I have seen the traditional “Worst movie ever” ones, and then the ones where the person thinks they are some sort of great author with tons of big words. Almost all of the bad reviews I have seen though tend to have comments that the reviewer is completely clueless.

I really don’t know a lto about what this movie is about. All I do know is that Leo DiCaprio is awesome and that is enough for me to go see it. I get the feeling that the movie has some parts you need to pay attention to though, which generally accounts for mixed reviews. You know how a lot of movie goers are rather stupid. If they don’t basically hold your hand and walk you through it step by step people consider it bad. Then you get the standard “you just don’t get it” line going on. I have seen this so many times I can’t even count it on movie discussions. May as well be talkign about face moisturizers because at least that is useful.

So…basically from the reviews I have read it sounds like the DUMB people are giving it bad movies, while most legit reviewers seem to either love it, or at least consider it worth our time. This makes me pretty confident I am in for a good show .

On the heels of a couple Golden Globe Awards, it is only natural to keep pounding Avatar into the ground.

Already streaking to well over $1 Billion in worldwide box office sales, Avatar has actually remained on top of the box office charts for an astounding 5th straight week with $41.3 Million in sales for the week. IF you pay attention to this stuff at all, that isn’t a very common occurrence. It really isn’t even that common to see a movie on top for more than a week usually with so many new movies coming every week.

Denzel Washington’s “Book of Eli” settled for the #2 spot for the weekend, opening with $31.6 million. It is a post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind and probably finding amazing ways of rheumatoid arthritis relief.

At #3 was Peter Jackson’s “The Lovely Bones”, earning $17.1 million after expanding nationwide in its sixth weekend showing.

Avatar now has box office receipts of $491 Million in the U.S. placing it 3rd all time behind The Dark Knight ($533 Mil), and Titanic (Another Russel Crowe film that ended at $600.8 Mil). It passed Star Wars to slide into the top 3.

Avatar has amassed $1.606 Billion globally and will surely overtake Titanic’s $1.842 Billion worldwide tally within two weeks to become the highest grossing release in history (unadjusted for inflation).

Titantic for some odd reason is the top grossing movie of all-time at $1.84 Billion worldwide. Avatar has just surpassed $1 Billion and will surpass 2006’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” ($1.07 billion) and then 2003’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” ($1.12 billion).

Guess who directed these 2 movies. Cameron Crowe obviously. Mr. Hollywood ChaChing it appears. HE is way past his friends and business partners having buy cigars. HE is pressing money for them.

Meanwhile, even execs at rival studios seem to be getting a kick out of the mind-bending performance of Fox’s motion-capture/live-action blockbuster, and Landau said he knows why.

“It shows the potential of the industry,” he said. “It shows people want to go to the movies.”

The eventual rise of “Avatar” to the silver-medal position among all-time global grosses will see the Dec. 18 opener blow past two pics still ahead in the pecking order so far. Coming off the weekend with $1 billion and counting, “Avatar” in coming days will rise above 2006’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” ($1.07 billion) and then 2003’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” ($1.12 billion).

“It’s not a likelihood — it’s just a question of when,” mused one industryite.

On the other hand, few would suggest “Avatar” has any chance of outdistancing “Titanic,” which registered $1.84 billion during the course of its months-long theatrical cruise.

You would think that these rabid Twilight fans would know everything there is about Twilight wouldn’t you? Apprently their rabid fanboy/girlism is so blinding that they are ripe to scammers.

It appears that all those people dumb enough to sign up for Twilight news via e-mail, or frequent message boards about Twilight (people really do this?), have started to find out that they aren’t going to get to appear in the next movie, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn.

Scam e-mails were being sent to many Twilight fans that claimed to be a way for them to appear int he next movie. That is if they have a good enough rack mount .

Fraudulent e-mails announcing casting calls for “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn,” have been flooding the inboxes of fans across the country, according to The Casting Scoop.

“First of all, I knew it wasn’t credible because ‘Breaking Dawn’ doesn’t go into production for several months, so no casting director would have been hired yet,” says casting director Lana Veenker, who handled Northwest casting on the first “Twilight” film. “Also, the shoot location hasn’t even been announced! How would anyone even know which city or country to be casting in?” (wow she sounds brilliants…dar)

The e-mails implore those who are interested in walk-on parts to apply immediately with impending deadlines, promising that no experience is necessary and pay ranges from $80-250, depending on the role.

