Watch good movies on New Year's Eve
After half a year, the film viewing report is here again. Compared with the liveliness of the cinema in the first half of the year, I obviously feel a little "deserted" in the box office market in the second half of the year, as if all the flowers have finished in the summer file, and even the National Day file seems a little decadent. On the other hand, concerts seem to be extremely prosperous, and touring and ticket grabbing have become the norm in my circle of friends (even moldy concert documentaries have grabbed the box office with movies). As one of the workers in this industry, in the face of this phenomenon, I can certainly say a thing or two from the perspective of the industry, but from the perspective of ordinary audiences, I wonder if our cinema movies really lack some attraction in terms of qualityEspecially at the end of the year, if you take a look at this year's top ten bad movies, you will find that ten grids are not enough, and some high-grossing movies are also far behind the same level of quality as a few years ago. It is an indisputable fact that the box office is cold, but it is not necessarily a completely bad thing, and for the industry, it is also a reflection brought by the market. Let's go back to the "New Year's Eve file", there are not many new films this time, and there are only seven or eight heavyweights, but the genre is very rich, from comedy to romance, crime suspense to concert scenes, and there are basically no themes. So, this time, let's also test the "New Year's Eve" films, picked the most discussed ones, and failed to record them one by one**, the following comments are purely tap water evaluations, if you have different views, see the comment area :)
"Do Not Disturb 3": Fung's humor is a double-edged sword.
Title: Do Not Disturb 3
Director: Feng Xiaogang.
Starring: Ge You, Fan Wei, Li Chengru, etc.
Genre: Comedy Romance.
"If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" is an IP that I am quite familiar with, Director Feng also considered the audience who had not seen it, and made a plot review in the first 10 minutes of the movie, which will not be too threshold.
Compared with the urban background of the first two parts, the third part will be set in the era of the rapid development of artificial intelligence in 2030, although Qin Fen and Xiaoxiao are together, Xiaoxiao has been gone for 10 years, Uncle Ge, who misses Xiaoxiao, chooses to customize a **Xiaoxiao intelligent robot in his friend Fan Wei's intelligent company, and the story unfolds.
As for the whole movie, Feng's humor is very prominent, but it is also a double-edged sword, those who can get it will find it funny, and those who can't understand it will think "Is this kind of plot something that carbon-based creatures can come up with?".”
For example, Jianguo, played by Chang Yuan, chose to be a bionic robot of Qin Fen after he repeatedly failed to court, and then took his "mechanical stand-in" to meet the genuine Qin Fen, which is the Feng's humor I can get.
Of course, there are also things I don't like, such as the occasional meat joke in the movie, Ge You and his friends complain about the biggest slot of the robot, that is, they can't do things;Xiaoxiao came back after ten years, and Uncle Ge's way of expressing his feelings was to sleep with her.
There's not much to say about the actors, ** at the age of 47, I can still be so beautiful that I am amazed. Yu Shuxin, who acted in a movie for the first time, played a role that was very suitable for her in it, and her demeanor and reactions were quite appropriate.
As the end of a series of movies, it can be seen that Director Feng wants to say goodbye to this IP decently, in addition to burying the stalks of the first and second parts, he also gave a few minutes at the end of the film, so that Ge You** and the character can say goodbye. But it is precisely this mentality that makes me feel that the movie is not exciting enough in the treatment of "love".
In other words, audiences who have feelings for the IP of "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" may like it, but for this generation of young people whose concept of love has long been spawned by the Internet, this love movie still seems "outdated".
Chunmei.
"Twinkle Twinkle Twinkle Star": The drama is really not good.
Title: Twinkle Twinkle Twinkle Star.
Director: Chen Xiaoming, Zhang Pan.
Starring: Qu Chuxiao, Zhang Jianing, Fu Jing, Jiang Yunlin, etc.
Genre: Romance Fantasy.
The drama is filmed well, mainly because the male advocate Wansen has a perfect character (it is said that Qu Chuxiao is born with good career luck, and no matter how much black material there is, it will not prevent people from having excellent acting skills + good cakes). Marketing is also expensive, "Zhang Wansen, it's snowing" should be regarded as a hot stalk of the year.
But there are basically few drama movies that are not scolded, and "Shining Star" has also stepped on a lot of drama drama film pits:
1.The plot of the film version cannot be said to be irrelevant to the drama version, it can only be said that there is no half-dime relationship, it can be regarded as an official fan, and fans of the drama may flip the table.
2.It's nothing to reshoot a fanstory.,But it's good to die.,The rhythm of the film version is similar to the TV series.,The first half is very slow & flat.,Until you enter the perspective of the fast-wearing male protagonist.,There's a little bit of drama.。 This may make passers-by and spectators pee.
3.Personally, I think that in crush literature, the rush of double wear is not as good as the salvation of single wear, which is a matter of opinion.
