Chapter 478 Breaking the Shackles
Praise, praise, all praise.
It started with good reviews, and then faced a washout of moderate reviews. Unexpectedly, it turned around and ushered in a wave of positive reviews again.
The two major comprehensive media headed by the "Los Angeles Times" and the "New York Times", the two major professional and authoritative media headed by the "Hollywood Reporter" and "Variety", four giant-level media invariably sent praise.
And it’s not just good reviews.
Two hundred points and two ninety-five points.
There is no doubt that this is shocking, and the feedback that is enough to make other industry insiders speechless is actually happening before their eyes.
What’s even more incredible is that this is just the beginning.
Other professional media are also not stingy in their praise and admiration. From the ratings to the wording, everything shows their appreciation of the movie, and fully detonates the reputation of "Spider-Man" in a crazy way——
"Wall Street Journal", 93 points, "Unbelievable, Sam Raimi has managed to simultaneously satisfy the fantasies of fans of the original comics and the expectations of superhero movies by outsiders who have no knowledge of comics. Or maybe Anson Wood did it?”
"The Washington Post", 91 points, "It's so fluent and so spot-on that I dare anyone to say we don't need superhero movies."
USA Today, 90 points, "Anson Wood makes Peter Parker vulnerable, strong, gentle, decisive, and more importantly, irresistible. In an unexpected way, it touches the soft heart of every audience."
One, two, three, four, or five, the reviews are pouring in.
Jaw-dropping.
Stupefied.
Everything was so turbulent and crazy that the audience began to doubt their own eyes.
Check once, check twice, no matter how many times you check, you will get the same answer:
There is no mistake, and there is no dazzling.
This is when the positive reviews flood the screen, and in the blink of an eye, those neutral reviews are wiped away again, so that the pages of the media’s brown review website are all green.
Relax physically and mentally!
But is this true?
A movie adapted from an otaku comic, a featureless superhero movie, a typical summer popcorn commercial movie, actually made the authoritative media collectively go crazy. Is this possible?
Wait, maybe——
This is a way for the media to join forces to save the summer box office market. No matter what, even if it is half-coaxing or half-cheating, the audience must be tricked into the cinema. ?
However, if you look carefully, you will realize that this is impossible.
One or two media, maybe there is a slight chance, maybe, if authoritative professional media in such a large area give unanimous praise, then there is only one possibility:
The movie is a truly good movie.
These praises are professional and objective comments.
In the predicament of bearing countless pressures and bearing countless doubts, "Spider-Man" really turned the situation around and found a new way to fight his way out.
This is indeed a rare scene.
After all, summer popcorn commercial movies often mean being close to the market and the public, and those professional film critics are naturally more picky -
For reference, since 1990, among the works that have won the annual box office championship in North America, only In 1994, the comprehensive media review of "The Lion King" broke through the 80-point threshold, reaching 88 points; other works failed to receive "appreciation" from professional film critics.
"Titanic", 75 points; "Terminator 2", 75 points; and "Men in Black", 71 points. These are the only three works whose overall media evaluation is higher than 70 points.
Box office and media reviews are often not directly proportional.
It can be seen that it is an impossible task for a summer film to win the recognition of audiences and critics at the same time.
Now, after "The Lion King", another work has accomplished such a feat. After eight years, a dark horse has once again emerged.
Although the movie has not yet fully launched in major theaters and the audience still needs to wait patiently for two days, professional film critics can't wait to start partying.
In fact, the tip of the iceberg can be seen from the number of comprehensive media reviews - fifty.
Fifty media outlets immediately released movie reviews of "Spider-Man"!
This is the first time in history that a movie has received feedback from fifty media outlets after its premiere, focusing the attention of the entire film industry.
Here, you can see that the entire Hollywood is making concerted efforts to promote "Spider-Man" in an attempt to ignite the summer season. No matter whether it is good or bad, at least the popularity needs to be brought up; whether they care or not, people in the industry are paying attention.
Attention is power.
As for the next step, good reviews or bad reviews, the media still have their own authority and professional image to maintain, so they wrote down their opinions immediately.
Time will prove the value of these comments.
Fifty media outlets, ten neutral reviews and forty positive reviews——
No negative reviews.
Rarely, "Spider-Man" has received zero negative reviews.
For Sam Raimi to take a different approach to focus on Peter Parker's growth story as a middle school student, the media generally believes that this is brilliant, because it allows the audience to have an innate resonance with the character, and it is no longer a matter of watching A spectacle, but connected to the characters.
To be more precise, "Spider-Man" should not be targeting superhero movies such as "Batman Returns", "X-Men", "Blade Runner", etc., but "Stand By Me", " "The Breakfast Club" is a youth coming-of-age movie, but at the same time, it can satisfy your summer popcorn preferences.
It is precisely because of this that the most harsh and sharp media only gave a 50-50 average rating. Maybe the upper limit of "Spider-Man" is not high, but its lower limit is very high. This also laid the foundation for the movie's explosive reputation. Base.
At the same time, there is also a media comment that cuts into the audience's psychology accurately and sharply.
“When we see the Twin Towers again in the movie, it will awaken the sad memories in our hearts; but at the same time, when we see Peter Parker shouldering the responsibility of a hero with his thin shoulders, we all gain something new "Courage."
This is the key.
Various factors collided together and finally created this wonderful scene before us.
Comprehensive media review: 81 points.
It exploded, it exploded, it exploded!
This is the first summer movie to be released widely in the millennium to have its media reviews break through the 80-point threshold; moreover, it has been rated by fifty media outlets for its credibility and authority. It's rising straight up.
This time, it is no longer a smoke bomb, Century City can feel free to cheer and cheer——
Maybe they are competitors, maybe they will fight each other if they turn around, but at least here For a moment, all of Hollywood came together.
If this kind of "Spider-Man" can't wake up the sluggish box office market, then Hollywood may really be helpless.
Everything is ready, all we need is the east wind.
As a film company, they have prepared everything they can and have done their best. Now they can just sit back and wait for the market’s feedback.
Leave everything to fate, or—
Leave it to Peter Parker.
Times make heroes, so can Peter Parker become a hero this time? To be more precise, can Anson play the hero?
Obviously, more than one media chose to believe it.
"Voice of the Village", eighty-eight points.
"Anson Wood! Anson Wood! Anson Wood!"
(End of this chapter)