
If the photo below were a
Caption It contest based on this weekend's box office results, my entry would go something like: "Well Leo, there's no easy way to say this so I'm just going to come out with it. We got beat by the little talking dogs. Beat bad."

Shia LaBeouf proves he's box office gold once again with the No. 1 movie this weekend,
Eagle Eye, also starring Michelle Monaghan and directed by D.J. Caruso.

As you might've predicted,
Nights in Rodanthe is a sentimental, non-threatening weepie that could have just as easily been made for TV and run on the Hallmark channel. The story is bland and yet sugar-saturated at the same time. It's tame, not too racy and it features unlayered characters.

Last week when
I tried out my version of
Do, Dump or Marry, Team member
luckyme suggested having a TV option in addition to "Watch," "Pass" or "Rent." I like that idea a lot, seeing as there are plenty of movies I wouldn't ever rent, but will probably watch on TV if I happen upon it. Hence, the TiVo option, which doesn't necessarily mean you'd TiVo it (though it could; I often TiVo movies), but includes catching the movie on TBS or something someday (having "Watch on TV" as an option would make the title so cumbersome!).

Nights In Rodanthe (out October 10) is based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks, the author of
The Notebook, which should probably indicate to you whether you'll be in the faction who love it or hate it. I know that movie splits audiences down the middle!
Starring Diane Lane, Richard Gere and Christopher Meloni (with an uncredited James Franco), the movie is about a doctor who is traveling to see his estranged son, but unexpectedly feels sparks with an unhappily married woman at an inn in North Carolina.

So, Nicholas Sparks has given us many things, one of them being The Notebook. I have to say, I'm convinced the film version of the book did as well as it did because of the talent involved (Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams) because when I think of the books of his I've read they all fall into the same category as the movie version of A Walk to Remember: cheesy, trite and overwrought. This next book-to-film adaptation of a Sparks work,
Nights in Rodanthe stars Richard Gere and Diane Lane, both of whom I like a lot as actors.