Box Office Mojo’s Weekend Estimates have “Meet The Spartans” edging out “Rambo” in theaters by a mere $575,000 (MTS = $18,725,000, Rambo = $18,150,000). So close, and it could be closer when the actual numbers come out. Either way, this is pretty sad. If “Meet The Spartans” does hold the top spot, expect another movie exactly like this at the same time next year.

I really would have enjoyed seeing Rambo stick a blood-soaked boot up that movie’s ass, but certainly the RIDICULOUS amount of violence and hard R stopped that from happening. Maybe “Meet The Spartans” won because 13-year-olds were buying tickets to that and sneaking into Rambo. One can only hope. America’s youth should not be subjected to the horrors of awful, awful comedy.

By the way, when I saw Rambo, I counted. He turns 6,050,000 people into bologna bits in the final twenty minutes. They explode into three times as many body parts, which translates into $1 per severed appendage at the box office. Every action movie should use this formula.

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