
Season 4 Episode 10
"Something Nice Back Home"
05/02/2008 (Thursday) 10pm E.T. @ ABC
Trailer (30'):
Sneak Peek:
#1 (1'55")
#2 (1'39")
【票房综述】
#5. "Nim's Island" (第四周,上周#5)
($4.5 M,累计$39.0M)【番茄指数:48%; Yahoo: C+(影评人)/B-(观众)】
【此片在众人都不看好的情况下跌幅持续稳定,本周仅为20%,票房总额已成功超出$38M的预算。】
#7. "21" (第五周,上周#6)
($4.0M,累计$75.8 M)【番茄指数:31%; Yahoo: C(影评人)/B(观众)】
#9. "Horton Hears a Who!" (第七周,上周#8)
($2.5 M,累计$ 148.0M)【番茄指数:78%; Yahoo: B(影评人)/B+(观众)】
#5. "Nim's Island" (第三周,上周#4)
($5.7 M,累计$32.9M)
【番茄指数:48%; Yahoo: C+(影评人)/B-(观众)】
#6. "21" (第四周,上周#3)
($5.5 M,累计$70.0 M)
【番茄指数:31%; Yahoo: C(影评人)/B(观众)】
【在增映167家影院条件下仍下跌48%,本来就精贵的观众源被本周冠亚军分去大半是主要原因。】
#8. "Horton Hears a Who!" (第六周,上周#6)
($3.5 M,累计$ 144.4M)
【番茄指数:78%; Yahoo: B(影评人)/B+(观众)】
#10. "Leatherheads" (第三周,上周#5)
($3.0 M,累计$26.6 M)
【番茄指数:53%; Yahoo: B-(影评人)/C+(观众)】
【相关帖子:海报 - 电影的封面】
#3. "21" (第三周,上周#1)
($11.0 M,累计$62.3 M)
【番茄指数:32%; Yahoo: C(影评人)/B(观众)】
【第三周仅28%的下跌水准,翻出成本$35近两倍的票房,续集或者跟风电影大概都在酝酿吧。】
#4. "Nim's Island" (第二周,上周#2)
($9.0 M,累计$25.3 M)
【番茄指数:48%; Yahoo: C+(影评人)/B-(观众)】
#5. "Leatherheads" (第二周,上周#3)
($6.2 M,累计$21.9 M)
【番茄指数:53%; Yahoo: B-(影评人)/B-(观众)】
【相关帖子:海报 - 电影的封面】
【看过的喜欢却换不来票房,$58M的成本一半都没赚回来。George Clooney又一次喜剧尝试非常不受鼓舞。】
#6. "Horton Hears a Who!" (第五周,上周#4)
($6.0 M,累计$ 139.6M)
【番茄指数:79%; Yahoo: B(影评人)/B+(观众)】
($4.2 M,累计$ 4.2M)
【番茄指数:48%; Yahoo: B-(影评人)/B-(观众)】($3.3M,累计$13.4M)
【番茄指数:40%; Yahoo: --(影评人)/C+(观众)】
#9. "Superhero Movie" (第三周,上周#6)
($3.1 M,累计$21.2 M)
【番茄指数:15%; Yahoo: --(影评人)/C+(观众)】
#10. "Drillbit Taylor" (第四周,上周#8)
($2.1M,累计$28.5M)
I was born in Shanghai in 1961 and grew up during the Cultural Revolution. During my childhood, I saw my family lose our house. My grandfather, who studied medicine in England, committed suicide after he was wrongly accused of being a counterrevolutionary and a foreign spy.
Those were the worst of times.
Since the Cultural Revolution ended in the late 1970s, however, I have witnessed unimaginable progress in China. Changes that few ever thought possible have occurred in a single generation. A communist government that had no ties to the West has evolved into a more open government eager to join the international community.
A state-controlled economy has morphed into a market economy, greatly raising people's standard of living. It's clear that the majority of the Chinese people enjoy much fuller, more abundant lives today than 30 years ago. Though much remains to be done, the Chinese government has made rapid progress in opening up and trying to be part of the international community.
Last month I went to China and spent four weeks visiting Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong and Chengdu. The people I met and spoke with are proud and excited about the Beijing Games. They believe that the Olympics are a wonderful opportunity to showcase modern China to the rest of the world. Like many Americans, most Chinese people are disturbed by the recent events in Tibet. But after watching the scenes of violence and arson by the rioters, the Chinese believe that the government is doing the right thing in cracking down to restore order.
The Olympic torch is in California and is to be carried through San Francisco today. In a resolution criticizing China, Chris Daly, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, said that demonstrating against the torch relay would "provide the people of San Francisco with a lifetime opportunity to help 1.3 billion Chinese people gain more freedom and rights." To his credit, Mayor Gavin Newsom did not sign Daly's resolution.
