With an estimated $26 million take against the estimated $16.7 million of "The Dark Knight," "Tropic Thunder" beat the box office champ last weekend.This turn is following some anti-Knight sentiment from 'Thunder' co-star Robert Downey Jr., some protest of the use of the word "retard" in the film and, yeah, I'll say it ... a dude in blackface.
Under most circumstances this would bother me too if I didn't understand that "Tropic Thunder" is a movie about moronic people making a war movie. Audiences and critics (Entertainment Weekly gave it an 'A') apparently get it and placed no PC boundaries on their sense of humor.
The film also stars Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Tom Cruise and 22-year-old Brandon T. Jackson, who plays a rapper turned actor. EW gives Jackson some love for his work as the straight man in this group of crazies.
Don't mourn for the 'Knight' because last week it moved ahead of "Star Wars" as the second highest grossing domestic film of all time. It is more than a $100 million short of "Titanic" and may burn out before reaching it.
I do hope it makes it to the top, not just for comic book movie supremacy, but so we can stop talking about "Titanic" being number one.
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