Chapter 1004 1004 Duel Qualifications

Although Roger Ebert admired Hugo, he had no friendship with Hugo, and overall he was still an objective film critic.

In the "Chicago Sun" review, Roger gave "The Burning Years" 75 points, a three-star recommendation among the same type of movies, and amazingly, this is the highest score among the first batch of reviews. . It seems that the confrontation between "The Years of Love" and "Pulp Fiction" has not yet begun, and the outcome has already been decided.

In his review of the film, Roger Ebert said, "It's not bad overall, in fact, the energetic performance and the visceral drama make the viewing process quite enjoyable."

In the evaluation of 75 points, Roger commented on Brad's performance objectively, "Compared with 'Big River Love', it has improved, but the effect is not great. Similar roles have similar performances, but Brad's performance is not great. De's wild and uninhibited temperament really adds a lot to the character, and you can see his efforts, although it's not amazing, but at least it's worthy of praise."

The media similar to Roger also has "Rolling Stone", who has always been unpopular with Hugo, and has never interviewed "Rolling Stone", who has been honored to death, and they also gave a score of 75 points, "Let this male character fill the screen. The key factor in what makes the work shine is the actors, and while Aidan Quinn's performance is tough and deep, Brad Pitt is in charge of the audience's visual enjoyment."

Even "Rolling Stone" didn't give a higher score, just stopped at seventy-five. But the "Rolling Stone" comment pointed out an important factor. Aidan Quinn, who played the eldest son in the film, performed more difficult and better acting, but in fact, what really benefited was "sex. Sensation bomb" Brad.

The title "Sex. Sensation Bomb" comes from the "Chicago Tribune" ridicule, "A thrilling style painting, but not from the actors. The only thing that can make this work full of style is the sex that detonated countless passions. Sensation bomb, after this movie, we got Brad Pitt, that's all."

The Chicago Tribune gave it a score of 70, not too high.

In fact, this is an overall trend. Major media such as "Entertainment Weekly", "San Francisco Chronicle", "USA Today", "Houston Chronicle" and other major media are all rated below 50. They generally believe that "The Years of Love" "The story is long, boring, and empty. On the surface, it seems to be an epic that reflects the background of the times, which arouses people's deep thinking, but when people really put their energy into thinking, they find that they have achieved nothing. The result is just a love movie in the cloak of the times.

Although people had long expected that it would not be easy for "Age of Love" to challenge such an epoch-making work as "Pulp Fiction", this result still made countless people fall through their glasses. Don't say it's compared with "Howard Manor", even last year's "Farewell to Love" received more praise than "The Years of Love".

In the end, the comprehensive score of the first batch of 16 media outlets of "Burning Years" settled at 45 points, which many people did not expect. Not to mention that it is opposed to "Pulp Fiction", it is even lower than "Interview with the Vampire at Night", at least "Interview with the Vampire at Night" has received mixed reviews, but "The Years of Love" is mostly criticized. "The Years of Love" first fell behind in the quality competition with "Pulp Fiction", and its performance at major awards ceremonies in the future seems to be worrying.

The theater score is relatively good, and the "B" evaluation is at least good, but it is not as attractive to the audience as "Interview with the Vampire". It can be seen from the audience's reaction that they are not too interested in this work, it is just "not bad".

But it's worth noting that an unexpected 65 percent of audience ratings are women, which for a film set in a war and a farm west, is different from Columbia Pictures' estimates. Obviously, Brad - Pitt became the biggest attraction.

Such a result really surprised people.

Relatively speaking, there is a fact that no one can ignore behind the great decline in the reputation of "The Years of Burning Love", and that is Brad's strong rise. Even the media that criticized "Burning Years" acknowledged Brad's sexuality in the film. Feeling amorous feelings has almost become the biggest attraction of the movie. Compared with "Dahe Love" two years ago, Brad, who exudes a more mature man's charm, attracted the attention of all female audiences almost instantly.

First, "Interview with the Vampire at Night", and then "The Years of Love", the two works pushed Brad's momentum to a whole new level in one fell swoop. If people have questioned whether Brad can join the competition between Hugo and Tom before, then this question has been answered: Obviously, Brad has qualified for the competition.

Brad's rising momentum reminds people involuntarily of Hugo at the end of 1992. At that time, Hugo relied on the two films "Smell the Fragrance to Know a Woman" and "The Hero of the Sea of ​​Righteousness".

