Watchmen — love it or hate it, you at least have to admit it had balls — dropped 67% from last weekend to this weekend, landing in second place behind The Race to Witch Mountain.  67% isn’t the worst drop in history, but the fact that it lost the weekend to a remake starring The Rock, while Jim-Belushi-vehicle-that-never-was Paul Blart Mall Cop still comfortable cracked the top 10… it doesn’t bode well for the types of movies that will get greenlit.  I don’t understand it, I thought Watchmen was pretty good.  Heck, even At the Movies hosts Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz had great things to say about it. See their review after the jump.

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Opening this week:

• Miss March
  A paint-by-numbers teen comedy, EXCEPT that it stars The Whitest Kids You Know.  Could be funny.  Regardless, that “I’m a F-ck a White Bitch” song is irresistibly catchy.
• Last House on the Left
  Oh joy, a horror remake.  These are, like, always good. You know when you put “based on a true story” in a horror movie trailer, you’re basically skull f-cking the English language, right? My bad, I was thinking of the Haunting in Connecticut ads.
  
• Race to Witch Mountain
  If you’re seeing this, it’s probably a ploy to get your dumb wiener kids to shut up for two hours. In which case, I feel your pain.  And by that I mean, sucks to be you.
• The Edge of Love
  Had to post the trailer after the jump as this one’s slipped completely under my radar.  Nonetheless, Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller in a period piece?  Why, you’d need an army to keep me out of that theater!
• Sunshine Cleaning (trailer also after the jump)
  Amy Adams and Emily Blunt get into the cleaning-up-crime scenes business.  This might be my pick for the week.  I used to think Emily Blunt was hot until I saw this picture.  *douche chills*

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Dwayne The Rock Johnson stars in Race to Witch Mountain, a sort of sequel to the 1975 movie Escape to Witch Mountain.  From the looks of it, The Rock and Brendan Fraser have the same agent.  Also, I think a really funny joke would have been:

“Take us to Witch Mountain!”
“Which mountain?”
“Yeah, Witch Mountain!”
“That’s what I’m trying to find out!”
“Witch Mountain, I want you to take us there!”
“How can I take you there if I don’t know which mountain it is?”

And then more of that for two hours.

[via Orlando Sentinel]