The trivial battle between good and evil

Lamont 2021-12-31 08:01:35

I just came back from the theater and experienced 3D IMAX for the first time. I have already experienced the ultimate of ordinary commercial movies. The ticket price is $11 + $1 service fee. When I walked into the theater, I found that except for me with a schoolbag, I was the blond little Lolita and Xiao Zhengtai who were under 10 years old—and their parents. This kind of film positioning PG level requires parents to accompany it is a good means of collecting money. The storyline is relatively low and young, and of course it is a story of the righteous side defeating heterogeneous evil. As a member of the naive and toothless graduate student who sneaked into the rear of US imperialism, I certainly watched it with gusto.

The outline of the story is that the bride Susan met with a meteorite that fell from the sky on the day of her wedding, and gained strange abilities by contacting the extraterrestrial energy element quantonium (quantonium?) on the meteorite. Then she was locked in a secret base and collected with a group of people. With the monsters together, the lonely people began to have subtle interdependence feelings (hello). One day Gallaxhar, an alien with tentacles who came to the earth to find the missing quantonium elements, appeared. The huge probe robot he sent invaded San Francisco SF. At this time, the US government decided on the Monsters vs Aliens plan, and everyone was finally released. Came out, and then heroically saved the people of San Francisco. Susan found out that his original fiancé was not a good husband who wanted to build a beautiful family with him at all, but a bastard who only cared about his own career when he became a stumbling block to his career. Just as she was looking at life again, Gallaxhar, who had gone out herself, caught her in her flying saucer. One more thing, this character is completely a replica of Buffidi, the magician in Dragon Ball. Not only is it alike in form and spirit, but the kuso scene that communicates with global humans through brain waves is also full of restoration "Don't panic, I came" Here in peace. And you will all die." In the last ninety-nine-ninety-one rounds of fighting wits and courage, the alien spaceship exploded, and the monsters triumphed in the warm welcome of the people. , Happy End.

The storyline of such a rib is naturally the product of DreamWorks’ aiming at the young age to market. It is somewhat similar to the 3D animation Bolt launched by Disney some time ago. It makes people feel a sense of distraction from heroism and the aesthetic fatigue of justice over the evil. The reason I see it higher is because I haven't had much contact with 3D animation before, and wearing weird 3D glasses is very cool. And this time the movie is more experimental. Many shots exist solely for the purpose of highlighting the visual effects of 3D technology. The friends in the same field screamed loudly (I personally think that the scene where the alien spaceship explodes at the end is completely acceptable. Do more shocking). This time I asked my classmates to go there and everyone was not very interested, so I took a bus for nearly an hour to the nearest IMAX theater. When I arrived, I got the last ticket sold on the spot. Even so, I still sat in the middle of the 7th row, which is a good position. It's strange that the attendance rate is less than 50%. Think about the Watchmen IMAX, which was basically full of theaters when it was released a week ago, and it turns out that the main consumer of movies is young people. The episode was that when a monster was defeated by an alien and passed out, a child cried accordingly, and the atmosphere was very good.

There are many kuso classic scenes inserted in the film, and all kinds of monsters have backgrounds. People who are familiar with science fiction classics will probably watch it very enthusiastically. The incompetent U.S. government was also mocked, especially the Mr. President. It was obvious that these scenes were laughter from adults, but when they were purely funny, they were childish laughter.

Overall, it's not bad, but I was a little disappointed, because the expectations were probably too high when I watched the promotion. In my heart, Kung Fu Panda is the supreme masterpiece of DreamWorks!

When I came back, I brought a pillow with a 50% discount on the original price of $10 at the nearby supermarket. I will feel better when I sleep at the office table in the morning. One problem I have always wondered is that I don’t know why the IMAX screen I saw in the US feels so much smaller than the IMAX screen I saw in Beijing... It’s really annoying.

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Monsters vs. Aliens quotes

  • Derek Dietl: Wow, you really are big.

    Susan Murphy: Yeah, but I'm still me. I'm still the same girl you fell in love with.

    Derek Dietl: Except you did just destroy the Golden Gate Bridge.

    Susan Murphy: Well, but that was the only way I was gonna stop that giant robot. Did you ever think I could do something like that?

    Derek Dietl: No, I didn't. I can honestly say that it never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever occurred to me.

  • Susan Murphy: Look, I-I know this is a little weird. Okay - it's a lot weird. But we'll figure it out. I know that together, we can find a way to get me back to normal.

    Derek Dietl: Susan, try and look at this from my perspective. I have an audience that depends on me for news, weather, sports and heart-warming fluff pieces. So you expect me to put all that on hold while you try to undo this thing that happened to you, that I had absolutely nothing to do with?

    Susan Murphy: Yes. That's exactly what I expect. What-what about the life that we always talked about? Don't you still want that?

    Derek Dietl: Of course. I just... don't see how I can have that with you.

    Susan Murphy: [on the verge of tears] Derek, please. Don't do this.

    Derek Dietl: Oh, y-you have to faced facts, Susan. And don't crush me for saying this, but I'm not looking to get married and spend the rest of my life in someone else's shadow. And you're casting a pretty big shadow. I'm sorry. It's over. Good luck, Susan.