We Dun Gone All the Way Back Round to Sane

It's Friday.  So it's time for some incoherent rambling and random links.

Recently I voluntarily saw 1) Knight & Day and 2) The Expendables.  In theaters no less.  Where I paid $13 per ticket for movies I knew would be bad.  The hope, of course, is that they would be good bad movies.  These are movies that are so bad that they somehow come full circle all the way around back to being good.  I haven't decided yet if they succeeded.  I am leaning towards yes.  Why?  The key for me is that I have to believe they intended to make a good movie but failed.  Don't give me any of these intentionally bad movies that you can only enjoy ironically like Snakes On A Plane.  That is some bullshit.

No, I want movies where the directors and actors delusionally believe they will make something awesome but as an outsider familiar with their work you know they have no fucking chance.  The 80s perfected this.  What a decade.  Go watch Tango and Cash, for example, and tell me that a) it's not completely insane and b) those involved created the insanity intentionally.  You can't.

I would bet when Tom Cruise and Sly Stallone created these movies, they thought they had masterpieces on their hands.

As for the Bengals, I believe they may have executed this concept to perfection with their roster.  Two rules right now dominate the decision to bring crazy people onto your team.