After the premiere of 72_72291 "Independence Day", the major media ushered in a blowout of reviews, thanks to the foreshadowing of the past six months, it is obvious that the film has received unprecedented attention. In the first batch alone, thirty-one media outlets appeared.

In the midst of these comments, all the media gave praise, which is impossible, and although there are not many criticisms, there are still zài.

"USA Today" said in the commentary, "The plot is so simple that it can almost be called mentally retarded, there are really no highlights at all, and the ending of the story can be predicted from the beginning of the story, even if the process is bumpy and exciting, it still can't hide the weakness of the plot and the lack of connotation."

Of course, if you're a fan of sci-fi movies, you love great visual effects, you love super explosions and crowds of people falling into chaos, and you're happy to enjoy the experience of being in a movie theater with the sound of explosions shaking your eardrums...... Well, you'll be madly in love with this movie. I'm not one of them. ”

Although the reviews of "USA Today" are still mainly critical, the score still comes to 65 points, and it can be seen that they still recognize the level of "Independence Day" as a commercial film.

In addition, the New York Post disagrees with Independence Day, "Once you experience the most thrilling episode of the movie - the destruction of our nation's landmark like a joke, after that, the whole two hours of the movie seem empty and exhausting, and the endless explosions make the story irrelevant, and even the characters seem dispensable." Not even Hugo Lancaster could save this terrible script. ”

In addition to the lowest score of 50 points, the New York Post also said, "Maybe after a long period of peaking, especially after the exhausting performance of 'Death Row Walk,' Hugo needs some time to rest, but this time his choice seems to be a bit self-defeating and relaxed." Of course, the confusion after the Oscar statuette is a loss for anyone, and we couldn't ask for more from Hugo. ”

Not only did the New York Post score the lowest of the first reviews, but they were also the only media outlet to have lifted the Golden Man curse. However, this time the "New York Post" still has some truth in what it said, "Independence Day" was Hugo's next script after "Death Row Walk", and Hugo was almost exhausted in "Death Row Walk" and consumed all his energy, so he chose a commercial film. Therefore, the so-called concerns of the "New York Post" cannot be regarded as unknown.

Coincidentally, USA Today and The New York Post were the two media outlets that were least optimistic about the box office of the "Independence Day" premiere before the movie was released. Obviously, they didn't have much affection for Hugo, and now seeing the quality of the finished product of "Independence Day", they should be secretly rejoicing.

However, both "USA Today" and "The New York Post" were insignificant in the first batch of reviews, and after the premiere, the comments of the 31 media outlets occupied the absolute upper hand with praise, and as far as the eye could see, the whole film was more than 80 points, which did not look like a professional film review of a commercial film at all, but like an independent film screened in art theaters, which made the media comprehensive review of "Independence Day" come to an incredible 83 points!

It's not normal, it's definitely not normal!

But after thinking about it carefully, you can find that this is actually an inevitable result of chance. For a long time, "Independence Day" is not a simple movie, it carries more of the burden of the struggle between two factions in Hollywood: the supporters of high investment and high returns, and the supporters of controlling the cost and returning to the origin of the film.

These two factions have completely different views on the upper limit of actors' salaries, the excessive use of computer special effects, the increasing cost of production, and the future development direction of the film industry. This can be said to be the main theme of the whole Hollywood in the past three years, and it has been running throughout.

"Future Water World" was the first work to carry such a heavy burden, but the quality of the work itself was not up to par, so the control faction had the absolute upper hand, and pushed "Future Water World" to hell with the attitude of beating the water dogs. When "Future Water World" was released, the first batch of media reviews only scored 28 points, which can be said to be extremely miserable, which also made the box office of the movie collapse and slide into the dark abyss. Although the follow-up media comments have picked up one after another, and finally the media comprehensive evaluation of "Future Water World" has risen to 46 points, it is still to no avail.

The same is true for "Independence Day", but as the "Hollywood Reporter" said, the film is an excellent example of how to perfectly connect computer special effects with the plot, and then let the computer special effects play a real role. From a VFX point of view, it's an impeccable work.

Therefore, in the first batch of comments, the high-investment and high-return supporters had the absolute upper hand, pushing the media comprehensive evaluation of "Independence Day" by 80 points in one fell swoop, and even ahead of the "speed of life and death" that received rave reviews at the beginning.

