More than two hours later, when Jackson walked out of the theater again, a smile finally appeared on his face.

He didn't stay long and went straight home.

Half an hour later, he turned on his computer and began to write a movie review.

Then soon, many fans saw his article:

"I watched two movies this afternoon, one is "Fantastic Four 2" and the other is "Pacific Rim."

"Actually, I don't plan to watch "Pacific Rim" because tonight is my time to watch the game, and the game will start after watching "Fantastic Four 2", but after watching "Fantastic Four 2", I wonder if there is a worse movie than it."

Next is a complaint about "Fantastic Four 2", which he has already complained about when he watched the movie, so he will write it again at this time, which is simply smooth.

It can be said that "Fantastic Four 2" perfectly eschews all the methods that comic book movies can create highlight moments"

After complaining, he started blowing "Pacific Rim".

"The two-hour and 20-minute set is full of sincerity, far more than "Fantastic Four 2", which is only 92 minutes long, and also includes the opening and ending credits."

It should be said that in terms of book strength, "Fantastic Four 2" seems to win "Pacific Rim", but in my opinion, "Fantastic Four 2" will still lose in the end, because "Fantastic Four 2" is like a novice with a good deck of cards, and does not know how to play cards, so that there is almost no right step in playing cards, and "Pacific Rim" is an expert who takes a common deck of cards, and then plays a good game with a bad deck of cards and wins cleanly."

"Strictly speaking, the foundation of "Pacific Rim" is not bad, the director is Lu Ping'an, the starring role is Matt Damon, just these two people, the box office appeal is already guaranteed."

So why are many people not optimistic about "Pacific Rim" before its release? I think there are three reasons for this. ”

"The first is that "Fantastic Four 2" is blown too much.

The second is the disadvantage of original IP.

Third, it is the preconceived rejection of non-local films. ”

"Pacific Rim is a co-production, there are several Chinese actors in the film, and the story is set in China, which will naturally make American audiences feel isolated, of course, if this film is kung fu, martial arts and other genres, it can be regarded as a plus, but this is a sci-fi disaster monster film."

"That's Hollywood's specialty! It's like an NBA team that recruits half of the Asian players and says it's going to challenge a certain NBA team, and you don't have to guess who wins or loses, and the team with Asian players will lose in a mess. ”

"I also entered the theater with such a mood, but after watching the movie, I realized that half of the Asian players recruited by this team are actually all-star players like Yao Ming!"

"Lu Ping'an's control of this movie can be described as a perfect demonstration of the Oscar's ability as the best director, the plot has no obvious shortcomings, it is Lu Ping'an's consistent rigor, compact advancement, relaxation, in terms of special effects, every minute and every second is top-notch, making people feel that it is worth the money, the key is that Lu Ping'an understands what the audience likes to watch, when the mecha and monsters punch to the flesh, I admit that the adrenaline in my body is soaring, and there is background music, this is definitely a divine comedy! Also, what I like the most is the sense of giantity created by the director through various upward shots, and I guess I will still dream of monsters taller than buildings in my dreams tonight, and then get into the quilt and count one, two, three to dispel that sense of oppression."

A movie review came out, and it quickly received countless clicks.

Liu Qianqian took the dictionary and translated it word by word rigorously, and then confirmed that this was a movie review of "Pacific Rim", she breathed a sigh of relief, and then smiled and ran to Lu Ping'an with the written notes: "Brother Ping'an, look at this!" ”

After Lu Ping'an saw it, he noticed the third point of this person's analysis, and he was still conservative and didn't say discrimination.

Lu Ping'an actually felt that he was discriminated against.

But it's relieved to think about your situation.

There are so many directors in Hollywood at the moment, and he is the only yellow director who can operate first-line projects.

It's about freedom everywhere, but in fact, the sense of boundaries is everywhere.

If he were white, he probably wouldn't have so much of a decline now.

But that's fine, if you look at the decline a lot, the heat can also come up, just like now.

So he was also very happy to turn on the computer and want to read more comments.

And then he soon knew that "Pacific Rim" had begun to counterattack!

Strictly speaking, the quality of Pacific Rim isn't actually particularly good.

Its idea is not deep, it is just a simple fight against monsters, the fan base is small, and the counterpart audience of genre movies is not particularly mainstream.

So in the original time and space, the film's North American box office was just over $100 million.

But it has also been analyzed before.

In addition to the above, there are many other more important problems that cause the poor box office.

There are no celebrity directors, publicity and distribution are not taken seriously, there are not many funds available, the release schedule is wrongly arranged, and the opening of the theater is insufficient.

In addition, the release time is 2013, a year when big special effects movies can no longer show huge advantages.

This made the box office of the movie a failure.

But now it's 2007.

There are famous directors and stars.

The schedule looks poor, and it meets "Fantastic Four 2".

But this film is useless.

Therefore, a comparison of various advantages will inevitably have a positive effect.

And when do the positive effects appear?

