Chapter 121: The Momentum of Counterattack

Soon Han Han expressed his views on the star movie "Yangtze River No. 7" on his personal blog:

[The king of science fiction filmed "The King of Comedy", but the king of comedy couldn't make qualified science fiction. 】

"The imagination of "Yangtze River No. 7" is relatively "fake", Chow Xingzhi is a good actor, but he is not a very good director, at least not yet. If you get out of 10, I'll give you a six, so please don't walk into the theater with too high expectations."

Three hours later, Han Han published his third film review blog today:

[Comment on "The King of Kung Fu": Li Mu understands Hollywood, but Hollywood doesn't understand China]

"We should be thankful that Cheng Long and Li Lian's first big-screen collaboration is directed by Li Mu, and "Assassin" is a top-notch Hollywood-style VFX blockbuster carefully created by Chinese director Li Mu; "The King of Kung Fu" is a first-rate American teenager's journey with top resources piled up by Hollywood directors. If I give it a score of 10, I give it a 5, I don't recommend it."

Within one day, three film reviews, one was not praised to the sky, and the other two were trampled into the mud, coupled with Han Han's own high topicality, so almost instantly, the topic of comparison of the three movies has swept the entire Internet.

"I just walked out of the theater and watched Xing Ye's "Yangtze River No. 7", and now I have mixed feelings. How so? I can't talk about bad movies, but ...... But can I say that I walked into the theater with "Kung Fu", "Shaolin Football", "Jiupin Sesame Official" and "Domestic Lingling Paint"?! Cry to death, disappointed! Actually, the movie is okay, but it's true that I feel very unhappy, and I feel cheated."

"One sentence movie review: This is Chow Xingzhi's worst movie!"

"I walked into the theater with Zhou Xing's nonsensical comedy, and as a result, Xing Ye showed me an extra-long plush toy advertisement."

"Actually, "Yangtze River No. 7" is not so bad! Of course, if you walk into the theater with the mentality of watching a traditional star movie, then you will probably be disappointed."

"What the hell is The King of Kung Fu? The combination of Cheng Long + Li Lian + Liu Yifei + Fan Binbin, as a result, you will show me this? Return the money!"

"Three points can't be more, yes, I'm talking about "The King of Kung Fu"!"

"The King of Kung Fu? I think it's "The King of Bad Movies"!"

"The King of Kung Fu - Epic Bad Movie!"

"A movie comparable to "Wu Ji" - the movie "The King of Kung Fu"."

It can be said that whether it is Cheng Longli's "The King of Kung Fu" or Zhou Xingzhi's "Yangtze River No. 7", the word-of-mouth has almost collapsed!

A casual search on the Internet shows that most of them are skeptical voices.

Especially "The King of Kung Fu", which is already an epic bad movie.

In comparison, "Yangtze River No. 7" is much better, at least there are many mothers in the theater who really cried watching it, which shows that this film is still good, but it is different from the audience's expectations when they walk into the theater.

In contrast, the reputation of the movie "How to Steal the Key" produced by director Li Mu is a little too exaggerated, and it can be described as "word-of-mouth".

Browse a related website casually, and almost all of them are positive.

"People who want to work hard will get better no matter how bad their lives are—after watching "How to Steal the Key", I felt a lot of emotion, and I think a good movie should be like this."

"I've finally had some motivation to study, but as soon as I bought the book, I was satisfied, and you kid is the most scummy kind of person!" ……! Hit the ......!!!!! completely."

"Li Mu is the most amazing director in China, he dares to let Gao Yuanyuan and Huang Bo play a couple, the key is that after watching it, you still think these two people are really compatible!"

"Huang Bo's acting skills are as good as ever, Shen Teng is even a play at the end of his hair, unexpectedly Gao Yuanyuan's acting skills this time did not lag behind, it is rumored that Director Li Mu attaches great importance to Gao Yuanyuan, and is willing to spend a lot of energy to open a small stove for him to talk about the play, it seems that Director Li's energy is not in vain, and Gao Yuanyuan's role is very well completed."

