Funny People Rib-Tickles The Weekend Box Office
Funny People is the top movie at the weekend box office this week, and it’s not difficult to see why.
No, not because of Adam Sandler. Or Seth Rogen. Or Judd Apatow. No, Funny People is number one at the weekend box office because there’s nothing that people love more than ridiculously long films that don’t really seem to go anywhere and aren’t quite as funny as anyone expected.
But still, Funny People’s US weekend box office success proves that you don’t need flashy CGI characters to be popular – just Adam Sandler being slightly less unbearable than he usually is.
Funny People is 146 minutes long. For comparison’s sake, that’s seven minutes shorter than Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince. And, really, they’re similar movies – in its duration, Harry Potter managed to fit in the destruction of London by monsters, several burning buildings, an army of monsters attacking a wizard who kills them all with a tornado made of fire and the death of a major character. Meanwhile Funny People takes roughly the same time to show a major character thinking he might die but then not dying. See? They’re almost identical. Here’s the US weekend box office top five…
1 – Funny People (Maybe Funny People topped the weekend box office because it’s called Funny People and there are some funny people in it. It’s just very clear marketing. Other films should try this – that way The Proposal would be called Generic Sandra Bullock Vehicle #14 and Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen would be called Racist-Seeming Robots Punching Each Other) $23,440,000
2 - Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince (We’re glad that Voldemort wasn’t in this film very much – given Michael Jackson’s recent death, the release of a movie about a ghoulish pale monster with a missing nose wouldn’t have been particularly tasteful) $17,700,000
3 – G-Force (Disney really missed a trick here – a film about violent guinea pigs called G-Force? That’s good, but a film about violent guinea pigs who guff a lot called G-Farts? That’s gold. You hear us? Gold) $17,058,000
4 - The Ugly Truth (For a woman who constantly complains about every role she’s given, Katherine Heigl makes some pretty lousy films, doesn’t she? No joke here, just an observation) $13,000,000
5 - Aliens In The Attic (We have a feeling that Aliens In The Attic was pitched to Fox as ‘The X-Files meets daytime BBC One antique-based gameshow Cash In The Attic’. We’re disappointed – especially since we’ve spent the last four years of our life writing a script that’s essentially Battlestar Galactica meets Dickinson’s Real Deal) $7,800,000
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A film about violent guinea pigs who have sadly become involved with prostitution?
G-Whores.
Katherine Heigl doesn’t complain about any of the films she had made. That is just the media being very malicious about some of her comments. People talk about Knocked Up but they quote her out of context and not in full either. They also forgot to mention all the times she says how much she liked the movie and that it was the best filming experience of her career. Tired of people bashing her because she a woman with an opinion and making her sound like some kind of diva or ingrate. Nothing could be further from the truth.