![]() Other films have made it onto Douban’s Worst of the Worst without as much fanfare. In January, Bi filed the lawsuit against Douban for a public apology, but it didn’t save the movie, and on June 1, Douban informed the public through its Weibo account that they were counter-suing the director for libel. ![]() Last September, when Pure Hearts first hit the screens, it became a laughing stock, earning just 2.25 million RMB at the box office and Douban’s lowest-possible rating, 2.o (Douban makes reviewers give a score from one to five stars, then converts it to a numerical value out of 10 a 2.0 rating means the film never got higher than one star out of five). When his directorial debut received a rating of only 2.1 out of 10 on China’s most popular film reviewing platform, Douban, and a measly 2.3 million RMB at the box office, he declared war on bad reviews on internet, wrote an open letter accusing Douban of manipulating public opinion, and urged the China Film Bureau to crack down on the platform, “the gangster of internet reviews.”Īctually, it’s not the first time Bi aimed his fire at Douban. Bi Zhifei, director of film Pure Hearts: Into Chinese Showbiz, was mad.
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