"There was no urine in the audience, and the details and black humor were exciting and enjoyable to watch."

"I've watched all three movies, and now I've decided to watch "The Key Thief" for the second time

Method" - If the box office of a good movie is crushed by bad movies forever, then there will be no hope for Chinese movies!"

"On the first day of the Lunar New Year, I plan to take the whole family to the theater to support "The Way to Steal the Key", this movie is really good and good, I laughed with tears when I watched it, and I gained a lot after watching it, maybe this is the meaning of a good movie!"

"The word of mouth of "How to Steal the Key" seems to have exploded, so I decided to watch this one first. Actually, I was going to watch "The King of Kung Fu", but it seems that the reputation is too bad."

""The Way to Steal the Key" has a lot of films! But it can't be helped, who let it meet Cheng Long, Li Lian, and Xing Ye?"

""Yangtze River No. 7" is Xing Ye's worst movie, and "How to Steal the Key" is Li Mu's best movie - just sauce purple!"

"I like Xingye's movies very much, but I hope he will be a little worse at the box office this time, otherwise I'm afraid he will make this kind of movie next time."

At around two o'clock in the afternoon, Douban officially released the ratings of three movies:

First of all, "The King of Kung Fu", which has the most popular pre-sale, has a score of 5.3 on Douban - this score is undoubtedly a bad movie, and word of mouth can be said to have collapsed.

followed by "Yangtze River No. 7", which Zhou Xing has been grinding for three years, with a Douban score of 6.3 points - a score that represents the movie that can barely be watched.

However, compared with the ratings of Xing Ye's other movies, most fans have no doubt that Xing Ye's new movie is not cold.

Next is the movie "The Way to Steal the Key" produced by Li Mu and directed by Shen Junsheng, with a score of 8.9 points on Douban - a very high score, which exceeds the scores of all Li Mu's previous movies, it seems that this is Li Mu's best movie, and it can't be wrong, at least from the perspective of ratings.

As the word-of-mouth of the three new movies ferments one after another, outsiders don't know what others think, at least the Huayi brothers have become ants on a hot pot.

"The King of Kung Fu" is a film invested by Huayi Brothers, with a total investment of more than 400 million yuan, but it was compared with Chen Kaige's "Wuji" on the first day of its release?

That's an epic bad movie!

The reputation is so bad, what if it affects the box office?

That's an investment of more than $400 million!

The movie pre-sale box office results are so ungodly, such a good start, is it going to collapse like this?

But there's no such thing as a good solution.

"Hurry up and find film critics, find well-known cultural celebrities, and spend money to get them to speak up for "The King of Kung Fu"!

A model of Sino-US co-productions, a great attempt to go abroad with Chinese cultural influence, they cannot tolerate such unwarranted slander!"

At night.

Li Mu, who came back from promoting the movie, browsed the news at home, and he was relieved to see that "How to Steal the Key" had a very good reputation.

Then he saw a video on the arc search network, and the title of the video is very eye-catching:

"Shocked! Liu Yifei boldly exposed that he had someone he liked at the premiere of "The King of Kung Fu"! Sister Fairy blushed on the spot!"

Li Mu clicked on the video and found that Liu Yifei first sang a song "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky", which directly detonated the atmosphere of the whole scene, and then the hostess asked Liu Yifei questions.

When the host asked Liu Yifei who wrote this song, Liu Yifei replied with a blushing face:

"Actually, this song was written by a very handsome boy I have a crush on."

"Who's that guy you like?" The moderator asked again.

Liu Yifei actually lied on the spot, and his face turned red again: "Don't talk about it!"

"It's not that I'm blushing." The host teased and then continued to ask, "Then does the other party know that you like him?"

Liu Yifei laughed and was speechless this time.

Liu Yifei actually said this at the premiere?! Li Mu was very surprised, but at the same time very excited.

So he made a call to Liu Yifei's mobile phone.

The phone was quickly connected.

"Li Mu?" Liu Yifei said.

"Did you sleep?" Li Mu directly opened as a straight man.

"Not yet—I ran to five theaters today to promote the movie, and I'm exhausted, and now I've just come home." Liu Yifei complained.

