A tribute to the Bay!

The Rock was on TV yesterday. I don't know if you've seen it, but it's got Nicholas Cage in the roll of a sciencegeek, Sean Connery as a convict and Ed Harris as some sort of hardboiled armyguy. Yes, I know - sounds like a hit, doesn't it? I watched about 15 mins and then I must've switched the channel or something, because I can't remember watching the ending. Of course, I already know how it ends. I've seen it before. Once. When it was new - about 1997 here in Sweden. So that's about 12 years ago. I was 12 then and it gave me nightmares. Of course. Because everything gave me nightmares at that time. Looking at it now I can't for the love of god understand how I could feel bad watching it. Seriously, Sean Connery as a convict - sure, I can take it. Nicholas Cage as a sciencegeek - maybe, if I'm drunk - but Ed Harris as a hardboiled badguy... yesterday, that just wasn't convincing. And maybe I got it wrong - maybe he belonged to the good guys, but to be honest, I think I was too bored to find out. I think I'm a bit more snobby now when it comes to movies than I was 12 years ago and a part of me is actually afraid that if I had seen The Dark Crystal (still has the record for shortest watching ever - 17 mins) I would actually have liked it. Probably because it was "dolls woooo".