Made in Hollywood

The end of the world is coming, and the hero played by Bruce Willis has become the last hope. At the most critical moment, he pressed the control button of the nuclear bomb. The huge explosion covered the entire screen, illuminating the theater and the screen. The pictures on the screen began to switch rapidly, showing the excitement of the rescued human beings on Earth.

The film obviously uses explosions in sensational, fast and sharp switching shots, which can easily provoke the emotions of the audience.

The earth was saved, the movie ended, and Alan and Jones walked out of the theater.

"Why does it always feel familiar?"

While walking out of the theater, Jones said to Allen, "Continuous short cuts, crazy explosions, cities destroyed by explosions..."

Allen took over, "This film is very much like Duke's earliest style, "Life and Death", "Independence Day" and "Brave Island" are all in this style."

"That's right." Jones nodded in agreement. "Michael Bay is worthy of being a little banger, and he seems to have learned a lot from Duke."

"It's a pity that what I learned is outdated, and Duke no longer uses it." Allen sighed, "Duke has long since left this stage of attracting audiences with pure sensory stimulation. Michael Bay is just Duke? Rosenberger No. 2, the gap between The Cataclysm and The Matrix is ​​too stark, and the gap between Michael Bay and Duke is even more stark.”

At the turn of the century, all kinds of rumors of the destruction of the world were circulating in the society. "The Great Clash of Heaven and Earth" and "Peerless Heavenly Tribulation" emerged as the times require. However, the treatment of the two films is very different due to different distribution companies. The former is due to a dream. The factory factor was simultaneously suppressed by major companies, the latter being the work of Walt Disney. The number of theaters opened is as high as 3127!

The former Bang Bei, with his dazzling editing and crazy explosive skills, conquered countless North American audiences in the early stage of his career. Today's Michael Bay is still taking this road. However, some roads are the first to take. People have meat to eat. The second person to leave may have to gnaw on the bones, and the person who leaves behind may have to drink soup.

"Peerless Catastrophe" is undoubtedly a masterpiece of Michael Bay's previous collection, and even pushed the type of film that used explosions as sensational and combined with other summer vulgar elements to a peak.

But now the situation has changed a long time ago. Since the early 1990s, North American audiences have been baptized by Duke with three consecutive films that mainly focus on explosive visual effects. The expectations for this type of film will undoubtedly be much lower.

No one can deny that "Peerless Tribulation" is an excellent summer popcorn. But its wide-opening first-day response didn't particularly match the film's $140 million production cost.

On its first day of release on Friday, "Peerless Catastrophe" earned $9.66 million in 3,127 theaters.

This film with an asteroid hitting the earth as the theme, the opening performance is only slightly better than the opening performance of the same type of film "The Clash of Heaven and Earth".

no doubt. The steady box office trend of "The Matrix" has obviously affected the subsequent films.

At the beginning of the new weekend, compared to the single-day box office that has been steadily declining in the past few days, "The Matrix" has once again ushered in a rebound moment. At 3,110 theaters, it was up 27 percent from Thursday's $7.52 million. Get 9.7 million US dollars, just over the top of "Peerless Heavenly Tribulation".

The box office rebound of "Godzilla" is also one of the factors affecting "Peerless Calamity," which rose 25 percent on Friday. Reported $5.43 million.

Compared with "The Matrix" and "Peerless Catastrophe", "Godzilla" has fallen behind. This weekend's North American film market is completely a situation of competition between the former two.

The discussion and interpretation of "The Matrix" on the Internet has been heating up. At this stage, there is no need to rely on the Internet army to guide. Duke has already walked the road of Michael Bay and knows that he likes this type of film the most. of people are teenagers, and the biggest group that the Internet can affect is also teenagers.

Panney Kelly's online public relations department has already taken action right after the premiere of "Peerless Catastrophe", and they can be seen on major websites and forums including IMDB. .

"The movie "Peerless Tribulation" is a pain in terms of vision, hearing, brain, normal senses, and the desire to watch a good movie."

"Trying to find fault in a movie like 'Peerless Catastrophe' is like hitting an elephant with an 'ant gun', the fatal flaw of all movies - absurd plot, weakened characterization, puzzling acting and Around the hustle and bustle—there’s no shortage of them.”

"Let me count how many reasons to hate "Peerless Heavenly Tribulation", one...two...three..."

"'Peerless Catastrophe' is confusing and lacks exciting plot rhythm and character interpretation, which is largely caused by aesthetic fatigue, Michael Bay is completely imitating the young Duke Rosenberg , and a very poor imitation.”