Lu Ping'an himself estimates that it will be about two or three days, and when the word-of-mouth of the two movies ferments separately, it will naturally be the day of the emergence of "Pacific Rim".

It's just that what he didn't expect was that he still underestimated his influence.

As Jackson's film reviews came out, all kinds of positive movie reviews soon began to appear.

Lu Ping'an, most of the silent fans began to counterattack!

""Fantastic Four 2" is too blown, and it is actually good-looking, but as a movie that gathers so many superheroes, the filmmakers obviously didn't take it seriously, and "Pacific Rim" is simply full of sincerity, I even wonder, which is a co-production movie?"

"Pacific Rim is good! I recommend going to see the IMAX version, the Phoenix is just exploding, I dreamed of it when I was a kid."

"I told you a long time ago, that's Lu's work!"

"The only downside is that there are too few films, but I think the theater will adjust soon."

"The 3D version is highly recommended!"

"Haha, I just said it, the road safety effect is about to start again!"

“.”

The counteroffensive starts with word of mouth.

IMDB also gave a rating that night.

"Fantastic Four 2" scored 5.6 points.

"Pacific Rim" scored 7.2 points.

The freshness index of Rotten Tomatoes is 86% for "Fantastic Four" and 95% for "Pacific Rim".

It can be said that on the first day of release, the wins and losses of the two movies have been reversed.

Next, it's time to look at the box office.

As for the box office outlook, Lu Ping'an is still relatively conservative.

"Pacific Rim" is not "Avatar", it does not have the genes of a big explosion.

So looking forward to 500 million in North America and 1 billion in the world, that's basically impossible.

But it's still okay to look at the last 200 million in North America.

At least you have to get it back, don't you?

However, the media and cinema chains are clearly more aggressive.

When word-of-mouth began to reverse the counteroffensive.

Various theaters have begun to raise the schedule of "Pacific Rim".

The media, who thought that it would be difficult to reach 100 million at the beginning, also began to raise their expectations for "Pacific Rim" the next day, and lowered their expectations for "Fantastic Four 2" at the same time.

As a result, the box office expectation of "Pacific Rim" jumped directly from 100 million in North America to 160 million.

Wait until the end of the first three days.

The box office data of "Pacific Rim" came out three days ago, with $44.21 million in the first three days.

And the box office of "Fantastic Four 2" is also very explosive, with 3,959 theaters and 6,200 big screens, compared with 5,200 screens in 3,400 theaters in "Pacific Rim", which is more than a cut, but the box office in the first three days was only 53 million.

Under the premise of such high popularity, the box office ratio is still lost to "Pacific Rim".

Now, no one mentions anything about "being knocked out".

The media also raised the box office expectations of "Pacific Rim" again, and North America came to 200 million.

The numbers are not conservative, because they also have to think about the next blockbuster, such as "Transformers".

Such box office expectations don't actually produce much of a sensation in North America.

It is not uncommon for a movie with a box office of 200 million in North America to produce many movies a year.

The 50 million box office movies in the first three days are also not unusual.

In May, "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" had a North American box office of 120 million in the first three days.

Therefore, the North American media's evaluation of Lu Ping'an's "Pacific Rim" is basically a work that is in "normal play", which can make him firmly stabilize the results of the big director's grade.

But this is Lao Mei after all.

In the mainland, after the media reprinted the battle report of "Pacific Rim", the excitement of fans has already hit the higher dynasties one after another.

"Lu Ping'an may lead to the first collapse in North America"

""Pacific Rim" opened, and the film schedule and attendance rate were not as good as "Fantastic Four 2""

""Pacific Rim" word-of-mouth counterattack "Fantastic Four 2""

"Pacific Rim" score crushes "Fantastic Four 2""

"The North American box office of "Pacific Rim" in the first three days was 44.21 million, ranking second in the same period"

"North American media raised box office expectations for 'Pacific Rim' for the third time"

Until the end of the week.

"Pacific Rim" has a box office of 76.61 million a week, winning the North American weekly championship!"

At this time, the promotion of "Pacific Rim" in China had already begun.

The total investment in publicity and distribution has also reached 50 million yuan.

The effect is naturally excellent.

At present, the pre-sale of Maoyan tickets for the movie has been opened for less than two weeks, and it has exceeded 100 million.

But when "Pacific Rim" overcame the much-anticipated Hollywood blockbuster "Fantastic Four 2" in North America, it topped the North American weekly crown.

This time, Wu Guohua grabbed his head.

He looked at the Maoyan ticket, and the new pre-sale ticket office in a single day today was close to 40 million!

In the past few days, there have only been about 8 million new additions per day!

And there are more than 60,000 comments directly under today's pre-sale, far exceeding the increase of five or six thousand per day.

The content of the comment is also a water "I want to see" "cow pen!" ", instead of the yin and yang weirdness that can be watched from time to time in the past few days.

He couldn't help but sigh that the 50 million publicity fee thrown in seemed to be far less explosive than this wave of propaganda about Lao Mei's achievements.

If I had known, I wouldn't have invested so much money (end of this chapter)