The deserted film market has finally ushered in an import blockbuster , Fast and Furious 9.
From the box office point of view, the first day of the film's box office easily exceeded 300 million, and it is predicted that the final box office will exceed 2 billion, becoming the hottest movie after the Spring Festival.
There's still nothing to say at the box office, but we have to admit that this is the worst work in the Fast and Furious series in 20 years.
From the perspective of word of mouth, the Douban of "Super 9" opened with 6.1 points, fell to 5.9 points in less than half a day, and fell to 5.6 points in less than a day, and there is still a downward trend.
What is the level of this 5.6 score throughout the series?
The lowest rating of the previous eight films was 6.9 points in 2006's "Super 3", because this one starred in a big change of blood, in addition to the more eye-catching drag racing scenes, the production also declined, so it lost its popularity, but fortunately, the original lead actors in the 4th part all returned;
The highest score of the first eight films is the 8.4 points of the 5th and 7th parts, creating a peak of word of mouth, even if the 8th part has "aesthetic fatigue", the Douban score is also 7.0, and the domestic box office is still 2.67 billion.
The 5.6 score of "Super 9" is the only one in the series that has failed the word of mouth, which is one gear worse than "Rapid 3", which is the best reputation of the series in 20 years.
Since the evaluation is so consistent, there are 2 questions in front of us:
First, what is the difference between this new sequel?
Second, why is the reputation so poor, and can it still win such a high box office?
In fact, when this series reached the 9th part, when creating a box office myth, it also came to the dilemma of "running out of food".
The series began with a group of street thugs who were happy and vengeful, who raced when they were fine, and drove away when the police came, which was a bit of a green forest good man feeling.
However, now this group of has become a hero who saves the world, flying in the sky, the seventh part has exhausted the feelings of Paul's death, and the eighth part has driven directly to the Antarctic hardcore submarine.
If you continue to shoot like this, these people can only fly out of outer space and finally join the reunion to fight Thanos.
While the scene is getting bigger and bigger, the story of this series has always been a template: brothers infighting, roommate, and finally Fan Guangtou stands up and says we are family, everyone embraces each other passionately, happy ending.
"Logging tired" is said once very touching, but every time it is said that the audience is really aesthetically tired.
In addition, the actors also had unpleasant experiences in reality.
We know that In Super 8, Van Baldhead, Jason Statham and Dwayne Johnson all starred.
From the perspective of coffee positions, Statham and Johnson are obviously higher than Fan Bald head, but Fan Bald Head is the soul of the series, or the producer of the film, he has his own plan.
In the face of interests, "logging tired" did not work, and the three went their separate ways.
Statham and Johnson made another film in 2019 for "Fast and Furious: Special Ops", which also made a lot of money, with a mainland box office of 1.43 billion. After Fan Bald's head lost his left arm and right arm, he looked lonely, and the star flavor of this series was also much dimmer.
So under the action of a variety of factors, "Fast and Furious 9" is destined to be a low-reputation movie.
So since word of mouth is not good, the series is at the end of the road, why can "Super 9" still win such a high box office?
The reason why such a movie can get 2 billion, Pigo believes that one sentence can explain: the Chinese film market is too hungry.
This "hunger and thirst" is manifested in two aspects.
On the one hand: the general environment represented by the schedule.
Because May of each year has always been the unpopular period of movies, although this year's May 1st show is known as "the most crowded May 1st show in history", more than a dozen movies have joined the competition, but the box office of the final word-of-mouth "On the Cliff" has just exceeded 1 billion, and the 4 billion Giant Macs in the Spring Festival file are not comparable at all.
Few domestic films can be played, foreign films are affected by the situation and are not angry, the only imported film masterpiece this month is "The Wrath of Man" cooperated by Guy Ritchie and Jason Statham, which has just exceeded 100 million in the ten days of release.
Because the whole market is so cold, so that in the past two months, a "re-screening fever" has erupted, including classic films such as "Avatar", "The Lord of the Rings Trilogy", "Love Letters", "Cinema Paradiso" and other classic films to share a piece of the pie, and the German 2019 film "Innocent Murder" has also been released as a new film in this schedule.
In a word, there are too few good movies this month, and the audience is too hungry.
In this context, "Fast and Furious 9" came out with the feeling of big IP, naturally it is Bao Juyu and swallowed up the eight wildernesses.
On the other hand: the audience's standard for the quality requirements of IP blockbusters.
Audiences have a special tolerance for foreign audiovisual special effects blockbusters, even if the quality does not stand up to verification.
