Disaster Artist

The latest website: It is another year of summer, and the crowds are fighting for each other.

In April, "Speed ​​Mania" seized the off-season before the arrival of summer, made a strong debut, won four consecutive championships, and occupied the film market throughout April without any suspense.

In May, "League of Knights 2" officially kicked off the summer season, with a box office figure of 1.2 billion in the opening weekend. Although it is slightly inferior to the previous work, it still easily detonated this year's midsummer frenzy——

In the whole summer of last year, no weekend box office of any work was able to break the one-billion threshold, which means that there is no major impact after all, but in the first week of this summer's season, so much energy was released that all the news media fell into a frenzy. , have high hopes for the follow-up "Jurassic Edge" and "Mission Impossible 5".

Maybe it’s because the audience has really suppressed their enthusiasm for too long, maybe it’s because Magic Pictures’ work on superhero movies has finally ushered in the harvest season, maybe it’s because the media’s overwhelming advocacy has awakened the audience’s curiosity... The direct result is that the box office Usher in a full blowout.

In fact, the reputation of "League of Knights 2" is not satisfactory, and the overall performance has declined in an all-round way. From professional media to mass media, from senior fans to ordinary fans, the evaluations in all aspects are inferior to the previous work, and the gap is not small, which also means that the movie The box office endurance may not be so good, but the explosive power in the early stage is still astonishing——

The two-week cumulative box office easily exceeded 1.95 billion, which is one step away from 2 billion, and easily surpassed the six-week release of "Speed ​​Mania" to become the box office champion so far this year.

Destruction!

Then, "Unfriend 2" quietly appeared.

Regardless of whether you walked into the cinema last summer and watched "Unfriend", it is certain that audiences have more or less heard of this movie. Seeing the series release again after a year, the bustling curiosity starts from all around. Surging, but don't know how this sequel will unfold.

Naturally, movies attract more audiences, which is an important reason why studios are keen to make sequels.

During the premiere weekend, it received 220 million in three days.

Of course, such box office data is far from comparable to the peak data of the phenomenal performance of "Unfriending", but it is still worth celebrating, because Qiyang Media has recovered the cost and entered the profitability stage in just one week. It is indeed suitable for the multi-selling Qiyang Media.

At the beginning, when Qiyang Media purchased the script of "Unfriending 2", Lu Qian severely beat it up. Many people in the industry believed that Qiyang Media was clever and made a loss-making business; but now it seems, Qiyang Media's little gamble worked, and now it's time for a bumper harvest.

But the audience was very disappointed, very, very much.

Objectively speaking, the whole story pattern of "Unfriend 2" has been improved, and it has entered the mysterious dark web world. It is still the narrative method of the computer desktop, but the plot setting has hidden ingenuity:

Acts 1 and 2 can see the protagonists making "wrong" choices all the time, just like all horror movies are "dumb" -

If you know you shouldn't go to the basement, you go there; if you know you don't want to look under the bed, you do it; if you know you have to turn on the lights, you stay in darkness.

Promoting the plot through the stupidity of the protagonists is very clumsy and even makes people roll their eyes, because this is an obvious setting that reduces intelligence, which seriously affects the look and feel.

The audience couldn't help but want to roll their eyes, and they all complained in their hearts, "How could Lu Qian write such a stupid script, it seems that Jiang Lang's talent should be exhausted, no wonder last year that he was willing to resell the script to Qiyang Media, but Qiyang Media Why is it so stupid, seeing the script as an idiot and not modifying it." Valley

But entering the third act, the audience found that those seemingly stupid behaviors are actually controlled by an invisible hand behind them, which means that everything is a trap set by the dark web. No matter how the protagonists choose to escape, these traps will eventually Or trap them, with nowhere to run—

At this moment, the goose bumps on the back are madly popping out, just like "Trumen's World", I always thought that every decision was made by myself, but in fact there is an invisible hand behind it controlling my own. Choosing, judging, and deciding, you have nowhere to run, like a marionette.

I have to say that even though they are also tabletop movies, the cores of the two works of "Unfriending" are different. The change of the whole setting brings power to the promotion and turning of the story, and the sparks from the collision between the characters and the plot are completely different. It's not very common in sequel movies --

The solidity and ingenuity of the script is commendable.

To a large extent, the script of the sequel is even better than the previous one, which also shows how young Lu Qian was when he filmed "Unfriend" last year.

So, where is the problem?

director.

From the lighting to the composition, from the editing to the soundtrack, and even the performance, there is a clear gap in the temperament and strength that the director endows the film.

In "Unfriending", the creation of the atmosphere is top-notch, and it really makes the audience feel immersed in the scene, and they are involved in it unconsciously, and the charm of tabletop movies is vividly displayed.

But in "Unfriending 2", not only is there no sense of substitution and immersion, but the actors' exaggerated performances completely destroy the audience's immersion in watching the movie, leaving only a fancy gimmick for the desktop movie, which makes People wonder why they don't watch it on the computer and come to the cinema to waste time, and the movie ends up being cheap "jump scares" throughout.

No comparison doesn't hurt.

Before, people didn't know how amazing the control of "Unfriending" is. Now, after watching "Unfriending 2", I realized how difficult it is to avoid cheap and vulgar horror movies. Even if the script is upgraded, the impact is completely backward~ www.novelmt.com~ Then, the excellent remarks calling Lu Qian to remake "Unfriend 2" and lamenting "Unfriending" were spread all over the social network platform, and the comment that got the most likes and forwards said this of:

"On the impact of 'Lu Qian's content' on the movie, the answer will be revealed after the release of 'Quick Hunt' in August."

Netizens laughed.

Everyone knows that in "Unfriend 2", Lu Qian is only responsible for writing the script, and then the follow-up work of Qiyang Media has nothing to do with Lu Qian. If netizens want to complain about the movie, Lu Qian will not be involved; but "Fast pursuit", Lu Qian served as the executive producer, and the close cooperation between Damen Pictures and Blue Whale Pictures is throughout, so the quality of the film is worth looking forward to.

Then countless jokes were born one after another on the Internet, and "Lu Qian content" has also become a hot word this summer.

In the end, amid the disappointing word of mouth, the total box office figures of "Unfriend 2" dawdled past the 800 million threshold, and then failed to go any further.