How did I become famous?

During the day, netizens did not find any information related to "Captain China".

After a few days, the atmosphere online gradually cooled down.

However, "(about 20 points older)" has become a popular meme recently.

Online, people often add this sentence to the end of anything they say, without even typing the part after the parentheses.

This meme mostly originates from the sarcastic and ironic remarks of Onmyoji (a popular Chinese gaming community).

If you want to criticize something or someone, just keep praising them, and then add this at the end.

I understand everything I understand.

But just ten days before Lunar New Year's Eve, on December 22nd, the ticket booking time for the Lunar New Year films appeared on major mobile ticketing apps.

(By the way, in this parallel world, the first day of the Lunar New Year happens to be New Year's Day. What a coincidence!)

Other movies in the Lunar New Year film season didn't receive much attention, since trailers for them had already been released everywhere and everyone already knew about them.

But a movie title that looked familiar yet felt quite unfamiliar appeared before netizens, reigniting the somewhat cooled-down enthusiasm.

"It's 'Captain China'! Captain China is a Lunar New Year movie!"

Fang Tangjing, who had just finished get off work and dinner and was lying in bed playing on his phone and chatting with his silly friends in a group chat, suddenly sat up.

He quickly opened a ticket-buying app.

Sure enough! One name was prominently listed among the movies released on January 1st!

Captain China!

The movie synopsis didn't say much, only that "this is the origin and growth of a hero."

The cover features a cool, short-haired man wearing a black leather jacket.

That's all...

The premiere was scheduled for midnight on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

What a terrible time of year.

Honestly, if the maximum score for deterring people from reading this cover and this description is 10, then Fang Tangjing would definitely give it a 9.5.

But after thinking about Su Zhe's recommendation and recalling the boring Spring Festival Gala of the past few years, Fang Tangjing still decided to buy a ticket for the premiere.

After making the purchase, he casually took a screenshot and posted it to the discussion group. Suddenly, the netizens, who had been bragging and joking, fell silent, and then someone exclaimed in surprise:

"Are people actually buying tickets for this movie?"

Fang Tangjing was slightly taken aback and asked, "What's the problem? So none of you are planning to watch it? Or are you going to watch the Spring Festival Gala at home?"

The Spring Festival Gala of today is not the same as it used to be.

Although the ratings are still off the charts, the skits are full of outdated internet memes, the studio-level singing is so bad that there are no microphones, and the magic shows are so bad that they don't dare to show a wide shot... People would rather watch this kind of Spring Festival Gala than watch a movie?

"Didn't you check Weibo?" someone explained. "Someone posted a long Weibo post criticizing this movie, and it was very well-reasoned. Even Wu Kai liked and reposted it. I think that Weibo post makes a lot of sense. This 'Captain China' movie is just a gimmick movie to grab attention; it's not very interesting."

He also posted a link.

A chorus of agreement followed.

Fang Tangjing didn't reply to them, but instead clicked on the link.

I opened Weibo and it redirected to that message.

This blogger's name is "Great Onmyoji - The Strongest Paramecium".

The very first sentence of that Weibo post was similar to the opening of Su Zhe's.

[I'm currently in the US, just got off the plane, thanks for the invitation...]

He wrote a lengthy and detailed rebuttal, refuting Su Zhe's praise of "Captain China" point by point.

He criticized everything from the movie's title to its content.

The ending was particularly venomous:

In conclusion, I feel this movie has reached its lowest point. Sigh, that's all I have to say. I hope the director will think twice and stop resorting to underhanded tactics; I don't think it can go any further. (Disclosure of conflict of interest, so I'll remain anonymous.)

By the way, Wu Kai's "Iron-Blooded Sands" is definitely a high-quality film. This is Wu's first war film since transitioning to a more traditional genre, a big-budget production costing 80 million yuan, starring top-tier young actors. Conservatively speaking, it will gross 800 million yuan.

The blogger didn't use any profanity in the entire post, but the sarcastic and unsettling language made Fang Tangjing feel somewhat uncomfortable.

Although he also admitted that the "paramecium" analogy made a lot of sense.

But since I've already bought the tickets... I'll go check it out first.

"Hey idiots, I'll go to the cinema first to check it out, then I'll come back and give you feedback."

"The group owner is so generous! They're even skipping the New Year just to watch a bad movie!"

"Group owner is so generous! +1!"

"Group owner is so generous! +2!"

"Group owner is so generous! +1024!"

Below is another group of repeaters repeating the same thing.

Fang Tangjing closed the discussion group, thought for a moment, and then bought a movie ticket for "Iron-Blooded Sand".

The timing is perfect. The premiere starts at 8:00 and ends at 9:30 and 11:30. You can check out this big-budget movie before watching "Captain China".

It's a happy decision!

............

Fang Bie turned off his phone, looked up, and smiled, "You've got over 100,000 likes, and over 5,000 comments and shares each. My followers have increased by over 80,000. Brother Wu, you're still very popular!"

"Your article is really well written. Otherwise, even if I had shared it, it wouldn't have had such a good effect." Wu Kai, sitting across from me at the tea table, sighed with a guilty look on his face. "Brother, I'm really sorry. I didn't expect those online trolls to be so careless. In the end, I had to ask you to fix it."

He did send that message to the online trolls at the time: "It will be released around 8:20."

As a result, several online troll leaders were drinking together, and after glancing at it, they casually sent it to their subordinates.

No, they added a sentence as well.

[Don't change a single word]...

As a result, this huge blunder jeopardized their professional careers.

He specifically asked Fang Bie to come over today to brainstorm remedial measures, and also to show off his new movie to Fang Bie.

Turning off the projector, Wu Kai poured Fang Bie a small cup of tea: "Brother, what do you think of my movie?"

The two of them watched his new movie while chatting.

Fang paused, holding his teacup, and began to organize his thoughts.

Well... as someone who has seen countless blockbusters and terrible movies, he thinks Wu Kai's movie is absolutely awful.

A good war film should either be made to be exciting or tragic.

As it turns out, Wu Kai probably hasn't switched back to making art films yet, or maybe he's just caught up in his artsy phase.

Fang Bie didn't understand what the movie he made was about at all.

The characters jump around, sometimes here, sometimes there, making the plot completely disjointed, and the whole film is filled with a lot of narration.

The key point is that the narrator's voice and tone sounded like a sickly person on the verge of death.

Incidentally, the protagonist dies in the end.

It's normal for a main character to die in a movie; sometimes it can even make a stronger impression on the audience.

And then you've already reached the finale, and without any foreshadowing, the protagonist suddenly gets into a car accident and dies?

Are you kidding me?!

This is Fang Bie's true feeling after wasting two hours of his life.

But he couldn't directly express his true feelings.

So after hesitating for a long time, under Wu Kai's expectant gaze, he decided it was best to be more tactful:

"I think... there's still room for improvement."