Best. Gay. Week. Ever. (July 25, 2008)

THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL
Meanwhile, there was a second movie record set last weekend, by Mamma Mia! It’s the largest opening ever for a movie musical.

Um, I’m really trying not to be cranky here, but exactly how many movie musicals have been released in the era of multiplexes and simultaneous wide releases? I can think of exactly three: Hairspray, Chicago, and Dreamgirls.

So of these four movies, Mamma Mia! had the biggest opening weekend.

Wow, impressive. (That’s some good P.R. work there, Universal.)

The studio also released figures saying that 75% of the audience was female. Since you just know plenty of gay guys rushed out to see the film, I have to ask:

Did a single straight man anywhere on the planet actually see this movie?!

Wait. Meryl Streep probably took her husband to the premiere. Unless he waited in the limo…

Meryl Streep at Mamma Mia's Australian opening with obligatory attendee
straight guys: Colin Firth (left) & Dominic Cooper (right)
Photo credit: Sergio Dionisio/Getty Images

As for me, I didn’t see either of those movies (I have this thing about crowds). No, the movie I chose to see was…

Journey to the Center of the Earth 3-D!

And I loved it! First, Brendan Fraser has been taking “adorable” supplements, because he’s cuter than ever. But mostly I just love cheesy sci-fi, and this was as cheesy as they get: Jules Verne wasn’t writing fiction — he actually telling the truth! Plus, there were carnivorous plants and levitating magnetic rocks and dinosaurs and mushroom forests and…well, you get the idea.

And it was all in 3-D!

Brendan Fraser

Mostly, the movie had a great sense of humor. Journey to the Center of the Earth was, frankly, what Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull should have been (and was for the first thirty minutes).

Sure, the situations were ridiculous and the characters made no sense — but, frankly, they made more sense to me than the ones in supposedly “serious” movies like The Savages or Little Children.

Oh, Journey to the Center of the Earth 3-D set a box office record too: best opening of a movie in 3-D starring Brendan Frasier with levitating magnetic rocks.

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