Feng Shui takes turns, thirty years of Hedong, thirty years of Hexi.
This phrase applies everywhere, for example, the current North American film market, which is a living example.
Last year, "Iron Man" Robert Downey Jr., who left the scene in "Reunion 4" and touched thousands of audiences around the world, the highly anticipated new film "Dorit's Fantasy Adventure" (adapted from "Doctor Strange Doolittle") was released in North America on January 17.
As a result, the premiere was a fiasco, affecting the film's weekend box office: it grossed just $6.3 million on Friday and is currently expected to gross about $30 million in the first four days.
You know, this movie is a big production with an investment of nearly 175 million US dollars, in addition to Downey, it is also a top lineup of "Spider-Man" Tom Holland, Oscar film emperor Rami Marek, "Voldemort" Ralph Fiennes, and "Cannes film emperor" Antonio Banderas, and now this start is really unexpectedly bad.
At the same time, another film released on the same day was in full swing.
Will Smith, a black actor who has experienced a period of lows before, has become popular again because of the new film "Jedi X-Men 3", recreating the influence of the former "Shi Huang".
The film grossed $23.5 million in North America on Friday and is expected to gross between $66 million and $68 million in its opening weekend, and the $90 million production is now well above expectations, successfully rebooting the "Jedi X-Men" comedy series, which has now been renewed for a fourth time.
Based on the children's literature of the same kind by British writer Hugh Loftin, Doolittle's Fantastic Adventures, Dr. John Doolittle (Downey) shuts himself in a manor house with animals, then goes on an adventure, defeats old rivals, regains courage and wisdom, and discovers wonderful new creatures.
Stephen Gahan, the film's director, is a well-known screenwriter who won an Oscar and a Baptista Film Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2001 for Drug Network, and was later nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Cinelner.
But the film, which led critics to publicly criticize, said that Gahan had basically never suffered a real blow, and Universal had made him this "monster" for nearly $200 million. Perhaps, the film becomes a lesson worth reflecting on.
Such unceremonious reviews abound, and the film's poor ratings are really surprising.
Imdb is only 5.6 points, Rotten Tomatoes professional film critics hit as low as 18% freshness, although the audience praise is 76%, but also seems slightly weak, the usual harsh MTC score is as low as 27 points, almost equal to the big bad film.
Among MTC's current 41 professional film critics, only 2 have scored more than 60 passing points, the remaining 39 have all failed ratings, and 25 have scored low scores below 40 points.
What is even more unexpected is that this top-level blockbuster has more than one professional film critic who scored 0 points!
As the most dazzling one in the film, Downey naturally received a lot of criticism. Overseas media also commented that the movie "Dorit's Fantastic Adventure" was one of the worst ratings in the career of Robert Downey Jr. actor.
Two people on a 0's mark, one for The Washington Post, and the other for vulture, are titled "< Dorit's Fantastic Adventure> Is Anti-Movie."
This review begins with a very rude one – "I didn't think this movie would be made well, but I didn't expect it to be so bad."
From downey's Welsh accent for the character, to the animal dialogue in the film that doesn't quite match Cgi's tone, to the character's madness and lethargy, to the director's inadequacy to the project, to finally criticizing the film for putting so much effort into it, and finally being uninspired and fragmented, "It's a shame, this remake is a disaster."
Todd McCarthy, a Hollywood Reporter critic who gave the film a 20 point, commented: "It seems that Downey doesn't really like the role he plays, it doesn't seem to be fun at all, and director Stephen Gahan is not suitable for the subject." ”
Guzman of Newsday seemed to agree with McCarthy, calling the film "elaborately staged but unattractive." At the same time, Guzman also expressed his disapproval of Dr. Dorit, played by Downey, and also complained about his accent in the film.
Richard Roper of the Chicago Sun-Times, who scored 25 points, also criticized Downey's performance, adding that in addition to accent issues, he also said that Downey's eyes sometimes look boring when he "interacts" with animals.
Benjamin Lee of The Guardian, who scored 40 points, called the film "puzzling" and "stupid" in his comments.
Sarah Stewart, who scored 50 in the New York Post, was also disappointed with the film, saying she couldn't understand Universal's choice of director Stephen Gahan, "If you were planning such a stunning children's film, would you think of the writers of Drug Network?" ”
Even Antonio Banderas, who won the Cannes film award for "Pain and Glory" and was nominated for the Oscar for Best Actor, was also criticized for this film. Tabor, who scored 38 at The Boston Globe, criticized the film for being disorganized, "jumping meaninglessly from dangerous sequence to another, with little organization." ”
Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair, who scored 40 points, also saw the film as an "abnormal misstep" and "despite all his efforts, it is not a fun movie." Brent Hankins of the lamplight review also noted that the film's supposed sense of humor is also "bland" and that "animal-related humor is mostly outdated."
There are also poisonous tongue film critics, using the previous word-of-mouth and box office music movie "Cat" to compare with this movie. Peter of Rolling Stone magazine thinks the movie is worse than Cats, "Please come back to Cats, we forgive you." ”
Although "Dorit's Fantasy Adventure" currently has a poor reputation and is not ideal at the box office, it is not set as good or bad for a movie for the time being. To know downey's $20 million a-line superstar salary and global appeal, it is not a waste of fame.
Just like he doesn't want to be "Iron Man" forever, it's not necessarily a good thing to live in praise all the time, and criticism makes people progress.
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