So Random

Just have a few random thoughts today as we swing into the weekend.

I really have to wonder what sort of pitch was used to convince studio executives to spend millions of dollars of their company's money in order to make a movie that could be summarized like this:

Two friends and business partners find their lives turned upside down when strange circumstances lead to them being placed in the care of 7-year-old twins.

I can only imagine copious amounts of alcohol mixed with some sort of animal tranquilizer/cough syrup/herbal laxative concoction along with the most bendable prostitutes currently working in the Hollywood area had something to do with it. I'd hate to think some corporate money man actually read the script and ran out to his co-workers screaming, "YES, YES, PRODUCING THIS MOVIE IS WHAT I WANT MY LEGACY TO BE."

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17 Again is getting better reviews than I would have expected. I am truly and thoroughly rooting for this film's failure since, if it's a hit, it will revive the execrable fad of movies where an adult switches bodies with a teenager. Sure, that particular trend produced Big with Tom Hanks. We also got 18 Again with George Burns and Dream A Little Dream in which Jason Robards changed bodies with Corey Freaking Feldman. Movies like that in which the old guy becomes young always have the scene where the old guy teaches the young whippersnappers some sort of song or dance from his youth which is always perceived as being cooler than anything happening today, something that seems likely this time around since the commercial has Zac Efron doing the Hammer dance. I have no idea if that's well received by the movie's other characters but if it takes the path of realism and Efron's character gets mercilessly ridiculed, I will at least have a measure of respect for this movie.

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I wonder which will be the worst movie coming out on May 1, Wolverine or Matthew McConaughey's Dickens ripoff Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. Normally I'd go with the dumb action movie over the dumb comedy since even the worst action films can have a few halfway decent stunts or special effects scenes whereas a bad comedy can make you long for the sweet, merciful embrace of death. This time, however, I just really don't like the look of Wolverine. Oh well, something to look forward to.

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I was thinking the other day about one of the first porn films I ever saw. Damned if I can remember the name of it and, really, does it matter? However, it did have one memorable scene where a female spy was trying to pass along some sort of sensitive information to her male counterpart. After she did so, the guy said, "Okay, that's done, now come down here and give me head." The woman at first was revolted by that but then the guy said, "Shut up. We both know I couldn't stop you if I tried," and, sure enough, he was right and she blew him. To this day, I find it an awesome concept that there's a woman out there who so absolutely MUST suck a dick that no attempt a man made to stop her would be successful. It's truly genius filmmaking. I could try to track it down and watch it again but it would probably be like the time I saw Buckaroo Bonzai ten years after it came out. I loved it when I first saw it but, ten years later, I thought it sucked harder than the female spy did in that movie. No, better to just leave my memories intact.