The seven films released during the Spring Festival have successively held premieres and advanced industry watches. On January 18, the Spring Festival box office champion "seed player" "The Wandering Earth 2" finally unveiled the mystery, and chose CINITY Cinema to do industry watching, followed by the first wave of word-of-mouth.
To sum up, there are several points mentioned in the first round of audience evaluation.
The first point is that the special effects are top-notch and the production is affirmed. Entertainment editor Liu Ting wrote: "The visual effects are first-class, not inferior to Hollywood blockbusters, and they are shocked by the space ladder when they come up, isn't this the legendary Tower of Babel!" ”
The film critic's evaluation of "Fan to the Bottom" is that ""The Wandering Earth 2" is an all-round upgrade of the first part, and the special effects and texture are comprehensively improved. ”
Douban also has many audience evaluations who have seen it, such as one netizen wrote that "China Film International Cinema watched the screenings in advance, which was very shocking, and surpassed the previous work in all aspects." After the end, I not only saw the director and the leading actors themselves, but also heard Hua Zi's voice. ”
There are also unknown netizens who said that the overall completion of the film is very high, if "The Wandering Earth 1" kicked the door to the world's science fiction movies for China, then "The Wandering Earth 2" can already be regarded as "entering the hall", at least it can be regarded as another milestone in the development of China's film industry.
In fact, it is not surprising that the special effects and production are affirmed. After all, "The Wandering Earth 2" has a larger investment than its predecessor, a larger scene, and an upgraded production, and the overall look and feel will definitely be comprehensively improved.
In June last year, China Film Co., Ltd., the main investor of "The Wandering Earth 2", released an announcement on the materials of the shareholders' meeting, which showed that China Film invested in 3 "key market blockbusters" such as "The Wandering Earth 2" and "Walking on the Moon Alone", with a total investment of 1.72 billion. In this way, even if it is divided into three parts, the investment amount of each part will exceed 573 million, and this is only the investment amount of one company in China Film, but the company of Guo Fan and Wu Jing on the Wandering Earth participates in the investment, and there are as many as 35 joint productions, so the total investment must be more than 600 million. You must know that the total investment of the last "The Wandering Earth" was only 50 million US dollars, about 350 million yuan, and the investment cost doubled.
At the production level, if nothing else, the setting area alone has increased by 10 times. The setting area of "The Wandering Earth" is about 100,000 square meters, which is the sum of the set area repeatedly built and demolished in the studio. And in "The Wandering Earth 2", it has increased 10 times, close to 1 million square meters, to know that the area of a football field is 7100 square meters, which means that the total scenic area of "The Wandering Earth 2" exceeds 100 football fields, so Guo Fan also revealed that the overrun of this shooting is very large and serious, which supports such a shooting.
As for the "space ladder" mentioned by netizens, it is actually presented in the trailer, and it is already very shocking on the small screen, let alone on the big screen?
The second point is that the plot and characters are brilliant. History writer Zhang Yi'an wrote a long review, which wrote: "If you like the first one, then you can watch this one with hope." "The great thing about Director Guo Fan's portrayal of characters is that everyone has their own persistence, calculation, emotion and brilliance. He didn't create any character in a way that devalued the existing character and made the character degraded. So everyone is alive and can hit people's hearts. ”
Entertainment editor Liu Ting cried when she saw it, saying that the second half of the movie was full of tears. Film critic "fans first" said that the plot structure changed the mode of just a disaster road movie in the first part, with a larger layout, more factions, and a longer span time.
In fact, such an evaluation is also expected by me, because Guo Fan revealed before that "The Wandering Earth 2" changed the previous film to focus on domestic scenes, but chose overseas shooting, and the scale is very large, there are six or seven teams, filmed in six or seven different countries, by small teams to act separately, and then the crew used very advanced network technology, director Guo Fan can see the shooting situation abroad in real time, and even restore the picture over there one by one in the studio of the domestic shooting base, and make adjustments in real time.
So overall, "The Wandering Earth 2" has a larger layout, more characters, and more information, because Guo Fan has always been targeting Hollywood A-grade movies, wanting to catch up with the information density of Hollywood A-level movies, as well as visual presentation, auditory presentation, narrative efficiency, etc., and he did it, whether it was from the texture presented in the trailer or the evaluation of the audience, "The Wandering Earth 2" is not at all inferior to Hollywood blockbusters.
In addition, there is a more obvious and unavoidable shortcoming in the comments, that is, the length of the film.
Judging from the release notice of "The Wandering Earth 2", the length reached 173 minutes, close to 3 hours, while the length of "The Wandering Earth" was 125 minutes when it was released, and the sequel was nearly 50 minutes more! Many viewers have mentioned the issue of film length, and entertainment editor Liu Ting wrote that "although the length of the film is slightly longer, I personally do not feel that there is a problem with the rhythm"; Fans have expressed concern about the length of the film, "The only point to worry about is the length problem, the number of films and the acceptance of the audience are all to be seen." ”
To be fair, such a long movie is actually a "gospel" for the audience, after all, you can sit in the theater for a longer time to enjoy the shock of audio-visual, the same ticket price, watching a longer movie is definitely more cost-effective; But for theaters, ranking two "The Wandering Earth 2" can almost rank three other movies, and the extra one can earn money for one more movie, so such a long time is actually not good for the film.
However, fortunately, at present, the proportion of films in "The Wandering Earth 2" is always in the first place, I believe that as long as the quality is hard enough and the audience evaluation is high after the release, the theater will still be willing to give more films, wishing the "Little Broken Ball" that carries the sci-fi dreams of fans a good box office.