Chapter 106 Another Disaster

May 1st, Tuesday.

Pei Qian remembered that the May Day holiday in 2012 should have been from the 29th, 30th, and 1st, but in reality, it became a continuous holiday from the 28th to the 2nd. Obviously, there were some subtle changes in the development of this world.

But for Pei Qian, this was of course a good thing. He had always been very unhappy with the kind of behavior of "adjusting two days off to make a three-day holiday". In many cases, a three-day holiday was forced, but two Saturdays had to be used, adding up to a three-day holiday, but in fact, only one day off?

Arranging the holiday like this now was much more reasonable.

Moreover, for Pei Qian, more holidays and fewer working days for employees were also a great thing for the company.

Today was a day off, but the press conference on Otto Technologies’ side was being prepared very urgently, so Jiang Yuan temporarily applied for two hours of overtime today to discuss the details of the press conference with President Pei.

Pei Qian thought about it and gave Jiang Yuan five times the daily salary for today, and then agreed to his request.

The pity was that Pei Qian couldn’t take a salary from the company himself, otherwise, according to this overtime pay standard, Pei Qian might have worked overtime until his employees suspected their life.

In short, let’s go see a movie first.

Pei Qian put on his mask and strolled to a small cinema near his residence.

On the one hand, it was because it was close, only a few minutes' walk away, which was more convenient; on the other hand, it was because the popular shows in several large cinemas were full, and it was not easy to buy tickets.

In fact, seeing the explosive popularity of *Warship of the Furious Sea*, Pei Qian was still very happy, which showed that all the efforts of Fanqi Media had not been in vain!

Spending money on publicity, hiring water armies to create momentum, and rubbing off the heat of *Mission and Choice*, if the box office on the first day of release did not explode after so much effort, it would be really unreasonable.

Don't say that they themselves couldn't stand it, President Pei also couldn't stand it.

Arriving at the cinema, there were still a few minutes before entering the venue after picking up the ticket. Pei Qian strolled around casually and saw a lot of promotional materials about *Warship of the Furious Sea* in the lobby.

The most eye-catching of these was a poster. The four artistic characters of *Warship of the Furious Sea* in the middle, full of metallic feeling, divided the poster into two parts, upper and lower.

The upper part was two men and a woman in military uniforms. The wreckage of an alien spaceship in the sky dragged a long tail flame and fell. In the distance was the sunset; and the lower part was on the vast sea, a warship floated alone, and in the distance was the huge shadow of an alien spaceship, and the warship was completely shrouded in it.

I have to say, this poster was well done.

It was just that Pei Qian felt that the handsome guy in the middle of the three leading actors seemed a little familiar, as if he had seen him somewhere.

It's just that he had long hair before, and now he has short hair.

"Starring: John Stanton?"

"Why does this name sound a bit familiar?"

Pei Qian suddenly felt that something was wrong, and quickly took out his mobile phone, opened the Dog Eye App, clicked on the movie details page of *Warship of the Furious Sea*, and then clicked into the personal space of the lead actor.

Sure enough, the previous movie of this lead actor, John Stanton, before *Warship of the Furious Sea* was *Journey of the Flying Star*!

"Why is it you again!"

Pei Qian almost fainted on the spot.

He still remembered seeing the movie introduction of *Journey of the Flying Star* before, saying that the lead actor John Stanton worked very hard during the filming period to play the role of the former officer Tim, completed rigorous physical training, completed the filming while enduring the pain, and lost a full 25 pounds, which can be called a model of dedication.

Before the release of *Journey of the Flying Star*, the director Darryl and the lead actor John Stanton were almost blown into the sky. Pei Qian thought that the movie would have to cut a billion dollars at the box office as soon as it was released, right? As a result, it only took less than 300 million at the box office in China, and the global box office lost so much that even his grandma’s house was lost.

Why was it this person who acted in *Warship of the Furious Sea* again?

Then the director wouldn’t be...

Pei Qian looked at the cast and crew list of *Warship of the Furious Sea* again, and found that the director was no longer the previous Darryl, so he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, fortunately.

He thought he was stuck with this group of people!

It wasn't bad news to be stuck with them, the key was that the team of *Journey of the Flying Star* before was too weak, making it difficult for President Pei to trust them.

Now this director's resume was also okay, and he had also made a few more famous movies.

Pei Qian couldn't help but give the lead actor John Stanton a thumbs up.

It seemed that this guy was quite wise, and he knew very well that he couldn't hang himself on one tree, and he had to try a few more trees. The failure of *Journey of the Flying Star* last time was obviously the fault of the director. This time, he changed a director, so there should be no problem.

Pei Qian entered the cinema full of expectations.

