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May 25, 2009 ‘Museum’ Mollywhops ‘Terminator?!’
Love muffins, early box office numbers are showing that kid comedy Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian is beating out action-packed Terminator Salvation for the #1 slot with $53.5 million thus far.
For Night at the Museum to be a comedy, it sure was missing plenty of comedic punch lines. There was nothing special about this sequel – the only difference was that everything took place in a bigger museum (I felt like fast forwarding through most of the movie). As I mentioned before, in Terminator Salvation Christian Bale (John Connor) really came alive in this film compared to his more subdued tone in last year’s The Dark Knight. Not to mention McG’s riveting directing style. I still think Terminator Salvation will open at #1 despite the huge kid draw to Ben Stiller’s Night at the Museum sequel – official numbers will not be released until Tuesday due to the Memorial Day weekend. Let’s place our bets…Ha.
Thoughts?
S. Alexander aka The Boss Lady
May 25, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Terminator has had mixed reviews. It doesn’t come out here in the UK for another couple of weeks and I’ve been looking forward to it. I will be pissed if the negative reviews are correct (all that money and they can’t make a movie that works???).
Prob’ go and see Night at the Museum as an after thought; I will be doubly pissed if it is better than Terminator.
Superglam
May 25, 2009 at 7:50 pm
I’ve seen both, and sadly the negative reviews about Terminator, I totally agree with. All that hype and not enough of an actual movie to back it up. smh
NATM, imho, was a bit better. But I have a good feeling that if word of mouth gets around, Star Trek is gonna take the cake for blockbuster movie this year.
Save your Terminator money and go see Star Trek!!
Spicy Goddess
May 26, 2009 at 1:45 am
SHOCKED about Night @ the museum topping the terminator……. usually action films top the box office for at least 2 weeks. :O
Suki Dukez
May 26, 2009 at 8:14 pm
I loved both movies prequels and I am surprised that Museum beat Terminator. At the same time, I’m not too surprised either. Museum was great. Robin Williams was amazing. Not a huge Ben Stiller fan, but he had his moments. I prefer comedy over action. Who wants to jump in their seats all the time? I’d rather lose a couple of wrinkles and laugh lol