A post a day(ish)... Double Jeopardy...

Sooooo....

I'm gonna try and give you something to read everyday(fingers crossed everybody), some days(like today) will just be some random detritus, while other days will be a little more structured etc.

Let's begin...

So my partners (I have two writing partners and we work together everyday via Skype) and I took the day off. Now, today happened to be a fairly lazy day, thanks in part to the shitty weather, so around noon the movie network was playing the 1999 Box Office smash hit/Ashley Judd vehicle "Double Jeopardy." Now it may surprise you that I was rather pleased to spend 2 hours with the sexy starlet and was excited to see it as I knew that it had made a ton of money and I'd never seen it.

So, to catch everybody up, Judd is framed for the murder of her husband and goes to jail, only to find out that her husband (Bruce Greenwood) is still alive and living high on the hog after faking his death. Luckily Ashley happens to be cell mates with a ex lawyer who tells her of the wonder that is the Double Jeopardy law (excluding any different state laws)... Alright, as a writer I must say that is a pretty decent premise, (spoiler alert for a 11 year old movie) but they totally bail on the end by couching her eventual killing of said husband in a total bullshit saving of her parole officer, Tommy Lee Jones (also, inexplicably, an ex-lawyer) in one of his all time phoned in performances. Now wouldn't it have been waaaay cooler if she'd have just blown her husbands brains out in cold blood like the audience definitely wanted her too. At least it would have made the lame "tear jerking" reunion with her long lost son a little more interesting if she'd just killed his Dad.

Ok... Now I know that it's never been thought of as a great movie, but come on, it made 177 million dollars world wide. That's a hit. But it got me thinking, I have a sneaky feeling that there was a time in the late 90's and early 2000's that there were secretly some really shitty movies raking in some major cash. So, off to the coin op computer to check it out... Now there are a couple good movies in the mix, but mostly they are overwhelmingly shitty, some examples, "What Women Want", "Phantom Menace", "The Grinch", Mission Impossible 2, the list goes on and on. Now I know that you can pick a few stinkers out of every year, but scarier was the fact that almost none of the good movies have great re-watchability (the ultimate tell of a great movie). Now does this mean that they were off years? Or, will hindsight do this to all of the good and fun movies these days, Dark Knight, Inception, Iron Man, etc?

Now with of this swirling around in my head I checked out last years big box office winners.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2009&p=.htm

Yuck.... Pretty Grim...This may not be a passing trend. I may need to write that movie about the machines that turn into sexy teenage vampire comic book hero's that take in a Giant Black homeless guy and turn him into a NFL left tackle while creating a pop group with some small rodents that are remaking a 1960's sci-fi TV series, after all... And shoot it in 3D...

Sounds like box office gold.

Thanks for listening...

Welcome to the Fun-derdome?

Hi yall,

Just thought I stick a few more quarters into the coin op computer and tack hammer up some thoughts for you to enjoy(despise?). Not much to say here as it's my first dip into the tepid pool that is the innernet, but this is merely a promise that there are things to come... many things.