Good question!

Battleship outgrossed Titanic 3-D in the UK, FWIW.

Oh I hope so. I want it to rake in a steady couple of hundred million a week until it hits the magic $3 billion mark.

I saw Cabin in the Woods today. THAT was a lot of fun. I was a bit spoiled, but it was very hard to avoid reading certain things about. I would have loved to have seen it completely unaware (like not even a trailer, which the ones I saw gave some of the game away).

Was I the only one who kept thinking of the five victims to be as Tributes? Because some of this really struck me as being very Hunger Games-ish thematically, although miles away tonally. I'm not so sure now if Joss would have been a good choice for Hunger Games; I know he can do grim, bleak and dark, but he does also need a certain amount of humor in there somewhere. Who knows?

Also, while I pretty much knew what Bradley Whitford's fate was going to be once he started talking about Mermen (I knew going in that all hell breaks loose at the end, although not that at the very end it was quite that literal) his pitch-perfect delivery of "Oh COME on!" really sold the moment.

Finally, does anyone know if that was Sigourney's voice that Marty kept hearing in the cabin? I didn't recognize it at as her, but I did recognize her as soon as I heard the voice in the facilities.

FILM CRIT HULK REVIEW AVENGERS. If you can get past the CAPSLOCK, it's a really good review, and he makes the exact point I did about the cathartic circling power shot.

So will The Avengers outgross Battleship this weekend?

1. Marvel’s The Avengers (Disney) Week 3 [4,349 Runs] PG13
Friday $15.5M, Weekend $52.5M, Cume $454.5M

2. Battleship (Universal) NEW [3,690 Runs] PG13
Friday $9.5M, Weekend $26M

FILM CRIT HULK REVIEW AVENGERS. If you can get past the CAPSLOCK, it's a really good review, and he makes the exact point I did about the cathartic circling power shot.

Okay, so now I want to see it again.

FILM CRIT HULK MAKE ZEN HULK HAPPY.

I like the point he makes about how Joss deliberately sacrificed narrative propulsion and made the Chitauri kind of lame in order to make a character-focused movie. I mean, I think you can make a character-focused movie with narrative propulsion, but it's a little harder when you have this many characters to focus on. I also like the insight about Loki. Funnily enough, I saw another review that says Loki is an ineffectual villain, and that's a PLUS, but Film Crit Hulk notes that Loki is actually the one who brings the Avengers together, not just in general (he is the catalyst for their calling) but specifically, in his interactions with each member.

Agreed, he made some good points I hadn't thought about.

Loki isn't very effective at world-conquering, but that's not really what he WANTED anyway. He wants his brother's love and respect, and in his quest to be worthy of Thor, he becomes flat-out evil. It's sad (in a totally non-woobie way) that he seems to know he's on a terribly wrong path but he's damned determined not to turn around. Everything Thor says to try and change his mind just reminds him why he's so pissed off. He's a surly vengeful emo teenager who never got over finding out he's adopted. I think he's a great villain, precisely because he really kinda sucks at villainy. He's not a War God, really, he's the God of Fucking Shit Up. That, he does very well.

In the opening scenes, Bruce is wearing a Hulk-pants purple shirt. In the ending scenes, when they're hopping in Tony's car to go be Science Bros together, Bruce is wearing a yellow shirt (the opposite of purple!) and Tony is wearing a purple tie. I just love little details like this.