It is really interesting to watch the Los Angeles Times sing praises to "Smelling the fragrance and knowing women".

Since the Golden Raspberry Awards, or to be more precise, since the release of "Hudson Eagle" in May 1991, media across the United States have criticized Hugo, who believed that Hugo had completely destroyed his talents to alcohol and poison. Above the products, the genius actor who had originally glanced at the "Death Poetry Club" has completely died. Hugo's crying at the Golden Raspberry Awards ceremony pushed this negative remark to the peak.

Under this situation, people almost forgot that Hugo not only owns a representative work of the "Death Poetry Society". His previous works, "Small Restaurant", "Dune", "Silver Kuaishou", "Chocolate War", etc., are all very strong works, otherwise Hugo would not have loyal fans like Alex and Meredith. You should know that Hugo did not rely on his appearance to become famous in the past, but on his own strength, he made a fortune.

But naturally no one would care about this in the tide of bad comments. This also affected the early publicity of "smelling fragrance to recognize women", which can be seen from the media's one-sided sing and singing.

Now that the movie is released, the media immediately changed their faces, because Hugo proved himself again with his best performance, awakening people's memories of Hugo before, and couldn't help but sigh, "Ah, we all forgot that Hugo is a real actor who relies on acting skills to enter the sight." For the movie, for Al, and for Hugo, the words of praise for Hugo naturally come in a tide.

"Smelling the fragrance and knowing a woman" is like a huge slap in the face. All the media that once sang bad intentions took the initiative to send their cheeks, were willing to be slapped in the face, and then sang praises to the movie with satisfaction.

The first comments appeared after the premiere, while the second comments waited until the movie was officially premiered.

"Smelling the Fragrance to Know Women" chose to preview the film on October 16th, on Friday, in 20 theaters, starting from the 17th to the 19th. Comments from professional media came one after another, commenting on the film. This time, the situation after the premiere also continued, and "Smelling the Fragrance to Know Women" ushered in one good news after another.

"Entertainment.weekly" critic Irving Gilberman said, "At the end of the movie, the strength of 'smelling fragrance to recognize women' is still slightly inferior to that of 'Rain Man', and it is a pity that it has not awakened people's reflection more deeply. However, Pacino's mature performance, which is both rough and gentle, brutal and gentle, is a masterpiece. Hugo also contributed a long-lost dazzling performance, and supported the entire movie with Pacino!" In the end, Irving also gave a high score of 80.

In addition, the media that also gave 80 points include two professional magazines, "reel.views" and "tv.guide". The former commented that "if there is anything special about this movie, it is Slade's true and credible image creation, and Simmons' principle of transcending reality and taking root in reality"; the latter believes that "thanks to Al Pacino for his wonderful performance in history, "Smelling the fragrance to know women" has become a recommended movie. Hugo Lancaster's eye-catching performance makes the film's lengthy and two-and-a-half-hour length acceptable, of course, it would be even better if the movie was shortened to two hours and added with a stronger ending."

The praises of professional media have been one after another. The two professional media, "Variety" and "The.hollywood.reporter", which are the most important in the Hollywood industry, did not miss this prosperous era. These two publications are almost one in Hollywood, and their influence within the industry is second to none.

"Variety Show" gave a 75-point pertinent evaluation. "The whole film is actually Al Pacino's personal performance. Although he plays a blind man, we see much more content from his eyes than those with normal eyesight. If we insist on adding a reason to watch this movie, maybe Hugo Lancaster can count half of it."

The evaluation of "Hollywood Reporter" is also very similar. "Martin Bleist has given the film a new connotation, but unfortunately the length and cumbersome length reduces the film by half. But fortunately, Al Pacino and Hugo Lancaster teamed up to make up for this half, and Pacino contributed 70% of the strength, which made the film re-enter the list of masterpieces worth watching." In terms of ratings, it also gave a good evaluation of 75 points.

In addition, the professional film magazine "The.village.voice" that stations its base in New York also expressed its own point of view, "A wonderful tango is enough to make this movie a classic. If you want to add a few reasons, a racing and a speech are a good choice; of course there are Al Pacino and Hugo Lancaster." The 80-year rating can be said to be very outstanding.

