After watching this film, it turns out that everything is for an egg. The author suddenly realized that the previously released animated version of Angry Birds was actually a publicity campaign for the film, and the depth of the routine was staggering.
It is known as a masterpiece that has been carefully crafted for 20 years, and everyone should not complain about the bad plot and the screenwriter's dereliction of duty. Why did the screenwriter go in the past 20 years? Of course, it is not to write the script, but to carry out a large-scale performance project of the human film routine research team. The result is still quite ideal. The prospect of his promotion is very bright, and the sky is just around the corner. He has to quickly catch up with David Ayer.
As a sequel to the classic commercial sci-fi blockbuster 20 years ago, this film also shifts the era to the world 20 years later, which is now. Even in the pre-promotion of the film, the filmmakers publicly deciphered many major events that have occurred in the world in the past 20 years to deal with alien threats. This happens to be one of the great charms of this kind of synchronous real time setting sci-fi films, as if the events happened around us. The day after tomorrow and 2012 are both of this type of films, which can bring the distance between the audience and the audience more easily. A hot topic.
Feelings seem to be the common theme of most films this year, and this one is no exception. The protagonists of President Whitemore, Levant and his son, Dr. Okun and so on have all returned to this film. It is a pity that Will Smith only appeared in the form of a posthumous photo due to the remuneration, and it also made the film miss the biggest emotional point. After all, many people are most impressed by the role of Smith in this film. Because it takes place 20 years later, the two children in the previous work - Smith and the president's children - have turned over to be the protagonists. A more interesting point about the protagonist is that the wife of President Whitemore in 1996 became the current president of the United States in 2016 after 20 years. Is this insinuating that Hillary will be elected as the new president in reality? The position is really obvious.
A group of newcomers restructured and reorganized the functions of the original protagonist, and then staged an almost identical story. To put it nicely, it is full of feelings. To put it uglier, it is that the brain is not enough, the courage is not enough, and the screenwriter is not creative. If you think about it carefully, you will find that last year's Star Wars The Force Awakens is basically this kind of routine, but Star Wars is far more than this film in terms of the overall plot, the performance of the young characters, and the emotional value of the series. Putting these two films together, it happened to stage the A side and the B side of the routine repeat.
But when it comes to routines, this film is much deeper than Star Wars. The setting of alien races may make you feel familiar, yes, it is the setting of insect-like races that everyone loves and sees flowers blooming. You are very familiar with the Alien Starfleet StarCraft Ender game and other works. The reason why such a highly centralized and authoritarian Zerg civilization exists is obviously to insinuate similar civilization stages and political systems in human history, and at the same time, it will also use the characteristics of insects to create a lot of horrible and disgusting visual images in creation. The confrontation between the two sides in the previous work was only reflected in air combat, but this film has more firearms exchanged by individual soldiers, which reminds people of the Galaxy Fleet every minute. To say that Galaxy is a sci-fi commercial masterpiece similar to the Independence Day era. In addition, the alien queen bee's character is quite similar to the big monsters in Godzilla 2014. At the same time, in the duel with the queen bee, the school bus once again played a big role. I don't know why all monsters or disaster movies have such a driver. Skilled old drivers drive ordinary vehicles that are stronger than tanks and armored vehicles. In addition to the Zerg in the film, there is also a third-party mysterious race, which is actually the egg in the film. The setting of this race is a highly developed alien civilization, and it has left human beings for thousands of years. How can it not make people think of the ancient sage civilization in the halo or the Protoss in StarCraft. This new race and the Zerg are old enemies, and they are also called Reapers, a sense of Mass Effect's déjà vu. At the end of the film, humans decided to attack the Zerg's nest. Isn't this really the way of the battle of the mother nest? If I say, leave the big StarCraft movie to Emmerich to shoot, or simply change the name to Brood War for the next Independence Day, and even the Starship Fleet series can be restarted at the same time.
Emmerich is a recognized visual master and disaster king, as well as one of the pioneers of commercial visual effects blockbuster routines. In his works such as Independence Day Godzilla Acquired 2012, the devastating scenes are constantly escalating, there are only disasters you can't think of, and there are no scenes that he can't do. And the scene of the alien mothership attacking the earth in this film is exactly like a retrospective of the disaster scene of Emmerich's classic movie. The violent tsunami is like the day after tomorrow, and the sky collapses like 2012. Fortunately, this time it is no longer to blow up the landmark, but to let the landmark building fly into the sky and then fall down. The scene where the Burj Khalifa smashed into the London Eye must not have been imagined by most people, but the Eiffel Tower was safe and sound. Thinking of Emmerich's German background, it turned out that this was a mockery of the French for surrendering without a fight. In fact, this map cannon-level disaster weapon is similar to the huge electromagnet in the Variation 4 that sucks up the metal and spit it down, and the effect of gravity is like the method of General Zod in Superman's body of steel. As for the electric drill hitting the core, there are apostles who like to drill in the EVA, and the squirrel also played the core in Ice Age 4.
Speaking of air combat, the air combat in this film was quite large at the beginning. When I was watching the movie, I thought of the scene where the Guardians of the Galaxy fighter jets pulled the power grid. As for the visual effects of humans fighting Zerg, Ender's game is the most brilliant. Ender's macro-strategic scheduling and the micro-tactical execution of his friends are perfect. On the other hand, the battle scene in this film is slightly chaotic, with few macro views and few close-quarters fights. The chaotic scheduling is completely heavenly compared to the Independence Day 1 President's group dispatch and the pursuit in the canyon. underground.
The biggest feature of the visual effect of this film is that the tone is extremely dark and there are quite a lot of indoor scenes, so watching this film in 3D version is a lot of torment. On the other hand, one of Emmerich's hobbies in making big scenes is that they don't let you watch enough at a time. Basically, everything goes to another place before seeing a few scenes, and then switches after a few words. When I came back, I never once did a long continuous scene.
In fact, this film reminds me the most of the 14-year change 4. After all, there is a Chinese character who does not look so soy sauce and a blunt placement advertisement. QQ's advertisements are disgusting, and Mengniu's space milk is as strong as the Shuhua milk that Wang Shen drinks in the elevator in Change 3. In fact, at first glance, there are many scenes of AB, and from time to time, she will say a few lines in a paragraph, but the author has noticed that her entire appearance time adds up to only a few minutes, and her lines should be twenty or thirty lines.
From here, we can find another major problem in this film: too many roles and improper scheduling, resulting in extremely scattered and scarce per capita scenes, especially for young actors. This film basically invites back the main characters of the original Independence Day, and still occupies the main position. On the other hand, looking at the roles of the newcomers, it is impossible to see that they want to support the newcomers, and they are basically foils. Compared with the attitude of Star Wars Force Awakening to support newcomers, it is estimated that this film still wants to rely on the old man to support it. Of course, both films have the meaningless sacrifice of a super popular dad, which is the biggest commonality between the two.
This work, which is a collection of thousands of routines, really doesn't see any new ideas. Although the scene can make people cool, but Emmerich's hobbies will not make you particularly cool. According to the worldview of the second film, the next film can be co-produced with StarCraft and Starship Troopers, and even the filming of four, five, six, seven or eight films will continue to develop endlessly. Emmerich can be turned into another selling copy, with his mouth saying no, but his body being honest.
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Text: Shige
on June 24, 2016
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