Although Chinese people don't have right to vote up candidates for government offices, they do have luxury, for now, to vote movies they see offensive online, again for now.
Amid implications of brutal evictions, Avatar was ordered out of cinemas by Jan 22 on the eve of Jan 21. While theater managers across the country fumbled to arrange refund tickets sold for the weekend, Chinese Netizens were mobilized to show their dissatisfaction by voting down the movie that supposed to take the place where Avatar was evicted for.
Confucius (2010) is supposed to be a mainstream big production movie, featuring international stars such as Yun-Fat Chow, with an eye to promote the 'harmonic society' advocated by the communist government. The movie may not be a master piece, but by all measure a good entertainment for the money. However, it was voted down to 1.5 stars out of 5 in two days on popular movie review site douban, by over five thousand 1 star voting after the words of Avatar eviction leaked out.
The phenomenon is similar to what took place at Amazon Customer Review after PC game Spore make use of DRM to restrict gamers.
By the way, movie site 'IMDB' was also blocked about one month ago by the communist government, following faith of sites such as Wikipedia, Blogger, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and others.
Not willing to see another potential political conflict, Avatar was ordered to be reinstated two days later.
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Monday, January 25, 2010
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Avatar's Chinese Element
Neither 3D stereo display nor big screen auditorium is new, but audiences had never been more confused on which theater can give them a 'better' Avatar experience.
Is IMAX Classic (larger screen, film projection) superior than 'fake' IMAX Digital (retrofitted smaller screen with digital projector)? What's difference between RealD and Dolby sound? How does it compare IMAX and Cinemark XD? How many seats are there in the theater? What about 'standard' Cinemark theaters and 'standard' AMC theaters?
Chinese movie goers camped out in line to buy an IMAX ticket from a handful of available 'fake' IMAX theaters in China. The box office figure is shooting for $100 million with these handful of theaters in the first week after it was opened in China.
Chinese are crazy about the alien/Pocahonta/Iraqi genre movie for varies reasons. Some, linked the brutality of the 'British East India Company' to the Chinese government. Many residents had been killed, suicided, vaporized in several high profile cases when they resisted government eviction for commercial development. In one such case in Chengdu, capital city of Sichuan Province, female entrepreneur Tang Fuzhen set herself on fire to deter government bulldozers. The fire halted nothing but Tang's life.
There was at least one obvious proof of the theory. The evil colonel's mother gunship is referred to as 'Papa Dragon', with a Chinese dragon painted at the nose. A same dragon can be seen on the canon of his personal powersuit.
Is IMAX Classic (larger screen, film projection) superior than 'fake' IMAX Digital (retrofitted smaller screen with digital projector)? What's difference between RealD and Dolby sound? How does it compare IMAX and Cinemark XD? How many seats are there in the theater? What about 'standard' Cinemark theaters and 'standard' AMC theaters?
Chinese movie goers camped out in line to buy an IMAX ticket from a handful of available 'fake' IMAX theaters in China. The box office figure is shooting for $100 million with these handful of theaters in the first week after it was opened in China.
Chinese are crazy about the alien/Pocahonta/Iraqi genre movie for varies reasons. Some, linked the brutality of the 'British East India Company' to the Chinese government. Many residents had been killed, suicided, vaporized in several high profile cases when they resisted government eviction for commercial development. In one such case in Chengdu, capital city of Sichuan Province, female entrepreneur Tang Fuzhen set herself on fire to deter government bulldozers. The fire halted nothing but Tang's life.
There was at least one obvious proof of the theory. The evil colonel's mother gunship is referred to as 'Papa Dragon', with a Chinese dragon painted at the nose. A same dragon can be seen on the canon of his personal powersuit.
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