It has been three days since the filming meeting on the 11th. I was looking forward to this film with some excitement, so I received the film to watch it. When I heard the news, I was so excited that I dizzily remembered the wrong show time. By the time I hurried to the theater, it had already been shown for more than ten minutes. It was the first time for me to enter the theater after the screening.
I am someone who is easily attracted by advertisements. I read a research report saying that people like me who are easily seduced by advertisements are simple and impatient, like children in kindergartens waiting for their teachers to share candy. Inexplicably divided into categories, in the end it should be happy or humiliated. However, such a character has many benefits, and you will not suffer from choice phobia, because it is easy to know what you want... The expectation for "Fearless of the Storm" comes from being bombarded by bad movies in the summer vacation and exhausted physically and mentally, even I'm about to lose my interest in going to the cinema to watch movies, and I've been running around in my head with the crazy idea that Chinese filmmakers are working harder and harder on the road to harassing teenagers. The counter-offensive of Hollywood blockbusters in September brought up some of my desire to watch movies, just like walking in the desert and seeing a mirage waterfall when my throat is thirsty. Whether it can really quench my thirst is unknown, but it is really refreshing awake. Personally, I only love disaster films, perhaps because the plain emotions drown out all life, so the emotional twists and turns in disaster films have become the stones that stir up the stagnant water in life, and the sense of substitution is very strong. Disaster movies can make you cry, like playing the game of eyes closed against a peeled onion. "Fearless of the Storm" was affected by the protection policy of the General Administration of summer domestic films, and the mainland could not be released at the same time as North America. The audience who had a little interest in this film was so appetizing, and the expectation value was like putting in hot water. The mercury indications on the thermometers are generally a lot higher. The stills, trailers, and feature film clips are gradually released, like breadcrumbs sprinkled in front of a trap, leading the "crows" into the net step by step. Of course, I am one of the "crows".
The film is not bad on the whole, but it's not good enough to applaud from the bottom of my heart after watching it. It's warm, like a cup of warm boiled water. The effect of pseudo-documentary filming in thrillers is obvious. Movies such as the "Ghost Record" series and "Blair Witch" scare the audience enough, all because people believe that the events captured by the camera are real. The pseudo-documentary filming method is based on this basis to tease the audience. As a science fiction film produced on the Hollywood assembly line, "Fearless of the Storm" has indeed made a good move by using a pseudo-documentary to express natural disasters. There is also evidence that Hurricane Katrina caused damage to the New Orleans area in the United States in the past few years. , the audience all believe in the destructiveness of wind disasters. The giant car chasing the tornado is covered with cameras, the DV cameras of the "Memory Capsule" production team's brothers, and the cameras of the network video amusing duo have become the main perspective of the film, which greatly mobilized the audience's sense of presence. And participatory, so that when the tornado hit, some nervous audience could not help shouting "Oh, my mother", due to the lack of 3D effects to help out, although the audience's heart is leading the good intentions, but it can't rely on the brain to fill the imagination The gust of wind swept the leaves and slapped the pain in the face. But this shortcoming can't cover up director Steve Querry's efforts in special effects, the soaring fire tornado, the rope-shaped tornado sweeping everything, and the elusive jumping tornado take turns, and the climax part also comes with a big giveaway, The two-in-one giant trapezoidal tornado vowed to throw everything on the ground into the sky. After the tornado devastated the earth, the devastation on the tornado channel was shown through the aerial panorama, which seemed real and appalling. At this time, the audience was not only the audience of the movie, but also the witness of the disaster, but they did not see it. Weeping, the two funny characters at the end of the film also broke the original quiet atmosphere, and the audience all walked out of the theater with a smile.
Compared with the CG special effects of the film, the plot is simply weak, like an ant standing at the foot of an elephant. The story of a disaster movie is driven by the whole process of the disaster, but what moves people is the emotional line. There is no moving story. No matter how popular the disaster movie is, it is just a boring popcorn movie. The stories of the vice-principal saving her son, the female scientist missing her daughter, and the chasing man's persistent pursuit of dreams are all as thin as a single-clothed beggar in the wind and snow, and there are few twists and turns in the story. The sense of urgency of the imminent death and the sadism of the super tornado will not make the audience feel so nervous that they will suffocate. It seems that the director has no intention of making people cry. After the cyclone, a group of people sighed that it is good to be alive. It's logical, but it makes people feel lame and unconvincing. It's like people who go to bed in the second half of the night every day to teach everyone that going to bed at 10:30 every night is the healthiest routine.
I should have written something as soon as possible for everyone to watch the movie as a reference, but after watching it, I couldn't get up the desire to write something. It was like a ten-pound shot put on my wrist, and once I moved, I forced myself to write something. When you think about it, this weight will add a little more. Judging from the box office performance in the first weekend, "Fearless of the Storm" is a bit lacking in its ability to attract attention in the market, as I was eagerly looking forward to the audience. Fear of the Storm has never been considered a compensation. Like myself, I walked out three days without saying hello, but the scene of the super tornado was still in my mind, so I tried to write something, and my hands were not so heavy.
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