Weekly top 5.

            With every week, there are new movies, and with new movies comes an ever changing top five movies with every new week at the box office. Here are this week’s top five movies.

 1 – Fifty Shades of Grey, with 81.7 million.

2 – Kingsman: The Secret Service, with 35.6 million.

3 – The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge out of Water, with 30.5 million.

4 – American Sniper, with 16.4 million.

5 – Jupiter Ascending, with 9.4 million.

            If there’s anything to say about this weekend’s box office, I would say, unsurprising. However this does not negate the fact of how infuriated I am that a movie as dry and heartless as Fifty Shades of Grey made the number 1 spot this past weekend. Full disclosure, I have not seen Fifty Shades of Grey, nor do I plan to ever, ever sit through this film. I say these things, and I have this reaction because I’ve read through part of the book this film is based on, and I’ve also seen the trailer. After seeing it’s trailer and reading its reviews, I had my fingers crossed that this movie would not succeed. My efforts have clearly been in vain. The numbers prove that this movie crushed its competition at the box office in a big, huge way. Oh my god! I would have said this brings light to the fact that there is dying hope for quality filmmaking, because this is clearly a project that was there to help cash paychecks for a few starving actors. There is hope, I was thankfully wrong, please let me tell you why.

            Kingsman: The Secret Service, was without a doubt the polar opposite to Fifty Shades this past weekend. Here’s the short, short, short version why. Kingsman was excellent, Fifty Shades was toilet paper. The film, Kingsman, is based on a little known comic book I’d never heard of. Personally, and I mean this in the most positive way possible, I do not think I want to read the comic after the brilliant impression this film left on me. It is self-aware without being too self-aware, its breaks some of the rules in tune with a spy action thriller while creating all new ones. A friend of mine said it best, Kingsman is like Spy Kids for grownups. I’ll be giving the film a full review soon enough.

            Did you see any of the movies in this week’s top five box office? Are you surprised by any of these numbers? Do you have the good enough sense to dislike Fifty Shades of Grey, like any self-respecting human being should?

For good measure, I've also included a link to the trailer for Kingsman: The Secret Service