This was a quote from Matt Damon when he appeared on aussie TV show ‘Enough Rope’ in 2004:
ANDREW DENTON: So what’s the maths of the A list? Now that you’re there, how many non-hot movies do you have to make before you start to slide off it?
MATT DAMON: I don’t know. I was told three. I was told you get… It’s like three strikes, you know? And that was why when…during ‘The Bourne Identity’ when that… That was the third movie. I had done two movies. I had done ‘The Legend of Bagger Vance’ and ‘All the Pretty Horses’ and both those movies really tanked at the box office and they also were critical failures, so it was said that ‘The Bourne Identity’ was like my third strike. It had been in post production for so long that everyoBy ne said, “Well, this has got to be a turkey because it hasn’t come out and it’s been a year and a half.” So when it came out… So I guess it was like during that year and a half when my phone stopped ringing, basically, when it was like kind of clear to me that, “Oh, alright. Everyone sees the writing is on the wall for my career.”
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s1183849.htm
Just came to mind when i tried to watch another terrible Channing Tatum movie last night called ‘Dear John’. And please don’t tell me it was all about the ending, or something ridiculous like that. Nothing could justify that badly acted, slow paced, predictable-as-anything first half of the movie before I switched off.
Of course, the following assumes that Tatum is in fact on the ‘A list’, which seems to be the case, as much as i wish there was somebody with a little more talent that the fat cats in Hollywood could have promoted to this coveted level.
By my calculations, before ‘Dear John’, his last two movies were:
and… drum-roll…
‘Fighting’
So surely ‘Dear John’ is strike three?
