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Sorry, English Teachers, Comics Are Still More Exciting Than F Scott Fitzgerald

Our box office results, from Box Office Mojo.

1. Iron Man 3 – $72,472,000
When given the choice of self obsessed, drunken playboys, the one that can fight a small army with with robot suit is always going to win.

2. The Great Gatsby – $51,115,000
Damn it, you said adding rap to classic literature would help us beat the comic movies! What happened?

3. Pain and Gain – $5,000,000
“Wait, both Iron Man and The Great Gatsby are sold out? Well, I’m gonna watch something tonight.”

4. Tyler Perry Presents Peeples – $4,850,000
People continue to see Tyler Perry movies. For reasons.

5. 42 – $4,650,000
Still? I realize the top five is pretty much a top two this week, but still, 42 is still on the list?

Iron Man 3 Succeeds, Despite That One Guy At Work’s Claim That “America’s Pretty Much Over Comic Movies”

Our Box Office Results, from Box Office Mojo

1. Iron Man 3 – $175,300,000
Despite your way too full of himself coworker’s dire predictions, apparently that super hero bubble hasn’t popped yet, with Iron Man 3 getting the second biggest opening weekend of all time, right behind another comic book movie. Still looking pretty good.

2. Pain and Gain – $7,600,000
Shit, Iron Man 3′s sold out? I guess we’ll go see that thing with The Rock.

3. 42 – $6,210,000
Look at all these sheep going to see Iron Man 3. You’d never catch me in a theater for a movie on opening weekend. I like to give the masses time to clear out. Case in point, it’s been about seventy years, so I think I’m probably safe learning about this Jackie Robinson character without having to deal with the unwashed masses.

4. Oblivion – $5,797,000
I hope Tom Cruise gets to see another Superbowl. He seems really interested in that.

5. The Croods – $4,225,000
How are you still in the top five? What sort of person is thinking “Let’s go see that Caveman movie!” at this point?

Body Builders Committing Crimes Is Still Slightly More Interesting Than Any Other Option This Weekend

Our Box Office Results, from Box Office Mojo.

1. Pain and Gain – $20,000,000
“Only twenty million dollars? Why didn’t I have a scene where two robots kneed each other in the balls?”

2. Oblivion – $17,443,000
Tom Cruise continues to… something.

3. 42 – $10,725,000
At this point it’s just a bunch of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fans, powerless to avoid anything related to 42.

4. The Big Wedding – $7,500,000
Showing a decent first week based almost entirely on the “Oh, I’ll go see anything with that one guy in it” people. Just jam enough “that one guys” in your movie and you’re set.

5. The Croods – $6,600,000
“I took my kids to see The Croods for the sixth time this week. When’s anything else animated being released?”

The Producers of Jack Reacher Really Wish they Put Jack Reacher in the Future Right Now

Our box office results, from Box Office Mojo.

1. Oblivion – $38,152,000
Turns out Jack Reachers in the future are way more appealing than Jack Reachers of the boring old present.

2. 42 – $18,025,000
How much more can we learn about Jackie Robinson? He played baseball well, some people were unhappy about it because they were assholes. How many times do we need the story retold?

3. The Croods – $9,500,000
Of course it’s getting a sequel. It’s an animated movie, we can’t just not run it into the ground.

4. Scary Movie 5 – $6,296,000
Who is watching this? Why are you doing that?

5. G.I. Joe: Retaliation – $5,775,000
A couple more folks try to kill time until “The Rock Drives Things” with “The Rock Shoots Things.” Almost there, guys.

Jackie Robinson Just Re-Fixed Racism

Our box office results, from Box Office Mojo.

1. 42 – $27,250,000
Sure, fixing racism by being able to hit a baseball well was impressive, but only once that baseball hitting becomes a movie that reaches number one in the box office has racism been defeated forever.

2. Scary Movie 5 – $15,153,000
Enjoy it while it lasts, scary movie, by next weekend all your jokes will be wildly out of date.

3. The Croods – $13,200,000
This’ll hold the kids over until the Monsters thing, right?

4. G.I. Joe: Retaliation – $10,800,000
Um, excuse me, but it’s supposed to be “Real American Heroes!”
Alright, I’m sick of hearing this complaint. Murder all the non-Americans.
Whoa that’s not what… alright, I guess.

