2132 Chapter 2132
As a horror movie, "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" is destined to be controversial before it is released. Even "The Shining" is also subject to controversy and criticism, which makes "The Exorcist" even more valuable. This makes horror works the most special type in the film industry—an absolute minority, constant controversy, and a weak mass base, but the real fans are absolutely strong, even fanatical.
Therefore, the box office of horror movies is often nowhere to be found. Maybe the reviews are terrible, but fans still go into the cinema while cursing, and the box office will not be a mess in the end. Also be able to make a profit. This also makes the film company always willing to spend part of the budget for horror movies.
After "The Sixth Sense" was released, the "Los Angeles Times", "New York Times", and "Chicago Sun" all gave the highest praise. This is actually very abnormal, and it can even be said to be a weird phenomenon. In the comments of other media, there are naturally many voices of criticism and doubt.
"USA Today" has been waiting for a long time, and finally found the right opportunity. They only gave 30 points, and commented, "This is from Demi Moore's 'The Seventh Seal (The. Seventh. Sigh) ’ The biggest piece of shit about the paranormal ever.” In their review, they stated that “The Sixth Sense” lacks any quality throughout, and as a horror film, there’s nothing thrilling about it; and As a drama movie, the procrastinated rhythm and empty structure have no surprises.
The "Daily News" did not show any weakness, and the evaluation of 50 is already very face-saving. "The best and worst features of this horror film stem from a highly unusual plot structure. It is a pity that the director completely Ruined the story and made a group of actors look like weeping nuns in a church."
The fifty-point score of the "New York Post" is also unceremonious, "This is a seemingly metaphysical story, but in fact it has no merits at all. Its unpredictability is the only redeeming feature of the whole movie." And in the follow-up comments, they also severely criticized Hugo, "His performance is obscure and difficult, and he seems to be completely incomprehensible. It seems that there are always many things to express, but the result is confusing. Maybe he It's Citizen Kane."
It can be seen that the controversy of horror movies has been brought to the extreme. Since "Speed", Hugo has not encountered such a situation for many years. In the past few years, almost every work has achieved unanimous consensus. critically acclaimed, even "Independence Day" achieved pretty decent approval. But "The Sixth Sense of the Spirit" is obviously facing more uncertainties, allowing people to flex their muscles.
Most of the negative comments among the first batch of reviews said that the film doesn't have much horror elements, and even the thriller plot is very limited, which is completely remiss for a horror film. It's as if the audience walked into the movie theater to watch a comedy, but they couldn't laugh at all. This is a result of complete failure. And the film's deep digging of the core of the theme is even more greedy, so that the whole work loses its sight.
However, positive praise still dominates compared to negative criticism.
The "Chicago Tribune" teased in a joking tone, "Hugo has brought another surprise. Obviously, this time his purpose is to make everyone sleepless." Their approval of the film can be seen, especially when they mention in the review, "Once again Haley's performance is amazing, and the chemistry between him and Hugo gives us reason to believe: Hugo has done Ready to be a father."
It has to be said that this black-bellied media once again attracted people's attention with a sharp and accurate perspective, and at the same time did not forget to tease the relationship between Hugo and Charlize.
The British magazine "Empire" also handed in an answer sheet of 88 points. In its review, it said, "Perhaps the most surprising part of the whole film is that, in the summer period full of popcorn movies, people hardly want to think about it." Here, we've just experienced a rare 'brain-exploding' movie, a work brave enough to engage in the discussion of death, sublimating our deepest emotions, madness, hallucinations and forgiveness, This is also the biggest thriller and fear in the whole movie!"
In addition, the "Empire" magazine, which has always praised Hugo, is no exception this time, "After 'The Truman Show', Hugo once again dedicated a stunning performance, showing turbulent, simple With profundity in the details and thought in the details, his performance in every scene is extraordinary, reminiscent of Jack Nicholson's performance in 'The Shining'."
The score of "Hollywood Reporter" is also 88 points, "a disturbing, unbelievable, intelligent and profound horror movie!" The concise and clear reviews can also see their super high evaluation of the movie.
