Unconsciously, nearly one-third of this year has passed, and in the eventful autumn of 2022, all walks of life have suffered different degrees of impact, and the film market naturally cannot be left alone.
Originally the most crowded Qingming file in history, it became the most deserted Qingming file in history overnight, which can be seen in the cold winter encountered by the film industry.
Not only domestic movies are in trouble, but even Hollywood movies are also mired in the quagmire.
For a simple example, after nearly half a year, Hollywood movies have returned to the domestic schedule, including "The New Batman", "Fantastic Beasts: Dumbledore's Mystery" and "Uncharted" and many other high-standard blockbusters, but their box office basically stays at around 100 million yuan.
The Chinese market is an important global box office that Hollywood has high hopes for, but it has poured a large basin of cold water on them, making them have to re-examine the layout of the Chinese market.
Since last year, Hollywood movies, especially Marvel super British movies, have gradually moved away from the mainstream vision, and even Disney, as a cultural export giant, is difficult to retreat in the ocean of people's war.
How will the domestic film market break through in 2022?
The first is the content of the film, which must be excellent in order to find a breathing space in the narrow living space where competition is becoming more and more fierce.
The film market under the influence of the external environment has also brought a once-in-a-decade reshuffle opportunity for Chinese films: let the really excellent works survive and say goodbye to those who abuse the numbers.
The big waves generally wash away the parasites of dividends and leave real gold for Chinese films.
2022 is a difficult year for Chinese films, theaters in many cities have been closed so far, many films that are being filmed have to be terminated, and many films that have been filmed have had to be postponed.
Actors lose opportunities, theaters lose films, and a considerable number of film practitioners lose their financial resources. When life is affected, entertainment becomes a dispensable existence.
But we can't lose movies, just as we can't lose books. Movies are friends who accompany us out of the island, another way to feel the world. I have prepared a detailed list of the ten most anticipated domestic films in 2022, hoping that we can meet them in the cinema as promised.
First place, Wandering Earth 2
The national expectation value of "The Wandering Earth 2" is undoubtedly the first place, and the 2019 Lunar New Year movie "The Wandering Earth" turned out to be a stone-shattering for Chinese science fiction films.
The final box office miracle is also difficult to fully show the importance of this film to Chinese films, its role is not only to bring the audience a textured science fiction blockbuster, but also to ignite the first flame of hope for Chinese science fiction films.
The Wandering Earth shortened the gap between the mainland's science fiction films and Hollywood by a decade, and the accolades are not exaggerated.
Whether it is the completeness of the overall story and the progressive rhythm of the narrative, or even our consistent shortcomings - special effects production, it can be comparable to the top level of Hollywood. In "The Wandering Earth 2", the soul of the film, Wu Jing, was retained, and the newly added Andy Lau and Li Xuejian raised the film lineup to a new level.
Sometimes the box office is important, but the box office does not represent everything. Although I am looking forward to "The Wandering Earth 2" to reshape the box office miracle, I am more looking forward to it setting a new benchmark for domestic hard science fiction films.
Second place, the lone moon
Ask Shen Teng + Ma Li's immortal combination, who can not look forward to it?
Shen Teng has not starred in a new work for a long time, and the space left by "Four Seas" is too small, so small that I almost did not notice his comedy performance. Although Ma Li recreated a small-cost box office dark horse with "This Killer Is Not Too Calm", if there is no Wei Xiang's super god play, it is difficult for Ma Li to stand up alone.
The "Shenma Group" once created a classic like "Charlotte Troubles" to help Happy Twist quickly gain a foothold in the film field, but later they rarely had the opportunity to cooperate with the leading actors.
"Lone Moon" gave both of them a chance, and also gave the audience a chance. Domestic science fiction comedy movies rarely have good works, "Crazy Alien" is one of the best, can "Lone Moon" carry forward this genre? I can't wait anymore.
Third place, Mozart of outer space
The recent comedy science fiction movies are a bit piled up, Chen Sicheng finally let go of Wang Baoqiang's hand, turned his head and took Huang Bo's hand again.
