So Erin and I went to see Spiderman last night. As Arcanas pointed out in a comment to last night’s post, Spiderman was actually shown on 7500 screens, which effectively cuts my calculations in half - an entirely believable number, since there was easily 200 people at the early show (7:00) last night.

You want my review? (No worries, I won’t put any spoilers here) It was a good movie. Unlike most movies that I’ve paid full price for, I didn’t feel ripped off leaving the theatre. In fact I want to see it again (though not at full pop - Maybe at Rainbow, or I can wait until it comes out on DVD)

I can believe that it set those records, mainly because of all the hype (they spent something like $50 million on promoting it…)

As to Episode 2 - yes I think it can beat the weekend numbers, due to the simple fact that it’s got an extra day to do it, since it opens on next Thursday. I don’t think they’ll break any of the single day records though. The thing to remember about Episode 1 was that it didn’t open on nearly as many screens as Spiderman, and I suspect that Episode 2 will.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “Hey Flanders, who put that bug up your butt?” - Homer