The Dude At TNT Knows.

You know who should get an Emmy for Lifetime Achievement In The Category Of Television Programming? The guy who picks out the TNT movie. That one movie that TNT buys and then runs everyday, four times a day, for the next two years. He’s a genius.

It started a long time ago with The Shawshank Redemption. That movie went basically unnoticed in theaters. It came out the same year as Pulp Fiction and Forrest Gump. But guess what happens when you put it on TV twice a day for two years? The dude at TNT knows. You realize that it’s way better than stupid Forrest Gump and even a little better then Pulp Fiction! And we’re talking about a movie that, on TV with commercials, is four hours long.

After we all watched Shawshank a billion times and TNT made a trillion bucks you know they asked the same guy to pick another movie. So then the dude decided it was time to show off and picked An American President. Seriously, An American President! And guess what happens the 1^st, 14^th and 37^th time you flip to it? Somehow you watch it and enjoy it! I’m convinced young people aged 18 to 25 only know Richard Dreyfuss as ‘My name is Bob Rumson and I’m running for President!’

Anyways, this dude has a legacy of buying and constantly airing OK movies that become crazy good in our minds like A Time to Kill and The General’s Daughter. Yes, The General's Daughter. He should be honored. Seriously, someone look him up and we should make some type of plaque for him with wood and brass and engravings. Because trust me, one weekend this fall when the weather turns or you get a cold you’re going to sit on your couch and turn on The DaVinci Code or GI Jane ten minutes in. Then, three commercial-ridden hours later, you’re going to be like ‘that was really good’. Will you be right? It doesn’t even matter, because that guy at TNT was.