It can be seen that the views of the entire industry are basically consistent. Al's excellence and Hugo's recovery are too long, and they are almost all comments over and over again. However, in addition to praise, there are also many criticisms. In addition to "USA Today", several media are not optimistic about "smelling fragrance and knowing women".

"The Austin Chronicle" only gave a 50-minute review, and they believed that "the performance of Pacino is undeniable, but beyond that, the whole movie is a bunch of boring shots that are meaninglessly combined."

"Rolling.stone", which made his fortune with music and now grew up in a comprehensive magazine, expressed his disgust for this movie with a bad review, and the "useless clay pot." The 38-point bad score is even more unsightly.

The newspaper "Globe.and.mail" from Toronto, Canada also showed a 38-point deficit. "In this movie, you can only see a symbolic study, meaningless wonderful performances and indicative beautiful scenes. There is a narrative vacuum in the performance and scenes, just like an empty work taken from the Ice Age."

Whether it is praise or criticism, many media's attention to "smelling fragrance and knowing women" was beyond expectations. They originally thought that this would be an art film that no one cares about, but now it seems that everyone is still looking at it.

In this era without the Internet, the media's comprehensive score has become the most direct criterion for judging the quality of the movie. In the end, "Smelling the Flavor and Knowing Women" won 18 media ratings, with a comprehensive score of 72 points, which is not too high, but it is already very good.

In addition, the corresponding media rating is the audience rating. The cinema score (cinema.score) born in 1978 is the public score that is different from the professional film critics. Generally speaking, professional film critics often dominate the public's view of the movie, while the comments of film critics often emphasize the significance of the movie, not the audience's feelings of viewing the movie. Many popcorn movies are difficult to please professional film critics, but they are still attractive to the audience. Film reviews only provide a single perspective to view the movie, which is unreasonable. Therefore, the cinema score emerges, and this score is completely rated by the audience after entering the cinema to watch the movie. It has nothing to do with professional film critics, but it only represents the audience's personal feelings.

At present, the cinema score is also the only audience reputation score that professional magazines such as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Variety Shows, and Hollywood Reporter will quote. The cinema score is not a percentage system, but is like a school transcript. It is arranged all the way down from a+ and is lower than c-, which can be considered a very bad work.

In terms of cinema scores, "Smelling the Fragrance to Know Women" won a "b+", which can be said to be better than the media comprehensive review, which shows that the audience still likes this movie more.

From the praise from the media to the support of the audience, "Smelling the fragrance and knowing women" swept away the posture of the sad soldier before the release and won all the recognition. The good news still has not ended here. After the release of the movie, it is inevitable that the attention must be fixed on the box office.

Although "Smelling the Fragrance and Knowing the Women" is only previewed in twenty theaters, and it is also an art film that does not have much box office competitiveness, as long as the movie is released, how to recover costs and achieve profitability is the ultimate goal of every film company. Art films do not have strong box office driving momentum, but excellent single-stage box office is still worthy of attention, let alone the broad prospects of the videotape rental market after the movie wins an excellent reputation.

After the release of "Smelling the Fragrance and Knowing the Woman" on October 16, the news that the 20 theaters in the endless crowd made Universal Pictures overjoyed. After the premiere weekend, the single-story box office of up to $25,000 was really eye-catching. Compared with the 8,000 US dollars that the media generally predicted before the release of the movie, it was a full triple. This data easily killed all media! This means that "Smelling the Fragrance and Knowing the Woman" won a box office of $500,000 US dollars on the weekend of the first week of release.

Although the weekend box office of $400,000 is not enough to make "Smelling the Scent of Women" among the top ten in the box office rankings in the third week of October, the result of being the No. 1 box office in all movies this week still welcomes the praise of the media, and Universal Pictures is not stingy with its own joy. You should know that the final investment cost of this movie is only 8 million US dollars, and it is indeed gratifying to have achieved such outstanding results in the first week of pre-screening.
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