Weekend Forecast: Trains, Aliens and Romcoms! What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

The studios have another relatively full slate of new releases this weekend, compounding last week's offerings and creating something of a glut at the movies. How will we all ever get to our Rachel McAdams working-girl romcoms when we still have instant Tyler Perry classics to catch up on? And what of 127 Hours and everything idling at the multiplex? Actually I don't really care, I'm just imagining this conversation happening somewhere and am too lazy to delete. Whoomp, there's your weekend:

NATIONAL FORECAST

Unstoppable: You can go into Tony Scott's runaway-train thriller with the knowledge that it's getting solid reviews and the bittersweet recognition of it humble-ish beginnings. It'll be like a high-graduation of sorts: You swelling with pride, patting it on the back, saying, "I remember when you were an overpriced glint in your studio's eye. Denzel Washington wouldn't commit, and Chris Pine wasn't even cast yet. It was a big, trumped-up development drama and I yawwwwwned and yawned. And now look at you! All grown up and flashy and expensive with Washington and Pine running around being Movie Stars and Scott getting all 'Action!Cut!Action!Cut!Action!Cut!' up in our shit. [Dab tear] Anyway, good luck out there, kiddo. It's a tough world, but it could be worse: At least you're not Skyline. That poor thing. Look at him." And then it'll speed off to drink prodigiously and probably knock someone up. Yup, it'll be just like that. FORECAST: $23.7 million

Skyline: What the hell is this? Eric Balfour and Donald Faison versus the unholy thrift-shop hybrid of Transformers and Cloverfield? I'm sorry, no one would fight back against those space creatures invading L.A. Look at them! The Angelenos, I mean, not the aliens. They're like, "Can it wait? I just paid $6 for this latte." And the aliens are like, "Rahhhhr [laser fire, freeway smash] we've come for Snooki, where is Snooki?? No Snooki?? Rahhhrrr..." And that's how sequels are green-lit. Also: Why isn't this 3-D? Contemporary Hollywood economic imperatives and/or Balfour's bone structure demand it! FORECAST: $17.2 million

Morning Glory: Reviewers are giving Rachel McAdams all the credit for saving this saccharine careerist chick-in-the-city fantasia, but honestly, all this title does is make me want to listen to Oasis's second record. Let's see, where is it? Oh, here we go. Yesss. OK, where were we? Morning Glory, right, right. Two-day head start will help with visibility, but I'd still see For Colored Girls first if you haven't yet. Go, go, go. FORECAST (five-day): $16.9 million

REGIONAL FORECAST

Not a lot to remark upon at the art house, unless you're in New York and wanna test the Lena Dunham hype with her microbudget acting/writing/directing debut Tiny Furniture. Docmaker extraordinaire Ondi Timoner is always good for a rise, too, and her new, contrarian global-warming glimpse Cool It should achieve that and hopefully more on a pretty aggressive 40 screens. 127 Hours and Fair Game are expanding, meanwhile, the former to 22 screens and the latter to 175 screens. Write in with faintings/light-headedness/other maladies from 127 Hours; you know I'm keeping track. Good luck!