There is a label in "Don't choose a good movie" called "I especially want to watch". I will post trailers of the movies I look forward to from time to time to mark them. Paramount+'s "Infinite" is my most anticipated action thriller in the near future. Before I start the chat, I will pile up a set of statistics: Director: Anthony Fouquet (representative work "Training Day") Starring: Mark Wahlberg ( Masterpiece "Infinite Walker") Estimated cost: US$50 million Broadcasting platform: Paramount + good film index: 45 points
01 The taste of deja vu
The plot of "Infinity" is not complicated, it is said that some humans can remember the past life, even the past life of the past life.
It is equivalent to not pouring "Meng Po Tang" at the time of reincarnation. Although the body is constantly changing, the soul has not changed.
These people have memories of hundreds of thousands of years, and have inherited skills from previous lives, such as super combat power, knowledgeable, and so on.
They are divided into two factions. One faction thinks that "the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility", and use this ability to protect the lives of ordinary people; the other faction regards ability as a curse, and even kills all creatures on the earth in order not to reincarnate after death. .
Anyway, it is the relationship between the characters of the X-Men Civil War.
Looking carefully at the plot, it is not only the "X-Men" who crashed on the bridge. At the beginning, two groups of people snatched the beeping male lead, and finally they were snatched by the beautiful group of people, the proper "Wanted Order" routine.
The stalk that inherits the memory of previous lives seems very new, and it is bluntly the same as the immortal body of "The Guardian of the Immortal".
"Infinity" is most like Van Diesel's "Bloodwarrior". The plot may not be so close, but the picture quality and narrative rhythm are exactly the same.
It is said that now Hollywood is making movies based on big data, and what elements have the largest traffic will be added to Riga. The quality of the film doesn't matter, increasing the number of subscriptions is the ultimate goal.
As a result, there have been a lot of "American Nets" that seem to be tempting but are in fact a mess .
02 Every second is wrong
As soon as the trailer for "Infinite" came out, it was properly made. Produced by Paramount and directly launched its own "Paramount+" streaming media platform, it seems that another major studio has come to an end in order to compete for subscribers.
Su Mo, who saw internal injuries in the movie recently, was not blindly optimistic. When I saw the name of director Anthony Fouquet, I was relieved.
"Training Day" took Denzel Washington to the throne of the actor. In recent years, the "Seven Dragons" and "The Eunuch" series, not to mention the boutiques, but never hit the street.
He and Mark Wahlberg are also old partners, and the quality of "Life and Death Sniper" is pretty good.
Seeing such a lineup, you must have relaxed your vigilance. I am afraid that this main lineup is also selected by big data?
Unexpectedly, "Infinity" is full of unexplained fights, embarrassing jokes, inexplicably deep, and self-righteous story lines.
Mark Wahlberg's performance was too poor, and maybe there were more comedies, and the performance formed a certain fixed pattern.
Even the big scenes in Hollywood where there are few problems are very perfunctory. Although the investment of the film is not given on IMDb, Sumoduofang verified that it should be 50 million US dollars.
Excluding the expensive salaries of the main creators, movies are worthy of the name of small and medium costs, and those shoddy parts can be explained.
It seems that Paramount is still shrewd, using the medium-cost "Infinite" to create a wave of momentum for its own platform. But he sold the $200 million "War of Tomorrow" starring Chris Pratt to Amazon.com.
03 Streaming Media War
The future of movies is a streaming media platform. This is the consensus of major Hollywood studios. The outbreak of the epidemic has only accelerated this process.
We see more and more streaming media platforms joining the battle.
It turned out to be Netflix dominating. Later, Disney caught up with the original series of Marvel and Star Wars IP.
HBO Max surprisingly claimed that all the movies produced by Warner were launched online and offline at the same time, which also played a very good role in pulling new ones.
Amazon's prime member's main rights are concentrated in online shopping discounts, and exclusive film and television content has also continued to grow.
As a new player at the poker table, "Paramount+" is very embarrassed. It doesn't work in its own library and lacks a long-lasting IP. Finally, there was a "Transformers" series, and I was stinky by myself.
We all know that bad movies have a strong ability to pull new videos: Netflix's "Clover's Paradox" and HBO Max's "Wonder Woman 2" have achieved record-breaking broadcast results.
So I'm not surprised that Paramount came up with "Infinite", but is this really the Hollywood we want to see?
04 How long will the burnout period last?
The global film industry has entered a period of burnout, and the epidemic must be an important reason.
But this year we started to see a lot of Hollywood movies one after another, from "Godzilla vs. King Kong" to "Fast and Furious 9", from "Cat and Mouse" to "Call of Souls 3", whether online or offline, movies Systemic problems have appeared in quality. (The situation is similar for domestic movies)
So this is really painful, usually sitting in the theater is a sacred and exciting thing for Su Mo.
The theater darkened, and the next thing I wanted to greet was 120 minutes of deafening happiness.
However, such experiences have become less and less recently, and it is still necessary to revisit the classics occasionally to find a trace of solace.
And action movies like "Infinite", "Ghost Attack", and "Eternal Guard" should not be made by themselves.
It is better to use these funds to shoot a high-quality TV series similar to "East City Nightmare", which is more popular than "Infinite", at least it will not produce a pile of garbage that no one cares about.
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