This statement could not be further from reality. For one thing, the Chinese are a proud people. They want freedom and greater rights, but they know they must fight for them from within. They know that no one can grant them freedom and rights from afar. The stigma of Western imperialism and the Opium Wars also remains a strong reminder of the past, and Chinese people do not want their domestic policies to be dictated by outside powers. They also do not want the United States to boycott the opening ceremonies of the Games. The U.S. boycott of the 1980 Games in Moscow and the Soviet boycott of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles accomplished nothing. A U.S. boycott of the opening ceremonies in Beijing would be counterproductive for relations between the two countries.
For decades, anti-China human rights groups in Washington have spent millions of dollars denouncing China. To many Chinese, it seems that this lobby is the only voice that's acceptable or newsworthy in the U.S. media and to the U.S. government. But times are changing. We need to be open-minded and farsighted. We need to make more friends than enemies. Remember what a little ping-pong game did for Sino-U.S. relations in the 1970s? Let's celebrate the Olympics for what the Games are meant to be -- a bridge for friendship, not a playground for politics.
The writer is an actress and director. She became a U.S. citizen in 1989.
© 2008 The Washington Post Company#1. "21" (第二周,上周#1)
($15.3 M,累计$46.8 M)
【番茄指数:31%; Yahoo: C(影评人)/B(观众)】
【即使弱势卫冕也是卫冕。无甚可看的人们不看聪明人赌博,看什么呢?】
#2. "Nim's Island" (新)
($13.2 M,累计$13.2 M)
【番茄指数:48%; Yahoo: C+(影评人)/B-(观众)】
【真人儿童片真空时期的真人儿童片。】
#3. "Leatherheads" (新)
($12.7 M,累计$12.7 M)
【番茄指数:53%; Yahoo: B-(影评人)/B-(观众)】
【相关帖子:海报 - 电影的封面】
【这个片子的市场发行一塌糊涂:正如我在上星期的帖子(海报 - 电影的封面)里提到,要不就是一个浪漫片,要不就是一个喜剧片。俩都上,结果不伦不类,纯粹自相残杀,丢失观众。本来给二十多岁年轻人看的片子结果一半以上的观众超过了39岁,你说糟糕不糟糕。】
#4. "Horton Hears a Who!" (第四周,上周#2)
($9.1 M,累计$ 131.1M)
【番茄指数:79%; Yahoo: B(影评人)/B+(观众)】
($8.0M,累计$8.0M)
【番茄指数:43%; Yahoo: --(影评人)/C+(观众)】
【这部新的空穴恐怖片令人想起前几年的"The Cave"和"The Descent"(黑暗侵袭 (A; 黑暗中渐走渐强的摄人鼓点))。虽然据说很有特点,然而过于重复和不讨美国大众欢欣的恐怖话题毕竟是现实。】
#6. "Superhero Movie" (第二周,上周#3)
($5.4 M,累计$16.9 M)
【番茄指数:16%; Yahoo: --(影评人)/C+(观众)】
【这是恶搞电影的悲哀,却绝不会是恶搞电影的终结。】
#7. "Meet the Browns" (第三周,上周#4)
($3.4 M,累计$37.7 M)#8. "Drillbit Taylor" (第三周,上周#5)
($3.4M,累计$25.5M)#9. "Shutter" (第三周,上周#6)
