Why do I say "The Mermaid" is a super bad movie

Shany 2022-12-11 00:14:45

Many people say they owe Stephen Chow a movie ticket, which is true. As I grew up watching Stephen Chow movies, I once regarded Stephen Chow as a movie idol and never bought a movie ticket (except this time) , as long as it is his movie, you must watch it, but I don't know since when, I feel that Stephen Chow's movie is not so funny, but still watching it, it may be the legendary "feelings".

The male protagonist just started to hate the female protagonist (f definitely doesn't like it anyway), the female protagonist fell in love with the male protagonist inexplicably, and at the last critical moment, the male protagonist fell in love with the female protagonist, but has lost it... This kind of plot originated from the "Big Talk" "Journey to the West", I don't know when, Zhou Xingchi's films have fallen into this strange plot circle.

In "Journey to the West", Fairy Zixia fell in love with Sun Wukong, and Sun Wukong completely ignored Zixia. In the end, Fairy Zixia sacrificed for her lover. Wukong also understood some of the true meaning in an instant, and was crazy about love....
In "God of Cookery", the heroine Inexplicably in love with the hero, the hero has no feelings for him. In the end, the heroine blocked a bullet for the hero
. , the heroine fell in love with the hero, the hero did not like the heroine, the heroine left sadly, and finally reappeared in the game to help the team win the championship with one goal.
"Kung Fu" will not be mentioned, the emotional drama is very light...
"Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", the heroine falls in love with the hero because of a kiss, the hero does not like the heroine, and finally the heroine sacrifices for her lover, the hero is in pain ....
In "The Mermaid", the male protagonist hates the female protagonist at first, and finally falls in love with the female protagonist because the female protagonist takes the male protagonist to eat a roast chicken

... In Journey to the West, the plot is logical and the audience will be resonated and moved at the end, and what appears in "God of Cookery" is also more in line with the plot. But it seems very strange to appear in the next Stephen Chow movies. For example, in Shaolin football, Zhou Xingchi and Zhao Wei, Zhao Wei loves Zhou Xingchi, it is normal, Zhou Xingchi, since you don't love others, why do you still take them to high-end shopping malls? In "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", the two kiss only to conquer the demons, but Shu Qi is inexplicable because he is not married...
In The Mermaid, the plot design is even more illogical. The story itself explains that Deng Chao is a super lecherous playboy, but this playboy only doesn't love the super beauty next to him who needs to have breasts and a face ( Zhang Yuqi), besides, you can not love, but you still can't get on? The mediocre-looking heroine just invited him to eat a chicken and fell in love with others, and the reason is very popular: others who are good to me all love money, only you, not money!

"The Mermaid" is a movie about plot for plot's sake.
The heroine is going to assassinate the hero for the sake of her clan, and the assassination was designed as a failed assassination. Normally, the plot of being blasted out was deliberately designed as a plot where the two of them were dating and eating chicken. Normally, the plot of both of them should go back separately. The two fell in love. Normally, after they fell in love, they reached a consensus to cancel the sonar device. They were forced to design the male protagonist into a group of mermaids inexplicably. Then the abrupt male protagonist was rescued by the female protagonist. A professional mermaid killer for 20 years, armed with machine guns, the two groups fought a war. In the end, the male protagonist came over, and although he was unarmed, he somehow saved everyone....

Not to mention the cliché of the plot, many links were designed very bluntly.
The male protagonist has been designed to be a lascivious playboy, why does he only love the second female lead?
The heroine knows how to buy chicken, wear clothes, and occasionally lives in human society. How can she have no concept of money?
The entire group of mermaids, knowing that there are sonar fish-killing machines, will not run to the depths of the sea earlier, but rather go to the land Edge gathering?
Why did the female No. 2 transform into a fish-killing devil? People didn't provoke her to mess with her.
The male protagonist falls in love with someone after eating chicken, this tm is too good to catch!

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Extended Reading

The Mermaid quotes

  • Uncle Rich: [speaking to Liu Xuan] Your self-immolation will illuminate us!

  • Mermaid: [Speaking to Shan] Very flat chested. Like they were run over by a steamroller.

    Shan: [soft fake laugh] Thank you.