The buzz this morning over Ben Affleck’s heist thriller The Town taking the number one slot on its opening weekend is that it’s a rare victory for an adult-oriented movie over more juvenile also-rans. On the one hand, yippee: The Town was the best-reviewed opener—smart, capably directed, and well-acted—and it’s the type of movie that Hollywood should be producing with regularity. On the other, c’mon: This is a straightforward, action-packed, meat-and-potatoes genre picture, not a deep cut in Carl Dreyer’s filmography. How bad has it gotten that we need to single out those rare examples of studio movies that aren’t completely braindead? In any case, The Town cruised to #1 with $23.8 million, enough to outpace the mostly well-received Emma Stone vehicle Easy A, which finished strong in second with $18.2 million (and on an $8 million budget to boot). That left the M. Night Shyamalan-produced stinker Devil to limp into third with $12.6 million, a total that probably at least covers the cost of the elevator set that takes up half its screen time.