Xiao Liu Film Studio.

As usual, Liu Bi and his colleagues are searching different corners of various online platforms for movies that have the potential to be made into hit videos.

Not only domestic movies and TV series, but also foreign blockbusters or bad movies.

"I feel like there haven't been any new movies to complain about recently, and the video data has dropped quite drastically." Liu Bi was looking at the computer while picking his teeth with a toothpick. He said the bad news, but his expression was relatively relaxed.

Last month they received a sum of money from Kui Guang and Yue Fu respectively, and exceeded their KPI, so the pressure this month is not that great.

Moreover, the video explaining the movie "The Boys" itself was popular enough that major platform websites and advertising sponsors paid a lot of money.

Even if I don’t get any orders this month, I won’t go hungry.

If it were in the past, they would have probably started crying for help.

“The commentary for the last suspense film I made wasn’t played well. Who would have known that the film would have such a bad ending… I really can’t make TV series that are not finished in the future. Who knows if it will start strong and end badly?”

"I'm watching this newly released movie at 2x speed. The reviews are terrible and mediocre. If it were as bad as "Fortress of Devil", it wouldn't have to worry about the number of views."

"It's like this, it's hard to find a bad movie that's innovative these days."

"It would be fine if they could make a good movie like The Black Robe Inspection Team..."

"Don't dream. It may take several years or even decades for a movie like this to be made. We are lucky to be able to catch the limelight and make some money... Look at other bloggers. I heard that they have started to receive court summons."

"Hey, stop talking and come and watch this movie. I think it can be made into a video."

When they heard that there was money to be made, Liu Bi and his friends were no longer sleepy. They immediately gathered around and looked at the screen curiously.

There was only a few big words written on a somewhat old-fashioned promotional poster: "Titanic 2".

The movie poster shows a large ship rolling in strong winds and huge waves. It is pitch black around, the sky is covered with dark clouds, and lightning flashes across the sky, illuminating the hull clearly.

The leading actors, who occupy the most prominent positions on the poster, all look terrified and panic-stricken.

It clearly looked like a very ordinary and normal movie poster, but the three people present all sensed something unusual in it.

“Isn’t this background a bit too rough?”

"Why don't I recognize any of these leading actors?"

"Titanic 2", what a big tone, but why haven't I heard about this movie being released in theaters? Am I ignorant?"

Normally, a normal movie will be released on major online platforms only after it has been shown in theaters and has made enough money at the box office.

"Titanic 2" sounds impressive... But why have they, the film critics who almost never miss any movie or TV series, never heard of this name? Liu Bi was surprised and looked at the movie release date.

The time displayed above was actually three days ago!

"What the hell? This is really a recent release?!" The well-informed Liu Bi was also surprised. "Hurry up and check the movie details page to see which film company's blockbuster it is."

After turning to the details page and carefully reading the production company and team, Liu Bi and his colleagues finally confirmed that this was a strange movie made by an unknown small company with an unknown director and several unknown actors.

How could such a strange lineup dare to have such a big name? "Shelter Company? What the hell, I've never heard of it... I'll go to Sky Eye to check the equity structure of this company."

Liu Bi opened his mobile phone and checked the equity structure of the Shelter Company.

In the column for the largest shareholder holding the most shares, the words "Kuiguang Entertainment Media Co., Ltd." were clearly written.

With a 51% stake, he can be said to be the actual controller of the company.

"Fuck, it's actually a branch of Kuiguang Group?" Liu Bi immediately expressed his understanding of the film's no-name production team, "But why is this film not promoted and not released in theaters?"

Kuiguang Group itself is an emerging enterprise. The actors used in the filming of "The Black Robe Inspection Team" were all 18th-tier actors. Except for the director team who have some fame, the other people are basically non-existent in the entertainment industry.

If you make a new movie now and replace the director with an unknown person, it doesn’t seem to be a big logical problem.

Liu Bi watched the movie solemnly as if he was watching an art film. As he watched it, he said, "Kuiguang Group must have their reasons for doing this. It's not too late for us to watch the movie first and then draw conclusions."

