{"id":233,"date":"2007-04-15T15:58:14","date_gmt":"2007-04-15T21:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/15\/disturba-or-disturbing\/"},"modified":"2007-04-15T15:58:15","modified_gmt":"2007-04-15T21:58:15","slug":"disturba-or-disturbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/15\/disturba-or-disturbing\/","title":{"rendered":"Disturba or disturbing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have not seen this movie so I have no idea just how disturbing it probably is, but here is what is really a little disturbing. We, that&#8217;s the royal &#8220;we&#8221; as in Canadians and Americans spent well over $92.4 million dollars in a single weekend, as this is just the top 10 at the box office, viewing mindless entertainment that well soon be forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s round it up as bit to $100M\/weekend, so that would be about $5.2 billion dollars a year. I wonder what else we could do with that kind of money?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/ap\/financialnews\/D8OH8NLG0.htm\">&#8216;Disturbia&#8217; grabs movie-goers&#8217; attention<\/a>  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. &#8220;Disturbia,&#8221; $23 million.  2. &#8220;Blades of Glory,&#8221; $14.1 million.  3. &#8220;Meet the Robinsons,&#8221; $12.1 million.  4. &#8220;Perfect Stranger,&#8221; $11.5 million.  5. &#8220;Are We Done Yet?&#8221;, $9.2 million.  6. &#8220;Pathfinder,&#8221; $4.8 million.  7. &#8220;Wild Hogs,&#8221; $4.6 million.  8. &#8220;The Reaping,&#8221; $4.6 million.  9. &#8220;300,&#8221; $4.3 million.  10. &#8220;Grindhouse,&#8221; $4.2 million.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"poweredbyperformancing\">Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/scribefire.com\/\">ScribeFire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have not seen this movie so I have no idea just how disturbing it probably is, but here is what is really a little disturbing. We, that&#8217;s the royal &#8220;we&#8221; as in Canadians and Americans spent well over $92.4 million dollars in a single weekend, as this is just the top 10 at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grab-bag"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}