So now it’s official. Avatar is the biggest film of all time, unless of course you’re accounting for inflation.
Because then it’s Gone With The Wind. But, hey, even when you account for inflation Avatar is still the 26th biggest movie of all time. The 26th biggest movie! That’s awesome, Avatar! Why, that makes you almost as good as… oh, Grease. Well, never mind. At least you’re beating Shrek 2. Just about.
Why are we telling you this? Because Avatar is still the number one movie at the weekend box office, and we’ve completely run out of things to say about it. You’d better hope that it’s not top of the weekend box office next week, because if it is we’re going to use this space to discuss our ingrown toenail in unnecessary detail.
Oh Avatar, what have you done? You’ve been number one at the weekend box office for so long that George Lucas has started to pay attention. Now it’s been announced that he wants to re-do all his old Star Wars films in digital 3D to cash-in on Avatar‘s success. Wonderful. This probably means that we’ll have to put up with new scenes of Chewbacca plugging his hair into Harrison Ford‘s bum or Alec Guinness having a fistfight with Michelle Rodriguez. In short – we hate you, Avatar.
Still, here’s the US weekend box office top five:
1 – Avatar (Of course, if Sex And The City 2 was to overtake Avatar as the biggest movie of all time this summer, George Lucas would probably feel the need to make a SATC-influenced edition of Star Wars as well. It’d be awesome – especially since half of the Sex And The City cast are already starting to look a bit like Yoda anyway) $30,000,000
2 – Edge Of Darkness (Where Mel Gibson takes revenge for the death of his daughter, probably by shouting drunken abuse at a synagogue for half an hour and then wandering off to go to the toilet. We haven’t seen it, but that would make the most sense) $17,120,000
3 – When In Rome (We always thought that the phrase was ‘When in Rome, do as the Romans do’. But apparently we were wrong. Apparently the phrase appropriated by Robert Burton in 1621 for his book The Anatomy Of Melancholy, based on advice given to St Augustine by bishop of Milan St Ambrose, in 387 AD, was ‘When in Rome, make a shitty, hopelessly contrived, by-the-numbers tenth-rate rom-com’. Who knew?) $12,065,000
4 – The Tooth Fairy (Because we honestly can’t think of any kind of pithy comment to go here, here’s an anagram of The Tooth Fairy – Hairy Heft Toot. Happy now?) $10,000,000
5 – The Book Of Eli (A film about a bible-quoting lunatic. You get the feeling that if this was remade today, Stephen Baldwin would probably play the lead. Which would make it about 50 times better than it currently is, obviously) $8,770,000
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Oils and soap says
wow…:)) at least on imdb is 41.
anyway i think it a great movie too… maybe the best i’ve ever seen:)