Just for a simple comparison, "Tangshan Earthquake" is indeed better than "If You Are the One". Feng Xiaogang successfully returned to the position of director-unfortunately, he is a prime TV drama director. My emotions can accept this movie, but my rationality cannot. It is actually not very good. Taking a step back, "The Great Tangshan Earthquake" is a mediocre commercial movie after all, with mediocre techniques and no bright spots. But even so, "Tangshan Earthquake" was still able to get what it wanted and was upgraded to a landmark movie with the main theme. It's not that Feng Xiaogang was deliberately opportunistic, but that the meaning of the movie coincides with the main theme of the movie. Before thanking the People's Liberation Army, we must first thank the country.
Today, when evaluating a movie is based on criteria such as "tell the story well" and "not crying, not human", we know that Chinese movies are actually dying. Telling a story well is at least the basic principle. Whether the audience can cry is completely different from the quality of the movie. If "Tangshan Earthquake", which only pursues these two things, is touted to the sky, and then generates 500 million box office, then this market is indeed a bit scary, and everyone can only be willing to bet.
The opening part of the film was okay. The earthquake was not a tug-of-war after all. It struck fiercely and left mercilessly, leaving countless bodies and ruins everywhere. Analyzing from the perspective, the earthquake scenes created under the "Tangshan Earthquake" are the essence of the movie. The simultaneous release of the IMAX giant screen only took more than ten minutes. If you compare the copycat stunt scenes like "Super Typhoon", the "Tangshan Earthquake" that benefited from an external team is not bad, but in essence it is still a set of visual special effects. For the remaining one and a half hours, watching this movie on a ten-inch netbook will not have any effect.
Due to the short duration of the earthquake, "Tangshan Earthquake" focused on the inner aftershocks, a dismantled family and a few relatives whose shadows have not retreated. Trying to see the big from the small is not wrong, but the effect Feng Xiaogang showed is really mediocre. He just keeps trying to impress you. Brother made you laugh back then, but this time I want to make you cry. At the terrible earthquake scene, the life and death are being pursued step by step, the characters in the film will cry from time to time, and I hope the audience will also cry.
The movie has a pretty good head, and then the child starts to grow up and he is in a mess. After a while, he will go to the sea to make a fortune, and then his daughter will give birth to a child, which is too hasty. Calculated, the number of laughs is really a lot, at least it can be tied with the implanted ads. In the climax part that needs the most finishing touch, the film is full of energy to be sensational, but Xu Fan's kneeling and Zhang Jingchu's sorry failed to calm the scene, and the emotions were really not enough. If the Chinese understand the Chinese and the natural disasters are ruthless and the people are affectionate, then Feng Xiaogang's family card is right, but can he win everything by playing the right card? But in fact, it's not. This group of people is right. There are too many people who are eager to be touched. Unfortunately, there is really no me in it. 【Phoenix Net】
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