OK, lemme just say: yes, I am being a snob here. I admit that. I think that making a movie out of a bunch of the pictographs that you have on your smartphone starts out as a dumb idea, and that I am not giving the movie anything like a fair chance, and that people who liked the movie and it’s OK that they like it because who the Hell am I to judge them? might be justifiably suspicious that I am being a snob about them, too. I cop to all of this.
But it still would have been a bit personally unsettling to have one of the most fascinating movies about war in the last forty years not beat out a movie that has a talking poop icon in it, second week or no. Fortunately for my sanity, Dunkirk beat out Emoji, so I can stop being an elitist jackwagon about it. You can’t really expect a flick like Dunkirk to hit #1 three weekends running, especially in the summer. And, as a lot of people noted, there aren’t that many movies for kids out there in the cinemas right now.
So there’s that.