Mar 12 2007300 Wins the Weekend
"My opening is even bigger than your mom's, sucka."
This weekend, 300 took the top spot in the box office, bringing in an estimated $70 million and destroying its closest competitor, four past-their-prime actors playing four past-their-prime suburbanites in Wild Hogs. The massive earnings gives the epic the achievement of highest March opening ever, stealing the title from Ice Age 2: The Meltdown, which was apparently very popular, as well as becoming the third-highest opening for an R-rated film, just under The Matrix Reloaded and The Passion of the Christ. It also gained the honor, bestowed by the man behind me at the theater, of being "the most fucked up crazy ass shit" he'd ever seen. This award was given about fifteen times during the course of the movie.
Reader Comments
1. flacahoe - March 12, 2007 5:39 PM
The movie was badass.
Freakin' awesome quote. I heard a couple of 'oh shits', and I think I said it myself.
2. bizzle Finch - March 12, 2007 5:44 PM
Biggest March opening ever?
Sounds like it's ripe for a sequel. 301, maybe?
3. Ed - March 13, 2007 7:31 AM
As quoted from the hip young black men behind me during the film:
"Oh shit, they've got a goat! That plays the flute? That's fucked up, man!"
Actually everyone in the theater said Oh Shit pretty much the entire movie. I loved it.
4. Stark - March 13, 2007 9:46 AM
There were too many scenes that reminded me of Gladiator and LotR, and I still can't figure out why the bad guy from the Stargate movie was leading the Persians, but it was entertaining enough.
5. Praz - March 14, 2007 9:22 AM
I thought that the movie was entertaining, but all of my friends hated it. Either ways, it was cheesy and really over the top.
6. Kelsey - March 17, 2007 10:19 PM
wwhhaatt? really? i personally didn't like it.
'cept for the fighting scenes, of course.