(NewsCore) - "Real Steel" topped the US weekend box office, according to early estimates from Hollywood.com. Touchstone Pictures' sci-fi action film about robot boxers, which stars Hugh Jackman, earned $27.3 million in its opening weekend. "The Ides of March" (Columbia Pictures), a political thriller directed by and starring George Clooney, trailed with $10.4 million.
I honestly don't have much to add to this, I've just been sitting here staring at that paragraph for about 10 minutes in utter shock.
Real Steel? The Rock-Em-Sock-Em Robots ripoff, a cross between Iron Man and The Fighter, won the box office this past weekend. I think it's time we officially just stopped making movies as a country. Just shut down the movie studios for a few years, deport Michael Bay, and let some decent scripts pile up and start from scratch. How can an American ever expect to win an argument on IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes ever again? Every message board argument will end the same way, "pfft, what do you know, you're from a country where Real Steel led the box office for a weekend." There's no defense to that.
Real Steel? The Rock-Em-Sock-Em Robots ripoff, a cross between Iron Man and The Fighter, won the box office this past weekend. I think it's time we officially just stopped making movies as a country. Just shut down the movie studios for a few years, deport Michael Bay, and let some decent scripts pile up and start from scratch. How can an American ever expect to win an argument on IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes ever again? Every message board argument will end the same way, "pfft, what do you know, you're from a country where Real Steel led the box office for a weekend." There's no defense to that.
And it's not even like you can point to some under appreciated movie just opening small. I mean, The Ides of March starring George Clooney? George, I would've seen this if you didn't keep making the same damn movie over and over again. We get it, you're into intelligent, sophisticated politically active movies now, for the love of god, please play a different character next time.
What's next, A Dolphin Tale? The story of how a once proud Morgan Freeman is apparently so desperate for money that he'll take any Disney like movie about loveable aquatic animals and sell himself out for it?
