Comparing the sinister situation before the release of "Sleepless in Seattle", almost no one could have predicted that the two "waves" of reviews after the premiere of the film actually set off a wave of "tide" of praise, and the praise and comments one after another are really jaw-dropping.

Although it is said that "smelling the fragrance and knowing the 'female' person" and "Yihai Xiongfeng" were also the same, they were generally not favored before the release, but after the release, they fought a beautiful turnaround; But "Sleepless in Seattle" is just a romance movie, a chick movie, and it's not difficult to win box office for movies of the same genre, but it's even harder to win accolades. Now, "Sleepless in Seattle" has also ushered in a "wave" and "tide" of praise, which has really broken everyone's glasses.

With the exception of USA Today, only Entertainment Weekly and the Austin Chronicle gave the film a bad review.

Entertainment Weekly thought the film was "too old-fashioned," a series of old-fashioned, "dirty," and old-fashioned routines, and a bad template to make people fall in love with it. It's a pity that not everyone is stupid. "A 50 score is really not good.

The Austin Chronicle argues that "while the film tells an incredible 'wave' story and distorts the traditional impression of love, the film is just a terrible commercial product, telling a lengthy story that has no real meaning at all." The 40-point review is also the worst score of the two batches of reviews so far.

Other than that, though, all the other reviews were positive. "Rolling Stone" and "The Globe and Mail", which were not very interested in Hugo's two works before, actually gave full marks!

"Rolling Stone" believes that "Ephron has made us rediscover the missing parts of our lives in today's romance movies: love, affection, wisdom, humor, and the true meaning of love." ”

The Globe and Mail commented, "Ephron once again turned an ordinary script into a miracle, with a perfect combination of images, lines, characters and stories, dedicating a warm and innocent story that makes the audience smile from beginning to end." ”

In addition, the "New Yorker" also gave a perfect score of 100, "Only at the end of the movie, the male and female protagonists are able to meet, what will the only love story look like?" The 'waves' are overwhelming! Ever since 'love. story)' After that, no romance movie has such a 'fine' wisdom and wisdom, as well as a 'fine' accurate love xù '' control!

The Washington Post, which gave 90 points, said, "Although there are no surprises in the movie, and the audience even knows the plot in advance of the characters in the play, everyone likes it, it's like a magic spell, and everyone sees it with tears in their smiles." ”

There are also things like "'fine' is picturesque, Seattle has a thrilling beauty", "This is a theatrical 'sex', 'wave' comic 'fine' love story, wandering in magic and reality, which is unforgettable", "Mellow and handsome Lancaster, sweet 'wave' Ryan, the most perfect on-screen couple since the 90s, even if the two only meet for two minutes, it is still beautiful and heartbreaking"...... Such comments are even more common.

The comprehensive score of 21 media reviews has reached a rare high score of 73 points, you must know that among the movies of the same type, "Pretty Woman" is only 51 points, "When Harry Meets Sally" is only 75 points, and the "Golden 'Jade' Alliance" repeatedly mentioned in the movie is 71 points. It can be seen from this that "Sleepless in Seattle" has received high praise, and it can definitely be among the top five or even the top three among movies of the same genre.

In terms of theater scores, it is not surprising that due to the special 'nature' of the subject matter, he only got a "B+" score in the end. After all, "Sleepless in Seattle", as a chick movie, was originally aimed at the "female" and "sexual" market, and it was completely expected that men would not be interested in this movie, in fact, not to mention media reviews, even the theater score far exceeded expectations.

After the national premiere of "Sleepless in Seattle" on Friday, it raised its eyebrows and fought a turnaround battle, sweeping away the low "fan" and silence in the previous four months, and turned into the most acclaimed romance movie since the 90s.

Relatively speaking, behind the grand premiere of "Naughty Adan", which was released at the same time, what was hidden was actually the feat of hoping to replicate the successful trajectory of "Home Alone", but it failed if it didn't want to, and the movie's media comprehensive review of only 43 points was really miserable, even if the reviews of comedy movies were generally difficult to exceed 60 points, but this score still seemed too bleak and couldn't bear to look at it directly.

Originally, after the grand premiere of "Naughty Adan", Warner Bros. also arranged a series of media promotions, and the cooperative media would express their opinions on the movie as soon as possible, but they did not expect that this would become a pit dug by Warner Bros. for themselves. The cooperative media will naturally comment according to the agreement, but the content of the review naturally needs to be credible, so as to carry out positive and positive publicity for the film, but unfortunately, the poor quality of the film itself wiped out the first fifteen media outlets, and the overwhelming criticism made the "naughty Adan" embarrassed.

