The Dark Knight had better watch out – come Oscar time the whole world’s going to be in a randy froth about Burn After Reading.
No wonder Burn After Reading is top of the weekend box office today – just look at the pedigree. An Oscar-winning actor, an Oscar-winning actress and the world’s biggest celebrity starring in a movie by the most recent winners of the Best Director and Best Picture Oscars. In fact, never mind the weekend box office – Burn After Reading should be gold-plated and put on God’s mantlepiece forever.
It probably won’t be, because in fact Burn After Reading looks like the sort of self-consciously wacky nonsense that’d go straight to DVD if the Coen Brothers didn’t direct it. But, hey, you can’t argue with a number one spot at the US weekend box office – that’s the Bangkok Dangerous spot, after all.
We’ve always thought of the Coen Brothers as the Box Of Chocolates Described By Forrest Gump’s Mother Of Movie Directors (or BOCDBFGMOMD for short). Basically, you never know what you’re going to get with them. No Country For Old Men won every single award going, but their film before it was The Ladykillers – a movie that could only have been worse if they’d let The Cheeky Girls do the soundtrack.
But Burn After Reading, the follow-up to No Country For Old Men, is the number one movie at this week’s weekend box office, so it must be equally as good as Meet The Spartans. And, apparently it is. Equally as good as Meet The Spartans. Hooray for the Coen Brothers. Here’s this week’s weekend box office top five…
1 – Burn After Reading (Want to know why so many people have gone to see Burn After Reading? It’s because it’s officially the only time that people can drool over Brad Pitt and George Clooney for ab hour and a half without them either droning on about Darfur or bitching about the paparazzi. Score!) $19,404,000
2 – Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys (We don’t know what this movie’s about, but we’re guessing it’s about a family of black people who reunite before having deep heartfelt tragicomic conversations about themselves in a gushy self-help style that nobody can really say they enjoy. We’ll just watch the trailer to see how right we were… ach, close enough) $18,020,000
3 – Righteous Kill (Remember when a movie starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino would have been exciting rather than third at the weekend box office tedious? No, us neither. We’re only young) $16,500,000
4 – The Women (A film about some women. That’s literally everything you need to know) $10,088,000
5 – The House Bunny (Know what this means? It means that The House Bunny is more popular than The Dark Knight. Eat that, The Dark Knight. Obviously, the superiority of The House Bunny over The Dark Knight won’t be made official until it’s made another $475,000,000 and caught up financially, but that’s only going to be a matter of days away) $4,300,000
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