Weekend box office, "No Strings Attached", and my ratings

So "No Strings Attached" won the box office this weekend, ousting "The Green Hornet" From the top of last weekends ticket sales. even though there was a lot of advertising around 'No Strings' I expected 'Hornet' to spend at least one more week atop the ticket sales. I personally do not have much interest in seeing 'Hornet', or at least paying to see it in theaters, as Seth Rogan is starting to get a little stale with his overplaying of the same characters again and again. I was also surprised that 'Tron' is still in the top ten of ticket sales, given its poorer performance over the holidays. Complete top ten listed, now. And I guess everyone that was going to see Harry Potter already has.

1. "No Strings Attached," $20.3 million.

2. "The Green Hornet," $18.1 million.

3. "The Dilemma," $9.7 million.

4. "The King's Speech," $9.2 million.

5. "True Grit," $8 million.

6. "Black Swan," $6.2 million.

7. "The Fighter," $4.5 million.

8. "Little Fockers," $4.4 million.

9. "Yogi Bear," $4.1 million.

10. "Tron: Legacy," $3.7 million.

I did see 'No Strings' this past Friday, and it was enjoyable for a romantic comedy. The first half of the movie was a little refreshing, having a little more edge to the comedy with straight forward sexual comedy, no innuendos or cutesy jokes. On screen Kutcher and Portman have fairly good chemistry, although not quite as good as something like "The Proposal" and they make everything seem at least plausible. Some of the minor characters are a little off, but do not really get enough screen time to make things bad. My favorite quote from the movie is referring to a "period mix" that Kutchers character makes for Portmans, ""I've got the whole world on a string", by Frank Sinatra, really?" Hardest I laughed during the whole movie.

Overall, it's a well made romantic comedy that only disappoints in the aspect that the second half of the movie loses the edginess that it started with. You have your predictable rom com ending, complete with tacky forced final line.

Score: I guess ill use a ten point scale here instead, and give it a 6.8. If you are in the mood for a rom com, why not.

Now I had a friend give me a fair criticism on my scoring system, as it seems somewhat arbitrary and comparing one movie to another may be difficult. I could use a 10 point system, only using whole numbers, only halves, using 5 stars and only breaking it down as far as halves, but no matter how I do it, it probably will not make sense to someone. I guess when I rate a movie, I keep in mind the overall production, acting, directing qualities, as well as social impact and viewer experience. I also think of the types of movies that are on the top of the list, you "Godfathers" and "Shawshank Redemptions" of the world, and think of how the movie I am currently reviewing compares. There will probably be some biased to certain movies, and growing up in an age where the media is heavily action oriented and the status-quo is changing image every 3 seconds, I may not like "older" style films as much. I think using a 10 point system is easier to understand because it can kind of be seen as a percentage, rather than just out of five, but I will continue to break down the points to the tenths place, because with this many great movies, I feel I need a larger range of scores at my disposal. I will go back through and edit the previous posts as well, but here is an update on the movies I have already reviewed.

Tron Legacy: 7.7

Movie 112, Princess Mononoke: 8.4

The Fighter: 7.4

Movie 111, Batman Begins: 9.4

Season of the Witch: .9

Movie 110, The Great Escape: 9.1

That's it for now, I will be finished watching "Die Hard" tomorrow night, and hopefully I have time to review it with family here. Until then...

I'm just sayin...