"Dune" recently landed on the big screen Chinese mainland.
The film has already received a good rating of 7.9 on Douban, but the film has earned less than 200 million at the box office in the five days of release in Chinese mainland.
"Dune", which has received a good reputation in the world, recently landed on the big screen of Chinese mainland, and the film has now received a good rating of 7.9 on Douban. But the praise has not been able to drive the box office, the reporter saw that the box office growth rate of "Dune" is slow, as a global science fiction giant, the film in the Chinese mainland 5 days of box office gains of less than 200 million. For this movie, fans of this newspaper's "Liaoshen Review Group" also said that it is indeed a visual spectacle, but the plot is slow to advance, making this movie "watchable" too picky.
Why is there no box office due to word of mouth?
Strong visual weak plot Not strong to watch
As a classic novel by American science fiction giant Frank Herbert, Dune has always been regarded as "the world's most difficult science fiction novel to remake". And even the most difficult remake has finally been filmed, coupled with popular actors such as "Sweet Tea" Timothy Chalame and "Aquaman" Jason Momma, "Dune" has always been expected by fans around the world. Judging from the word of mouth of the release, "Dune" has been recognized by most fans, but strangely, the box office performance of the film is not satisfactory. In the Chinese mainland market, "Dune" was released for 5 days, and the box office just exceeded 150 million, which was quite a stretch in the context of basically no competitors in the same period.
The feedback of fans of the "Liaoshen Review Group" of this newspaper on the film was "mixed", and the praise mostly focused on the visual and sound effects of the film: "The background music is super strong, the visual is also particularly shocking, I am ready to brush it twice" "The struggle for power, the epic sense is very strong, and the audiovisual effect in the theater is amazing"...
There are also some fans who express their "dislike" attitude: "The pace is too slow, it is a story of the prince's revenge, but after the whole episode is told, the revenge has not yet begun" "Zhang Zhen's role is too disappointing, a character who plays a key role in the plot, actually makes people feel dispensable, and in the future, such soy sauce should not be played"...
Among the fans who praised the film, there was also a "strange phenomenon", that is, "the film score is high, but the recommendation value is not high". Several fans said that although they quite like the style of "Dune", they will not blindly recommend it to friends, "the public prefers movies with strong plots, this kind of main photography, composition, visual shock, or will not be casually recommended." Some fans even directly said that although "Dune" is called a science fiction blockbuster, it is essentially a literary film.
How to understand Dune?
The original background film is not clearly explained
Many of the audiences who rushed to the theater to watch "Dune" at the first time are fans of the original book, and it is not difficult for fans to understand "Dune". But for non-book fans, some of the film's plots are a bit confusing. In order to fully understand "Dune", some movies do not explain the details of the original work clearly, and you need to understand it in advance.
The whole story of "Dune" is about the family of the gifted teenager Paul Ertridi, who is ordered to take over the desert planet Arakis, and controlling Arakis star is equivalent to controlling a precious resource on the planet, "spices", which can unleash the greatest potential of human beings. Such enticing power led to a struggle between various forces, and Paul's family was betrayed and in danger, and he also decided to accept the guidance of fate to defend his family and people, and began to rebel. The film is just the beginning of the story: paul's family is betrayed, he and his mother escape, and they meet the natives of the desert planet, and the story ends here.
Some viewers questioned that the story is obviously in the future era, but it feels that life is very primitive, and even fighting is cold weapons such as swords. In the original novel, the "Battler Holy War" is a key turning point, this war is a big war between humans and artificial intelligence, after a long battle, human beings have won, and artificial intelligence and computers such high technology have been completely banned.
The world of Dune is quite complex. Whether it is the relationship between the major families or the special abilities of different occupations and races, if you can understand some in advance, you don't have to slowly grope in the process of watching movies. Liaoshen Evening News reporter Zhang Bo