The Brave One Goes Crazy And Murders Weekend Box Office

Like most people, every day of our lives that Jodie Foster didn't make a violent movie about about a vigilante murderer felt like a kick in the nuts, but The Brave One has sorted all that out.

Clearly we're not the only ones who were eager to see Jodie Foster kissing that bloke from Lost then someone murdering that bloke from Lost and then Jodie Foster going mental and murdering everyone, because The Brave One is the top movie at the US weekend box office. But what does The Brave One topping the weekend box office tell us about the state of the world today? We'd suggest that The Brave One's success reflects the world's angry, paranoid state of mind and its unwillingness to trust authority. Or maybe The Brave One is just top of the box office because nobody wanted to see that fuckawful-looking dragon film. Who can really say?

Between Panic Room and Flightplan, it looked for a while as if the only movies Jodie Foster would ever make were about protective mothers trapped in increasingly unlikely situations - a panic room, an aeroplane, the freezer aisle of Sainsbury's, up a chimney, in a giant shoe made out of frogs, that kind of thing - but now The Brave One has proved that there's more to Jodie Foster than acting like a mother who turns to violence; she can also play fiances who turn to violence, too. Let's hope The Brave One doesn't stir up as much controversy as Flightplan, though - the last thing anyone needs is for violent muggers to start complaining that Jodie Foster has shown them in a bad light. Here's the US weekend box office top five… 

1 - The Brave One (First Kevin Bacon makes a revenge thriller and now Jodie Foster makes a revenge thriller. Who'll be the next early 1990s actor to make a revenge thriller? By Moses we hope it's Billy Crystal) $14,015,000

2 - 3:10 To Yuma (Not just a movie about a train - 3:10 To Yuma is the most successful film about a train ever not to star Alec Baldwin as the jolly fat man who tells the train when to choo-choo away. Unless Alec Baldwin does that in this film. It's not like we've seen it or anything) $9,150,000

3 - Mr Woodcock (The film that asks the question 'what would you do if your mother was getting married to your PE teacher?' and then answers it with 'make a painfully middling film about it starring the slightly less annoying one from Dude Where's My Car') $9,100,000

4 - Dragon Wars (Judging by the trailer - the advert that's supposed to make the film look as good as possible - Dragon Wars was made by an ADD three-year-old learning to use Microsoft Paint while blindfolded) $5,376,000

5 - Superbad (Finally out in the UK, which means that at last we can make "McLovin" the new "Wazzzzzap!" too!) $5,200,000

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