Chapter 645: The Incredible Hulk hits the streets
"The Incredible Hulk" was released on November 20th, and on the day of its release, it was quite popular, and on November 20th, on the same day, in addition to "The Incredible Hulk", several other movies in the United States were also released at the same time.
Among them, there is Marvel's sworn enemy, the movie "Batman Returns" invested by DC Comics, in addition, there are three "American Youth", "Death of a Mistress" and "Moving Labyrinth".
On the occasion of its release, in addition to the great publicity of "The Incredible Hulk", the publicity of the other four movies is not weak, and, for these movies, many people speculate that the single-day box office of "The Incredible Hulk" may win the championship, as for the movie "Batman Returns", the box office should not be bad, and the remaining three movies should follow.
However, when the box office statistics on the first day came out on November 21, many people were a little stunned when they saw this statistics!
"Batman Returns" grossed $23 million on the first day, ranking first!
"Moving Maze" grossed $19 million on the first day, ranking second!
"The Avenger" grossed $14 million on the first day, ranking third!
"The Incredible Hulk" grossed $9.8 million on the first day, ranking fourth!
"American Youth" grossed $4.3 million on the first day, ranking fifth!
The box office of the five newly released films, after the statistics came out, simply made everyone can't believe it, and it was expected that the box office of "The Incredible Hulk" would be quite good, and the box office was only $9.8 million on the first day, which made everyone unbelievable.
Subsequently. For such a case. The media also reported on it.
"Batman Returns" is an adaptation of DC Comics. Tim. Directed by Burton. Michael. Keaton, Michelle. Pfeiffer, Danny. The film starring DeVito, which has a strong audience, won $23 million on the first day, which is reasonable.
"Moving Labyrinth" is a sci-fi action film based on the best-selling young adult novel "Moving Labyrinth", but it is also fierce, and it has logged in more than 2,000 North American theaters, and it is clear that it is also unabated. won the box office of $19 million on the first day, which once again highlights the general trend of YA movies in North America in full swing and loved by young audiences.
"Avenger" is adapted from the popular American drama of the 80s. Washington with his old partner Anthony. Foquaa collaborated again after 13 years, Denzel incarnated as a private detective, punished rape and eliminated evil, and thanks to the beautiful girl star Chlo. Moretz's love to join and stage a different hero to save the United States is full of highlights. Denzel's steady and good box office appeal should be able to see the next box office. There will be another blowout.
"American Youth" is a humorous film with a small budget, grossing $4.3 million on its first day. It's already made the production company and the producer behind it, happy.
However, among these movies, "The Incredible Hulk", which has high investment, high production zuò, and even high special effects, and publicity is also a great movie, but it is not good at the box office.
The first-day box office only reached $9.8 million, which was obviously not satisfactory. ”
Regarding the report on the five films, on the second day, the box office was refreshed again, "Batman Returns" still won 20 million US dollars, and as for the box office of "Moving Maze" and "Avenger", there was also a good rebound, but.
On the second day of "The Incredible Hulk", the box office has dropped to $6 million, if Marvel still had fantasies before, but when "The Incredible Hulk" ended its first week of release with a week and $24 million, it finally collapsed.
It cost $150 million, and the publicity dropped $200 million, I thought that with this movie, I would reverse the weakness of the confrontation with DC Comics in one fell swoop, but what I never expected was that the reality was so cruel.
If the failure at the box office made Marvel vomit blood, next, the bad word-of-mouth reviews made the Marvel boss almost have a heart attack.
"I don't understand, let the plot start over, the actor changes, it seems to be the same as "Batman", but the box office and reputation of "Hulk" are not good, I admit that you want to break new ground in order to change your style comprehensively, but the realistic shooting of "Batman Returns" is to successfully subvert the pompous style of the "Batman" series, so it looks very good, Nima, what is this you are shooting makes people feel that the construction of both the plot and the scene is not very new and mediocre, Lacking a unique personality as a blockbuster, many places are familiar. The worst thing is that the whole film is silly from beginning to end, which makes me look like I can't help but want to laugh. ”
"It's really rubbish, this kind of beautification of the Hulk to infinite power, infinite body, the bullets fired are like throwing peanuts at him, it doesn't work at all, let the Hulk go on a rampage, what sonic weapons, what helicopter gunships, can only create a little trouble for the Hulk, as long as people cheer up a little, it will immediately become a pile of scrap iron. At the same time, this makes people feel that General Ross is a brain-dead, and he knows again and again that the Hulk is invulnerable, as long as people transform into a person, they can only escape, and they are confident that they will pull a large team of people to fight him, do you really not know how to write the word "death"? Or is he relying on the father who is someone else's girlfriend, and he doesn't dare to touch him? The invincible setting of "hatred" that mutates into a giant by constantly injecting is also boundless.,It's nothing to catch a shoulder-fired missile fired by an infantry and explode on your body."
