Streaming media giant Netflix will not be reconciled to being restricted to the field of dramas, and has unswervingly strong ambitions for the big screen movie market dominated by traditional film and television giants. In 2017, he spent a huge amount of money to take over the bad movie "Light of Light", which was unanimously rejected by the film companies. It shows that his ambition is not afraid of losing money. As long as it can explode a corner of the steel castle in the movie market, the money is spent at all costs. . In the past three years, Netflix has challenged the film market several times, with little success and no surprises. The root cause is that Netflix is using his own tactics to attack unfamiliar areas. Netflix's magic weapon is the "Stranger Things"-style shooting method that became famous in the drama market: the top management let go to encourage the screenwriter and director to boldly shoot, shoot in-depth shooting and new ideas, and fight for the platform's unique reputation to attract new users to subscribe. However, there is a fundamental difference between the viewing methods of movies and dramas. The gameplay of movies has its own set of Hollywood genres. The fast-paced visual enjoyment of popcorn movies within two hours does not require novelty and depth. Spend money to enter the cinema to enjoy pleasure and relaxation. . Netflix's stubbornness and stubbornness determined the failure of filmmaking, but all of this has been fundamentally changed in the 2020 catastrophe year. Movie theaters have closed and blockbuster movies have been switched to online streaming media. Netflix's film model that combines entertainment and thinking has ushered in the soil for growth.
"Doomsday War" is a film in which Netflix has turned a little less, but it is obviously a compromise with commercial films. The film is wobbly between the special effects war scenes and the reflections of robots and wars. Is it the in-depth thinking about robot warfare that focuses on the lip-fighting of Harp and Leo, or whether the two use guns to verify the truth, two expressions How to balance and choose between methods is a test of the director's skill. Obviously, the director just handed in a passing answer sheet. The audience came rushing to the blockbuster star Falcon and robot soldiers. They wanted to see the hot action scenes of biotech robot Leo and mechanical robot soldiers fighting against the earth with sparks. As for Leo's scheming to destroy the world, the audience didn't care or care. What the audience wants is to sit in front of the TV at home, sipping coke and eating popcorn to let the adrenaline fly up, relax and enjoy happiness. It's not to waste brain cells to analyze Leo's inconspicuous words, but to set up a logical trap for Harp, talk shit about artificial intelligence ethics, and whether the United States plays the role of the world's policeman is justice. The dialogue between Harp and Leo standing on the high point of future technology and morality can only produce the negative effect of boring and sleepy audiences, and the crisis of artificial intelligence rebellion that has nothing to do with real life can not resonate with audiences. The new crown crisis in 2020 is bad enough. Who has the mind to think about future robots? Moreover, the time setting conflicts with future technology, and the story goes back to the conflict in Ukraine in 2019. The story takes place in the future after 2021. Unexpectedly, the imaginary enemy is still going through the Cold War nuclear bomb apocalypse crisis in the 1980s. Netflix is picking up from the dust of history and dusting it with a baby bump. The Doomsday Crisis of Robot Wars is not the only subject of Cold War nuclear bombs that can be photographed! The inconsistency caused by the serious conflict between the technological level of the film and the background of the past tense is too prominent. It is difficult for the film to make the audience empathize with the crisis resonance. The script ills doomed the film's failure.
The plot of the film is obviously divided into two. The main plot is the Harp preaching, which the director likes, and uses Harp’s mouth to convey the director’s thinking about ugly human nature with the moral code of robots. The other part of the plot is that the audience loves action scenes with hormone bursts. Leo Biotech's transparent body is full of futuristic sense. The most eye-catching feature is the burst of special effects of Harp's hand and digging scene, which is more attractive than the mechanical robot fighting action scenes that are aesthetically fatigued later. When I read this passage, I couldn't help but think of the liquid robot T-1000 in the classic sci-fi movie "Terminator 2" released in 1991. Liquid robots are undisputed epoch-making sci-fi robots, and no one can surpass the robot fantasy of the future thirty years ago. From the perspective of science fiction films alone, "Doomsday War" is at a fairly satisfactory level. In the main drama climax, the action scene of the falcon vs. the robot single-handedly in the bank, I came here with great expectations and returned with great disappointment. None of the actions can be named in film and television, and there is neither beauty nor bloody violence for audiences accustomed to watching Hong Kong films in the golden age. The action drama that originally attracted the audience did not have enough weight in the director's mind. Netflix thought about the depth of the filming, and was totally bored with action commercial films, and had to bow his head to follow the audience's preferences, and then forced the audience to return to Netflix's deep thinking while filming. To be honest, making a purely Hollywood-type commercial film is neither ashamed nor falling in price. Why should Netflix be embarrassed by himself.
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