Li Mu smiled: "Your crew doesn't know how to pity the fragrance and cherish the jade! When we promote Inception, I'm willing to let you run one theater a day at most."

Liu Yifei snorted and said, "If other actors run a few houses, then I will run a few houses, and I am not afraid of others who are not afraid of being tired." By the way, you look like you're having a good time today – huh...... I know, now the whole network is praising your "How to Steal the Key", on the contrary, the "King of Kung Fu" I chose was about to be scolded to death by the audience - you shouldn't have called to see my jokes, right?"

Li Mu smiled, "Of course not."

Liu Yifei: "Definitely! If not, unless you come up with a more credible reason."

Li Mu: "Well...... It's not appropriate to say it on the phone."

Liu Yifei snorted, "I think it's difficult to make it up, right?"

"Okay!" Li Mu said, "Then I'll just say, the reason why I'm happy today is because I just saw the premiere of "The King of Kung Fu". I didn't expect you to actually sing that song at the premiere, and...... You really said that—do you think I can be upset?"

"Oh, I mean, don't get me wrong." Thinking of the situation that day, Liu Yifei hurriedly said, "I just didn't want to owe you a favor at the time, and that's what you asked me to say, so I said that, don't get me wrong, that's what I really mean."

"Be my girlfriend!" Li Mu said suddenly.

"Huh?" Liu Yifei was stunned for a moment.

"I said ......," Li Mu said solemnly, "Be my girlfriend!"

Liu Yifei: "Why are you saying this on the phone?"

"The King of Kung Fu" has a bad reputation, but the box office is really fierce.

January 31:

"The King of Kung Fu" starring Cheng Long and Li Lian slashed 16 million box office on the first day, ranking first at the single-day box office!

Zhou Xingzhi's movie "Yangtze River No. 7" won 12 million yuan at the box office on the first day, ranking second.

and Li Mu's "How to Steal the Key" won the first-day box office of 10 million yuan, ranking third.

Of the three movies, "The Way to Steal the Key" is temporarily at the bottom, but Li Mu's film has the lowest number of films, and the market popularity cannot be compared with "The King of Kung Fu" and "Yangtze River No. 7", so it is reasonable that the box office on the first day is the lowest.

In fact, if you only look at the attendance data, it is "The Method of Stealing the Key" that ranks first, which can basically reach more than 95%.

The attendance rate of "Yangtze River No. 7" is about 75%, and the attendance rate of "The King of Kung Fu" is surprisingly about 90%.

Let's take a look at the four-day data of the first weekend of "The King of Kung Fu":

16 million on the first day.

23 million the next day.

22 million on the third day.

19 million on the fourth day.

Collected 80 million box office in four days on the first weekend, "The King of Kung Fu" tells you that word-of-mouth is false, only the box office is real!

Let's take a look at the results of the first weekend of Xingye's movie "Yangtze River No. 7":

12 million on the first day.

17 million the next day.

16 million on the third day.

16 million on the fourth day.

received 62 million in the first weekend in 4 days, although many people are scolding, but the box office performance is really eye-catching, and even many places across the country have long queues.

In contrast, the word-of-mouth "The Way to Steal the Key" performed the worst at the box office:

10 million on the first day.

14 million the next day.

14 million on the third day.

15 million on the fourth day,

"The Way to Steal the Key" won a total of 53 million box office in the first weekend and four days.

Although the total box office is still the lowest, the other two box office peaks all occurred on the second day of the movie's release, and only Li Mu was the only one among the three movies

The box office of the company's film "How to Steal the Key" is getting higher and higher day by day.

At the same time, the Internet began to be filled with a large number of calls for the second and third brushes of the movie "How to Steal the Key", and because the attendance rate has been maintained at a very high position, major theaters and theaters have also begun to increase the schedule of "The Method of Stealing the Key".

With the passage of time, "The King of Kung Fu" gradually showed a weak follow-up, "Yangtze River No. 7" achieved very stable results, and "The Way to Steal the Key" gradually had some counterattack trend.