Three days after the National Day holiday, the battle situation of the 10 films has been relatively clear, and "In and Out of Peace" and the animated film "Pipiru and Luxisi" were the first to go out and announced their withdrawal. As of press time, the Douban scores of the eight live-action movies in the National Day file have all been released, on the whole, in addition to the general high scores (the overall score is not very good, the audience will be a little more tolerant when put together), the Douban score reflects the true quality of the movie.
Among them, the highest rated is "Only This Green", which scored 8.0 points on Douban. This movie is very immersive, can make people immerse themselves in it, the picture and music are very beautiful, it can be called the light of national culture, the director's creation is pure, focused, and gets rid of utilitarianism, but because of this, the box office of "Only This Green" is only more than 10 million, ranking at the bottom of all live-action movies, which is really a pity.
"Volunteers: The Battle for Survival" ranked second, with a Douban score of 7.3,. This score is quite real, as the second part of the series, it is more tense and shocking than the previous one, the main line of the whole movie is obvious, the logic of the plot advancement is clear, the war scenes are shocking, and the tactics are appropriate. Director Chen Kaige does shoot war themes, he understands that if the war wants to impress the audience, it must not rely on the sensory stimulation of war scenes, so on the one hand, he highlights the huge gap between the number and equipment of the enemy and us, thus reflecting the hardships of the war and the indomitable of the soldiers.
From the perspective of the entire National Day file, "Volunteers: Life and Death" is a movie that can really let the audience see the real thing and be worth the ticket price, so the box office ranks first fair and reasonable.
"Crisis Route" got 6.7 points, ranking third, which shows how bad this National Day file is in terms of movie quality, in my personal opinion, this movie is at most passing, in addition to benefiting from the tense atmosphere that is easy to create in the confined space of the aircraft, both the action scenes and the details are lackluster, Andy Lau, who is not good at action, is old, and it is difficult to play beautiful action scenes, so the scenes of his fight with the bandits in the movie are basically completed by close-up patchwork, and a complete wonderful fight scene cannot be found, and there are many logical bugs, and the emotional line affects the rhythm of the whole movie, and the two words to summarize are mediocre.
It is worth focusing on "The Road to Fire", which has a rating of 6.4, and "749 Bureau", which has a score of 4.7.
"The Road to Fire" won the lead because of Zhao Liying's starring role, and "749 Bureau" became the most optimistic movie by the audience and the industry before the start of the National Day file because of Wang Junkai.
Therefore, after all ten movies were released on October 1, "749 Bureau" ranked first with 20.4% of the film schedule, cutting 174 million box office, and "Road to Fire" ranked first with 17.5% of the film schedule, ranking third at the box office on the same day. There is no word-of-mouth to refer to before the movie is released, and the proportion of the film schedule given by the theater is basically the same as the movie's appearance, and the so-called "appearance" is determined by the theme of the movie and the cast, so the outstanding performance of these two movies is due to Zhao Liying and Wang Junkai, two actors with high traffic.
But the subsequent box office performance was a big surprise. The first position at the box office of "749 Bureau" gave way to "Volunteers: Survival Battle" the next day, and the single-day box office fell off a cliff, with 173 million, 77.22 million, and 39.08 million respectively during the three days of the National Day holiday, and the total box office is predicted to have shrunk from the initial more than 500 million to the current 404 million, with a score of 4.7, which makes this movie completely unstable.
"The Road to Fire" also suffered from the embarrassing situation of declining box office day by day, fortunately, the movie's reputation is not as crotch-pulling as "749 Bureau", and the final box office will be higher, but these two movies definitely failed to meet the expected box office of the filmmaker.
What the two movies have in common is that they both chose top stars, and they both miscalculated in terms of box office performance. Looking back at the movies released this year, it can basically be concluded that traffic stars can neither bring word-of-mouth nor save the box office, their existence can last for one day at most, as long as the movie quality is not good and the word-of-mouth is not good, it will be over the next day. As for the fans of celebrities, it is okay to do data and stir up popularity, and let them buy movie tickets with real money to support it, which has a limited role.
The encounters of "749 Bureau" and "Road to Fire" are not unique. Looking back at the movies released this year, Wang Junkai's "Hedgehog" has a box office of 144 million, and "Wild Child" has a box office of 238 million, and this is the third time to prove that he can't carry the box office.
Wang Yibo is a proper top performer, and the box office of "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team" is only 511 million. Zhu Yilong's "Negative and Positive" had a box office of 70 million, and Zhang Ruoyun's "Safe Evacuation from the 21st Century" barely exceeded 100 million at the box office.
From the performance level, Wang Junkai and Zhao Liying's performance was also unsatisfactory.
"749 Bureau" is a movie shot a few years ago, Wang Junkai at that time was much younger than "Hedgehog" and "Wild Child", all emotional expressions were not in place, not long after the movie opened, he returned to the scene where he talked to Zheng Kai in 749 Bureau, anger and rebellion were not enough.
"The Road to Fire" can even be said to be Zhao Liying's shortcomings in the overall performance, and she was compared to Liu Ye and Xiao Yang throughout the whole process, Li Hongying played by her, who has been beaten in the sinister society for so many years, deceived by her ex-husband, her daughter was sold, and she did immortal jumping, she should have been dusty and sophisticated, and has her own set of survival rules, but none of these are in Zhao Liying, she is too clear and simple, at the same time, obviously Zhao Liying has not gone deep into the characters and is fully engaged in the performance, so the way she smokes feels wrong, and Xiao Yang didn't even have a decent bed scene, it was completely fake posing.
The leading actor who dragged the movie back should come out to apologize, and I also hope that this National Day file can make the management deeply realize that it is useless to spend a lot of money to invite big stars, and to return the movie to the movie, it is necessary to invest all the money in script development and production, only in this way can a good movie be recognized by the audience and a box office success.