Take this "Super 9" for example, after watching the film, you only need to taste it carefully, and you will find that it is either an old routine or a fool' errand.
First of all, Boss Fan lost the partners of Walker, Statham and Johnson, and the screenwriter forced him to create a long-lost brother, who indirectly killed the racing driver's father that year, and the brothers formed a grudge.
Routines, routines, and "brothers end up reconciling" routines.
The screenwriter also did not care, and finally this naughty brother became a Buddha in a second, followed by his brother to overturn the villain's truck, Pi Ge said when he looked at it, the screenwriter you also use dim sum, although everyone knows that this routine, but it is good to lay some emotional preparation.
Then a more ridiculous plot appeared, and Han was resurrected.
Audiences familiar with this series know that Han was killed by the character played by Statham in the easter egg at the end of the sixth part, in order to use his sacrifice to lure out the villain played by Statham, and in the seventh part, the brothers also held a funeral for Han.
Unexpectedly, when the ninth part was filmed, Statham and Fan Bald head fell out and couldn't act, what to do, can only make Han resurrect.
So in "Super 9", Han was resurrected, and it turned out that he was "suspended".
Some people say that the character played by Gayle Gadot also died in the sixth part, how did not let her come back to life, because Gail Gadot played "Wonder Woman", and now the coffee position is too high, please do not move.
You watch a movie is so willful, I watch the next if Statham and Fan Bald head reconciled, return to "Super 10", Han can disappear again.
Before it's over, after the protagonist's starlight has dimmed, the villain is no longer good.
The villain in Super 9 can be described as a weak chicken.
A rich second generation of the nest was turned around by Boss Fan; a snake and scorpion beauty of the ascetic system, left a harsh word, forced Graman in the early stage, and as a result, as soon as the plane was on the field, it was also frustrated by Boss Fan for a second, anyway, the villain could not steal the light of Boss Fan.
Even the dizzying battle scenes are nonsense.
Running can block bullets, and driving a car can block missiles.
Coating a broken car with a special material can directly fly into outer space, and aerospace researchers all over the world will cry.
The so-called outer space is also a plastic texture, the key is that the two brothers crashed into the satellite with a car, and how they returned to the earth from outer space The film did not explain.
Anyway, several protagonists were born and died for 2 hours, and finally unscathed, their clothes were as neat as new, as if they had gone to the toilet and returned.
Of course, under the high box office of 300 million on the first day, we still have to admit that even if this film has many shortcomings, it can still capture the hearts of many audiences, and the audience is willing to give such a super IP blockbuster enough tolerance.
As a popcorn movie, it is qualified, although everyone knows that its theme is old and fried, but most of the audience is not coming to see the story.
What the public wants to see is: hahaha gags, sudden gun battle scenes, whirling drag racing scenes, and finally Fan Bald head came out and said "logging tired" to sublimate the theme, and it was all work.
Under the blessing of Hollywood's strong industry, these needs of the audience can basically be met, just like a netizen commented: this movie is very lively and very good-looking, that is, after watching it, I can't remember what the film says.
When Lin Yibin and Fan Guangtou created this film, they also adhered to the purpose of "the audience is God", and the creative posture was very humble, and the audience wanted to see what he wanted.
Everyone on the Internet ridiculed that this part should fly over outer space, and they really shot it like this;
On the Internet, everyone ridiculed Fan Bald Head for always saying that logging was tired, and finally really waited until the sentence "logging tired";
Everyone on the Internet regretted Paul's death, and the party at the end of the film arranged an empty chair to satisfy the audience's feelings.
I can even imagine that in the script workshop before the start of filming, people wrote down the keywords "outer space", "logging tired", and "Paul" in small books.
After the script was written, Fan Guangtou held the script and locked his brows, like a waiter who took the bill to the table after eating in the restaurant, muttering to himself: "Space elements, there is; the story of logging tiredness, there is, the ending pays tribute to Paul, there is also." Oh, I play cool X seems to be a little less, back to the screenwriter to add. ”
You see, "Super 9" made with this attitude is like a snack at a roadside stall, it can definitely be eaten, but don't count on it if you want to eat well.
Finally, Pigo's advice is: if you go out with a few friends, just want to have fun, the whole atmosphere, "Super 9" is still quite suitable for watching, a bunch of people spit out, giggle and haha two hours passed quickly.
Do you want to have a little movie pursuit, or don't waste these dozens of dollars, and the satisfaction of buying a pancake fruit is far beyond this movie. Although May's movie is not powerful, we can't drink and quench our thirst.
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