Last weekend was owned by Christopher Nolan's latest film Inception. The film is a fantastic blend of intelligent thrills and eye-pleasing action. I have seen it twice and find it to be an engrossing film that pays off on many levels from the technical to the emotional. Nolan has crafted a film that stays with you long after the images have faded from the screen. It appears to have struck a chord with audiences as well as it has remained at the top for a second straight weekend that saw it gross more than $42 million and drop just 32%.
The Angelina Jolie vehicle, Salt, came in second place with a solid $36 million. It is more than I thought it was going to open with and the more I think about the film, the more I like it. It is no grand masterpiece by any stretch, but it did prove to be an exciting action/thriller whose predictabiity actually works to its advantage. I went in with my suspicions based on the trailer only to find they were not met and I found myself revising my guess on the fly as the movie went along. I was still ahead of the story, but it was still very enjoyable. It will be interesting to see what kind of hold it has going into week two; I suspect it will drop more than 50%.
Third place goes to Despicable Me which is showing its crowd-pleasing legs wth a very solid run thus far. The movie is very funny and very sweet and despite feeling a little like an assembly line in nature, it is well worth seeing on the big screen.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice may be a box office disappointment, but it is still doing well enough to land itself in fourth place. I found the movie to be quite enjoyable. Nothing terribly spectacular but crazy Nicolas Cage and awkward Jay Baruchel work well together as the magical duo who have to save the world in a movie inspired in part by a clip of Mickey Mouse magically animating mops.
Fifth place has played host to Toy Story 3 for the past two weekends. The Pixar sequel is holding steady with a mere 25% drop from last weekend as it continues its push for $400 million. It has roughly $20 million to go. Do you think it will make it? I think it will.
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We thought the movie was great, however it left us wondering! Here are some of the questions that those who saw the movie with us were asking themselves once we left the theatre:
Was the whole movie a dream in itself?
Was the ending just a dream?
Where the people forever stuck in a dream world?
In any case, we all enjoyed it very much!