by Stuart Heritage
In January, people like to go and see uplifting films that help them escape the wintery gloom that surrounds them. Or films about Jack Nicholson dying, one or the other.
Because that’s what The Bucket List is about, and The Bucket List is currently the top movie at weekend box office. It’s not difficult to see why The Bucket List did well at the US weekend box office – it’s basically a remake of Cocoon, but one where all the old people die at the end instead of getting zapped up by aliens.
And, really, who can honestly say they they weren’t a little disappointed when all the old people didn’t die at the end of Cocoon.
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by Stuart Heritage
National Treasure: Book Of Secrets has now been the top movie at the weekend box office for three weeks, which is remarkable because nobody seems to have a clue what the bloody thing’s about.
But still, National Treasure: Book Of Secrets must have something going for it, otherwise it wouldn’t be so flipping popular at the US weekend box office. Maybe National Treasure: Book Of Secrets has done such good business at the weekend box office because it is a masterpiece, or maybe it answers a number of profoundly upsetting questions that the cinema-going public may have had for some time now.Or perhaps – just perhaps – National Treasure: Book Of Secrets is number one at the weekend box office because the main competition this week comes from a shitty horror film about a spooky telephone.
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