In addition, Veenker discovered that bogus casting call advertisements (which take advantage of search engine keywords) have been appearing on “Twilight” fan sites everywhere. She tracked down the company responsible and learned that they had an “F” rating with the Better Business Bureau…LOL

“People who take advantage of kids like this, who prey on their hopes and dreams, truly raise my ire,” she said in a statement released to Access. “I get thousands of letters and e-mails from ‘Twilight’ fans who would do just about anything for a walk-on part in one of the sequels. It scares me to think of what the low-lives out there could do to hurt such easy targets.”

Of course as the years move on it isn’t any surprise to see movies steal this title every 6 months. The previous record holder for the highest box office receipts was the Dark Knight. New Moon totaled $72.7 million across the United States and Canada on Friday, a figure that includes record-breaking midnight sales of $26.3 million, said the film’s closely held distributor Summit Entertainment. This was a big step up from Dark Knight, which opened at around $62 Million.

Such heights could be difficult for the “Twilight” sequel to attain. Still, industry observers expect it could finish up with upwards of $125 million for the weekend once Saturday sales data and Sunday estimates are issued early on Sunday. Either way they are taking their cross country movers to the bank.

That would place the film at No. 4 in the record books, behind “The Dark Knight” ($158 million), “Spider-Man 3″ ($151 million), and “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” ($136 million), and ahead of “Shrek the Third” ($122 million), according to tracking firm Box Office Mojo.

The previous record for midnight sales was held by “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” which kicked off its run with $22.2 million in sales in July.

The “New Moon” predecessor, “Twilight,” released exactly a year ago, ended up with $193 million in North America after an opening weekend of $70 million.

OK…I’ll admit that I’m not a 13 year old girl. So, I think it is fair to say that I shouldn’t know what New Moon is, nor should I have seen the original Twilight. The only reason I even heard this name is that every place I look the last few days has stuff like “OMG NEW MOON AS-Z” and “THAT GUY IS SOOOO CUTE!”

I Think that I am going to take a cruise to the turks and caicos all inclusive for a while so that I don’t accidentally get int he way of a hormonal teen on their way to the theater in the next few weeks. I just can’t take it.

The King of Pop’s final rehearsals for the tour that never became a reality is the subject of a documentary in theaters right now called “This Is It!”. The film is said to have a limited release of only two weeks, but box office numbers aren’t even close to what Sony and concert promoter, AEG predicted. They were optimistically expecting that the film would rake in “$250 million in its first 5 days.” based on a worldwide release. Through Friday it had just $19.1 million in revenues since its opening last Wednesday worldwide. A very far cry from expectations.

the King of lasik surgery Mexico may still be a big draw, but not nearly good enough for Sony and promoter AEG I am guessing. Not sure why they would release this Halloween week, with all the other horror movies piling up. Do they consider this a horror movie maybe?

Paranormal Activity still sits in the top 5 at #2 with a cumulitive total of about $74 million so far. While it passed the ROI for the Blair Witch Project by percentages, it isn’t likely to catch the total revenue before its run concludes.

With a budget of just $15,000, and it piling up box office cash, this isn’t a huge surprise I guess. Back when The Blair Witch Project came out on a similar budget, using the “real person” strategy as their actors, as well as cheap video equipment to film it, a new age was born. Of course no one else was able to replicate it quite like Blair Witch had, until Paranormal Activity.

As a movie, Paranormal Activity isn’t the greatest thing I ever saw. If you watched any of the “alternate” endings out there that were replaced you should be quite happy they replaced them. They were crap. Not saying I particularly enjoyed the theatrical one either, but it was miles better. Let’s just say that I don’t deem this movie as a classic, and I thought Blair Witch was way better at the time I saw it even if people think it is cool to say it sucked. It was just a better atmosphere and had more fear factors going for it. Paranormal activity did have an annoying, and idiot character like Blair Witch all the same.

So…at this point Paranormal Activity has grossed roughly $65 million on its $15K investment for a guy that probably couldn’t even get affordable health insurance when the movie was released. A return of 434,000 percent. The next closest you can probably figure it out from the way this post started. The next closest competitor is 1999’s “The Blair Witch Project,” another indie horror flick. With a production budget of $60,000, that movie posted a 414,000 percent return.

Both films did a similar marketing strategy of promoting the movies in sort of an underground way. While PA had the benefit of a much more established internet audience, Blair Witch actually had many believing that it was a true story, with actual film footage before its release.

So kids…if you want to take $10K investment and get rich, making a movie might be the way to do it. Of course it probably needs to be a horror movie, and you probably need to have some talent .

Zombieland was a movie I was highly anticipating. All the reviews out there made me want to watch it even more. People were saying it was absolutely hilarious, and some even made the bold claim that it was even funnier than Shaun of the Dead. While I like to hear this I was skeptical it could surpass one of my favorite movies of all time, and I think that it definitely failed to live up to the overwhelming hype that surrounded it for me, but it wasn’t a bad movie.

