"Terror Animal City" saw a spurt in box office growth in its first week of release after an adjustment in the screening rate.
On Douban, however, the ratings for "Animal City" were the exact opposite, experiencing a cliff-like decline.
Starting from the fifth day, the rating suddenly dropped from 9.0 to 7.4, and then it stabilized, hovering around that score.
Experts see this not as a bad thing but the opposite, indicating that ratings were beginning to lean towards reason, no longer dominated by a minority of enthusiastic fans.
That kind of fan-led super high rating is hard to reflect the true quality of a film; now, however, the opposite is true. As the base of ratings grows and more rational and semi-professional film critics join in, only then can the film's quality be objectively reflected.
Although the rating had dropped, the comments below had increased tenfold, most of them words of praise.