Chapter 090 One-Sided Bad Reviews

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West Hollywood.

The time was 6:30 in the afternoon. Peter Butler had dinner with his girlfriend Peggy after get off work, and the two rushed to the theater near the apartment.

Although he already has a good personal relationship, Peter Butler still hasn't learned the official content of "The Butterfly Effect". So he got off work on time today on a rare occasion and couldn't wait to catch a glimpse.

Peter's girlfriend, Peggy, is a tall, thin white girl with glasses and a suave appearance.

The two sat down in the theater, and Peggy couldn't help but said, "Peter, it is said that the critics' evaluation of "The Butterfly Effect" is not very good. Do we have to watch this movie?"

Due to the poor feedback from critics for the initial preview, Fox had been careful to cover up the preview of "The Butterfly Effect", and no public screenings were held before the opening of the film.

Therefore, until yesterday, the word of mouth of "The Butterfly Effect" was only circulated among a small number of people in Hollywood. But now, the first batch of film reviews about "The Butterfly Effect" in the Evening News has been released, and it is naturally difficult to cover up the film's media response.

As a reporter, Peter Butler naturally learned of this earlier, but he still trusts his own judgment more.

Scanning the audience in the hall as the show time approached, Peter Butler replied: "Peggy, don't you like "Lola Run"? Simon's movie should not disappoint everyone too much ."

Peggy, the same age as Peter, is 31 years old and works as a designer for an advertising agency.

Although she admired Simon's previous "Lola Run", she has always been a very rational girl, and she has passed the age of chasing stars, and she is not as popular as many young people to Simon Westeros.

However, considering the relationship between her boyfriend and the other party, Peggy didn't speak too much, just shrugged and said, "Maybe."

After waiting patiently for a few minutes, the lights in the theater dimmed.

Peter Butler looked around again, and the occupancy rate in the auditorium that can accommodate 100 people has exceeded 70%, which is a very good figure. Obviously, with the popularity of "Lola Run", the first weekend box office of "Butterfly Effect" will not be too bad anyway, the key is to see the follow-up box office trend of the film.

During this time, "Lola Run" was an unexpected success, and Simon Westeros naturally rose to fame. Peter Butler also received a lot of attention within the "Los Angeles Times" company due to a series of interviews with Simon.

As the largest newspaper in the western United States, the Los Angeles Times Company has a large team of editors and reporters of more than 1,100 people. It is definitely not easy for a young reporter in his early thirties like Peter Butler to attract high-level attention.

Correspondingly, Peter Butler unknowingly leans towards Simon in his personal position. Subconsciously, Peter Butler has even made up his mind that as long as the movie isn't too horrific, he'll definitely have a few nice things to say about Simon.

on the big screen.

After a routine patch commercial and label opening, Matt Dillon's leading man, Ivan, cautiously walks through a dimly lit hallway into an office. Then, amid the violent slamming of the door by the security guards and the doctors, Ivan, who was hiding under his desk, quickly wrote down a series of last words in a notebook, and then started playing a videotape.

In the violent picture shaking, the camera has returned to Ivan's childhood.

In the screening room, looking at the childhood scene of the hero turned to warm colors, Peter Butler was still recalling the opening wedge just now.

Very brilliant suspense creation, just this, Brian de Palma has successfully attracted the curiosity and attention of the audience. In the next 20 minutes, all kinds of strange behaviors of Ivan's childhood appeared on the big screen one by one, which continued to arouse the curiosity of the audience. This continued until Ivan became an adult, and the mysteries began to be revealed one after another.

East Coast.

New Haven, Connecticut.

It's past ten o'clock in the evening, and she will officially graduate from Yale next month. Jennifer Leibold has become more and more busy recently. She didn't find time until eight o'clock in the evening to watch Simon's new movie with her friend Lisa Collins.

At this time, as the crowd walked out of the theater together, the two girls looked at each other in dismay, not knowing how to evaluate the "Butterfly Effect" just now.

Is this a good movie?

Compared with "Lola Run", which is amazing in terms of plot, camera, soundtrack, etc., "Butterfly Effect" does not have much to comment on except for the idea of ​​repeatedly traveling back to the past.

Is this a bad movie?

The plot of the film is very complete, and it is cleverly interspersed and interlocking. Compared to those really bad movies that make it hard to remember the plot after watching it, there are many details in this movie that are worth recalling.

simply put.

As two longtime moviegoers, Jennifer and Lisa are having a hard time getting anything out of this movie to impress them. And, in all fairness, they didn't really like the despair expressed in this movie from the bottom of their hearts.

perhaps.

This is just a random script written by that guy, and his next directing work is definitely worth looking forward to.

Jennifer was thinking about this when a voice that was obviously raised suddenly came from her side: "This movie is so cool, it's even more exciting than "Lola Run", I think we should take time to watch it again."

follow

Voice, Jennifer turned her head and glanced, behind her and Lisa were three young boys of seventeen or eighteen years old.