5. Evil Dead – $9,500,000
Dropping four spots as people realized they can get pretty much the same experience, but with Snoop Lion (nee’ Dogg) getting high in the cabin. Obviously that’s the better choice.

Now You Don’t Get to Complain the Next Time a Remake is Greenlit

Our weekend box office results, from Box Office Mojo.

1. Evil Dead – $26,000,000
The new rule is that every time a remake makes it to number one in the box office, you are not allowed to complain about the next remake that is announced. “Why do they keep making them?” Cause you idiots keep paying for them.

3. G.I. Joe: Retaliation – $21,100,000
For that kid that had his GI Joe toys make snarky remarks about cholesterol levels mid-fight. Finally his dream has been made real.

2. The Croods – $21,100,000
Ghost Rider, Gwen Stacy and Deadpool all in one movie? Of course I’m gonna see tha-Oh, it’s a cartoon about Cave Men.

4. Jurassic Park 3D – $18,247,000
A couple million people fall for the old “But what if it looked like the velociraptors were coming right out of the screen?” trick.

5. Olympus Has Fallen – $10,042,000
Who trusts two face as president? He couldn’t even handle being a district attorney without going crazy.

Move Over Flintstones, America Loves a New Caveman Family

Our box office results, from Box Office Mojo

1. The Croods – $44,700,000
Sorry Fred and Wilma. People used to love you, but now we’re all about slightly more accurate caveman families. Not a lot more accurate, but, you know.

2. Olympus Has Fallen – $30,500,000
America! Everyone who’s not American might as well be a terrorist.

3. Oz The Great and Powerful – $22,031,000
Another few million people decide to see what other hallucinations Dorothy had.

4. The Call – $8,700,000
Exciting phone talking action!

5. Admission – $6,446,000
Tina Fey and Paul Rudd somehow weren’t as adorable as a family of cavemen. Impossible to believe, I know.

James Franco and Angry Monkeys Continue to Be a Powerful Draw

1. Oz The Great and Powerful – $42,222,000
Adding wings to the monkeys apparently in no way alters people’s love for them and James Franco.

2. The Call – $17,100,000
Halle Berry spends a lot of time talking on the phone.

3. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone – $10,305,000
America’s ambivalence towards magician movies probably doesn’t bode well for the magician action movie.

4. Jack the Giant Slayer – $6,220,000
Someone’s still confusing this with some sort of Buffy sequel. I can’t think of any other reason why you’d be seeing it.

5. Identity Thief – $4,519,000
Who is still watching this? Why won’t they stop?

I Guess All Those Wizard of Oz Weekends on TNT Paid Off

Our box office results, from Box Office Mojo.

1. Oz The Great and Powerful – $80,278,000
Putting out a prequel to an almost seventy-five year old movie might seen dangerous, but the fact that TNT routinely spends an entire weekend playing nothing but the original kind of helps.

2. Jack the Giant Slayer – $10,020,000
John Carter doesn’t look so bad now, does it? Yeah, it was pretty successful in comparison to Jack the Giant Slayer. Which makes sense. Because why would you make that?

3. Identity Thief – $6,319,000
Who’s still watching this?

4. Dead Man Down – $5,350,000
You all liked the Dragon Tattoo movie! Why didn’t you go see this?! It’s got Colin Farrell! He was Bullseye!

5. Snitch – $5,100,000
In case you just can’t wait until GI Joe to see The Rock on a movie screen.

I Guess Someone Wanted to Watch Jack the Giant Slayer

1. Jack the Giant Slayer – $28,010,000
Number one, but still a disappointing weekend. Maybe this is the beginning of the end for “Let’s just slap out a movie based on a public domain story” movies? That would be nice.

2. Identity Thief – $9,706,000
Despite a trailer devoid of comedy this still manages to hang on. Who are watching this?

3. 21 and Over – $9,000,000
Damn it, when they tried to make something that wasn’t just The Hangover again, you didn’t see it. And now that they just made The Hangover again, you didn’t see it! The hell do you want?

4. The Last Exorcism Part II – $8,030,000
The fact that this only made it to fourth place gives me some hope for the species. Maybe we don’t need a new possessed girl movie every two months?

5. Snitch – $7,700,000
Oh, Dwayne Johnson. Surely you have something better to do than this.