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Of the three movies opening wide this weekend, none seem to be stirring the imaginations of the movie-going public enough to create any real amount of pre-release buzz. In Movie Say’s buzz rankings, School of Scoundrels currently finds itself 28th, Open Season 40th, and Guardian 41st. The film can be found in the “now in theaters” list, which also includes the movies opening this week.

In fact, even two films on limited release this weekend fare better than the three wide releases: the controversial Jesus Camp (opened last week and adding more theaters now) is currently 8th in the buzz rankings, while the British film The Last King of Scotland (opening this week) that stars Forest Whitaker as the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, finds itself 25th in the rankings.

It is, in the end, highly unlikely that come Monday any film can threaten Jackass: Number Two’s hold of the top position as the most talked about movie currently in theaters.

[Update: Two days later, The Departed shot to the top of the list, while Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning dropped considerably.]

Somewhat surprisingly, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginnings is currently more discussed online than is the upcoming Leonardo DiCaprio movie The Departed. Both films are set to open in the US on October the 6th, and can hence be found in Movie Say’s buzz rankings for upcoming movies.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginnings is a prequel to the 2004 horror thriller Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which in itself was a remake of the controversial 1974 film of the same name. The new film is set four years before the events in the remake took place. The prequel is currently traded at H$55.41 at the Hollywood Stock Exchange, suggesting that the movie is expected to take in more than 55 million dollars in its first four weeks of release. And at least the fans of the original should be flocking to see it: a user at IMDb has described the film as “Full-On Chainsaw. Lots of gore. Very little cheese.”

Meanwhile, the crime drama The Departed, set in South Boston where the Massachusetts State Police is battling the Irish Mob, is a world away from Texas Chainsaw. Directed by Martin Scorsese, The Departed is a remake of a 2002 Hong Kong crime thriller and clocks in at two hours and thirty minutes, plus comes with a star-filled cast including Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, and Alec Baldwin. The film also marks Scorsese’s third subsequent feature film starring DiCaprio in its leading role.

In the end, the difference in buzz between Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning and The Departed is small — only two Movie Say decibels at the time of writing.