In addition, Variety's 80 points, The New Yorker's 83 points, Us Weekly's 80 points, San Francisco Chronicle's 75 points, and Seattle Post's 70 points. Eighteen points... These mainstream media have shown an unusually positive attitude. This is a dream evaluation for any movie, and it is a perfect situation for any summer popcorn movie. , a moment worthy of going down in the history books for any horror movie.
The fact is also true. The comprehensive score of 35 media finally reached 83 points, which also made the work surpass the 82 points of "The Exorcist", becoming the second comprehensive media review in film history to rank among the eighth. It is a very good work, and temporarily ranks first in film history. This is not only good news, but also a miracle.
The 83-point media review is enough to make "The Sixth Sense" the leader of this year's summer. The media recognition has become the biggest winner of the current summer file. Especially as a horror movie, such an achievement is even more incredible.
This suddenly caused many uncertain factors to appear in this week's box office contenders. With the super high reputation of "The Sixth Sense of the Spirit", coupled with Hugo's strong appeal, how much energy the movie box office can explode, this is a question. Huge unknowns out there. However, the recognition of the media does not mean that the film will definitely achieve good results at the box office. The audience's theater ratings after the premiere weekend will determine the box office trend of this work.
In the next few days, "Game of Thieves", "Mysterious Man" and "The Iron Giant" all held their premiere ceremonies one after another. The premieres that complement each other are absolutely not inferior, making the North American market in the first week of August completely detonated the heat of midsummer.
What is even more surprising is that the media reputation of these three works is extremely good, almost no one expected the situation, especially in the summer file, the media comprehensive evaluation of one work reached 70% It is already very rare, but now, it seems that this week ushered in the gathering of high-quality works, which pushed the prosperity of the premiere to another extreme, completely detonating the summer market that had already started to fall!
The comprehensive media review of "Stealing the Sky Game" reached 72 points. For a thriller action comedy, it can definitely be called an unexpectedly good performance. It also proves the accuracy of the media's previous predictions. The work is still the strongest contender for this weekend's box office champion.
The luck of "Mysterious Man" is a little bit worse. With a comprehensive media review of 65 points, it does not have much advantage over other works this week, and the overall lack of topicality makes the work slightly less competitive. , but such a result is still a qualified score for the summer file.
"The Iron Giant" received a comprehensive media review of 85 points almost amidst the applause, including two full marks of 100 points. This cartoon produced by Warner Bros. has become the most popular animation this summer. A well-received work—even surpassing this week's masterpiece "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality". Although considering the subject matter itself, the advantages of "The Iron Giant" are not so obvious, but it is undeniable that this makes "Sixth Sense" The competitiveness of the "Steel Giant" skyrocketed all of a sudden.
From "The Sixth Sense" unveiled the grand competition in the first week of August, to the unexpected praise of "Stealing the Sky Game", and then to the rave reviews of "The Iron Giant", this week's summer vacation has entered an unprecedented peak , which seems too unusual for an August market that is gradually retreating, and it also gives people reason to expect more competition for the weekend box office charts.
Almost all the media focused on this week's box office scramble, and the first theater scores began to surface after Friday's screenings, with "The Iron Giant" once again unexpectedly strong with an "A-" Leading; while "Stealing the Sky Game" is relatively inferior, but the "B" score is still strong. Although "Mysterious Man" only has a "C+", it does not have much impact on the overall situation.
The biggest surprise of all was "The Sixth Sense," which earned an "A-" in theaters, roughly on par with "The Iron Giant," which is by no means typical for a horror movie—even if loyal fans love the movie. Expressed support as always, but such a high rating is almost impossible, just like comedy movies can't always make everyone laugh, horror movies want to scare everyone and satisfy people at the same time. possible tasks.
But now, "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" has done it, and almost every audience who came out of the movie theater is full of praise for the movie, and they are unwilling to discuss the movie too much, just hope that other audiences can go into the movie theater to watch it for themselves. This is indeed an unusual phenomenon, which reminds people of the situation when "The Seven Deadly Sins" was released. A suspense can make the whole movie wonderful.
It seems that this week's North American box-office charts have become more competitive and less predictable.