I recently watched the two sci-fi movies "Ready Player One" and "Annihilation" in the cinema. Let's talk about the look and feel here.
"Ready Player One" is the work of Spielberg, a famous Hollywood director. This old director was a hot figure in Hollywood back then. In recent years, in my opinion, he has been out of style, and his works are submerged in other large and small. In the movie, there is no sensation of the past. This "Ready Player One" is his most recent work, and in my opinion, it still cannot be overrated.
"Ready Player One" is a product of the Hollywood industrial assembly line. Basically, it can't be said to have any uniqueness or personality. However, as a product of the assembly line, its quality is good, the story is fluent, and the special effects are also good. Although it is very fast after watching it It will be forgotten, and there is nothing to remember, but at least in the process of watching it, there is still a sensory impact. If you can achieve such an effect, you can evaluate it as a good movie.
Many viewers have found other fun from this movie, that is, the easter eggs that everyone talks about. I basically don’t play games myself, but I have seen some movies, all of which can be seen when watching “Ready Player One” Borrowed content from "The Lord of the Rings", "Alien", "King Kong", "Tesla", etc., but the "Shining" emphasized in the movie has not been seen. I don't know what it has to do with the original movie. From this, I also know that most of the Easter eggs I probably don't know, and I just passed by in a daze, and I won't cry when I see so-and-so Easter eggs as some people say, which is too emotional.
Although I don't know most of the easter eggs in this movie, it doesn't affect my understanding of the movie, and it doesn't cause me any confusion. This actually shows a truth. These easter eggs are basically not related to the plot. As a result of Easter eggs for the sake of Easter eggs, the purpose of stacking Easter eggs is nothing more than to attract the attention of those otakus and increase the buying points of the film. The question is, is a movie that is not good enough except for Easter eggs to be exciting? Is it a good movie? My answer is no. This movie is essentially the same thing as a movie like "The Founding of a People's Republic" that piles up stars and tries to make it more fun for the audience to recognize them. I remember there was a film by Wong Kar Wai, but I can't remember the name. When everyone talks about this film, they are talking about the actress Maggie Cheung's cheongsam. There is nothing else to say. This film is not pretending to be a bad film. I took a nap, but Wong Kar Wai is very good at using some things that make petty bourgeois pretend, such as language, such as music, such as photography, such as homosexuality, and such as cheongsam.
My evaluation is: Except for the easter eggs, "Ready Player One" is a popcorn movie to watch. It is a work worth the price, but it is definitely not high relative to the appreciation of the price.
Annihilation was what I saw last weekend in theaters. Before watching this movie, I felt that I had the advantage of a giant, that is, I had read the original book, which was never seen in Western science fiction films for many years. It also shows that my reading can use the word "poor". But that's why I have to go to the theater to watch it.
A very interesting phenomenon. When this novel was published in China, one of the important selling points was that the famous Hollywood actress Natalie Portman wanted to make this movie and use Hollywood adaptation to prove the book's awesomeness. Wait until The movie is released, and one of the selling points of the movie is that the original book is very good, it is better than the three-body, the novel is strange, etc. It feels a bit like repeated proof.
I entered the theater with a big psychological advantage, and only after watching it did I realize that this movie, apart from the premise of several female scientists teaming up to enter the X area for inspection, the investigation into the X area is completely another story compared to the original book. . I was a little disappointed because I originally wanted to see how the director could express the content of a large number of psychological activities in the original work through film and television. This kind of adaptation with the story frame retained and the content basically completely changed. For me, reading the original is not an advantage, but a disadvantage, because the original will affect my viewing at this time, so I am conscious. Abandon the original and watch it as a new movie that has nothing to do with the original. Let's put aside the original work and talk about the impression in general.
It should be said that compared with the touts of the media, this movie is actually unworthy of its name. This seems to be a very troublesome method used by "heartless" aliens who want to occupy the earth. In other science fiction works In the film, aliens entering the human body or turning into human appearances are basically the premise of the story. The aliens in this film have lost so much energy, what kind of DNA refraction, and only complete this mission, and we I don’t know the necessity of this transformation of humans to aliens, because the area is expanding rapidly, it seems that there is no need to turn humans into aliens, and if humans don’t enter this area, how can aliens transform humans?
This film seems to want to be a thriller, but the thriller is not enough. It's just that I didn't feel scared and nervous when I watched it. The atmosphere of the film was not done enough, and the thriller events were not designed enough to be thrilling. This is an important reason why this film is relatively mediocre.
The whole movie is just digging holes, but basically does not do the work of filling the holes. It is all about aliens. This is too lazy. Finally, I understand the reason why many netizens scolded ghost movies on the Internet for not allowing real ghosts to appear. Netizens Shallow at this point.
On the whole, "Ready Player One" and "Annihilation" are relatively ordinary movies, which are a bit over-hyped in the media, and there is no need to refine any more advanced "meaning". In contrast, "Annihilation" is more mediocre. Some. I believe that people will not pay attention to these two films for too long, and will soon be submerged in the world and no one will mention them.
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