Feb 16 2009Your Valentine's Weekend Movie Favorites
After spending nearly $35 at Olive Garden, you still managed to see these movies this weekend:
1. Friday the 13th - $42.2 million, because murder makes for a great Valentine's date movie.
2. He's Just Not That Into You - $19.6 million, because male disinterest also makes for a great Valentine's date movie.
3. Taken - $19.3 million, because paternal vengeance makes for a great Valentine's date movie too.
4. Confessions of a Shopaholic - $15.4 million, because, in case you didn't know, the confessions of a shopaholic make for a great Valentine's date movie.
5. Coraline - $15.3 million, because stop-motion animation involving buttons replacing eyeballss--you guessed it--great for a V-Day date.
Not particularly good for a Valentine's date? International bank conspiracy.
Reader Comments
1. asian - February 16, 2009 6:05 PM
loved coraline
first
2. jaime - February 16, 2009 9:02 PM
number 6, paul blart mall cop... cause even after 5 weeks on screen that non-funny idiot...
wait for it
wait for it
makes for a great valentine's date...
3. Mr. Jones - February 17, 2009 7:21 AM
I'm not trying to be funny here - I seriously can't understand why people watch this crap, much less pay $12 for it ($24 for a date).
Chick flicks I can sort of understand, since they are emotional porn for females. But WTF with the endless Friday the 13th iterations?
4. wintermoviessuck - February 17, 2009 12:13 PM
I went with the wife to see He's Not that Into You.
Male disinterest? We have Scarlett Johansen, Jenifer Aniston, and Jennifer Connelley all onscreen. How am I not interested?
5. Jake Ryan 2012 - February 17, 2009 2:13 PM
Am I the only one that thinks box office ticket sales is a more interesting metric than box office dollars? Movie tickets continue to rise and the data is skewed even if you compare numbers to just last year. Let's see how many tickets Jason Vorhees sold!