Box Office Report - "Prepare for Glory!"

Top 5 movies in the nation are as follow:

300 - Finally, something that is great actually comes out on top over all the other shit that is currently being released at your local cineplex. And, it had quite the resounding opening weekend. Like the roar of King Leonidas, this adaptation of Frank Miller's seminal graphic novel opened up with $70 million over the weekend. Not "Spider-Man" numbers, but pretty freaking great for a movie that looked like it was going to be all about the visuals (which it is) but also manages to pack in a story that does not have an ounce of fat on it (did you see those Spartans . . . I need to go on their workout regimen).

Wild Hogs - This is what I was talking about earlier. Crap like this somehow manages to make money. Not that much in comparison to "300", but it still raked in a respectable $28 million which begs the question . . . what were your parents doing this weekend? That's the only rational explanation really. Old people suck at picking movies. I don't care if this had one funny joke. The $28 million this movie made could have been spent on something worthwhile . . . like getting those starving kids off of my late night television programming. God lord, someone donate already so I don't have to see those commercials anymore.

Bridge to Terabithia - This is a children's "Chronicles of Narnia" . . . which was a children's "Lord of the Rings" . . . so, how young were they marketing this too? It doesn't matter though. It made close to $7 million on it's 4th (what? fourth!) week out. I had no idea this was even out. Who cares.

Ghost Rider - This movie is still making money when it should be getting pelted with human feces. I mean, $100 million so far for a movie that is quite possibly worse than the original "Fantastic Four" (Corman edition)? What is this world coming to? Who still thinks that Nick Cage is anything other than a reanimated narcoleptic who yawns his way through his lines. I don't get you sometimes America. Despite the fact that this turd is making more money than it deserves, it does bode well for comic book movies out there currently in the production phases. I just hope that they don't stoop down to "Ghost Rider" level just because they can.

Zodiac - I kind of want to watch this movie, but not enough to have contributed to it's just over $6 1/2 million take at the box office this weekend. I like David Fincher movies, but this one just seems a little on the boring side. Maybe if he goes and makes another Chuck Pahlaniuk book into a movie I'll be there on opening day. Til then, I'm waiting until the DVD comes out.