Chen Sicheng also finally wanted to put Chinatown aside for the time being and try a new film theme, which was a brave attempt for Chen Sicheng.
"Mozart in Outer Space" tells the story of aliens coming to Earth, and according to the plot description, it is not a pure comedy, but will mix family and family elements.
This movie reminds me of the famous Hollywood science fiction film "ET Aliens", as the Chinese film industry system matures, there will be more and more assembly line works.
"Assembly line work" does not contain any pejorative meaning, but it also means that the film level has always remained stable at a certain level. Any mature and developing film market needs similar assembly line works.
Fourth place, Detective Wars
When I first saw the movie title of "Detective Wars", it instantly stimulated my curiosity, as a generation that grew up watching galaxy image films, Du Qifeng and Wei Jiahui's cooperation of "Detective" has always been one of my favorites.
Some movies tell a good story, such as "I Am Not a Medicine God", some movies bring us sensory stimulation, such as "King Kong", but there is also such a kind of movie, the story is secondary, and the most important thing is to create a special atmosphere with the magic of images. Such is the case with Detective.
The seemingly crazy protagonist, combined with the handheld shaking camera method, and the dim tones unique to Hong Kong movies, the atmosphere of killing and dry heat comes to the face.
Although there is no Du Qifeng in this "Detective Wars", wei Jiahui and Liu Qingyun, the soul characters, are fortunate to return. As mentioned in the trailer: "One is a righteous detective, one is a butcher, and the other is a magic policeman", how can such a complex and fascinating character relationship not be moved?
Fifth place, no name
Who is Cheng Er?
He has only made 5 feature films in 22 years, of which only 3 have been released.
These include the crime film "Border Storm" with a Douban score of 7.8 points, and the "History of the Demise of Romanticism" with a Douban score of 7.7 points.
Cheng Er's films have never been box office harvesters, but it is strange that the first-class actors he has worked with have always been endless, from Xu Zheng, Sun Honglei, Ge You, Zhang Ziyi, to Liang Chaowei, Wang Yibo and Zhou Xun in "Nameless".
Cheng Er's director is characterized by a light weight, he can always find a sense of cinema in ordinary daily dialogue, and there is a hidden turbulence under the calm appearance, making the audience look very enjoyable.
Judging from the latest trailer for "Nameless", the dialogue rhythm is very similar to "The History of the Demise of Romanticism", and it also adopts Shanghainese. We really need a director with characteristics like Cheng Er, and the rest of the directors that everyone can pay attention to are Diao Yinan and Li Xiaofeng.
Sixth place, Broken Bridge
Does the lineup of former boy band members + film queen look familiar?
That's right, the last movie with a similar cast was Young You.
Speaking of this movie, there are still some origins with this movie, Yi Qianxi and Wang Junkai are both members of TFBOYS, and Zhou Dongyu and Ma Sichun once won the Golden Horse Film Queen Laureate with a "July and Ansheng".
However, after watching the trailer, I don't think Wang Junkai can succeed with "Broken Bridge".
Performing this thing really requires talent, Ma Sichun is strong when she is strong, but she herself does not have the strength to control, obviously Wang Junkai is not the person who can give her the pressure to perform. Although Wang Junkai said that he bravely played ugly, I did not feel his love for acting.
In fact, there are many movies that people are looking forward to this year, such as "Tomorrow's War" starring Gu Tianle, Zhang Jiahui and Liu Qingyun, and then continue the frontier of "Sweeping Drugs".
There is also the crime film "Wading through the Sea of Anger" starring Huang Bo and Zhou Xun, and the two powerful factions are dueling.
Can Xin Yukun's third feature film "Hot Search" continue the reputation of "Labyrinth of Hearts" (Douban score 8.7) and "Bursting Silent" (Douban score 8.2)?
It is the responsibility of our film critics to let good movies be seen by more people.
Winter always passes, the flowers will bloom, and we will see each other again in the cinema sooner or later. I have a dream, so that the really good movies make a lot of money, so that the indiscriminate bad films lose money, I am the film critic Zhang Muzhi.