On New Year's Eve, it is estimated that Predatory City will be released tomorrow, so I reserved a room to watch this blockbuster with a dismal box office.
The film's grand background, magnificent momentum, beautiful pictures, steampunk style, and investment of up to 100 million yuan, but the box office in North America and China is bleak. Anyway, the score in China is still high, indicating that at least Someone appreciates it.
Why did this movie fail? There are problems with the film itself and the timing of its release. In terms of release timing, Christmas in North America and winter vacation in China are both for family fun and teenagers, and are more suitable for positive and joyful movies with protagonists. In this movie, the world is destroyed. Disfigured, the biological father is evil, the adoptive father is mentally chaotic, the mother was killed by the father, the adoptive father died at his own hands, and the biological father died at the hands of his boyfriend.
As far as the film itself is concerned, it can go in either direction: Lord of the Rings-esque epic, idealism and heroism, black and white, handsome men and women (at least with good looks to play the role of elves), the story is actually quite simple, but still touching, although there are many loopholes Everyone can accept it, and highlight a theme: power itself is evil. Or a realistic dark style similar to Game of Thrones, the story is complicated and confusing, the characters are indistinguishable from good and evil, good people do not necessarily live long, and nobility becomes the reason for failure.
However, this movie is flickering, the overall should be realistic and cruel style, but the plot development is low and there are too many logical loopholes (the later episodes of Game of Thrones have no original support, and they have begun to go downhill): I think Can't you tell your adoptive father about killing your biological father? As a result, the city in the sky was destroyed, and many people were killed. The heroine did not really reject mechanization; the city survived by plundering, so why did the mayor suddenly not want to go to war? The heroine got her mother's relics, so she didn't check it for a long time, or showed it to the hero; until the enemy was facing the enemy, the hero was walking around the city, and the heroine was in a daze with passers-by, and then she suddenly realized; If you don’t get on the boat, you are hesitant to get your flight jacket; the death of the Flower in the Wind is meaningless and tragic; the quantum weapon that destroys the energy and explodes quickly must have a USB flash drive (if you want to protect innocent citizens from being affected by the explosion) It also makes sense), it only takes one shot to destroy the clumsy engine; it was supposed to blow up, but it turned out to be fine, and the villain forced the show for a long time, what's the point? The heroine does not kill her biological father just to let her boyfriend do it.
In short, although these are not really big problems, they ruin the depth and thinking of the film, but they are not "sweet articles", they can't please the young audience, and they will be embarrassing if they don't go up or down.
It's a pity, it's actually a very good movie. Just watching the scene is worth the ticket price. It could have become a series of works, but it died before the apprenticeship.
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