In news that will come as a surprise to all those living under rocks for the past few years, it seems audiences in the U.S. would rather eat their own flesh rather than go to movies about Iraq. The weekend box office results are in and yet another Iraq War movie has bombed worse than (insert obvious/tasteless Iraq war joke here). Stop-Loss took in $4.5 million despite being marketed to young people by MTV Films, who were cool to kids some time in the late 80's according to my Grandad.
It was outgrossed by Superhero Movie (the latest spoof movie/crime against cinema /humanity). Watching modern spoof movies must be worse than eating your own flesh so that doesn't reflect well on Stop-Loss (shitty title by the way!). The reality is that most of the Iraq films just haven't been that could. Stop Loss is tracking only 61 on Metacritic and many of the other failures received tepid reviews.
In other, more boring box office news. '21' topped the charts with a healthy $23.7 million. It's based on a pretty successful book about MIT students who scammed Vegas so no big surprise there. Also Horton crossed $100 million and past Juno to become the highest grossing movie of the year so far.
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