(Just when they thought it couldn’t get any worse, a bear ate the script.)
I usually do a Box Office wipe up on Monday morning, but there isn’t much to report this week. Avatar swallowed everything in its path, and none of the new releases did particularly well (top ten list after the jump). The only bright spot was all the bad reviews for Leap Year, the latest your-rural-lifestyle-ruined-my-Blackberry “comedy” that Hollywood pinched on our collective chest. You know it’s bad when movie guy on Taxi TV in NYC calls it “one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen.” On Taxi TV! His only job is getting people to spend money on stuff! Yeah, this is gonna be fun:
What makes “Leap Year” so singularly dispiriting is precisely that it is bad without distinction — so witless, charmless and unimaginative that it can be described as a movie only in a strictly technical sense. [...] Their initial antagonism might be promising if either one did or said anything funny, clever, provocative or even slightly memorable. Instead there are exchanges like the following, on the subject of the supposed tradition that gives this movie its title.
Declan: It’s a load of poo.
Anna: No it isn’t. It’s romantic.Much as one hates to contradict a lady, the gentleman has a point. -New York Times [Editor's Note: Ho snap!]
Amy Adams gets cow poo on her shoes. Then she falls in the mud. -Salon
Mid-January, and already there’s another romantic comedy that makes you weep for the genre. Honestly. After “P.S. I Love You,” “27 Dresses,” “Bride Wars,” and “The Ugly Truth,” Beatrice and Benedick from “Much Ado About Nothing” are going to step right out of the first folio edition of Shakespeare’s play and go on a revenge killing spree. -Chicago Tribune
Hahahah, yeah! What that guy said! About Shakespeare! *claps flippers together, scratches butt, smells finger, falls out of tree*
| Movie | This weekend | Per screen | Domest. total | |
| 1 | Avatar | $48,500,000 (-29.2%) | $14,173 | $429,040,000 |
| 2 | Sherlock Holmes | $16,610,000 (-54.6%) | $4,581 | $165,178,000 |
| 3 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel | $16,300,000 (-53.7%) | $4,477 | $178,184,000 |
| 4 | Daybreakers | $15,000,000 | $5,945 | $15,000,000 |
| 5 | It’s Complicated | $11,007,000 (-41.5%) | $3,725 | $76,370,000 |
| 6 | Leap Year | $9,165,000 | $3,650 | $9,165,000 |
| 7 | The Blind Side | $7,750,000 (-34.9%) | $2,691 | $219,197,000 |
| 8 | Up in the Air | $7,100,000 (-33.8%) | $3,201 | $54,700,000 |
| 9 | Youth in Revolt | $7,000,000 | $3,737 | $7,000,000 |
| 10 | The Princess and the Frog | $4,700,000 (-52.2%) | $1,794 | $92,600,000 |
[Chart via CHUD, reviews via RottenTomatoes]
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i saw sherlock holmes this weekend and it was a delightfull romp, and that one scene with the slo-mo explosion was bad ass, you’ll know which one once you see it
As long as that “one scene with the slo-mo explosion” doesn’t involve Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law naked then I’ll see it!
They should of called it The Truth About Cats and Logs. Right? Who’s with me???
What’s the punishment for women who propose on a day other other than Leap Year Day?
Being forced to watch this movie, I suppose.
I agree, bex. That scene was pretty cool. That said, I can’t wait to see it again on DVD so I can turn the fucking subtitles on. RDJ mumbling probabilities at a rapid fire rate in a London accent is bad enough. Doing it while he has a mouth full of marbles made it impossible.
Nothing says dead on arrival louder than finishing below Streep Throat.
your-rural-lifestyle-ruined-my-Blackberry “comedy”
I propose blackbemedy as the official term
I don’t have anything funny to add. I just really, really, really hate romantic comedies. Stop insulting my intelligence, Hollywood.
Also, Sherlock Holmes was awesome. And as a re-imagining of classic literature, it beats the pants off of that Pride & Prejudice & Zombies crap.
My favorite romantic comedy of the year is the one where Keanu Reeves shapeshifts.
And then has sex with me.
And then gives me money.
I can’t wait for this to come out on DVD on 2/29/10.
In the director’s cut the carpet matches the drapes.
whenever a girls asks me to go see a romantic comedy; and we have to because they see ‘my’ movies (read: good movies), I simply tell her to wait 2 weeks for it to be on DVD. 90% of the time, I’m not far off.