If there are two things guaranteed to get audiences revved up, it’s Robert Pattinson and that nutty girl from Lost.
Remember Me has both. And yet Remember Me has crapped the bed at the weekend box office this week. Alice In Wonderland is still firmly the number one weekend box office movie, with Matt Damon Iraq thriller Green Zone easing itself in at number two. But Remember Me could only manage the lowly fourth place position. Why?
Easy – unless he’s playing a sparkly vampire, nobody cares that much about Robert Pattinson. And, unless she’s hauling about a baby made of an animal skull and a couple of buttons for eyes, nobody cares that much about the nutty girl from Lost. There’s a lesson there – rebrand the movie as Remember My Glittery Torso, Nightmarish Animal Skull Baby in time for the DVD release and you’ll have a hit on your hands.
Alice In Wonderland is still the number one movie at the weekend box office and, if our experiences are anything to go by, it’ll be there for a while. We’ve tried to go and see Alice In Wonderland twice now, in two different cinemas, and both screenings have been sold out. That didn’t even happen with Avatar. Does that mean that Alice In Wonderland has the potential to overtake Avatar as the biggest movie of all time?
Probably not. But that’s just as well. We haven’t got the energy to keep referencing Alice In Wonderland as laboriously as we’ve done with Avatar in everything we write. Plus, the Oscars only happened about a week ago, so by the time that Ben Stiller decides to read out some nominations dressed up as the Mad Hatter, it’ll look even more embarrassing than usual. Still, here are the US weekend box office highlights…
1 - Alice In Wonderland (Of course, if Alice In Wonderland does go on to become the biggest movie ever, maybe Tim Burton will take James Cameron‘s lead and turn it into a book. A book based on Alice In Wonderland! What a crazy idea!) $62,000,000
2 - Green Zone (Cool, it’s got Matt Damon in it, so maybe it’ll be exciting like The Bourne Identity! But, oh no, it’s got Matt Damon in it, so maybe it’ll be tedious and over-long and worthy and without any real plot to speak of like Syriana!) $14,535,000
3 - She’s Out Of My League (A film about a girl who’s out of a man’s league. Or bloody something. Oh, we don’t know) $9,600,000
4 - Remember Me (With every passing underwhelming movie that Robert Pattinson makes, the chances of him only ever making Twilight derivatives for the rest of his life grow a little bit bigger. So, based on Remember Me, you should probably book your tickets for 2048′s megahit Earlybird Special: Vampire Pensioners Go For Dinner now) $8,300,000
6 - Our Family Wedding (A film where Oscar-winning actor Forest Whitaker gets molested by a horny goat. We cannot for the life of us understand why this only got to number six in the weekend box box office) $7,600,000
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I went to the cinema last week and saw this movie in 3D, it’s great! It reminded me about Avatar, but the difference is that this one actually has a plot, not only extraordinary special effects. The enindg though was a little bit off, but all in all I really enjoyed it. Not to mention how good Johnny depp was!
I saw the movie with an open mind and disregarded those critics that were negative about it. The movie got good reviews from some of the more respected critics, like USA today and Roger Ebert, to name a few. Anyway, the movie was brilliant and my take on it was that it was a beautiful love story and a very touching tribute to the events of the day, a reminder that sometimes we get lost in numbers and forget that each and every individual that was taken that day had their own personal story. Robert’s acting was amazing as was the other cast members. From those that have seen it such as myself there is about an 80% or higher approval rating. If you haven’t seen it yet GO.