Chapter 1144 Determined to Win
"Times", one hundred points!
"Wall Street Journal", one hundred points!
"The Washington Post," 100 percent!
"Vanity Fair," 100 percent!
"Chicago Tribune," 100 percent!
Full score, perfect score, perfect score continued to hit the screen, and the praise was overwhelming and detonated the market.
"Chicago Sun-Times", Roger Ebert also gave praise without exception.
"Like David Lean, the movie achieves a grand epic without losing the glimmer of humanity, and reminds us in a great way that a great action movie is not simply Destroy the explosive building, but bring deep audio-visual shock through the scheduling of scenes and pictures, and feel the roar deep in the soul."
One hundred percent!
Overall praise, praise blowout.
It's not just a simple positive review, the perfect score is absolutely spectacular.
Could it be——
Anson succeeded again?
No, Russell Crowe.
The above-mentioned fanatical praises all belong to "Raging Sea", which ushered in a round of cheers.
Following "A Beautiful Mind" and "Gladiator", the movie starring Russell has received three consecutive hits of praise. The grand occasion is no less than the scene when "Gladiator" was released, witnessing the pinnacle of Russell's career as an actor.
No wonder!
No wonder 20th Century Fox is so confident. Apparently the rave reviews from internal test screenings have solidified their judgment and they are full of expectations for this work.
They are aiming at the box office, they are aiming at the Oscars, and they are preparing to sweep the holiday season, grabbing both the box office and awards, and they must be hard at both.
Don’t forget that epic movies such as “The Lord of the Rings” and “Gladiator” are the hottest and most high-profile works in the past two years. The competitor of “The Big Brother” is not “Pirates of the Caribbean” but It is the Oscar-winning best picture that swept the box office.
really!
As soon as it debuted, "The Furious Sea" swept the praises.
20th Century Fox: No matter how novel the tricks at the premiere of "The Butterfly Effect" are, so what, in the end, strength will speak for itself.
Strength, indeed strength, Roger Ebert actually directly used David Lean as a benchmark to praise the cooperation between Peter Weir and Russell Crowe——
David Lean, British director, director of legendary classics such as "The Bridge on the River Kwai", "Lawrence of Arabia", "Doctor Zhivago", "We Met You Too Late", etc., has two Oscars for Best Director, Winner of the Palme d'Or and Golden Bear, he is regarded as one of the greatest directors of all time.
There is no doubt that Roger Ebert has made no secret of his love for "Clash", and a perfect score of 100 points is not enough to express his enthusiasm.
And, that's still not all.
Forty-two media, 34 positive reviews, seven neutral reviews and one negative review, overwhelming praise, the final comprehensive media review score was 81 points.
So, "eighty-one points", what level is this?
A side-by-side comparison with Russell Crowe’s own work.
"Gladiator," sixty-seven points.
"A Beautiful Mind," seventy-two points.
It’s clear at a glance!
Russell has made a name for himself in Hollywood, reaping both box office and awards successes, and is still on the rise. Relying on the breakout of "On the Road" to aim for higher goals, Russell is ready for a new breakthrough in his career.
Boom, boom boom boom.
A shock!
Before the release of "Fighting", there was a lot of excitement within Twentieth Century Fox. Industry insiders had already foreseen that the movie might explode; but they did not expect that it would explode like this. It would definitely be regarded as the top seed in this year's awards season, with a devastating attitude. Sora was born.
The "butterfly effect" is dangerous.
After the schedule was announced, people in the industry were already exclaiming, sweating about the "Butterfly Effect". They couldn't believe that New Line Cinema actually chose to confront "The Big Show" head-on. The situation was not good. On the day of its premiere, "The Butterfly Effect" managed to win back the victory through Anson's whimsical ideas.
According to incomplete statistics, at least a hundred reporters left the Chinese Theater and went to the Wilshere Theater after the interview session for "The Big Show" ended that day. Even 20th Century Fox could really feel the loss of reporters, so much so that after the premiere, Sparked a lot of discussion.
Although 20th Century Fox is full of confidence and Russell is determined to win, no one can underestimate Anson's strong rise.
However, this "craze" only lasted less than twelve hours.
First, the headlines of the entertainment pages of major news media, "The Fighting Sea", were vigorously washed, and then there was the "Wrathful Sea" media review with good news one after another.
Russell Crowe is indeed determined to win!
So, what about the "butterfly effect"?
Even media reporters began to worry and scanned the media reviews of the "Butterfly Effect"——
The situation is not good.
Comprehensive media reviews, there are often differences in the order of film reviews by major media.
For a simple example, the premieres of "The Big Show" and "The Butterfly Effect" were held at the same time. Roger Ebert had no choice but to go to one premiere. As for the other movie, he could only wait until the movie was released. Watch it and then update the review.
Of course, a media like the "Chicago Sun" cannot have only one film critic. They can still send another film critic to split up with Roger to watch the premieres of the two movies respectively, but the first time The updated media review is not Roger Ebert.
If Roger is interested in another movie, he can still wait for the movie to be released, and he can still post comments on his professional film review website, but these comments will not affect the overall media review.
This time, the situation is a little special——
The Chicago Sun-Times did not send a separate critic to the "Butterfly Effect" premiere.
The reason is very simple. Roger is personally interested in the "Butterfly Effect". He first watched "The Fight", and then he will watch "The Butterfly Effect" again.
The Chicago Sun-Times did not send additional film critics to the scene.
As a result, when the first batch of media reviews of "The Butterfly Effect" were released, there was no "Chicago Sun", and Roger still gave priority to "The Fight".
It is precisely because of this that there were only twenty-three comprehensive media reviews of "The Butterfly Effect" in the first batch.
Far inferior to "Raging Sea", almost half the difference.
From this small detail, we can see that there is a clear gap in the popularity and importance of the two movies in the media.
A bad start.
This incident happened to the popular Anson, which is really rare. It can only be said that Russell Crowe's momentum did not show any weakness, coupled with the decisive action of 20th Century Fox, he finally successfully suppressed Anson——
At this time, the media had something to say: People have been discussing Anson's market appeal, but now it seems that Anson still has a unstable foundation and is slightly inferior.
At the same time, among the 23 media reviews, there were exactly 10 negative reviews.
Ten!
There are ten of them, overwhelming the screen, shocking!
It's all red, it's not good, it's not good, the situation is really not good, even if it doesn't need to be compared with "Clash of the Furious", this situation is still worrying.
The Wall Street Journal, 10 points, "A terrible life, a terrible movie."
"Vanity Fair," 20 points, "It's like getting a surprise box of Valentine's Day chocolates that are grass-flavored. Yuck."
"Los Angeles Times", 20 points, "An immature exploration of chaos theory. The presentation, planning and thinking of every plot twist are like those of a middle school student. It is naive and natural, but it cannot withstand scrutiny."
Oh no!
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