"Dongrui, is the movie you mentioned good?" Xiang Andong asked
"Of course it's good to watch. I've seen the recent media reviews and they're pretty good. Also, the director's previous film scored 8.2 on Douban," Luo Dongrui replied.
"OK, "The Genius", right?" Xiang Andong picked up his mobile phone and called the nearby Wanda Cinema: ""The Genius" will show at 7 o'clock in the evening, and you need the two tickets in the middle of the eight rows."
"Okay, please wait a moment. The seat has been locked successfully. Is there anything else you need?"
"Two medium buckets of popcorn and two medium Cokes." Xiang Andong ordered another must-have snack for the movie.
"Done," Xiang Andong clapped his hands and said to Luo Dongrui: "If the movie doesn't look good, I will scold the director online later for daring to flirt with my goddess."
Luo Dongrui seemed confident: "Don't worry, it will definitely look good."
At the same time, on the day of the premiere of "The Gunslinger", many movie fans who were interested in watching the movie bought tickets by phone or directly to the theater to watch the movie.
The current methods of purchasing tickets are mainly by phone or directly at the movie. Online ticket purchasing is not yet a mainstream method.
Moreover, there is a huge gap in ticket prices between members and non-members of each theater chain, making offline ticket purchases slightly more expensive and inconvenient.
When it comes to popular movies, audiences even have to queue up to buy tickets, and they can’t even get movie tickets over the phone.
As early as 2008, Mainland China's first online ticketing website Grava was already in operation. However, the maturity of the online ticketing website would have to wait two years for the establishment of Meituan Ticketing, a subsidiary of Meituan, which later became Maoyan Movies.
After that, the online ticket purchasing system gradually matured, replacing offline and telephone ticket purchasing models.
The online ticket purchasing system greatly saves the audience the trouble of queuing offline or being unable to buy tickets over the phone.
As long as you check the ticket purchase website, you can check the nearest shows and seats, and lock your seat online, which is very convenient and fast.
From this aspect, it can be said that online ticket purchasing websites have greatly promoted the progress of the mainland film market, making the mainland one of the largest single film markets in the world, the other being North America.
Luo Dongrui and Xiang Andong in Shanghai have decided to watch "The Genius Gunman", while in the capital, Jiang Zhicheng, a college student who did not return home during the May Day holiday, is in distress.
He asked his favorite goddess Ye Xiaoyi to go out on May Day early in the morning. As a result, the goddess gathered some of his friends early in the morning and went to the cinema to watch a movie with great interest.
Jiang Zhicheng also learned that Ye Xiaoyi was watching "The Genius", a movie that brought him unpleasant memories.
At the College Student Film Festival a few days ago, he missed out on the goddess just because of "The Genius."
Jiang Zhicheng looked down upon domestic films, but the goddess loved him very much. No, it should be said that the goddess loved the young and handsome director very much.
He heard the news, and when the young director and the big power official announced, the goddess was still sad for a while!
But this is not the key. The key is that after the heartbreak, the goddess continued to support the young director's new work.
Even though I saw it once at a film festival, I still wanted to see this movie.
The most important thing is that the goddess went with a group of people, not only girls, but also boys, some of whom were no worse in appearance than him (should be...).
Seeing the goddess chatting and laughing with those boys, Jiang Zhicheng was filled with jealousy.
He suddenly discovered that he and the goddess had nothing in common. He liked basketball, Kobe Bryant, and European and American music. The goddess liked Chinese pop music, Jay Chou, and traditional art.
By the way, the goddess also likes Hanfu, which Jiang Zhicheng has seen. The goddess wearing Hanfu is like the woman in the painting, a lady, and that's what struck Jiang Zhicheng's heart.
The goddess is also star-chasing, and now she likes the young director, likes his works, and has a great time chatting with the boy who also likes the young director's works.
Without a common topic, there is no excuse to approach the goddess, because Jiang Zhicheng tried it, and the goddess ignored him at all.
Finally, his love for beauty overcame his prejudice. Jiang Zhicheng, who had no plans to watch a movie and planned to watch "Iron Man 2", made a decision and directly bought the tickets for "The Gunslinger".
All I can say is that this is the power of love.
Ye Xiaoyi's scene was earlier than Jiang Zhicheng's. By the time Jiang Zhicheng followed him to the cinema, the goddess and her friends had already entered the cinema.
