I'm not sure why that triggers mudslinging.

Oh! I know! Cause we can get all blamey on each other, and this time, we can back it up with data! Rock on.

Unrelatedly, does Google have a site yet where I can get specific by-theatre attendance numbers for theatres near people I don't like anyway, so I can start throwing some rocks? Just asking.

Allyson, mud slinging at Universal, mostly. It'll get replaced by most theatres with Doom, which is going for 2900 theatre distribution, which is about 700 more than Serenity had.

Or, maybe I'm just overthinking. In all honesty, I don't really care thinking about it, which is probably the best way to be.

If Doom does better than Serenity at the box office, I swear, I'm withdrawing from the human race.

Cashmere, you had better start packing for your inevitable isolation.

Cashmere, it will almost certainly open much bigger than Serenity did. I'll eat my hat if it doesn't. And it's a very fine hat.

(And by the way, I hear from a little tweety bird who couldn't possibly be me it's an appauling film).

(And by the way, I hear from a little tweety bird who couldn't possibly be me it's an appauling film).

Of this I have no doubt.

I don't think Serenity is the film to end all films. I enjoyed it. It was smart and funny and well written (IMO). I hate the thought of craptacular pictures with bigger budgets and dumber premises and more idiot plot lines getting bigger returns.

I know, I should know better. I mean Fox ordered a full run of Fastlane when it axed Firefly.

But it still galls.

The first night I went to see Serenity, they played the Doom trailer. The entire audience broke into laughter by the end of it, and it wasn't a nice laughter.

I went and checked the largest local theaters, here. Serenity is still playing through the weekend. Yay. However, the Ultrascreen at one of them has Doom on it! What a fricking waste. So, yeah, the piece of crap is going to do much bigger numbers, at least for opening weekend. Hopefully, it will die a fiery and ignominious death.

If Doom does better than Serenity at the box office, I swear, I'm withdrawing from the human race.

Doom has a much bigger built-in fanbase.

I remember, in the '80s, going to really awful fantasy movies knowing how bad they'd be going in -- because if I wanted to see a fantasy movie at all that year, I had to see Krull.

There are more people who feel that way about Doom than there are who feel that way about Serenity.

Serenity is leaving my local theater. To be replaced with Doom. I can't complain too much about Serenity leaving, though. Sunday afternoon, I think that there were under ten people in the theater.

It's no contest that the trailer for Doom was the absolutely worst trailer at Serenity here. The consensus in my group, which clearly does not match the general viewing public, was that even though Karl Urban looked might cute, it wasn't enough to even come close to saving the movie. It looks like dreck to me, which means it will probably do wonderful box office.