“Wall-E” opened this weekend to an impressive sum of $62 million, and has generated enough hype to have people blathering about it for Best Picture. But what was that other movie that came out? The one where that dude from “Atonement” and the sexiest good Samaritan mom in the world, Angelina Jolie ride around bending bullets and shit Matrix-style, oh yeah, “Wanted.”
Apparently enough families and warm-milk enthusiasts/movie goers accidentally wandered into the theater this weekend (they must have gotten lost on their way to see “Wall-E”) for it to gross $51 million and it was surprisingly entertaining enough to pull in a 73% fresh rating on rottentomatoes, not to shabby, and any other weekend this would be perceived as a huge hit, except, that is, when the movie you are opening against is the best reviewed thing since the “The Godfather” (Sorry, Puzzo, where are your socially awkward robots? That’s right, nowhere). It seems as though James McAvoy boyish charm and Jolie’s oozing sexuality are no match for computer generated robots finding love in a post-apocalyptic world. Is it too late for Coldplay to change their lyrics to, “We live in a beautiful Steve Jobs-esque/Ipod-like world?”