However, when Hugo first rose, he focused more on his acting skills. Although his handsome appearance was always difficult to ignore, and even easily blurred the focus, objectively speaking, his performance has almost won unanimous praise from professional film critics, even if In the case of stealing the spotlight in appearance, it still firmly occupies the attention of film critics.

Now Brad is also relying on two works to rise rapidly, but the difference is that Brad's acting skills are not well received. In "Interview with the Vampire", he was suppressed by Tom, and some people even joked that if Hugo played Tom's As a character, Brad may be drowned in gorgeous and retro rose petals; there are some praises in "The Years of Love", but unfortunately it is still not enough, and breakthroughs always seem to be too few. In general, Brad relies more on his handsome appearance and uninhibited breath to become the dream lover of countless women.

But no matter what, the sexy, gloomy and sentimental image in "Interview with the Vampire", and the bohemian, romantic and sentimental image in "Burning Years" can be said to have shaped Brad's idol image in almost all directions, with complete momentum. Not inferior to any actor, naturally including Hugo and Tom. This also makes Brad truly qualified with Tom and Hugo.

"The Years of Love" was hindered by word of mouth, and the theme itself is not the type of "Interview with Vampires" that can burst into a strong box office, nor is it "Pulp Fiction" that relies on the anti-world word of mouth and breakthrough changes to attract audiences to enter The type of movie theater, so its performance at the box office is naturally lackluster.

In the third week of December, "The Years of Love", which was screened in six theaters, handed over a transcript of US$16,000 at the box office in a single venue and over 100,000 at the weekend box office, which was quite disappointing and lackluster. At $100,000, there are hardly any bright spots in this data. Relatively speaking, "Pulp Fiction" not only did not show fatigue in the face of powerful opponents and fierce competition, but also became more and more brave!

After the watershed in the first week of December, the box office drop of "Pulp Fiction" has not collapsed, and it has always maintained a very good level - not more than 30% from beginning to end, and even more so. To be precise, due to the shrinking of the theater chain, the decline of the movie has been maintained at about 10% most of the time. Such an excellent follow-up response is really enviable.

In the third week of December, in the face of the competition of "Burning Years", "Pulp Fiction" showed a drop of 11%, the weekend box office was 3.6 million, and "Burning Years" broke out in North American weekend. 5th place on the box office charts!

The strength of "Pulp Fiction" has exhausted the vocabulary of many media, but it is still unable to describe the success of this film. First "Interview with Vampires", then "The Years of Burning Love", "Pulp Fiction", which has entered a gentle release period, has never let down its vigilance, and its explosive power and staying power are still amazing.

In this second showdown, the "Burning Years" screened in six theaters was once again blown up by "Pulp Fiction", whether it was the single-house box office and weekend box office of the opening weekend, or the December Comparing the results in the same time period in three weeks, "The Years of Love" has no ability to resist, and it can almost be said that it was defeated by "Pulp Fiction". In particular, "The Years of Love", which premiered only in six theaters, did not show sufficient competitiveness at the box office of a single venue, and could only rank on the same level as "Pulp Fiction", which was screened in 1,400 theaters. Horizontal line, this is an absolute blow!

It's a shame, indeed a shame, for "The Burning Years".

A crushing failure at the box office and far behind in word of mouth, the second duel between "The Years of Love" and "Pulp Fiction" has become a laughing stock in all aspects. Perhaps the only takeaway is Brad's rise to qualify him against Hugo. But is this qualification really worth celebrating?

Brad witnessed the failure of his own work twice, and the opponent who defeated him was actually the same: "Pulp Fiction", which means that Brad became a witness to Hugo's history when he rose. people. Just when Brad thought that he had achieved enough results to qualify for the challenge, he watched Hugo once again stand out.

This victory only makes happiness more bitter.

Brad wants to get a hearty victory from Hugo, and he can only wait for the next chance - of course, this is what all the media are looking forward to: the next Tom, Hugo, Brad showdown When will it come?

But fortunately, people seem to be used to the madness of "Pulp Fiction", and this time they did not condemn "The Years of Love" too much, otherwise the situation even more desolate than "Interview with Vampires" will make "The Years of Love" powerless Withstand the media bombardment.

But it is undeniable that the stunt of "Second Showdown" has become Columbia Pictures' biggest credit in the release process, because the overwhelming media coverage has made people wonder: Who is the actor who can challenge Hugo? What kind of work is this? As a result, many curious audiences walked into the cinema, which made the box office of "The Years of Love" not too terrible, which was a blessing.