Arbitrary Box Office Results for the Weekend of May 26, 2006

It is exceedingly difficult to pick a winner this week. Poseidon is rockin' the house and RV is hitting an upsurge. Oh, and some movie about a pointy-haired guy opened this weekend too.

1. Nerds Cream Themselves* (X3): $70.2 million. From the director of Rush Hour. Let that sink in for a moment. The director of Rush Hour (and its sequel) is getting work (and not just giving five-dollar handjobs in the LA slums, but actual film work).
   
2. Seriously, Holy God, Look at Tom Hanks' Hair! (The DaVinci Code):$27.1 million. I saw this movie and thought it wasn't nearly as good as the book (and that's saying something, considering how poorly written the book was).
   
3. Steve Carrell Will Take ANY Film Role Offered To Him (Over the Hedge):$16.1 million. In the fine tradition of Samuel L. Jackson and Christopher Walken, Steve Carrell is the new "talented person taking crappy jobs because he can" (see also: Sleepover).
   
4. The Following Is a List of Things I Find More Interesting Than Talking About This Movie (M:I 3): $6.3 million. The country of Myanmar, Britney Spears' children, anthropology, Tara Reid, fashion, dogs, cars, tools, NASCAR, pets of any sort, religion, the anatomy of reptiles, sports, Murder She Wrote, whether or not I have "attached" earlobes, knitting, hunting, the middle ages, Staind, and the Reagan administration.
   
5. Moisture Is the Essence of Wetness (Poseidon): $4.2 million. In spite of it all, still not as interesting as M:I 3.
   

Not in the top five: Al Gore Boringly Talks About Something Boring (An Inconvenient Truth). Unless there are evil timberwolves and Jake Gylllenhaaalallll, I'm not interested in movies about global warming.

If I get this all right this week, I will order the above costume and parade around town, standing just the way that nerd* above is.

*I, too, am a nerd.

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