Of course, with the advancement of time, it is almost impossible for "Independence Day" to maintain the strength of the first batch of reviews, but even so, "Independence Day" was completely popular after the first batch of reviews were released, and the craze for the official release at 0:00 on July 4 continued mightily.

July 4th, the annual Independence Day holiday in the United States, on this day every year, the National Day fireworks are the most lively celebrations, and have become a fixed celebration. This year, however, Independence Day has been celebrated with one more addition: a group trip to the cinema to watch "Independence Day"!

Fueled by the sensation of the premiere, the midnight show on the day of the premiere of "Independence Day" exploded at the box office of $4.3 million, easily breaking the midnight box office record set by last year's "Batman Forever", and nearly doubling this record.

Subsequently, the program effect of "Beautiful Day Live" and the praise effect of the first batch of reviews exploded with endless energy, which directly promoted the blowout effect, and the entire Independence Day holiday, the whole United States set off a movie-watching frenzy, making this Thursday present an unprecedented prosperity, and the grand occasion of 10,000 empty alleys is still talked about by people even after many years.

In the end, on Thursday alone, Independence Day frantically closed in $36 million at the box office, making the entire North American market feverish!

Three six million dollars!

You know, last week "Fat Professor (the. nutty。 "After the premiere, the weekend winner grossed just $25 million -- a three-day weekend; Moreover, this result can easily win the top of the North American weekend box office chart at any time in any previous schedule. But it was only the box office of "Independence Day" in one day!

What does such a number jù really mean? Maybe some clues can be seen after the horizontal comparison.

Prior to this, the North American box office record on the day of the premiere was set by "Batman Forever" in 1995, which was released in 2,900 theaters and handed over a box office figure of $21 million in a single day, dominating the long film history of the entire North America. In second place was "Terminator 2", which was released during Independence Day in 1991, and swept $20 million at the box office on Independence Day, which also created a new history at the North American box office at that time.

Before the release of "Independence Day", the "Chicago Tribune" had predicted that the box office of "Independence Day" could be as high as $30 million on Independence Day, which was considered a joke by almost all the media, especially when told by the "Chicago Tribune", which became more and more like a mockery.

After all, before that, there were only two works that exceeded $20 million at the single-day box office.

But now, "Independence Day" has created an incredible miracle, the single-day box office not only easily broke the single-day box office record of "Terminator 2" set by Zào five years ago, but also easily surpassed the film history record of "Batman Forever", and what is even more terrifying is that "Independence Day" has set an almost insurmountable standard - a single-day box office of 36 million US dollars, only God knows, when this record will be broken!

In just one day, "Independence Day" was born in a devastating manner, almost with a sweeping posture: the box office of this movie is already unstoppable!

Although many media still said that due to the blowout effect on the first day, the film's ability to pull the box office in the three days of the weekend has been greatly weakened, after all, the sales capacity of the entire film market is limited; What's more, the long-term box office of the movie still depends on the follow-up word-of-mouth, as well as the level of decline in the second and third weeks caused by word-of-mouth. In the history of Hollywood, there has never been a shortage of works that exploded at the box office in the first week, but the box office in the second week dived by 70% or 80%, and finally led to a box office fiasco. Therefore, the follow-up table of "Independence Day" still needs to wait and see.

But soon, "Independence Day" responded to these hesitations and hesitations with an indisputable table, and after Thursday's glory, "Independence Day" broke out on Friday with a box office of $25 million, although it fell by more than 30 percent compared to Thursday, but this watch still made people can't help but raise their hands to adjust their dislocated chins.

You know, after an outbreak that couldn't be replicated on the day of the Independence Day holiday, Friday was first of all a weekday, and secondly, the frenzied crowds should have worn off the enthusiasm, but what about the result? Two and a half million dollars! On Friday alone, "Independence Day" still went strong to earn $25 million in a single day, which was a clear surprise for "Terminator 2" and "Batman Forever" on the day of their premieres.

Even on the day after the premiere, the box office number was still firmly under the feet of the previous historical record, which was so crazy that even the craziest novelists or screenwriters would not dare to write such a plot. But that's what happened, so incredible and yet so real that it was playing out right in front of my eyes.

What's even more terrifying is that this crazy box office blowout is not over yet!