Jan 12 2009Angry, Old, Threatening Man Drama Somehow More Popular Than Miserable Comedy
The weekend box office totals, for your logbook:
1. Gran Torino - $29 million. That doesn't make any sense. So many people must have left the theater pissed that Gran Torino wasn't the one with feuding brides.
2. Bride Wars - $21.5 million. Is lady-quarreling losing its appeal?
3. The Unborn - $21.1 million. For a sequel, how about The Everborn? Some kind of disgusting freak that's perpetually being birthed. No?
4. Marley & Me - $11.4 million. Spoiler alert: the "me" in Marley & Me is all of us. Everyone loves Marley.
5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - $9.5 million, keeping the hope alive that this could still gross more than Bedtime Stories.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Reader Comments
1. sully - January 12, 2009 2:14 PM
you'd think Clint Eastwood would be less pissed after seeing how much money his movie made... but no, he can't stop thinking about all those punk gangstas messing with his mailbox. I bet he was thinking about fake shooting them with his fingers right when that picture was taken.
2. Aerialgreen - January 12, 2009 2:29 PM
Something in the Metamucil ain't clean... still, it's a good movie and worth the ticket.
3. Elmo - January 12, 2009 3:15 PM
You know what? I would love to see that scary, mean old fart play a kind, gentle old fart in a Disney movie about dogs.
4. dirty larry - January 12, 2009 5:38 PM
best fucking movie of the year you punks....
5. Shimshoe - January 12, 2009 6:02 PM
Gran Torino was actually such a good movie..........and funnier than the current comedies in theatres now such as bride wars