OH, NO. PLEASE DON'T...

Claiming the record for the biggest one-day gross, The Twilight Saga: New Moon raked in an estimated $72.7 million on approximately 8,500 screens at 4,024 sites. The Dark Knight was the previous title holder with $67.2 million on around 9,300 screens at 4,366 sites.

Who would have thought that a movie about glittery vampires would end up in the record books?  I don’t know whether we should be more disappointed in ourselves for bombarding the theaters to see this or for simultaneously fawning over a 17 year old boy who remains shirtless 90% of the time.  It’s not even that bad that the incessant moaning from teenyboppers was enough to deafen people worse than a typical rock concert but did we really just make theater teams for characters in the film?

Thanks to this, we now have to live with the fact that a cast of mediocre actors and Kristen Stewart go down on paper for quite some time.  Considering it has taken over a year to knock The Dark Knight off the block (which was critically praised and considered one of last year’s top films) and looking at the fact it took quite a few years for Titanic (which set its record between 1997-98) to be taken over by The Dark Knight, I’m pretty scared for the next few years.

In closing, we never thought a film starring a terrible lip biter, that guy who died in Harry Potter and an actor who shares Matthew McConaughey’s feelings on wearing a shirt in films would be where it is now.  Shame on you America.  Shame on you.

At least we have the weekend to turn this around.

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by Mike Davis

(quote via boxofficemojo)