Let me first say that I liked Zombieland. I found it to be a fun experience, and it is definitely a movie you want to see in the theater with a big crowd. The film really benefits from a good movie crowd to up the fun and laughs. It just won’t be AS good if you wait and watch it on DVD unless you are doing so with a bunch of friends, and some substances. Oh yeah…substances are definitely recommended for such a movie if you are into that sort of thing.

Zombieland is pretty descriptive in the title. It is more or less just another zombie movie, but not a HORROR movie. It is and should only be expected to be, a comedy. It is set in a post-apocalyptic U.S.A. that got infested somehow, and has little if any real plot. It follows Woody Harrelson as a badass zombie killer driving a #3 (This is an homage to Dale Earnhardt, obviously.) SUV with body plows on the front truck grilles. Jesse Einsberg as his new found weakling friend (He is actually the main character and the everyman), and a sister combo they meet along the way played by Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin.

The effects are top notch so seeing it in the theater is a good idea for that aspect. Slow motion flying through the front windshield clips in the opening credits to their fun little way of coping with their “Zombie Kill of the Week” flashbacks. The way they incorporate their “Rules of Survival” into the scenes is also funny, and well done.

As a comedy, and as a zombie movie in general it isn’t as good as Shaun of the Dead. Let’s just say that outright to see what I was trying to compare it with going in based on reviews and overall hype. I found out immediately that it is more in line with a movie like Grindhouse: Planet Terror in the way it is presented. A lot of gore at times, and over the top action that tried to be unbelievable. I actually found Grindhouse to be more entertaining as well although it isn’t tehcnically a zombie/comedy movie .

Comedically it had some good one liners, and a few funny scenes, but to me it felt like they were just trying too hard the entire time to be funny. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t extremely funny at times, but it wasn’t side-splitting as most reviews would have you believe. I did laugh out loud probably 3-4 times, however.

The story was poor. Obviously a zombie movie isn’t going to have a great story, especially a comedy zombie movie, but the two sisters roles made absolutely no sense at all through the majority of the movie. The things they did were illogical (as people, not for a zombie movie), and the movie tried too hard to try and make them seem like some sort of awesome scam artists and outlaws, and it was silly. They were needed to move the story along in parts just to have a reason to tell the story, and throw a little emotion into it for the two main men in the movie, but it was just stupid at times.

Too long didn’t read version (for the general population):

Overall the movie is fun, has some good special effects, and a very good cameo that was even over-hyped to some degree. Once all the luster of “new movie” (IMDb.com ratings for new movies are always ridiculous. I wouldn’t go by this right away. I would expect it to land around a 7/10 eventually.) wears off I am not going to call this movie one of MY classics. Not something that I will want to watch over and over again like I was expecting with the concept and the people in it. Some people may find it in this, but it just didn’t cross into the realm for ME.

It is definitely worth a watch though and most people will like it. Considering the other crap out now this is one of the better movies for entertainment purposes, and is fantastic to watch with a good movie crowd (ie. don’t watch this at some douchebag arthouse and expect uptight tools to enjoy it.) Just don’t go in expecting an epic comedy classic. Just enjoy the fun of the crowd, gore, and laughs, and you will be fine.

Too long didn’t read version (for stuck up film nerds):

If you have high standards for movies in general it will disgust you in its obvious cliches in every scene trying to appeal to the general stupid masses, and nerds. This movie is supposed to be fun, but it was clearly made for the general idiot out there, the ex-teenage nerd, or the stoner that will be high enough to laugh at anything. If you can’t get over yourself and find comedy in these things this movie isn’t for you. If you want something that has a bit of depth, why the hell are you watching a movie called “Zombieland” anyways? That is your own fault.

I’m sure it comes as no surprise that a film featuring the likes of Brad Pitt, and director Quentin Tarantino has found its way to the top of the box office charts during its opening weekend. Sitting on my new classroom furniture I see that “Inglourious” has achieved a record opening for the famous director topping his April 2004 opening of Kill Bill Vol. 2 by more than $12 Million.

Inglourious Basterds opened the weekend with a $37.6 million take, overtaking last week’s number one District 9.

District 9 did incredibly well considering “Basterds” was angling directly for its male audience. The $30 million sci-fi movie from newcomer Neil Blomkamp dropped a scant 49% to $18.9 million putting its total ten day gross at an impressive $73 million. G.I. Joe also hung in for its third week in theaters. The high-octane action movie fell only 44% to $12.5 million. It’s three-week cume now stands at $120 million.