4.The frame has a black border!I looked at it and said that it was to distinguish between memory and reality, but the black bar picture lasted too long, and the viewing felt the impact.
I have to sigh that domestic youth films still can't jump out of Guo Xiaosi's routine, and the drama is changed without paying attention to the rhythm (no matter how slow the drama is, it can be driven at double speed, can the movie work?).If the reputation of this film can be good, then I recommend Arthur and Zhang Jingyi's "Countdown to Say I Love You", as well as Qu Chuxiao and Zhang Jingyi's "I Want Us to Be Together".
Teacher, "Shining Star" can be on the table, why can't we "Countdown" and "I Want"?It's almost level, don't favor one over the other.
Sister E.
"Stealth": The logic bug fell below my bottom line
Title: Stealth.
Director: Kwan Chi-yiu.
Starring: Andy Lau, Lin Jiadong, Peng Yuyan, Liu Yase, Ren Dahua, etc.
Genre: Drama Action.
When I saw the introduction of the film, I was well versed in the 100 routines of Hong Kong films, and I had already outlined the plot of "Good Brothers Become Good and Evil Heroes" in my mind, and at first I thought that the film had the blessing of Andy Lau, Lin Jiadong, Peng Yuyan, and Ren Dahua, and at worst it was just a flood of routines, mediocre and boring, but the logical bug of this film still fell below my bottom line.
What is the undercover agent played by Lin Jiadong?The efficiency is not as good as the "Young Master and I" combination of undercover in the Viper Gang for ten years. It's rare for me to see an undercover agent in a serious undercover film than the Vipers.
Liu Yase was insulted by the gangsters, the bloody wedding, and the death of the mother and daughter were really arranged without logic, and the undercover film became pure love halfway through?I couldn't go on anymore, so pure love started a bloody wedding again in a few minutes?Liu Yase's play in it is also nondescript. This role is suitable for a pitiful vase, Liu Yase, you are obviously not, the action of snuffing out the cigarette butt and the three points of thin and seven points of disdain in your eyes betrayed your inner sense of conviction: Look, you don't believe that you are playing something.
Pity my brother Hua Dong in the fire and in the water, Peng Yuyan also climbed on the roof of the car intensively**....But what about the logic?The police system has been hacked by dark web elements, and the old undercover agent is allowed to continue to operateGet on the pole and give away people's heads?The reason why Andy Lau became crazy from wisdom was because of Ren Dahua and Peng Yuyan's two wordsIt wasn't the South American drug lord who killed your wife and daughter?Wouldn't it be good to concentrate your fire on him?Do you have to spend so much energy to get the police?
The most terrible thing is the last, the key evidence of conviction is whether Liu Hua himself has access to the dark web, Liu Hua has so many masters, can hack the ** protective network to the point of paralysis and openly engage in Du Pin 321 on the whole network, and as a result, he lost all the protective armor in the most critical battle and left his own body in the case
Not to mention the strange rhythm, the most noteworthy part of the whole film is the few minutes when Li Jiaqi is linked on the dark web. Sister E thinks that "Stealth" is not to mention the inheritance of Hong Kong films, and it is considered a logical failure in the gangster film "The Tiger of Wan Chai" in the early 90s. Here it is recommended to burn money to shoot martial arts dramas at the same time, and invite a better literary drama screenwriter to supplement the logic.
Sister E.
"The annual meeting can't be stopped!": If you have to watch it, watch this one
Title: The annual meeting can't be stopped!
Director: Dong Runnian.
Starring: Dapeng, Bai Ke, Zhuang Dafei, Wang Xun, Sun Yizhou, etc.
Genre: Drama Comedy.
I really like "The Annual Meeting Can't Stop", especially at the end of the year, when there is so much work information that I start to have brain fog, and I realize the happy feeling of scolding and laughing.
Hu Jianlin, a fitter, was mistakenly transferred from the factory to the human resources department of the head office, and was respected because of his status as a related household, and because he did not understand the rules of the workplace. The misplaced identity and poor information unexpectedly made the honest Hu Jianlin go straight to the company's top management.
In the end, an annual meeting put everything back in place, of course, including "related households parachuting", "leadership inaction", "workplace palace fighting", "workplace slang" and other real problems that the movie satirized for a round. After all, Hu Jianlin is gone, and there will be Zhao Qian, Sun and Li Jianlin, I think this is also the most ironic part of the whole movie.
With the registration list of the annual meeting program, you can be promoted and raised, become the general manager as the CEO, and marry Bai Fumei to the peak of life.
At this moment, Hu Jianlin not only became the ultimate goal of the hard-working dog himself, but also unexpectedly realized Wang Dazhui's daydream, and since then, the two major comedy IPs of the "Ye Qing Hui" series have broken the barriers of time and space and platforms to achieve magical linkage.
