The sci-fi movie “Moonfall” didn’t meet expectations at the box office, and Hollywood critics have given Roland Emmerich’s work why.
James Hibberd, reporter for The Hollywood Reporter, said: “The lines in ‘Moonfall’ are so jumpy that viewers struggle to understand the lines of the film.”
With the series not doing well at the box office and viewership, James Hibberd believes that Lionsgate’s budget cuts were the main reason why “Moonfall” didn’t make a big hit at the box office.
James Hibberd made a suggestion to Lionsgate – Lionsgate to adopt DC’s model.
The cost of the new “Batman” and “Black Adam” has been reduced, but the quality of the two series is OK.
This mode can save money in special times, and the quality of the film will not decline drastically.
DC’s model is worth learning from Lionsgate, and other studios can adopt this model as well.
When “Moonfall” was still in the promotion period, Emmerich’s work focused on the lines in the trailer. At the time, some fans felt that the lines of the series had a classic feel.
After everyone saw the feature film, they knew that the trailer was just a good editing effect. The overall feeling of the feature film was relatively depressing, and the lines were really jumpy.
From the traditional sci-fi mode, both “Star Wars” and “Star Trek” have a lot of jumping lines.
For example, there is no ignorance, there is knowledge. in the Star Wars film, and then to Through power, I gain victory..
It seems that there is no connection, but there is still a sense of irony when everyone tastes it carefully.
After all, science fiction films cannot blindly obey fantasy. Everyone still has to find the meaning of society and the true meaning of reality from the lines. This is the trend of Hollywood blockbusters.
According to James Hibberd, the lines in “Moonfall” are irrelevant and feel like they are pushing the plot forward.
After all, this large-scale film needs to be compressed and completed within two hours. However, the content of the film is very rich, requiring a lot of bridges as a series. At the same time, the emotions of the actors are also very full, and this feeling of crowding will be projected on the lines. .
In principle, there is nothing wrong with the way that director Emmerich forcibly stuffs seemingly heavy content into the movie through the jumping of his lines.
But “Moonfall” doesn’t work very well in tandem, which may be the reason everyone is a little confused when they see the film.
James Hibberd said “Moonfall” grossed just over $10 million over the weekend, a big difference from “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” which has been in theaters for two months.
“Spider-Man: No Way Home” may not be a fraction of “Moonfall” purely from the depth of the film.
So James Hibberd emphasized that the lines of “Moonfall” are jumpy, which makes the audience unable to adapt.
Of course, the critic also praised Emmerich’s sense of power.
In a scene near the end of the film, use the computer to restore the protagonist’s consciousness and chat with the protagonist’s mother and cat.
These details have the feeling of an epic blockbuster, but there are very few fans who can understand these scenes.
The jumpiness wasn’t the main reason why “Moonfall” flopped at the box office.
In James Hibberd’s opinion, the filming period of this film happened to be in a special period, and Lionsgate repeatedly cut investment, resulting in a gradual decline in special effects and labor costs.
This is the main reason why the film did not achieve the desired effect in the ratings.
Since James Hibberd praised Marvel’s “Spider-Man”, why did he let Lionsgate adopt DC’s model instead of the Marvel workgroup philosophy?
James Hibberd explained this in detail-in the special period of Hollywood, the loss of large-scale film industry has become the norm, not to mention that Lionsgate is not a very large film studio.
It is also necessary to save the budget. James Hibberd feels that the model advocated by the DC working group is more worthy of adoption by other film companies.
Warner’s management has also been replaced in recent years, and the new management may be more economical in terms of investment.
But they let DC set up a studio (workgroup and film industry are two different things), from superhero costumes to sound effects, all done by the studio, the benefit of this model is to save money.
The crew members of “Aquaman” have said that in the past, when Warner filmed cosmic movies, several entertainment departments discussed it together.
At that time, Warner’s management asked each department to formulate a set of props, and then everyone selected the appropriate props. The cost of this link may exceed tens of millions of dollars.
Now DC Studio solves these problems by itself, and only needs to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to solve the problems of scenes and props.
Sometimes the backgrounds of science fiction films, manga movies and many works can be borrowed from each other, and the creators have sufficient imagination to modify the background, which saves a lot of expenses.
Obviously, “Moonfall” still uses traditional shooting methods, and once the investment is cut, it will not work.
So James Hibberd said that Lionsgate should adopt the DC model.
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