeability.
In this item, the popularity of "Resident Evil" is a relatively normal 81%!
You must know that commercial films, especially zombie films, have always been a type of film that a large number of people like to love madly, and a large number of people don't like to spray when they see it.
In terms of the freshness of well-known film critics, "Desert Island Survivor" 76%, "Man 100%" 61%, "Christmas Grin" 59%, "Agent Beauty" 57%, "Transform into a King" 86%, "Dracula" 65%, "Vertical Limit" 84%, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" 91%, "Resident Evil" 87%!
is more sensitive to movies, and there is no pickiness about the film, Biochemical's score surpasses all recently released movies, only after the miracle movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"!
What does this mean? It shows that as long as there is no prejudice, the vast majority of people still recognize it very much!
Of course, if you ask the opinions of audiences between the ages of 17 and 30 in the United States, the "Resident Evil" with amazing visual effects, tense and intense plots, and unforgettable heroines is undoubtedly firmly in the top spot.
Don't you know how many people are lining up in the cold wind of Christmas just for that one movie ticket?
Don't you know how many people get hooked after watching it, and then rush to the door of the ticket office again to queue up to buy tickets again?
This box office miracle, the love of young audiences is too normal, because it is the work of Smith Chow!
But soon, some film critics jumped out to put forward different opinions, and the key lies in the connotation of the film.
Reader's Digest special reviewer Stanley wrote: "Beauty, Monsters, Killings This film has a lot of commercial elements that can "buy" the audience, and perhaps this is why the film was so popular on the first day of release. But what did I feel? What are the realizations? Sorry, nothing! There are only blood plasma and zombies! Game adaptations are always poor and deflated in terms of character creation, and the whole story is as thin as layer window paper! This "Resident Evil" is even worse in this regard, and the parkour that makes people squirt is simply nondescript! I laugh out loud when I look at a beautiful woman with a fire axe and a cool one. The memory plot after amnesia in the "Resident Evil" film is more like copied from "Killing in Another Dimension". I solemnly advise those who are queuing up to buy tickets to go home quickly! This movie isn't worth the wait you have to brave the snow! ”
And the Chicago Sun, a professional week, grasped this point even more: ""Resident Evil" is a garbage movie, which has no internal at all, vulgar and unbearable, and the basic science fiction logic is not clear!" Smith Chow put all his mind into computer special effects and then tricked the audience with amazing visual effects! You must know that the audience is watching the story, and this story is full of flaws! Why do zombies run so fast, like champions in the 100-meter race? Why is it that in the face of the end of the world, humanity is so stupid that it does not unite and only cares about the benefit of others? We can't help but want to ask Director Smith Chow, if at the end of the world, if the surname of the world is only you who live and die, then the existence of such a world is still meaningful? Who can trust other survivors in such a world? What exactly do the other survivors rely on to fight the living dead to survive? Besides, the city is destroyed, and the desert is everywhere, how can people survive? This is simply an unreasonable and illogical movie! Smith Zhou Jianglang is exhausted, and it is estimated that there will never be such a masterpiece as "Spring of the Cattle Herding Class" dedicated to fans who like him in the future. ”
There are even some film critics who advertise themselves as different and shoot unceremoniously!
"Oh my God! How did Smith Chow shoot zombies as runners? Even, will take a human ladder? Come on, that kind of world won't exist at all, okay? Zombies will destroy the whole world in a month, and no one can survive such a wave of corpses. The story base of this "Resident Evil" simply won't exist, it's a complete bad movie, well, except for those visual effects! -- Don Thomas, special commentator for Every News.
"Smith Week was very demanding on VFX, which gave us a gorgeous visual feast. But I can't accept such a selfish reaction of human beings, and the protagonist of a zombie movie has become a human who pushes others out, and this subversion is extremely unreasonable. —The Washington Post, Bill Nürlenberg.
"This "Resident Evil" is simply a farce, talking about people's surnames in zombie movies, God, this is ridiculous!" - Yahoo netizen milk and honey.
The opposition was loud and, of course, more praise silenced the scolding.
Yahoo Entertainment, the benchmark of the week, took the lead in writing an article praising it:
Smith Chow's ability to control the camera has once again been proven, and while he brings a feast of visual effects to the audience, he also dedicates a large number of classic shots from film history.
