Chapter 1565 1565 Blowout Effect

After the premiere of "Independence Day", the major media ushered in a blowout of comments. Thanks to the foreshadowing of the past six months, it is obvious that the film has received unprecedented attention. Just the first batch of comments, there were 31 media comments.

In these comments, all the media sent praise, which is impossible, although the voice of criticism is not many, but it still exists.

"USA Today" said in the comments, "The plot is so simple that it is almost mentally retarded. There is really no bright spot at all. The ending of the story can be predicted from the beginning of the story. No matter how rough and exciting the process is, it still cannot be concealed. Weakness of plot and lack of connotation.

Of course, if you're a fan of sci-fi movies, you love great visual effects, you love mega-bangs and crowds thrown into chaos, and you'd love to have your eardrums shaken by the sound of explosions in a movie theater... well, you'll be Crazy in love with this movie. I am not one of them. "

Although the comments of "USA Today" are still mainly criticized, the score still reaches 65 points. It can be seen that they still recognize the level of "Independence Day" as a commercial film.

In addition, the "New York Post" also disagreed with "Independence Day", "Once you experienced the most thrilling episode in the movie - our country's landmarks were destroyed like a joke, after that, Two hours of the entire movie feel empty and exhausting, the endless explosions make the story irrelevant, and even the characters seem dispensable. Not even Hugo Lancaster can save the bad script ."

In addition to hitting the lowest score of fifty, the New York Post also said, "Maybe after a long peak, especially after the exhausting performance of 'Death Walk', Hugo needs a period of time. It's time to take a good rest, but this time his choice seems to be a little self-sacrificing and over-relaxed. Of course, the confusion after the Oscar statuette exists for everyone, and we can't ask Hugo for more."

Not only was the New York Post's score the lowest among the first reviews, but they were also the only media outlet to mention the Golden Man curse. However, what the New York Post said this time has some truth. "Independence Day" was originally Hugo's next script after "Death Ramble". Hugo was almost exhausted in "Death Ramble", consuming all the Energy, which is why I chose a commercial film. Therefore, the so-called worry of the "New York Post" can not be regarded as an unknown teacher.

Coincidentally, USA Today and The New York Post were the two media outlets that were least optimistic about the box office opening of "Independence Day" before the movie was released. Apparently, they didn't have much of a crush on Hugo, and now seeing the quality of the "Independence Day" finished product, they should be snickering.

However, whether it was "USA Today" or "New York Post", they were insignificant in the first batch of comments. After the premiere, the comments of 31 media outlets dominated with praise. The whole film is over 80%, and it doesn't look like a professional film review of a commercial film at all, but an independent film screened in art theaters, which makes the "Independence Day" media review unexpectedly unexpected. Eighty-three points!

This is not normal, absolutely not normal!

But after thinking about it carefully, you can find that this is actually an inevitable result of accident. For a long time, "Independence Day" has not been a simple film. It carried more of the burden of the struggle between two factions in Hollywood: supporters with high investment and high returns, and supporters who controlled costs and returned to the origin of the film.

These two factions have completely different views on the upper limit of actors' remuneration, the overuse of computer effects, the rising production costs, and the future direction of the film industry. This can be said to be the main theme of the entire Hollywood in the past three years, throughout.

"Future Water World" is the first work to carry such a heavy burden. As a result, the quality of the work itself is not up to standard, so the cost control group has the absolute upper hand, and with the attitude of beating the underdogs, "Future Water World" is pushed to hell. When "Future Water World" was released, the first batch of reviews received only 28 points from the media comprehensive review, which can be said to be extremely miserable, which also caused the film's box office to slump and slip into the dark abyss. Although the follow-up media comments have gradually recovered, and finally the media comprehensive evaluation of "Future Water World" has risen to 46 points, it is still to no avail.

The same goes for Independence Day, but as The Hollywood Reporter puts it, the movie sets a great example for Hollywood: how to connect the CGI with the plot, and then let the CGI really work, so to speak, "Independence Day" is the sample that supporters of high investment and high return most want to see. From a VFX standpoint, this is an impeccable work.

Therefore, in the first batch of comments, the supporters of high investment and high return have the absolute upper hand, pushing the "Independence Day" comprehensive media review by 80 points in one fell swoop, and even ahead of the "Life and Death Hour" that received rave reviews at the time. .

