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If you talk about the new films released this weekend, the most controversial is the science fiction movie "Blade Runner 2049".
Two days after the release, the response in Douban and Cat's Eye was simply polarized -
Douban scored 8.5, and was sealed as a god by many reviews.
Netizens who gave five full stars said:
"Villeneuve is yet another canonized director, the best film sequel of the 21st century. The movie has been supernatural since the fifth minute, and for the next three hours, it seems to be too vain, which will be a movie that science fiction fans will dream of for a lifetime, and Roger Dickins is simply inconceivable not to win an Oscar. The film expands on the original, but is essentially an original film, which makes the film both "Blade Runner" and not "Blade Runner". ”
Cat's Eye, the rating is only 6.8 points, the lowest in the same period, not only lower than "Ace Agent 2" and "Global Storm", but even lower than the Hong Kong ghost film "Always Around You".
And Maoyan gave the ticket-buying audience of the bad rating one star, which is what it said:
"Ugly, the plot is lengthy, many plots do not need to be put so long, too procrastinating, no wonder some people in the previous comments said that they wanted to fast forward."
The box office performance of Blade Runner 2049 was also crushed by the disaster film "Global Storm" released on the same day.
"Global Storm" was released on the 27th, with a box office of 157 million on the 28th, while "Blade Runner" was also released on the 27th, but only 37.57 million yuan box office on the 28th.
In fact, the film invited Wang Kai as China's "chief content recommendation officer", and many viewers went to Wang Kai's recommendation:
Yesterday, Wang Kai wrote such a sense of view in Weibo, it can be said that the text is very heartfelt:
"I was born in 1982. The first part of "Blade Runner" came out, and this classic that was passed down by word of mouth has always had an unshakable position in the film world. 35 years later, I came across Blade Runner 2049, and it was a wonderful affair. Inheriting the style of the previous game, the time and space of the existence of "Blade Runner" are more realistic, desperate and have the charm of wanting to explore. As an audience member, I think Blade Runner 2049 can definitely bring you a pleasant movie experience, it is like a bottle of carefully brewed wine, worth savoring. In a way, this film is to subvert this fast-paced era, its slow has the beauty of poetic rhythm, and its loneliness has a sad mood. As for the theme of this movie, I think everyone will have a similar but different interpretation after watching it. For me, this film is more about life than eye-opening fantasy visuals. No matter who you are, no matter what form you exist, no matter whose future you hold, life, for you and me, is worth doing your best to protect. "Blade Runner 2049" is a movie from the future, and it is a movie worthy of being marked by the times, and I sincerely hope that all good movies will not be missed. ”
However, there are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people, and the perception of Blade Runner 2049 is also very diverse.
An audience member said, "In 20 years you'll tell your son: Dad, I saw it in the cinema." ”
There are also people who expect Villeneuve, director of "Blade Runner 2049", to shoot China's science fiction masterpiece "Three-Body Problem", and the director's previous "Arrival" is also a high-scoring science fiction film.
Of course, some people admit that this is a classic, but this is a "classic that can't be seen".
For one of the points of controversy: the rhythm of the film -
Don't like to say: the rhythm is too slow!
And people who like it say: the slower the better!
However, although "Blade Runner 2049" presents a polar view in the minds of audiences, the film's box office in the United States and the box office in China have the same experience: cold.
"Blade Runner 2049" was released in North America before China, although the word of mouth is good - Rotten Tomatoes freshness is still 88%, the meta critic authoritative media score is as high as 81 points, and the two professional evaluation indicators are perfectly in the same grade as "Blade Runner". However, the film's box office in North America was weak all the way, and it was crushed by "The Return of the Joker".
This can't help but be reminiscent: the predecessor of Blade Runner 2049, the 1982 "Blade Runner", this science fiction movie from 35 years ago, was also a word-of-mouth hit, but it failed miserably at the box office.
Blade Runner cost $28 million that year, but only $27.5 million at the box office. The film was ranked 97th in the 100 classic films of a hundred years of film history by AFI in 2007.
There are some classics in film history that are always full of controversy, and the sequel to "Blade Runner" after 35 years is as controversial as the previous work, which probably proves that this is a film work that transcends this era.