Confessional

While Babymamma was out with friend, and while Babygirl were asleep, Babydaddy got stuck watching TV. Since it's a holiday week, there's nothing but bad movieson , but Babydaddy managed to sit through a movie he's seen several times.

There's something about a movie, that involved blue collar men behaving and doing blue collar work, like drilling into the ground to tap oil reserves. There's also something about space and flight that fascinates me, any space SciFi related movie(Star Wars, Star Trek, Aliens, Apollo 13, Top Gun, etc.). On top of all that you have actors who just play their interesting characters, nothing memorable or Oscar worthy, but nothing as bad as B movies. It also helps that you have a female character who's pale skinned and has dark hair(both my wife and mom have these features). Of course you have themes such as heroism, fate of mankind, love, brotherhood, trust, conflict, patriotism, underdogs, going rogue, a feel good ending, shots of ideal Americana, etc. Btw there's also a cheesy Aerosmith song that gets played at the end of the movie as well, and general likeable soundtrack.

Babydaddy could probably go on and on about the various scenes and dialogue that are compelling to him, but he'll save himself the embarrassment. Sure the science behind the movie, as well as the whole premise of the movie is highly unlikely, but it's a movie, and in the end it's compelling enough entertainment where you can get sucked into a movie and escape from the reality for a short period of time.

This movie was made in 1998, it has a cast of Bruce Willis, acting in a non cop Die Hard kind of way. You have Billy Bob Thorton playing a disabled man pre Monster's Ball. Ben Affleck before he started to over act, JLo or wife/kids and being a director. Michael Clark Duncan just playing a small roll, Owen Wilson playing a zany guy who gets killed, Steve Buscemi just getting into his character as he always does, and of course Liv Tyler.

If you haven't figured it out already, this movie is a Michael Bay movie called Armageddon.

So there you have it, what this says about Babydaddy, I don't know, but it's one of those movies when on TV, I can't just pass it up. Even though I keep telling myself, I'll just watch until this next scene, I just end up watching the whole thing. I'm a sucker. Babymamma knows I'm a sucker, and hopefully Babygirl doesn't know I'm a sucker yet.


*the most reassuring for Babydaddy is that he's not alone in getting sucked into this movie each time it's on TV, just read some of the reviews.