Our "Fathers" Must Be Spinning in Their Graves

The TrekMedic was seriously pissed to read this in the Inkwaster today:

Slicing up the pie

Halloween came early at movie theaters as Saw III sliced up the competition with a $34.3 million debut, the best opening yet for the gory horror franchise.

Lionsgate's Saw III easily took over as No. 1 at the box office, bumping off Disney's dueling-magicians saga The Prestige, which slipped to third place with $9.6 million, according to studio estimates yesterday.

Martin Scorsese's mob tale The Departed held strongly again, taking in $9.8 million to place second for the third-straight weekend.

Paramount's Flags of Our Fathers, which cost $90 million to produce, has gotten off to a slow start, raising its 10-day total to $19.9 million. It came in fourth with $6.3 million.

Its pretty sad these days that a film about murder, mayhem and general IQ-lowering dialog trumps a movie about a very real, very violent and tide-turning point in WWII!

FWIW, the TrekMedic went to see "Flags" with a friend the day it was released (along with 20 other people). Sigh,..I guess this is why "reality" TV beats out finely-crafted dramas and comedies these days: we can't seem to handle any REAL reality anymore!

Thanks a f**kin lot, Hollywood!