
Welcome to "What America Wants," in which we dissect the box office grosses for the weekend to ascertain what everyone in this great country is in desperate need of this week.

Race to Witch Mountain
This Disney vehicle starring Dwayne Johnson (he's apparently matured beyond "The Rock") booted Watchmen from the top spot by earning $25 million in its debut weekend Strangely, 18 percent of the people who saw this movie were couples without children.
Conclusion: Sorry, comic book nerds, but kids and adults who love movies starring kids (creepy!) are a more solid demographic than aging comic fans obsessed with a niche title. Now go cry to your message boards.

Watchmen
Not even a sad plea from the film's screenwriter could save this movie from a 67 percent drop in ticket sales. Thought it came in second, it wasn't there by much.
Conclusion: Much like Dr. Manhattan's penis, perhaps this movie was simply too ambitious and too long.

Last House on the Left
A Wes Craven remake, LHotL follows a married couple out to get revenge on the sadists who brutally raped and tortured their daughter. Delightful!
Conclusion: Violent revenge themes never go out of style. What that says about human beings is up to you.

Taken
This violent revenge-themed thriller continues to clean up at the box office, taking in another $6.7 million and putting its total gross profit at $127 million.
Conclusion: Kill! Kill! Kill!

Madea Goes to Jail
The black-man-in-a-dress shtick keeps going and going and going as Madea Goes to Jail shakes$5.1 million out of people who enjoy this sort of thing.
Conclusion: Tyler Perry is the devil and he's bewitched millions into believing his Bible humor is worth paying money to see. He must be stopped.
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awesome post
I now have something to look forward to on Mondays.
Are those whackjobs Helman and her girlfriend Bookishlookish gone for good? I was afraid to post yesterday with those two neo natzi posting every five minutes.
Thank god we live in America where that kind of crap is not tolerated. I may go to gawker to put them in their place though.
they're gone back to where they came hope the door didn't slam into their cauliflower asses on the way out for sure
Well, Tyler Perry will not be stopped!! Get used to him, you dumb white sucker!! He's rich and you aren't!!! Hating is ugly!!
I'm fat and nobody loves me. Will you?
WHITE SUCKER!
@mslewis: Why play the race card? What does that persons opinion have to with race? I am black and I find Tyler Perry's films modern day minstrel shows devoid of originality or insight. Oh and maybe you should google and look at a pic of Cord before you call him a white sucker (not that it is acceptable to use those kinds of terms at anyone). Just saying.
Getreal,
Hey, we finally agree. :)
@Rhonda: i can't imagine why you always bring up race when it is irrelevant and play the race card.
Getreal, thats because YOU think every comment about Obama is racist.
why is obama brought into every post? someone's obsessed…
@Rhonda: See there you go. You feel the need to use the word racist and Obama in every post. I never ever said criticizing the President is wrong dissent is healthy but constantly bringing up his race when it simply has NO relevance is silly and suspect. If you don't like the President talk about why, race should should be immaterial.