Nobody cares about kicking off their Sunday shoes anymore — what they want to see are robots punching each other in the face. And that is exactly the way American moviegoers voted with their wallets this week.
This weekend featured a glut of remakes all of which were dead on arrival and ill-conceived comedy movies with Jack Black, Owen Wilson, and Steve Martin. But what came out on top again was movie about robots punching each other in the neck and about the face — Real Steel claimed the number 1 spot at the box office for the second week in a row, something which I’m sure was comforting considering the amount of laughter generated by the proposal for a movie where robots fight each other in an arena. Footloose this came in second, grossing around $16 million – which is unfortunate, because it was made under the principles that it would gross the money back easily because people would take time out of their day to go see a remake of an 80’s movie that reeks entirely of 80’s.
We really need to get Hollywood to evaluate their creative priorities. If you keep putting trash into people, they’ll eventually develop an immunity. Or just go to television in droves.
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