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" Helicopters in Zero Dark Thirty: quite a few Surprise explosions in Zero Dark Thirty: 2 Extended torture sequences in Zero Dark Thirty: 2 Downed helicopters in Zero Dark Thirty: 1 Barely-glimpsed Osama bin Laden corpses in Zero Dark Thirty: 1 Captured bin Laden hard drives in Zero Dark Thirty: several Chris Pratt Navy SEALs in Zero Dark Thirty: 1 Uses of Bruce Springsteen&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Born in the U.S.A.&amp;quot; in Zero Dark Thirty: 0 Times Jessica Chastain introduces herself to Leon Panetta as &amp;quot;the motherfucker who found that house&amp;quot; in Zero Dark Thirty: 1 Golden Globe nominations for Marlon Wayans&amp;#039;s A Haunted House: 0 Ghost-fart jokes in A Haunted House: verging on too many Stuffed-animal sex jokes in A Haunted House: too many Theater shootout scenes in Gangster Squad: -1 (cut from the film) References to The Untouchables in Gangster Squad: approximately 19 References to L.A. Confidential in Gangster Squad: approximately 37 Torsos torn in half in Gangster Squad: 1 Times you&amp;#039;ll smile at seeing Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn, Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribisi, Michael Pe\u00F1a, Emma Stone, and Nick Nolte all in one movie: 6 Times you&amp;#039;ll wish such talent had been put to better use than Gangster Squad: 12 Scenes of harrowing, sadistic violence in Django Unchained: 3 Scenes of cartoonish cinema-violence in Django Unchained: many more Feelings of churned stomach brought on by this dissonance during Django Unchained: 13 Dead onscreen Quentin Tarantinos in Django Unchained: 1 People upset at seeing a dead Tarantino during Django Unchained: not even Tarantino Actual box-office numbers: Zero Dark Thirty ($24M); A Haunted House ($18.8M); Gangster Squad ($16.7M); Django Unchained ($11.1M); Les Mis\u00E9rables ($10.1M); The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey ($9.08M); Lincoln ($6.31M); Parental Guidance ($6.1M); Texas Chainsaw 3D ($5.15M); Silver Linings Playbook ($5M) *All figures are Esquire estimates and not necessarily fact-checked. Follow The Culture Blog on RSS and on Twitter at @ESQCulture. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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