…

Two hours later, Pei Qian walked out with a dazed expression.

What did I just watch?

Logically speaking, the special effects of this movie were really well done, especially when the battleship was drifting on the sea and the artillery was firing at the same time. The violent artillery fire rose and the shock wave shook the sea with layers of ripples. The visual effect of this scene was very shocking.

The shape of the aliens' armor and warships in the movie also looked quite good, very technological.

There was also a disaster scene in which an alien spaceship crashed into a man-made earth satellite and fell above the city, which was also a standard disaster movie scene, with excellent effects.

But… besides these scenes smashed out by special effects that were more memorable, what about the other parts?

The key was that the plot logic of this movie always felt a little inconsistent?

Pei Qian took out his mobile phone and searched for movie reviews of *Warship of the Furious Sea* online.

"A typical American patriotic education film, with a lot of special effects stacked on it, but it still can't hide the mentally retarded plot. There's really nothing to talk about except for the special effects."

"Aliens, can you bring some high-intelligence soldiers and high-level weapons when you invade? Is it something that humans can do to break the spaceship glass with a sniper rifle?"

"There are too many slots to complain about, but it's reasonable. After all, this movie is to promote the navy. Most military fans just want to see battleships drifting and sixteen-inch giant cannons firing on the big screen. It doesn't matter who they bomb."

"Those who complain about the plot didn't understand the movie! The aliens obviously came to Earth with friendly intentions. They were all passively fighting back..."

"I think if most people don't understand the plot of a movie, it should be the director's problem. At least half an hour in the front is spent shooting all kinds of messy content that has nothing to do with the main line. Wouldn't it be better to take some time to introduce the basic settings?"

"Why do many military fans say this movie is good? The label of this movie clearly has 'science fiction'! I also came to see it for the science fiction theme, but is that it? An alien spaceship that can travel in space was actually sunk by a human battleship that has been retired. Are you kidding me?"

"Seriously, I didn't think the plot of *Mission and Choice* was that good before. At that time, I also felt that for movies like *Mission and Choice*, just watch the special effects. It doesn't matter if the plot is a little stiff. After watching *Warship of the Furious Sea*, I found out that this is called 'nothing but special effects'... The plot of *Mission and Choice* is much stronger than it..."

"And the acting skills of the actors, I think John Stanton is also a veteran Hollywood superstar, so he played this? The protagonist in the movie ordered his subordinates to attack the alien warship like a moth to a flame, killing a ship of people, and had to rely on his subordinates to pinch his neck and shout to make him sober. Is this a soldier's professional quality? I don't know if it's the problem of the script or the actor. Compared with Captain Qin Yi, this is simply an insult to soldiers..."

"So, does the movie bring down the actor, or does the actor make the movie worse? John Stanton had *Journey of the Flying Star* before and *Warship of the Furious Sea* after. Both are heavyweight blockbusters, but both have box office Waterloo. It seems that the box office of *Warship of the Furious Sea* will be stronger than *Journey of the Flying Star*, but it will probably still lose a lot of money. The lead actor John Stanton is afraid that it will be difficult..."

"This has to mention Lu Zhiyao, who is also known as the 'box office poison'. You see, when he was filming the previous movies, he would lose one film after another. It seems that no one can bring him. But President Pei made a move, didn't it happen? So I think the director is more to blame."

"Indeed, comparing it this way, *Mission and Choice* is completely crushing it! I really didn't expect that domestic science fiction movies would actually crush foreign blockbusters. I won't say anything else, I'll take my friends to brush *Mission and Choice* again during the holiday!"

"The key is that *Warship of the Furious Sea* previously spent a lot of resources on publicity in China, and in order to rub off on *Mission and Choice*, it secretly bound the two movies together. But now it happens to be the May Day holiday, and *Warship of the Furious Sea* is performing so badly. In the absence of other strong competitors, audiences can only choose to watch *Mission and Choice*!"

"Although *Mission and Choice* has been released for half a month, after all, it's the May Day holiday, and many people who don't have time to watch movies on weekdays will also go to the cinema, and the audience group has expanded a lot. Many passers-by who didn't pay attention before have also been attracted."

In other words, *Mission and Choice* will definitely usher in a wave of counter-trend increases during the May Day holiday like *A Better Tomorrow* did at the beginning, pushing the estimated box office of Dog Eye App to even higher!

Pei Qian felt a little hopeless.

"I understand, you are not reinforcements at all, you are here to deliberately mess with me!"

"This lead actor, John Stanton, will be blacklisted forever in the future! I'm a puppy if I ever run into a movie you act in!"

"You don't hesitate to ruin your acting career to mess with me, what a big feud!"

Pei Qian threw the ticket stub of the movie into the trash can angrily.