Such a stark contrast turned the situation of Wednesday's premiere upside down, and the low-key silence of "Sleepless in Seattle" suddenly became the most favorable contender for the weekend box office charts this week.

And so it is.

"Sleepless in Seattle" took advantage of the invincible word-of-mouth, and the box office of a single theater actually won a strong result of 16,000 US dollars, but unfortunately the number of movie theaters was not dominant, so it restricted the further expansion of the film's premiere box office, but finally won the premiere box office of 25.6 million US dollars.

This box office number broke the $21 million debut of Eddie Murphy's comedy-romance film "Coming to America (Ierica)" in 1988, becoming the top grossing film in the history of romantic comedies!

Such a premiere box office can definitely be said to have blinded everyone's titanium alloy dog eyes, even the original "Pretty Woman" premiere box office was only 11 million, and "Coming to America" is a romantic comedy, but it is more of a comedy movie, and it has relied on Eddie Murphy's appeal to get to this point. But now, "Sleepless in Seattle", a chick movie that is generally not favored by insiders, has sprung up and won $25.6 million at the opening weekend box office, which has really broken the jaws of countless people.

What's more intuitive is that before this, the media generally predicted that the premiere box office would only be only $5 million, but "Sleepless in Seattle" exploded the figure of $25.6 million, which is more than five times the media forecast, which really disgraces box office forecasting professionals.

The three-day box office of the opening weekend of "Sleepless in Seattle" actually broke out with such a strong fighting force, which really made this year's summer file glow with a different vitality, and made "Jurassic Park", which originally thought it could win three consecutive championships, break out in a cold sweat.

"Jurassic Park" continued to be released in 2,500 theaters this week, and as a result, it received $27 million at the box office in the third weekend of its release with a drop of 28 percent, narrowly beating "Sleepless in Seattle" by $1.4 million, and won the third consecutive championship by walking a tightrope.

Although it is said that "Jurassic Park" has completed three consecutive championships, the hot impact of "Sleepless in Seattle" is enough to make Universal Pictures jump in shock, and Steven Spielberg, who is working on the post-production of "Schindler's List", is not surprised at all.

Speaking to reporters, Steven said, "Hugo is a good and dedicated actor, and I mean seriously, if there's any reason why it's worth letting me go to the cinema and watch a love movie, then Hugo would be the only reason." In fact, Kate and I are getting ready to go to the cinema next week for a long-awaited date, and 'Sleepless in Seattle' is Kate's first choice, and it's mine. ”

The duel scene between "Jurassic Park" and "Sleepless in Seattle" that reporters were looking forward to really happened, which is really unimaginable, but what is "disappointing" is that the two sides do not have too much fire 'powder', but a happy scene, which also makes people involuntarily have a faint expectation of "Schindler's List".

Compared with the slight gap of less than $1.4 million between "Jurassic Park" and "Sleepless in Seattle", "Naughty Adan" was released in 2,100 theaters, but it only achieved a box office of $9 million, and it had no combat power at all, and it was left far behind without any suspense.

"Sleepless in Seattle" earned $25.6 million at the box office in its opening weekend at a production cost of only $21 million, which also made Meg Ryan, who had been silent for nearly three years, become the national darling again in an instant.

More importantly, at this time, Samsung Pictures, a subsidiary of Columbia Pictures, broke the news that Hugo participated in the performance of "Sleepless in Seattle" with an ultra-low salary plus box office sharing, which also proved Hugo's wisdom at the beginning. Following the "Heroic Wind of the Righteous Sea", Hugo once again proved that he has a certain box office appeal, and a rising star swept away the gloom of the past six months and bloomed with great light.

Although the box office trend of "Sleepless in Seattle" is still unpredictable, and the box office decline in the second week will be crucial, the movie has achieved such an excellent reputation, which is enough to make everyone look sideways. After experiencing the suspicion of big names, Hugo once again spoke with his works and strength, and won attention again.

Flipping through the newspapers and magazines of the last week of June and the first week of July, Hugo Lancaster is undoubtedly the focus of everyone's conversation, even Meg Ryan's return to the sweetheart route has not been able to stop the "female" and "sexual" love for Hugo, just like the courtship of Sam all over the country in the movie!