One of the best ways to get to the top of the weekend box office is to make a film people can connect with – after all, don’t we all know someone who’s been stabbed through the eye with a pencil by a green-haired sociopath?
Similarly, Lakeview Terrace has managed to become the number one movie at the US weekend box office by provoking a number of universal fears in its audience like, for instance, what if the sanctuary of your own home can never provide the shelter you assumed it would? What if you had the power to get help taken away from you? What if you moved in next door to Samuel L Jackson and he turned out to be a bit of a tool?
Those are just some of the questions that Lakeview Terrace poses, and that’s possibly why it’s doing so well at the weekend box office. Us? We’re just looking forward to the sequel where Samuel L Jackson thinks that playing Leona Lewis songs at full volume all day is a perfectly acceptable thing to do. Because that’s quite annoying, actually.
Lakeview Terrace didn’t reach the top of the weekend box office because it’s a movie about annoying neighbours, you know. No, there’s also the race issue to contend with. Finally, Lakeview Terrace is a movie that gives the rich white man a voice for once. And not a moment too soon because, as you’ll all be aware, it’s difficult to scrape by in a world where wealthy Caucasian males have such a small slice of the pie to share between them.
Also, it should be noted that Lakeview Terrace shouldn’t be confused with Lakeland Terrace. That’s a film where a newly-married couple move into a house and Samuel L Jackson comes round with a variety of kitchen and bathroom-based inventions that he bought from the local Lakeland and everyone is so overjoyed by the high quality of the time-saving devices that they all live in harmony forever. It’s a better film. Here’s the US weekend box office top five…
1 - Lakeview Terrace (We’re not going to see Lakeview Terrace, obviously – if you ask us, Neil LaBute has really sold out now he’s no longer utilising the ‘Dress Nicolas Cage up as a bear and make him punch a woman in the mouth’ motif in his movies. Shame on him) $15,600,000
2 – Burn After Reading (That’s the name of the movie. Don’t actually burn this after reading it. It’s on a computer. You’ll only end up looking like a tit) $11,295,000
3 – My Best Friend’s Girl (The movie that Dane Cook publicly raged against because of the Photoshopping in the poster. Unlike everyone else, who raged against it because it’s a Dane Cook movie) $8,300,000
4 - Igor (The movie that answers the question ‘what if Igor was capable of creating his own inventions? And sounded offputtingly like John Cusack? And looked like he was made by smacking some plasticine with a massive hammer?’) $8,101,000
5 - Righteous Kill (A movie we’ll never see because, if the trailer is an accurate representation, Al Pacino‘s eyes are so self-consciously droopy in it that we’ll end up trying to put our head through a spike while shouting “Al Pacino’s lazy eyes! Al Pacinco’s lazy eyes!” Also, because it looks crappy) $7,700,000
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