Quentin Tarantino recently chose his top 20 movies of 2010, led by Toy Story 3. Excluding the ones I still haven’t seen, all of his choices made at least my honorable mentions list, with the exceptions of Robin Hood and Knight and Day. Seriously, Q, Robin Hood? He must have let the Coke Wizard choose that one.  (That’s the magical wizard behind Tarantino in the picture who shows up when Quentin does too much blow).  I don’t have one of those, but there is a leprechaun who bruises me up and pees in my bed when I drink too much. I’ll get you one day, Shameus O’Reardon.

1. Toy Story 3
2. The Social Network
3. Animal Kingdom
4. I Am Love
5. Tangled
6. True Grit
7. The Town
8. Greenberg
9. Cyrus
10. Enter The Void (“Hands down best credit scene of the year … Maybe best credit scene of the decade. One of the greatest in cinema history.”)

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Unfortunately this came from Tumblr, and people on Tumblr aren’t very good at crediting their sources so I don’t have much information about it.  Is it real?  Is it Photoshopped?  Um… I don’t know.  All I know is the kid really looks like the Toy Story kid.  It seems like something someone could do fairly easily in Photoshop, but my knowledge of Photoshop is mainly limited to adding cats and putting Vince Vaughn eating an ice cream cone into the background (he’s everywhere!).  Anyway, fun picture.  But still not nearly as cute as the real-life kid from Up.  I would kidnap the sh*t out of that kid.  What?  I mean I would use him for pickin’ up chicks.  No, you’re weird.

[Thanks to RoboPanda for the tip]

It seems Fox’s brilliant viral campaign featuring Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise doing candid things was a failure, as Knight and Day landed a distant third at the box office.  I was about to take Schadenfreude Sloth out for a walk, but Kevin James farted on his head and hit him in the groin with a football.  Grown Ups earned $41 million, doubling Knight and Day‘s $20.5 million take and landing it in second behind Toy Story 3 ($59 million), thereby proving that audiences will literally pay for Adam Sandler to take a sh*t on their face.  The only thing he’s not allowed to do is make fun of himself or anything thoughtful (sorry, Funny People). Sorry, Adam Sandler, you must play the lovable every man from now until the end of time.  You are the Will Smith of comedy.  Speaking of which…

Karate Kid landed in fourth.  Not a bad showing, but probably not the smash hit people predicted after the big opening weekend.  So don’t start wearing sneakers with pictures of yourself on them just yet, Jaden Smith.  What’s that?  Aw, crap.

The two biggest losers of the weekend were Jonah Hex, which fell 70% from last weekend, earning $1.6 million this weekend and still short of the $10 million mark, cumulatively; and Killers, which earned $2 million and fell 60% from last weekend.  I still maintain that Jonah Hex was a glorious, glorious trainwreck.  Meanwhile, if life was fair, the people who financed Killers would be less popular than the CEO of BP right now.  Sure, one indirectly contributed to an ecological catastrophe, but at least that was an accident.  The Killers people not only put Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl into a movie together… they did it on purpose.

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(*plays vuvuzela with butt*)

Queer ye, queer ye, Episode 2 of the great experiment known as the FilmDrunk Frotcast is now online.  You can stream or download below after the jump (I put it there to make it easier to track the number of listens, but I guess you don’t really need to know that).

Brendan and Ben return, along with new guest Bret.  Topics include the awesome trainwreck that is Jonah Hex, Armond White’s bad review of Toy Story 3, Iron Maiden concerts, the benefits of living alone, Green Hornet,  general jackassery, and assorted poop jokes.  Enjoy.   UPDATE: Sorry for the initial difficulties, everything should be working now.

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Only a few weeks ago, we were talking about a box-office slump and Hollywood’s worst Memorial Day Weekend in 17 years.  Turns out all it takes is a 3D Pixar movie to reverse that trend, as Toy Story 3 carried the cumulative box office to its highest third weekend in June ever, up 29% over the same weekend last year. (Full top 10 after the jump).

Toy Story 3 grossed an estimated $109, the highest-grossing weekend of a Pixar picture yet (aided by premium 3D pricing, of course), followed by Karate Kid, A-Team, and Get Him to the Greek, all of which fell less than 50% from the previous weekend.  Pretty much every film did well this weekend.  Oh, except for Jonah Hex, which managed to earn less in its opening weekend than Killers did in its third.  Yep, that’s the Ashton Kutcher-Katherine Heigl joint that didn’t screen for critics.  Turns out, movie fans may be stupid, but not so stupid that you can stick a hastily-cobbled together, 72-minute comic-book hack job up against Pixar and expect it to make money.  Hey, where are all those semi-annual “Critics Don’t Matter” articles now?  People heard it sucked and they stayed away.  THAT’S RIGHT, PRETTY BOY, CRITICS ARE IMPORTANT TOO! WOOHOO!

(*high fives cat, puts Ace bandage on wrist, puffs inhaler*)

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