"Lost?"Rambo lost to a joke.
The spoof Meet the Spartans edged the return of Sylvester Stallone's aggrieved vet in the singularly named Rambo for the top spot at the weekend box office, per studio estimates compiled Sunday by Exhibitor Relations.
Meet the Spartans grossed $18.7 million; Rambo, $18.2 million.
I don't get how movie-making became a competitive sport in the mind of the press. But more than that, someone made "Meet the Spartans?" Really? There were actual humans with money who said, "Let's hire a writer to do a 'spoof' film of a really popular film from this year, and we'll 'spoof' 300 by basing the 'spoof' on Meet the Fockers, because, well, that was a 'funny' film and will serve as a useful model for the 'spoof.'"
I didn't even know the film existed. But then:
1. Meet the Spartans, $18.7 million (never heard of it, will never see it)
2. Rambo, $18.2 million (heard about it, will never see it)
3. 27 Dresses, $13.6 million (kinda think I heard about it, will never see it)
4. Cloverfield, $12.7 million (heard about it, probably will never see it)
5. Untraceable, $11.2 million (heard about it, will never see it)
6. Juno, $10.3 million (never heard of it, don't know about seeing it)
7. The Bucket List, $10.278 million (heard of it, will never see it)
8. There Will Be Blood, $4.9 million (heard of it, waiting for it to come to Netflix)
9. National Treasure: Book of Secrets, $4.7 million (heard of it, waiting for Netflix)
10. Mad Money, $4.6 million (never heard of it, don't know about seeing it)
I'm guessing that's typical for me for most weeks: never heard of many of the movies and will never see most of them. Does that tell you anything about the state of story-telling in Hollywood?
Source: http://williamyoung.blogspot.com/2008/01/idiotic-analysis-posing-as-blog-post.html
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