The reactions of professionals and non-professionals to the box office performance of Terror Animal City were starkly different.
Employees of Yangchuan City Zoo had been closely following the film, and it had been the hottest topic of their recent conversations. In many scenes, they even took on the roles of random passersby, and they checked the box office results online as soon as they came out.
However, with a box office of just over a million, it was not only incomparable to the two films that had made over a hundred million but was also pitiful even when compared to the 8 million of Roadside Person A. It was practically a joke, mere background filler.
"How could this be? I went to see the movie last night and I thought it was super cool! I've never seen this kind of style before," a female office clerk said, puzzled, "It's really 'Bai Si Bu De Qi Jie' (an internet slang term expressing bewilderment)!"