Ah, Oscar night. The night when Hollywood celebrates the very best in modern moviemaking, while everyone else goes out and watches an example of fairly dire moviemaking.
Which is to say that Vantage Point is the top movie at the US weekend box office this week.
Not that Vantage Point had much competition, of course – on Oscar weekend most people are far too busy to go and see a movie, preferring to either speculate on the results of the Oscars or have lengthy discussions about the various Oscar gowns on show or hide in their garden, literally bury their head in a compost heap and scream "If I hear one more thing about sodding No Country For Old Men, I'll kill myself! I will, I'll actually kill myself!"
Vantage Point seems to have been trailed for about six or seven years up to this point. It hasn't succeeded in making the film look any good, but it has succeeded in making it look familiar enough for people to make it the weekend box office number one.
But what's Vantage Point about? Well, an important man gets shot and an intelligence agency uses all its sources to catch him and it's all told in a clever gimmicky way. But Vantage Point isn't like 24. It really isn't. Whatever you think, remember that Vantage Point absolutely isn't anything like 24. Here's this weekend's US weekend box office top five…
1 - Vantage Point (OK, we were lying. Vantage Point is exactly like 24) $24,000,000
2 - Jumper (Of course, if Hayden Christensen really did have the ability to jump through time, he'd have been able to do a lightning fast tour of Jumper screenings around the world and witness people saying "He's not a very good actor, is he?" in 13 or 14 different languages) $12,650,000
3 - The Spiderwick Chronicles (We're still determined not to bother researching what The Spiderwick Chronicles is actually about. We'd like to think that it's about one man's dream to make a giant candle and use Tobey Maguire as the wick to punish him for Spider-Man 3. We have a feeling the truth would only let us down) $12,600,000
4 - Step Up 2 The Streets (Being in the weekend box office for a fortnight hasn't made this movie look any better, but it's still doing better than Larry The Cable Guy's Witless Protection, which could only open at number 13. Larry The Cable Guy has clearly just worked out that sophisticated wordplay doesn't go down well with his target audience, something he'll remedy in next year's Larry The Cable Guy's I Farted And It Stinks) $9,787,000
5 - Fool's Gold (Again, Fool's Gold managed to do better at the weekend box office than Be Kind Rewind, which could only open at number seven despite being very good indeed. If Be Kind Rewind 2 ever gets released, though, don't expect to see a Sweded version of Fool's Gold, because there honestly isn't a way to make this film look worse for comic effect) $6,270,000
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