"Sith" beats "Matrix Reloaded" for 4-day record

According to StudioBriefing, which reports a 4-day total of 158.5 million for Sith and 134.3 million for Reloaded.

I find the juxtaposition of Revenge of the Sith and The Matrix Reloaded quite delicious, since the reason I dislike both movies has to do with bland and inconsistent characterization. In Reloaded, we have Neo, a quiet master hacker who six months after promising a revolution in the Matrix still hasn't figured out that there are doors with locks all throughout the Matrix. (This is all the more ridiculous because breaking computer 'doors' and 'locks' is a common metaphor for hacking).

In Sith, we're presented with Anakin Skywalker becoming Darth Vader not through the greedy desire to gain power through evil, but because he was duped into evil to save his loved one.

In Reloaded, Neo is a hacker, but not really. In Sith, Vader is evil, but not really. While both films are quite flawed in other ways, this is the fatal flaw of each film.

It's also sadly ironic how two of the best-grossing films of all time serve mainly as a warning to filmmakers of what doesn't work.