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Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen

ice_age3The July 4 weekend box office is always a big deal. It’s when America comes together and celebrates the birthday of noted French economist Gerard Debreu.

And what better way to commemorate the life of the man who so famously revealed that economies have a finite number of price equilibria than by crowning two movies as the weekend box office number one?

That’s right, Transformers Revenge Of The Fallen and Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs are both the number one movies at the US weekend box office. It’s all for you, Gerard Debreu.

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transformers-2Congratulations Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen – you’ve broken yourself a weekend box office record.

What record? Why, Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, you’ve broken the weekend box office record for the longest, noisiest film that’s about absolutely nothing at all. And the weekend box office record for having the most painfully racist-seeming characters this side of Jar-Jar Binks.

And, somewhat inexplicably, Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, you’ve broken the weekend box office record for the year’s biggest movie opening. Actually, wait, is that one true? It doesn’t seem like it should be. It is? Really? People are stupid.

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