Dec 1 2008'Four Christmases' Most Popular Respite from Conversation
This weekend, many of us headed to theaters with our families as a break from sitting around awkwardly watching television with our families, and trying to remember where our bed used to be before our bedrooms became mom's sewing room. Innumerable grandmas who hadn't been to the theater since last Thanksgiving weekend were again shuffled out of the house and into a darkened auditorium for two hours, where many slept.
Here's what movies they saw, along with the official one-sentence grandma review of each film:
1. Four Christmases - $31.7 million. "There were so many Christmases that I just couldn't keep track, but I liked how the children visited their parents."
2. Bolt - $26.6 million. "I don't know what that was all about."
3. Twilight - $26.4 million. (Wistful gazing out the window the whole drive home.)
4. Quantum of Solace - $19.5 million. "So loud."
5. Australia - $14.8 million. "That was very nice, but Australia will always be a nation of criminals."
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Reader Comments
1. see saw - December 1, 2008 12:59 PM
more proof that americans need a swift kick in the balls when in comes to movie selection.... (ladies included)
2. Dana - December 1, 2008 1:38 PM
I think you should describe all movies this way.
3. Elmo - December 1, 2008 3:07 PM
wtf wow people really do need a kick in the nads
4. Altaire - December 1, 2008 3:09 PM
ok. now I think you're a genius too. (not just the Geekologie Writer).
That was very funny.
5. jimbob - December 1, 2008 3:37 PM
Has Reese Witherspoon always been a primordial dwarf?
6. Daniel - December 1, 2008 4:00 PM
Yeah, I like the senior descriptions too
7. drrhg - December 2, 2008 1:18 AM
But someone said he is searching someone on the famous rich men seeking passion site !!!.sugarm ing le . c o m. there are some of his hot pictures..
joke or not?
8. Random - December 2, 2008 6:21 AM
WTF?! What's up with Reese's head in that picture? It's HUGE!
9. SlowMonkey - December 2, 2008 7:09 AM
That was a more generous description of Twilight than I could ever have imagined anyone giving. Must be close to Christmas.