Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson came to Saturday Night Live this weekend, and he tried out his angry Barack Obama impression.

There are days when all the oxygen seems to have been devoured by things about which there is little left to say — in this case, Watchmen, which reviews suggest you will either find kind of fantastic or find yourself nearly unable to endure, depending.

When I saw a computer monitor serving as an ad hoc screen to show Watchmen propaganda between the registers at the bookstore this weekend, I hit my limit.

A different sort of roundup and the bottom line on the Watchmen box-office breakdown, after the jump...

 

In keeping with the so-so nature of the reviews, the weekend box office for Watchmen was certainly big, but dropped dramatically after Friday, which Slashfilm speculates might be the result of poor word-of-mouth.

Other than that, we are in one of those funny little lulls where there's still entirely too much Bachelor drama — and there will be more if the reports turn out to be true that the jilted Melissa is headed to Dancing With The Stars — and we're weathering recent comeback news about Britney Spears and Michael Jackson.

There are always the obligatory "I hate Facebook" or "Twitter is narcissistic" reads of the day, but aren't those both even more ready for retirement than the finale of The Bachelor?

Even the most buzzed-about video of the weekend, Dwayne Johnson as "The Rock" Obama (which appears at the top of this post), isn't all that funny.

This is to say nothing, of course, about the sheer amount of coverage and analysis and talk-talk-talk about Rihanna and Chris Brown, all of which makes me feel like I'm being given a bag of popcorn and invited to watch an autopsy. I cannot wait — I cannot wait — for that to fade from the headlines, if only so that something else can take its place.

Fortunately, not only is the silly but harmlessly addictive Dancing With The Stars returning tonight, but ABC is also premiering Castle, a banter-filled procedural starring the delightful Nathan Fillion (of Firefly and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, among other projects).

But for now, Ashlee Simpson Wentz is headed to Melrose Place. TLC has another show about little people. It's just that kind of day.