When the three boys saw Jennifer turn her head, their eyes lit up, and then the other two boys joined in, and they quickened their pace together to catch up beside Jennifer and Lisa.

If it were normal, Jennifer would be completely dismissive of this clumsy approach. But this time, she took the initiative to look at the boy who had just spoken, and asked, "Do you really think 'The Butterfly Effect' is cooler than 'Lola Run'?"

"Of course, relying on the diary to go back to the past, isn't the idea cool enough?" The boy gestured without hesitation: "What's more, there is the butterfly effect, compared with the details in "Lola Run," Instantly changing a life, this is the real butterfly effect. And finally, returning to the mother's womb and strangling himself, tsk, Simon Westeros is such a genius."

Listening to the excited gestures of the boy next to her, Jennifer felt that something flashed in her mind, but she couldn't catch it. Lisa's face, who was holding her arm, was obviously more clear.

Having said that, he walked out of the theater before he knew it.

The three boys saw that Jennifer and the two were about to leave, and they caught up. The boy just now took the initiative to invite: "Hey, girls, how about going to a bar together, we know that there is a bar nearby that doesn't check your age."

Before Jennifer could answer, Lisa said to the three boys with a bit of ridicule, "Forget it, little guys, we have no interest in dating minors."

After laughing and talking, throwing away the three boys, Lisa dragged Jennifer to the parking lot quickly.

After finding their car, the two women got into the car. After Lisa, who was in charge of driving, started the car, she suddenly stretched out her hand and gently grabbed the handle on Jennifer's beautiful golden ponytail. , be treated as a little girl."

Jennifer shook her hair, reached out and slapped Lisa on top of her, and said, "Hurry up and drive, I'm a little sleepy."

Lisa turned the steering wheel and drove the car out of the parking lot. Seeing that Jennifer was still thoughtful, she said, "You're not thinking about Westeros, are you?"

Jennifer's face was a little red, but she immediately retorted: "You think so, right? You worship him so much."

Lisa was not as shy as Jennifer, and said bluntly: "Such a great guy, I just don't know when I will see you again. I don't plan to go to California, isn't your uncle his personal lawyer? Help me then. Send some autographed photos back. And, if you can get Simon Westeros out of Janet Johnston's hands, I'll fly to LA myself and throw the party for you."

Jennifer listened to Lisa's more and more outrageous words, and stretched out her hand with a blushing face: "What nonsense are you talking about."

Lisa opened her mouth, and her neat white teeth bit her little hand that wanted to cover her mouth, scaring Jennifer away, and then she smiled, "I'm just saying what's in your heart, you have to work hard, Jenny."

"I've decided not to speak to you for the next ten minutes."

Lisa laughed, seeing that Jennifer really ignored her and drove the car indifferently.

After a while, she glanced at her friend on the co-pilot again, and saw that her blushing face was still a little worried, and suddenly said: "There is no need to worry so much, I think this movie may be just for those The hairy boys are watching."

With the film's first day of release, reviews of "The Butterfly Effect" also appeared on various media platforms on a large scale.

"After Lola Run, Simon Westeros once again used his brilliant imagination to construct a wonderful story for us to explore the countless possibilities of life. "The Butterfly Effect" made me realize that each of us lives, They are all made up of countless bits and pieces in the long river of time. You can't change, you can't get rid of, and you can't go back. Real life is destined to have only one result."

Here's a review article by Peter Butler in the Los Angeles Times the next day.

Although in the process of watching the film, Peter Butler's perception of the film is similar to that of the two Jennifer girls far away on the east coast, but he still wrote an article expressing his approval.

However, other than Peter Butler, too many film critics in North America are very rude, expressing their disgust for "The Butterfly Effect" completely one-sidedly.

"No one can save these boring repetitions." - "Variety"

"Matt Dillon, who's had such great performances in films like 'River's Edge' and 'The Outsider', chose this movie to be the biggest mistake of his life." - Entertainment Weekly

"Gloomy themes, messy narrative, boring characters, this is the most boring movie in recent times." - "Film Salon"

"Simon Westeros may have wanted to express some deeper philosophical thinking through The Butterfly Effect, but it ended up being a boring film that made no sense at all." - The New York Observer

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In this series of bad reviews, Mark Horrington, a writer for The New York Times who had raised doubts about Simon, resurfaced and said unceremoniously, "The Butterfly Effect is a very stupid and pretentious film." Incredibly messy film, I have absolutely no idea what Simon Westeros is trying to say with such a boring film'.

The success of "Lola Run" has too many accidental factors after all, so the box office performance of "The Butterfly Effect" is also crucial to Simon's follow-up development in Hollywood.

even,

It was only on Saturday that Ronald Goldberg couldn't wait to call in the face of the one-sided negative review of "The Butterfly Effect", hoping to organize a "Death Come" production meeting, which he wanted to attend in person.

This is clearly a breach of the agreement signed by both parties.

Obvious.

If "Butterfly Effect" fails at the box office, the three projects in Simon's hands will be seriously affected.

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