The end of the film is a reflection of the beginning, and in the middle of the plot, as Alice's memory recovers, her connection to the whole thing is gradually revealed, and when Sibans recovers his memory, the cause of the incident is suddenly clear, which is a subtle design technique; The picture is black and white as the main color, highlighting Alice in red, the film does not have too many dark shots, after focusing on creating a terrifying zombie, referred to as a subversive surname, "Resident Evil" can even win with the plot, which is worthy of praise.
The soundtrack and sound effects are changed with the tension of the plot, which is used more in this film, which greatly sets off the atmosphere, and unlike other horror films, the music in this film has a strong sense of rhythm, which makes people nervous but not depressing; Everyone's performances are in place, whether it is the supporting roles at the beginning or the leading actors in the back, they all performed the distinct surnames of their respective characters. ”
"The tide of corpses that rose up in a rage, the surnames of people who lost their minds, made people eager to try, epoch-making parkour, this movie is so brilliant, it really makes people love it!"
In the end, the Yahoo Entertainment reporter concluded: "This is an epoch-making zombie movie, abandoning the scary methods that jump out from time to time, but the horror is everywhere, not to mention the last ten-minute fight scene, which is simply stunning!" This is a perfect score movie, and Smith Chow once again shocked the whole country! ”
A reporter from the Los Angeles Times also agreed: "Although the film is two hours long, the plot is extremely tight, with ups and downs and surprises along the way, and it does not rely on zombies that suddenly pop out of the camera to drive the thin plot." The routine setting of "Resident Evil" is also very imaginative, the rush is endless, the sea of tens of thousands of corpses is amazing, and the picture of the laser array smashing the human body is cruel and shocking, compared to the simple zombies howling and falling down, and tearing human internal organs in various ways is much more shocking.
Of course, what I am most satisfied with is that "Resident Evil" does not stick to the game characters and plot, and Smith Chow's suspenseful foreshadowing for the alternate heroine Alice makes the audience suspicious and inquisitive, and game fans who judge the plot based on game experience alone will never guess Smith Chow's thoughts.
Human surnames have been a topic of discussion in many movies for a long time, and in the past zombie movies are always full of scenes of humans helping each other, but what I want to say is, if there is a real day, are you really willing to give up your own safety to help someone you never know? I believe this is a great test of people's surnames. I can only say that at least Smith Chow's arrangement, there is nothing wrong with it, and the choice lies with the audience themselves.
Let's talk about the fighting visual effects that surpass human imagination at the end, so dazzling and dazzling, so excited that people dare not blink, at next year's Oscars, this will be a heavyweight impact!
In short, "Resident Evil" is a super cool movie, and I can predict that this is the beginning of another series of movies! ”
Of course, crazy movie fans everywhere will not pay attention to the bad media that grasp the slightest problem and find out the limit, and they have left their extremely satisfied praise on the official website of "Resident Evil" and on BBS everywhere.
"Mira with a fire axe is so cool, and that knife-like look mesmerizes me!"
"Resident Evil is faithful to the original game, the plot is exciting, suspenseful, tense, and thrilling! The background music is a great way to render the atmosphere. A successful example of a movie adaptation of a hit game, without hesitation, give it a perfect score of 10! ”
"It's still the most classic picture of laser cutting and parkour!"
"Forgive me for not being objective, I really like Mira's beauty so much, she is handsome! Decisively, the savior who shed tears and was ruthless! Add to that the VFX that blinded my eyes, and I almost went crazy! Oh, God! ”
"This is the benchmark that zombie movies can't jump over!"
"Smith Chow is so powerful, all three movies drive me crazy! I'm going to have a baby for you! ”
Ignoring the critics who scolded them in the air, the audience voted with their money.
The box office of "Resident Evil" continues to soar!
The pace of Christmas is getting farther and farther, when the new year comes, the box office results in the last week of 2000 are hot, and there is no suspense, the first movie at the North American box office is "Resident Evil", which grossed $60.3 million in three days!
The total box office results of the first week left all the movies far behind!
More than 10 million North American viewers walked into the cinema, and a large number of people even claimed to have watched "Resident Evil" for a total of 12 shows in three consecutive days!
(To be continued)