Gold and silver cups are not as good as the audience's reputation. In the eyes of the public, anything produced by Kui Guang represents a high-quality product.

The others all nodded seriously and some even opened the memo, intending to take notes while reading.

In order to make their reviews as "hardcore and objective" as possible, film reviewers like them will not skip the movies and TV series they want to review, so as not to miss some important information and be embarrassed by viewers who have watched the movies carefully.

But for the sake of video production efficiency, they usually play these movies and TV series at double the speed.

This time, seeing that the producer was Kuiguang Group, they unanimously decided not to watch the movie at double speed and to watch every detail of the movie carefully.

After a dozen seconds of opening credits, the official content of the movie appeared on the screen.

In the water with extremely rough texture, there is a large cruise ship with extremely rough modeling floating. On the deck of the cruise ship, the male protagonist is waving his hands and saying goodbye to his family.

With just this small clip, Liu Bi and his companions had already noticed something was wrong.

Liu Bi patted his colleague on the shoulder and asked curiously, "Did you forget to adjust the image quality? Why does it look a bit blurry to me?"

"No, the default is the highest quality!"

"I feel like this may be Kuiguang Group trying a new shooting technique. Perhaps they want to use this blurred image to express some deeper inner emotions."

"I think so too. With the technical capabilities of Kuiguang Group, it is definitely impossible to create such a retro picture..."

"It's possible. Write it down first."

After they finished imagining it, they continued reading.

At the same time, a large number of barrages also floated over on the screen.

"Congratulations on discovering the treasure of the town!"

"I finished watching this movie yesterday and felt bad all night. I didn't watch it today and felt bad all day."

“I came here because of your reputation!”

"Let me tell you a ghost story. The film was made by the same company as The Black Robe Inspection Team."

"Fuck, with this picture quality, what year is it today?"

“…”

As Liu Bi looked at the comments, the feeling that something was wrong became even stronger. As the up-host of the film review section, he had a high level of understanding of current hot topics and netizens' weird abilities.

The content of these barrages seems to be praise or neutral complaints, but if you take a closer look, it seems that is not the case.

The other two colleagues who were watching the movie suddenly couldn't help but frowned: "In order to commemorate the first anniversary of the Titanic accident, this cruise ship was renamed Titanic 2?"

"The name of this ship is directly Titanic 2?!"

No, there are too many complaints!

Would anyone really name their ship like this? There is nothing wrong with commemorating the 100th anniversary of the sinking of a ship, but giving the same name to a ship and showing off at sea is a bit too magical.

“Is there a deeper meaning in this name?”

Liu Bi suppressed his doubts and watched the movie more seriously.

The plot of this movie is very simple. The protagonist of the film built Titanic 2, but in order to set sail on time on the 100th anniversary, the ship went to sea for its maiden voyage without any inspection.

At the same time, the heroine on the boat received a phone call. It was her father who warned her that there were melting icebergs on the ship's route and asked her not to go.

The heroine said confidently: "It's okay, our boat is strong."

Seeing this, Liu Bi finally couldn't hold back his emotions and started to complain: "What the hell is a strong boat! If someone tells you that there was an earthquake in your house, can you still say that my building is strong? What kind of logic is this?!"

Why do I feel like the IQ of the characters in the movie is not on the same dimension as normal humans? Liu Bi and the other two didn't even have the illusion of hypnotizing themselves - this is a terrible movie! With such a cliché and such a terrible development, you can guess what will happen in the next plot.

As expected, not long after, Titanic 2 hit an iceberg as expected, the hull leaked, and it was about to sink.

Perhaps because the crew couldn't come up with any special effects for the damage to the ship, they simply set up a bunch of pots, pans, tables, chairs, and benches flying everywhere in the cabin...

The couple had a fight at home that was as intense as a quarrel.

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Liu Bi could see that the severely underfunded crew tried hard to create a tragic atmosphere, but the audience could only feel a sense of absurdity and ridiculousness in these scenes.

I don't know why, but when I saw the protagonist and heroine panicking and trying to save themselves on the broken boat, I didn't feel any sense of urgency. Instead, I felt like laughing.

