In early November, a much-watched foreign science fiction blockbuster was introduced to the country for release.
The movie is produced by the world-famous Haolaiwu film production base and is an interstellar disaster film.
Title: "Escape from the Mother Planet"!
It is said that hundreds of millions of dollars were invested in this film, directed by a world-renowned director, and starring numerous foreign film stars. It is one of the most anticipated films in the world this year.
Putting aside the quality of the films, the brand "Haolaiwu" is a holy place that many movie fans are fascinated by, because this film production base in Omerik has the most mature film production model and the most advanced film production in the world.
Filming technology, the most famous directors and actors, and the largest number of outstanding film works.
“The products produced by Haolaiwu must be high-quality products!”
Although this sentence is not accurate, Haolaiwu also produces many bad movies every year, but overall, most of the movies they produce are high-quality, or at least qualified works.
And this newly introduced "Escape from the Mother Planet" is undoubtedly a masterpiece. It is not only expected by many domestic movie fans, it is even considered one of the strong contenders for the best film of the year in Haolaiwu.
If such a film is introduced into the country, it will inevitably set off a wave of movie-watching craze again.
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Sure enough, after its release on November 7, "Escape" quickly began to break a series of movie box office records.
The single-day box office record and weekly box office record just set by "Infernal Affairs" have been broken one after another. It even created the longest consecutive day with a single-day box office exceeding 200 million.
It has to be said that "Escape from the Mother Planet"'s ability to harvest box office is really terrifying.
At the same time, people have realized that the original belief that the Chinese film market is booming but will only explode after a certain stage of accumulation is completely wrong.
Because now the Chinese film market itself is in an explosion stage, but it is just because there is a lack of good enough films to detonate the market.
"Infernal Affairs" caused a small-scale explosion, but this newly introduced foreign science fiction blockbuster has completely detonated the entire Chinese film market.
It turns out that people’s movie-watching consumption ability is so terrifying!
This phenomenon makes many filmmakers feel excited, but at the same time, they feel very uncomfortable.
Because the initiator of this box office hit was not a Chinese-language film, but an imported film.
Before the heated discussion caused by "Infernal Affairs" was over, this foreign science fiction blockbuster immediately caused a bigger storm, directly destroying the box office performance of Chinese-language movies.
This is something that many people in the Chinese film industry don't want to see, but there is nothing anyone can do about it.
What makes people even more angry is that now on the Internet, many people have begun to crazily praise "Escape from the Mother Planet", a real science fiction blockbuster, and at the same time turn around and criticize domestic movies as useless.
Among them, the one that suffered the most was Beidou Entertainment's "Deep Space Trek"!
Because although they are both science fiction themes, "Deep Space Trek" is obviously very different from "Escape". Although many people thought that "Deep Space Trek" was also quite good-looking before, there is no harm without comparison.
After watching "Escape", most of the fans who originally thought "Deep Space Trek" was good changed their minds.
Indeed, in terms of film quality, "Escape" is really much better than "Deep Space Trek", but in fact, "Deep Space Trek" also has its own characteristics. Even if it is not very good, it definitely should not be tolerated.
The excessive abuse now makes Beidou Entertainment, Wu Hengjiang and the production team of "Deep Space Trek" very angry.
But there is nowhere to vent this anger.
Because in the final analysis, your own films cannot compare to others!
Just... very frustrating!
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However, as movie fans and viewers, everyone is actually very naive, because there is only one criterion, and that is whether the movie is good or not.
If they both look good, then compare which one looks better.
The one that looks better will definitely become the one sought after by more people, which is human nature.
Therefore, after watching the movie, most people will express their opinions online, praising the better "Escape" and criticizing the not-so-good "Deep Space Trek" they have seen before.
Naturally, there will be no shortage of speeches.
At the same time, there are more extreme people who will passionately criticize Chinese science fiction movies as deceitful, and foreign science fiction blockbusters are the real good movies, and thus criticize all Chinese movies. Those remarks can be as ugly as they are.
And it often gets the response of many people.
Slowly, many people have lost control!
"A self-deceiving soft science fiction film like "Deep Space Trek" actually has the honor to claim to be the first Chinese science fiction blockbuster. It is really embarrassing. Just look at "Escape", this is called science fiction
, directors of Chinese-language films, if you don’t have a serious attitude and sufficient skills, can you please stop embarrassing yourself!"
"Go ahead and make those celebrity comedies of yours!"
"Haha, now think about it, a bad movie like "Deep Space Trek" can actually get more than one billion at the box office. It's simply a shame!"
"It's just that the domestic film market environment is too relaxed, which makes directors feel that they can make money by just making any film. From now on, let's all boycott bad films together!"
"...Well...I think "Deep Space Trek" is actually not too bad, it's just a different genre. Don't criticize it too much..."
"Haha, the fighting boy is coming upstairs, come and watch!"
"It's really disgusting. There are still people licking it. I'm afraid they are either mentally retarded or blind."
"You guys who are supporting "Deep Space Trek" should not come out and embarrass you. To be honest, "Deep Space Trek" is not even worthy of supporting "Escape". You are really ignorant!"
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Initially, there were many fans who supported "Deep Space Trek" on the Internet. After all, this movie is not really without merit. However, with the popularity of "Escape", more and more people began to criticize it.
"Deep Space Trek" has made many people who originally liked it afraid to say anything anymore.
Recently, almost all social media and online forums have been discussing the gap between Chinese-language films and foreign science fiction blockbusters. Even some very rational and objective sites are very pessimistic that Chinese-language films may not be able to produce films in 30 to 50 years.
Competing with those foreign blockbusters.
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Many practitioners in the film industry have paid attention to this phenomenon. However, in the face of the cruel reality, no one has a reason to refute, because "Escape from the Mother Planet", an excellent foreign science fiction blockbuster, is right there. There is a gap.
It does exist, and no one can deny this status quo.
People in the industry only feel a deep sense of powerlessness!