I was having a conversation recently about movies I'd paid money for to see in the theater but that ended up desperately, totally crushing my soul with their terrible-ness. Sure, lots of movies end up being "meh" or slightly disappointing, but occasionally a movie is so very bad, so heart-stoppingly terrible, it makes you just totally aware of how you will never get those two hours of your life back.

For me, that movie is "Hollow Man." Followed by "Meet Joe Black." What's yours?

My vote to Harrison Ford

I've mentioned the random weekend movies on FOX before. Well, today we had a goodie. Harrison Ford as POTUS, saving his family and many hostages in Air Force One.

As I watch America's best looking fictional president do us proud, I think of how our current presidential candidates are, well, wussy Yale-educated political pansies who fight with each other like first graders.

I'm so sick of all of them, especially the Clintons and I'm-so-sweet-and-innocent-cough-cough Obama. People keep asking me who I'm picking in the primary. I'm just not picking. I'm disgusted with both Hillary and Obama. Both campaigns are the opposite of presidential, and they've both made me think less of my options. In fact, it's made me upset that Kucinich has dropped out, because he really would have gotten my vote at this point.

So, bring on Harrison Ford. He gets my vote.

For the terrible movies list

When you only have basic cable, your television options on a Saturday afternoon consist of infomercials or a terrible movie on FOX. Today, I opted for the terrible movie.

Today's awful movie was Firestorm. You can watch the trailer here. Here's the basic premise -- some convicts escape prison and their lawyer sets a forest fire for them to escape into. At the same time, an ornithologist is being saved by a strapping firefighter named Jesse Graves. As you can imagine, much action ensues.

But what makes this movie so fantastic besides its horrible fire graphics, completely absurd fight scenes, and ridiculous dialogue and plot, is that the star, Jesse Graves, is pro football hall-of-famer Howie Long. The whole time I was watching the really bad acting, I kept thinking: "Where have I seen that guy?" And then it hit me, in strangely shiny suits on The NFL on FOX.

Unless your only other movie option is Catwoman, don't ever watch this film.

True Crime At The Movies

One of the best true crime books I’ve read in the last year is Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town. Despite my affinity for true crime reading, it’s not a book I would normally have picked up—I typically go for the more sensational stuff.

Anyway, I happened to be in Austin for the weekend last fall with my husband, and we were checking out a local independent bookstore; I was out of vacation reading material already, and Tulia was a highlighted staffer’s pick in the true crime section. I scanned the blurb on the back, thought it looked interesting enough, and made the purchase.

Needless to say, I was captivated. I finished reading the 450-page book in less than two days. The book tells the story of a 1999 drug bust that resulted in the arrests of approximately 15 percent of Tulia’s black population. The charges were based on the undercover work of a shady cop, and numerous convictions resulted from his testimony—despite the fact that none of his 100-plus drug buys (mostly cocaine, which was suspicious in and of itself in such a small, impoverished town) were ever corroborated.

It’s an amazing story of small-town politics, corruption and eventual justice. So I was pleased to read in this week’s Entertainment Weekly that a movie based the Tulia scandal is in the works, with Halle Berry set to star as an NAACP lawyer who intervenes to aid the wrongfully convicted. The movie is set to start shooting in May—and assuming a Jerry Bruckheimer-esque producer doesn’t jump in and add a wacky courthouse explosion to the mix, it should be worthwhile viewing.