On the Internet, a platform with relatively free speech, in just one day, remarks that are not conducive to Michael Bay and "Peerless Catastrophe" are spread everywhere, and this new type of virus-like negative speech is disseminated. The traditional group, which is difficult to turn around, is not ready to deal with it at all.

Under these smeared posts, there are often quite a lot of incited netizens to reply, and in the eyes of the vast majority of the audience, Michael Bay is indeed imitating the style of Duke's earliest movies.

"Michael Bay is just imitating Duke, his movies are nothing new."

"I went to see "Peerless Tribulation", there are many explosions, but they were all means that Duke threw away useless, and compared to "The Matrix", he made some rubbish things..."

Walt Disney has participated in a wide range of reports on the shooting last week, and its ABC TV station is an activist among them. Even now, Disney's media is still making a fuss about the shooting, which affects the choice of many viewers.

Competition is ubiquitous in this circle, not to mention that this is the most important summer time for commercial films, and no one can say anything about Disney's behavior, but Warner Bros. will not be willing to be defensive in terms of competition.

In addition to Duke's online actions, Warners has also actively discredited Walt Disney's big production in traditional media.

"Although "Peerless Catastrophe" is spectacular and noisy, there is nothing new at all. Michael Bay uses all the cinematic techniques that Duke Rosenberg has given up. The two are both famous for making explosions. The difference is obvious..."

--"era"

"This is a sci-fi movie, yes, but the sci-fi in "Peerless Catastrophe" is based on the real world. We just want to ask, how unreliable is the plot setting of the movie? Is it more absurd to send a group of ordinary oil workers into space to drill wells on asteroids?"

-- "Los Angeles Times"

Today's Michael Bay, apart from age, has a huge gap between Duke and Duke. Perhaps the influence of traditional media on young people is decreasing. But in North America, the birthplace of the Internet, after years of development, the Internet has become an indispensable part of the lives of many teenagers and even office workers.

For commercial films, the Saturday box office in the first weekend is generally higher than the Friday box office, but it is affected by a series of unfavorable factors. The Saturday box office of "Peerless Tribulation" actually dropped by 12.7%, with a daily receipt of US$8.44 million.

"The Matrix" continued its steady run, with a slight increase at the box office on Saturday. He earned 10.11 million US dollars in a single day, and once again beat "Peerless Heavenly Tribulation". In this weekend schedule has occupied an absolute advantage.

After Saturday, the weekend competition between "Peerless Cataclysm" and "The Matrix" was clear, and then "Peerless Cataclysm" continued to decline in the day on Sunday. Reported $8.11 million that day.

The Matrix also failed to escape normal market discipline, ending the weekend's rally, dropping back to $9.21 million on Sunday.

"Los Angeles Times, in the just-concluded fourth weekend of May, "The Matrix" continued its strong performance since its release, earning $29.02 million in its third weekend of release, surprising the weekly box office Three consecutive championships on the leaderboard."

"Affected by the strong performance of "The Matrix", "Peerless Cataclysm", which was released this weekend, fell short of Walt Disney's expected opening weekend of $40 million, ending its first weekend with $26.21 million, ranking first in the weekly box office. Number two on the list."

"The third place on the box office list is "Godzilla" produced by Sony Columbia Pictures. Affected by the severe decline in audience reputation, this film's box office plunged by 50% this weekend. Only $13.15 million came in."

"So far, The Matrix has accumulated a total of 211.47 million US dollars at the North American box office, temporarily occupying the first place in the North American annual box office list. At the same time, the film has landed in more overseas markets, with a total overseas box office of 156.99 million US dollars, and the global box office is already close to 400 million. Dollars, it's also the highest box office hit of any film released this year!"

After the weekend, the last Monday in May arrives, which is the traditional holiday in North America - Memorial Day. Most of the film's box office declines are extremely limited.

"The Matrix" took another $8.95 million, pushing the North American box office to $220.42 million; "Peerless Calamity" was also relatively stable, ending the day with a figure of $8.05 million, and the North American box office increased to $34.26 million; After "Godzilla" received $4.95 million, the North American box office rose to $64.82 million, and the North American box office is very likely to break 100 million.

DreamWorks has become the biggest disappointment since the beginning of the summer season. From the announcement to the screening and then to the theater, "The Clash of Heaven and Earth" was fully encircled and suppressed by the six major companies. After the fourth weekend in the theater, due to the single hall. Both the box office and the overall box office fell below the psychological bottom line of the theater side, and together with the pressure from the six major companies, it became the target of the North American Cinema Alliance to force the downgrade, and the final North American box office number stayed at 70.06 million US dollars. (To be continued ~^~)

PS: I don’t know if I can go home now~~~