($2.8M,累计$23.1M)
【番茄指数:7%; Yahoo: C- (影评人)/C(观众)】
#10. "10,000 B.C." (第五周,上周#7)
($2.8M,累计$29.3M)
【番茄指数:9%; Yahoo: C-(影评人)/C+(观众)】
如果说《Perfect Stranger》是因为导演/编剧拍完电影后突然对剧本原来的结尾产生怀疑并作出临时修改的话,《The Invasion》则是彻头彻尾地不知所措。其实凭良心讲,片子开始的倒叙还确实建立了些许悬念 - 我想起了《M:I3》《Swordfish》《The Butterfly Effect》甚至《Memento》。可是外星生物入侵这种话题怎么可以被拍得这么无聊烦闷?!说老实话,尼姐或者新007铁蛋(!)大哥尽力了。片子质量这么差,是气氛问题,换谁都一样,真怪不得他们俩。
Halloween (C+)
现在都流行拍前传,星战前传,驱魔人前传,蝙蝠侠前传,连那个什么阿呆和阿瓜都搞前传。这部《新万圣节》(C)也是前传,讲述Michael是怎么变成人尽可杀的狂人的。其实,片子的前半部,就是从小Michael家里和学校的那些烂人的描写到小Michael开始杀人,我都看得津津有味,像部用心整出的电影。可是Michael长大后,这部前传便和以前的任何一部《Halloween》没有任何区别:杀,杀,杀,机械地杀,漫无目的地杀。真是一点技术含量都没有。Rob Zombie这个变态在搞完两部恶心之极却很有特点的《千尸屋》后,终于在《新万圣节》的中段失去所有创造性。
3:10 to Yuma (B-; 草率的兄弟情结)
作为Christian Bale的忠实粉丝,我仍然毫不意外地看到了他浑身散发的光芒。然而Russel Crowe在片尾做出中国人讲的所谓”丧尽天良“的行为,让我对此片的好感降至冰点。在人家还当你是兄弟时,千不对万不对怎么可以如此背叛?这大约就是文化的隔膜了。
The Brave One (C+)
好吧,女权主义者们,这回你们过瘾了。知道Jodie Foster为啥没有被提名?一是她自己太苦大仇深,二就是女权主义者们太过瘾了,都过瘾坏了。不过,喜欢《Lost》的朋友大概都羡慕Sayid:这个世界上能搞搞Jodie Foster的男同学实在不多啊。
Eastern Promises (B-)
Resident Evil: Extinction (C-; 落伍老套的第一部游戏电影第三部曲)
记得第一集里看着米姐姐跳上跳下,好过瘾啊。不过看完《Underworld》以后,这第一女英雄的交椅自然要交给凯姐姐了。所以兴致不高的情况下,说不看不看,还是忍不住看了。和前两集里大量的室内战斗不同,现在流行脏,所以把场景搬到了沙漠 - 当然沙漠盖住的未来的拉斯维加斯是最性感的地点。只是在恐怖电影拍摄手法翻新的今天,RE3仍然停留在1和2的老套路上,让人哈欠连天。最后的灵光一现也不足以挽回整部影片的平庸。
30 Days of Night (B-)
有趣的是这里的吸血鬼一点来由也没有,就是胡乱地就到了,然后就胡乱地吸血。不知道当年的当红小生Josh Hartnett怎么又开始搞这种二流恐怖电影了。影片血腥无聊缺乏逻辑之余,居然还有三个优点:(1) 一个航拍”屠杀“的镜头,堪称神来之笔,让人印象深刻;(2) 结局如诗如画,凄美之极;(3) 海报相当恐怖恶心 - 应该算是成功的吧。不过,电影在万圣节前两周放映,避免和《Saw IV》撞车,说的好听是明智,说的难听就是无奈。
Saw IV (B-; 血浆即将流尽)
Jigsaw死了还怎么玩你?呵呵,照样玩。其实,片子纯粹在偷换概念 - 因为这第四集的游戏就是第三集的延续。悬念和转折自然是《电锯惊魂》系列的灵魂,然而黔驴技穷之下地太过刻意地做局,却是让人摸不着头脑。话说回来,片头惊人的血腥段落其实已经值回票价。我等着看今年的《Saw V》。这下人彻底死干净了,还能怎么玩?
The Mist (A-)
从纯电影的角度说,这个片子从头到尾非常有力度。从迷雾开始那一段起,让人屏息凝神的故事就没有停止过。片子几乎没有任何音乐带来的假恐怖,完全是靠开始视觉继而心理恐惧的累积,棒极了。结尾的”神奇“安排,导演到底想说明啥问题,大家估计都有不同的看法。不过归根结底,意思都托不过”冥冥中自有天意“。这样的片子结局一般都好猜,然而我完全猜错了。被惊讶了,所以很喜欢。片子自然远不算完美,比如特技就很屁。但是在2007年这么多恐怖片中,这部毫无疑问是最好的。如果不是因为宗教观太过突出,这部片子的受众应该更广。
No Country for Old Men (A-; 用电影写成的惊险小说)
奥斯卡都拿了好几个,还有啥好说的。关键词有这些:神奇气罐枪,恶心的发型,追杀,Javier Bardem,"Sugar",看不懂,”老无所依“这个翻译是胡扯,看脚底板,最后到底杀了那女人没?,谁拿的
钱?,谁杀的人?,科恩兄弟,叙事手法,视角突然改变,没有音乐,Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin。
Awake (C+)
看了没多少天,都忘了是讲啥的了。记得片子进程缓慢得一塌糊涂,两位以姿色见长的男女试图证伪”我们是不会演戏的“。他们几乎成功了。海顿因为角色是一根筋,所以说应该是成功了,而Jessica的角色太复杂,结果被她演成了两个人。从结果来说,观众们是被耍了,但是被耍得爽不爽就要看人的心情了。我当时好像心情不错,所以不至于像给Perfect Stranger那么低的分。