No matter how strong he and the Hulk are, they are flesh and blood, and it seems too fake and boring to be so invulnerable. The director and screenwriter should really go back and watch "Godzilla" a few more times, in that film, although Godzilla is also full of destructiveness, but it is not invulnerable, and the guns and cannons of the human army mainly rely on agile dodging, and finally were trapped by the steel cables of the Golden Gate Bridge, and then died under the missile attack of the F18 fighter, which is much more credible and watching. In the end, the Hulk's defeat of "Hate" was even more unconvincing, both in terms of strength and agility, "Hate" was higher than the Hulk, and the Hulk was also beaten to the point that he only had the ability to parry and not fight back. Why did he become stronger all of a sudden, for no reason? Take a chain and get rid of the hatred. This shift in the strength of capabilities is clearly unreasonable. It's inexplicable to watch. ”
If the audience's complaints can be understood as personal images, but next, the New York Times's special film critic, Davis, attacked the film.
"The trailer for The Incredible Hulk. It's a success, but, the movie is all silly, whether it's the design or the content, let's not mention it for the time being, I just want to talk about the details, take the scene in the school park as an example, the army is dispatched. Humvees fly out of the bushes in pursuit, similar to a motorcycle's leap into the air. It's kind of highlighting the momentum, and it looks very deliberate and stupid several times in a row. Recall that as soon as General Ross waved and shouted "heavy weapons", a Humvee with a grenade flew out of the bushes again; Seeing that it couldn't be done, he shouted "sonic weapons" again, and the two sonic cars flew out of the bushes again, but they still couldn't do it, and then shouted "gunship", and the sound of propellers came from the sky.
And the villain battle maniac is even more stupid, facing the big monster of the Hulk is not afraid at all, not to say, he is still desperate to find the Hulk to fight alone, forcing the Hulk to kick him away, I feel that this person definitely has a nervous problem. The most contrived thing is that every time the Hulk completes his transformation, he has to stand there and roar, this method of stimulating the audience is too rudimentary, I can only understand that this is a tribute to "King Kong" or a way to please a good fortune, it is estimated that in the director's heart, after King Kong shaved his hair, he became a Hulk with green paint. There is also the scene where the Hulk takes the heroine to the cave in the forest park, and the intention to move closer to "King Kong" is even more obvious, because the Hulk's transformation under the wrath is relatively short-lived, and he will return to his human form as soon as the momentum passes, how can he still have so many delicate emotional exchanges with the heroine in the cave, this is definitely a naked imitation of "King Kong" "
The film is also a silly mess in terms of casting and acting. Let's start with the stupidest and let Tim. Rose, a big name in literary films, who came up with the bad idea to play the battle maniac villain? It's not that his acting skills are incompetent, but his figure is not up to standard. If the camera is only on his face, Tim. Rose's strong and murderous expression is still in place, but as soon as the camera focuses on his body, it completely makes people speechless. Rose wore a military uniform with William. Hurt's General Ross stands next to each other, and the five short figures are immediately revealed, and the two of them look as comical as giants and gnomes. Tim. Rose stripped naked for injections, not to mention, a pale body of fat, no sharp muscles at all, and this figure dares to show it? The shame was thrown to grandma's house. People in Orlando. Didn't Bloom shoot "Heavenly Dynasty" and find a fake pectoral muscle to wear? How did the makeup artist of "The Incredible Hulk" forget to give it to Tim. Ross made one too? The second stupid is the elf princess Liv who made a good impression on everyone in "The Lord of the Rings". Taylor, the bucket figure that just gave birth to a child in the film is scary enough, and when he created the character, he even played the routine of an infatuated little girl, and when he saw the male protagonist, he spoke softly, tears rippled, and couldn't give up, so he was simply a college girl, not the identity of her in the film - a college professor with a doctorate title.
Compare it with Jennifer in Lee's version of "The Incredible Hulk". Connery's strong woman-style acting, you know Liv. How a failure Taylor played. Finally, let's talk about Edward, who plays the male lead. Norton, it doesn't seem too kind to say that he acted stupid, and even if he was stupid, most of the "credit" should still be attributed to the director and screenwriter, because they wasted such an acting school in vain"
As a special film critic for the New York Times, Davis has always been a maverick and relentless critic, and a long album titled "Should I Remake "The Incredible Hulk" also received a response from some critics.
"Haha, Davis, this guy, his mouth has always been so stinky, but, I have to say, some things, he is quite right, before, the premiere, the trailer, and I feel that the shooting is good, but after the movie comes out, it makes me feel that it is really bad."
"The box office fiasco, in my opinion, should be a reasonable thing, just imagine, such a remake has not been optimistic before."
Some film critics who did not appear before, with Davis's voice, also began to comment objectively, and the box office statistics of "The Incredible Hulk" in the week of its release were silent when they were transmitted back to China.
This face hurts so much!
Before, abroad, people were at least more objective, and there were some different voices, but in China, various film critics praised this movie, but as a result, it was like this.
"This movie is cold in North America, but, perhaps, in our China, the box office will be good?"
Some people are still making excuses for "The Incredible Hulk", but at this time, the people of Pinxuan Entertainment have been collectively shocked! (To be continued......)