Jiang Zhicheng got the movie ticket for "The Genius" from the counter and waited boredly while observing the cinema.
This is a cinema owned by China Film Group. The poster of "The Gunslinger" is posted in the most conspicuous place. The LEDs in the cinema hall repeatedly play the latest new movies, including "Iron Man 2", which will be released on May 7.
Although his family is not poor, Jiang Zhicheng's monthly living expenses are fixed, and he sometimes works part-time to earn some pocket money.
Watching movies is a very luxurious entertainment activity for Jiang Zhicheng. He usually goes to Internet cafes to play CF.
I watched "The Gunslinger" today, and when "Iron Man 2" is released, he won't be able to support it right away.
It's a pity, but having something in common with the goddess to talk about is the most important thing.
Jiang Zhicheng decided to watch this movie based on his many years of movie-watching experience. When the time comes, he will criticize the movie in all aspects and let the goddess see that the movie is actually useless, so that the goddess can wake up from her obsession.
Before entering the theater, Jiang Zhicheng would never have thought about what kind of domestic movie he had watched. So many years later, he was still very interested in thinking about it.
The previous film has accumulated a good audience base, and coupled with the noisy official scandal between Zhang Hao and Da Mi Mi, it attracted a large number of viewers on the day of the film's premiere.
The current electronic vote counting system is not developed and cannot update movie box office status in real time.
However, in major ticket warehouse cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, as well as in some central commercial street cinemas, there were queues to buy tickets for "The Genius".
Some viewers who had watched the movie in the morning came back to buy tickets in the afternoon, only to be told that there were no more tickets.
Audiences who have already watched the movie can't wait to share their feelings online, in QQ space, and in Tieba forums.
The vast majority of the audience gave the film positive reviews and expressed their love for the film.
As an amateur film critic, Zhou Yang has a lot of attention on Douban. The last film review he wrote for "Manslaughter" received high praise. This time he watched "The Genius" immediately.
After reading it, Zhou Yang had only two words: wonderful.
There are various ways to define a good movie. Some think that a good movie is a good one with good special effects, some think that a good movie is a good story, and some think that a good movie is a movie that exposes the dark reality of society.
But for a commercial film, the word "wonderful" is enough to sum up everything.
However, due to the request for contribution, Zhou Yang still wrote a film review.
"First of all, I want to declare that I never thought that "The Gunslinger" was such a movie. Before I saw the trailer, I thought it was a story about a gunman, a gun with a pistol.
After watching the trailer, I thought it was a story about youthful memory cheating.
But after watching the finished film, I found that I was narrow-minded. The director not only made this simple cheating story not simple, but also thrilling and exciting.
The good audio-visual experience and dazzling editing make people dizzy, as if they were eating a gorgeous French meal on the banks of the Seine, or admiring the mesmerizing scenery on a West Lake painting boat.
That's not all. Although the film is set in Hong Kong Island (probably to avoid censorship), it deeply explores the meaning of education and captures the uniqueness of each person under the examination system.
Among them, there is a passionate cry that we choose the university, not the university chooses us, and speaks for the students who are unwilling to be defined by scores.
The film itself has an alternative mixture of youthful atmosphere and criminal atmosphere, which is almost a depth that cannot be achieved by domestic films of the same theme. No, it should be said that domestic films are not shot in this way.
Director Zhang Hao has broadened the boundaries of Chinese film themes. He can even shoot something as simple as an exam so brilliantly. I really admire him.
In addition, the film also explores social topics such as high tuition fees, rigid examination patterns, the gap between rich and poor, and unequal opportunities, which are all worthy of our deep thought."
As soon as Zhou Yang's film review was published, it received a large number of likes and replies, and fans with different views were also busy discussing it.
No matter what the discussion is about, no one is saying that "The Greatest Hits" is not a good movie.
Apart from the thrilling plot, the issues discussed in the film have also aroused heated discussions in the media.
Especially the southern media began to criticize social phenomena through videos, and then began to advocate the goodness of foreign education systems.
Zhang Hao and "Genius Gunner" were innocently shot, which became one of the frontline topics in the confrontation between red and green.
Fortunately, the bosses of Big Scissors are not interested in southern media and basically don't listen to their nonsense. Otherwise, "Genius Gunslinger" may face the risk of being withdrawn.