Of course, with the advancement of time, it is almost impossible for "Independence Day" to maintain the strength of the first batch of comments, but even so, "Independence Day" became completely popular after the first batch of comments were released. The upsurge of the official release at 0:00 on July 4th continued in a mighty manner.

July 4th is the annual Independence Day holiday in the United States. On this day every year, National Day fireworks are the most lively celebrations and have become a fixed celebration. However, this year's Independence Day has an added celebration: a group trip to the cinema to watch "Independence Day"!

Driven by the sensational effect of the premiere, "Independence Day" opened at midnight with $4.3 million at the box office, easily breaking the previous year's "Batman Forever" creation. Midnight box office record, and nearly doubled that record.

Subsequently, the program effect of "Beautiful Day Live" and the positive reviews of the first batch of comments erupted with endless energy, which directly triggered the blowout effect. On the holiday of Independence Day, the entire United States set off a movie viewing frenzy. Thursday was an unprecedented boom, the kind of crowd-pleasing pomp that continues to be talked about even years later.

In the end, in just one day on Thursday, "Independence Day" crazily collected $36 million in box office data, making the entire North American market frenzy!

Thirty-six million dollars!

You know, last week's premiere of "The. Nutty. Professor" was only $25 million at the weekend's top spot -- a three-day weekend; and, this If the results are placed at any time in any previous schedule, it can easily become the champion of the North American weekend box office rankings. But this is only the box office in one day of "Independence Day"!

What exactly does this data mean? Maybe some clues can be seen after the horizontal comparison.

Prior to this, the North American box office record on the premiere day was set by "Batman Forever" in 1995, which was released in 2,900 theaters and handed over a single-day box office figure of 21 million US dollars. Dominates the long history of movies in North America; the second place is "Terminator 2" released during Independence Day in 1991, which swept the box office of 20 million US dollars on Independence Day, which also created a new history of the North American box office at that time. .

Before the release of "Independence Day", the "Chicago Tribune" had predicted that "Independence Day" could reach as high as 30 million US dollars at the box office on Independence Day, which was regarded as a joke by almost all media, especially by the "Chicago Tribune" The newspaper” said it, and it became more and more like a mockery.

After all, before that, there were only two works that even exceeded 20 million US dollars at the box office in a single day.

But now, "Independence Day" has created an incredible miracle. The single-day box office not only easily broke the Independence Day single-day box office record set by "Terminator 2" five years ago, but also easily surpassed "Batman Forever". The film history record created is even more terrifying. "Independence Day" has set an almost insurmountable standard - a single-day box office of 36 million US dollars. Only God knows when this record will be achieved. be broken!

In just one day, "Independence Day" was born with a smashing attitude, and it was almost concluded in a sweeping attitude: the box office of this movie is already unstoppable!

Although many media still said that due to the blowout effect on the first day, the film's box office driving ability in the three weekends has been greatly weakened. After all, the sales ability of the entire film market is limited; what's more, the long-term box office of the film still depends on the follow-up. Word of mouth, and the level of decline in the second and third weeks caused by word of mouth. Hollywood history has never been short of box office explosions in the first week, but the box office plunged 70% or 80% in the next week, which eventually led to a fiasco at the box office. Therefore, the follow-up performance of "Independence Day" still needs to wait and see.

But soon, "Independence Day" fought back those hesitations and hesitations with an undisputed performance, and after Thursday's brilliance, "Independence Day" exploded with a $25 million box office performance on Friday. , Although it has dropped by more than 30% compared to Thursday, this performance still makes people unable to help raise their hands to adjust their dislocated chin.

You know, after an unrepeatable outbreak on Independence Day holiday, Friday was first a work day, second the frenzied crowds should have faded, but the result? Twenty-five million dollars! In just one day on Friday, "Independence Day" still achieved a strong single-day box office of 25 million US dollars. This box office figure easily surpassed "Terminator 2" and "Batman Forever" without any doubt. Box office data on the day of the premiere.

Even on the day after the premiere, the box office data still firmly stomped on the previous historical records. This is really crazy. Even the craziest novelist or screenwriter would not dare to write such a plot. However, the reality happened like this, so incredible but so real that it played out in front of us.

Even more frightening is that this crazy box office blowout is not over yet!