Lou Lumenick notes that the phenomenally successful Sex and the City has at least one thing in common with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the film it is poised to knock down to 2nd place at the box office this weekend: namely, both films feature romantically active leading ladies in their 50s.
This gets me thinking. One of the things people praised Iron Man for was the fact that its leading man was an actual man, played by the 43-year-old Robert Downey Jr., and not one of those nerdy mutant boys who have been all too common at the box office lately.
Meanwhile, the two major films aimed this month at kids — and starring young 20-something men in the leading roles — have been box-office disappointments. I refer, of course, to Speed Racer, which has earned only about $40 million after four weeks, and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, which has been lagging behind the first Narnia film nearly every day of its release, and this week fell behind Iron Man.
More and more, that abnormally young-ish — and hopefully abandoned — Justice League movie looks like a really, really bad idea.
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