Judging from the feedback from the barrage, this kind of funny reaction is a common phenomenon.

"Hahahahaha! I laughed like a pig!"

"???"

"No, the ship is half sunk, why is there not a drop of water in the cabin?"

"Maybe the water got into the director's brain."

"Damn, I didn't expect the elevator on this ship to still work."

"If nothing else, as a comedy it is absolutely qualified, 233!"

“…”

The movie continued, and half of the cruise ship was submerged.

The hero and heroine once again lived up to expectations. Due to a lot of ridiculous coincidences, they missed several important opportunities to escape and were trapped at the bottom of the cruise ship by the cold sea water.

The sea water is about to cover my mouth and nose!

The two men rummaged through the boxes and found a diving suit, and hurriedly put it on the heroine.

Seeing that the hero was freezing, the heroine quickly said, "Let me give you the diving suit for a while!"

The male protagonist immediately refused and said, "No, take off your diving suit now, I will drown before I freeze to death."

The heroine added: "It's okay, there's enough oxygen in the oxygen tank in the diving suit, we can take turns breathing oxygen, you won't drown!"

The male protagonist flatly refused again: "No, I will freeze to death before I drown!"

Liu Bi has been watching movies for many years and has seen countless bad movies, but when he saw this plot, he was still stunned and his jaw dropped.

No, as a protagonist, is it really appropriate for him to have such a low desire to survive? ? The key is that he really pulled out a closed-loop logic!

When the movie reached the so-called climax, the density of barrage comments had reached its maximum, and all the audience were either complaining or laughing.

It is a wonder that a disaster film can produce such an effect.

Finally, at the end of the movie, the heroine actually watched the hero drowning in the cabin. During this time, she kept cheering and encouraging him, but she refused to give him even a breath of oxygen.

Seeing the male protagonist being drowned, Liu Bi and the other two finally couldn't help but burst out laughing.

The comments were filled with laughter.

"I will recommend this movie to my girlfriend tomorrow!"

"I burst out laughing after watching this movie."

"To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's silence, you're just going to sink another ship as a memorial, right?"

"To be honest, this movie is bad, but it is bad in a creative way and it is quite interesting to watch."

"Ahhh, director, please compensate me with a pair of eyes that have not seen this movie!"

"By the way, have you listened to the ending song of this movie? It's surprisingly good. It can be said to be the only good thing about this movie."

"How strange! Let me watch it again..."

After all, as a professional film critic, Liu Bi was different from the audience. He quickly grasped the unusualness of this movie.

Even though it was a bad movie, they actually watched it at double the speed and patiently finished the entire movie without any boring moments.

You can even laugh out loud from time to time at the hard work of the leading actors.

When a movie is destined to fail to reach the upper limit of the same subject matter, perhaps it can go the other way and try to challenge the bottom line...

Judging from the fact that the score of "Titanic 2" broke the 3.0 mark, it is undoubtedly a bad movie.

But judging from various viewing data, its popularity is not low.

"I think I understand a little bit now, why Kuiguang Group wants to invest in this movie..." Liu Bi nodded, "I feel that this movie commentary will definitely be a big hit."

"Okay, Brother Bi, then which series should we put this movie in? Should we recommend good movies or criticize bad movies?"

Liu Bi was in a dilemma for a moment.

Put this movie in the list of good movies? Although this movie looks funny, just like its rating, it is definitely not a good movie.

Show bad movies to complain about? This is fundamentally different from the traditional bad movies that make people feel disgusted...

Liu Bi thought for several minutes and suddenly slammed the table: "How about this, we start a new series called the Funny Zone?"

"It seems that the Kuiguang Group didn't give much attention to Titanic 2, so we are helping to promote it and taking advantage of it to enrich our column. We can show our goodwill to the Kuiguang Group and expand the breadth of our videos, killing two birds with one stone!"

Ever since they had a pleasant cooperation with Kuiguang Group last time, they have a favorable impression of this entertainment company with a good reputation.

"Indeed, it's a shame that this lousy movie was released without any fanfare... With a little publicity, it will definitely be a big hit!" (End of this chapter)