Dapeng is easy to handle the little people, the white guest husband sense overflows the screen, Sun Yizhou's workplace is greasy, and Li Naiwen's yin damage is ......Each character can add color to the movie, and you can even see the "re-employment" of the talk show actor without violating the harmony.
But the film has a ** threshold, that is, if you haven't experienced the "annual meeting" and don't know how ironic the word itself is, you can't get how many heartaches and tears of people in the workplace are behind such a grand annual meeting.
Of course, it would be better if the film could be shortened by another 20 minutes and a few less valuable plots. I was really a little tired after seeing the Dapeng Baike Zhuang Duffy seaside cutting **, and when I dreamed back to "Sewing Machine Band", the three of them opened the microphone live together, and I was in no mood to carefully ponder the subtext of the happy lyrics.
Avocado.
"Goldfinger": The story is very mediocre, but the feelings are very moving
Title: Goldfinger.
Director: Zhuang **.
Starring: Tony Leung, Andy Lau, Choi Zhuoyan, Ren Dahua, Fang Zhongxin, etc.
Genre: Drama Crime.
Family, I saw Andy Lau and Tony Leung in the same frame at close range in the first row of the theater (tears streaming down my face.) gif）！
I'm not an audience for this type of film, so I didn't get any so-called coolness in the process of Cheng Yiyan (played by Tony Leung) soaring. But the whole movie will give me a sense of atmosphere of old Hong Kong films from time to time, including its set, camera movement and picture color grading, and I can see Zhuang **'s dedication to the stylization of Hong Kong films.
My favorite is the clip of the movie's fictional flashback, where all the people related to Cheng Yiyan tell the "history of the big guy's fortune" at the Independent Commission Against Corruption, and in each of them a story whose truth is unknown, Cheng Yiyan started a travel agency, met a gangster in Southeast Asia, and specialized in "white gloves" for illegal overseas income, and went smoothly and quickly became a billionaire with only 100 yuan. The whole editing rhythm and line composition of that paragraph are very interesting and legendary.
Many people are dissatisfied with the end of the movie, Cheng Yiyan was arrested 7 times and was able to get out, why did he obediently obey for the 8th time, obviously committed so many economic crimes, and may even be burdened with human life, but he was only sentenced to less than 10 years?In fact, after watching the movie, I searched for surrounding information, and only then did I know that the movie was adapted from real events, and the prototype of the incident was the "Jianing Group Case" in Hong Kong in the 80s, and it was also a strange case in Hong Kong's financial circles.
At the end of the story, there is a key time node is the return of Hong Kong, so I saw a saying that one of the biggest reasons for Cheng Yiyan to be submissive is that he is afraid that there will be legal punishment dozens or hundreds of times heavier after the return, so there is a seemingly outrageous twist in the movie.
Another reason that makes me feel that there is no waste during this time of sitting here comes from the fact that in this crew with an average of 50+ per capita creators, you can still immerse yourself in the performance of each role, and at the same time sigh with emotion, why, after watching Hong Kong dramas for more than 20 years, these people are still active on the screen?
So even though I didn't like the movie much because of the story, I still don't think it was a "scam". If you like Hong Kong films and Hong Kong dramas, Andy Lau, Tony Leung, and Choi Zhuoyan, you can rush, and you will be satisfied. But if you just want to get the refreshment of "Infernal Affairs" that can continue to be savored, you can wait for the stream**.
Avocado.
"Taylor Swift: The Times Tour": Movie theaters exploded into KTV
Title: Taylor Swift: The Times Tour.
Director: Sam Runch.
Starring: Taylor Swift.
Genre: Song and Dance Documentary.
I was a little shocked when I entered the venue without doing my homework. This is watching a movie, pure KTV hi jump!
The famous songs of the three-hour concert converged, the mildew was really star-studded, the costumes were changed one after another, jumping and jumping, I didn't dare to imagine how cool it would be to see the scene.
I am barely a passer-by fan, and I can sing along smoothly to the world-famous song "lover" or something, and other songs are really a bit of a test because they only have Chinese subtitles, so it is recommended that moldy fans review the lyrics before going to the team building.
Because it started at 13:13, my real fans accounted for almost 90 percent, and when I got to the back, everyone turned on the flash and stood up and shook their heads, and a young lady went directly to the front of the curtain to dance live, and the atmosphere was good. But I imagined that if it was a pure passerby who had strayed unknowingly, he would be scared to quit and see if he had gone somewhere.
In the past, it was a bit derogatory to say that movie fans were oriented, but this one is the most accurate and pertinent evaluation.
came out and saw that many fans on social platforms chartered the venue, what ** car, the whole jump has become the basic exercise, fans must see, passers-by spend dozens of dollars to make a concert lively is not impossible (after all, a serious concert is only a few hundred yuan to the scene, only to watch the screen.)
Sweet and spicy sauce. What movies did you watch this year's New Year's Eve?
Which movie in your mind is the best you've seen so far?
Let's leave a message in the comment area to discuss!