What this blog is about

Movies should be fun. It's hard to believe that actually needs to be said, but it's true. Different people expect different things from movies, I realize. There are people who like to be educated, or have their heartstrings strummed with tragedy. But they are a small minority. The rest of us go to movies to enjoy ourselves. To escape for a couple of hours into an adventure. Into the lives of other people.

For some movie-goers, it's fun to be scared. For others, it's fun to see romance. A slasher film fan can watch one slasher flick after another without getting bored, and without fretting about the plot being "predicatable". Same for fans of romantic comedies. There's almost never a real surprise in those, but those who like that genre (myself included) don't care, so long as it's done well.

I've seen a lot of movies in my lifetime. Most of them were fun. Some of them were devastatingly un-fun. Nixon, for example, was three hours of my life that I will never get back, and which I consider wasted. And I'm convinced that most people who went to see it did so out of a morbid fascination with the subject, or because of the names involved (Anthony Hopkins, Oliver Stone). But the movie wasn't fun. Not even a little.

In this blog, I'm going to review movies. Some of them will be new movies. Some of them will be old movies. Some of them will be reviews of movie trailers where the movie itself isn't even out yet (and in most cases, posts like that will be followed with actual reviews of the movie).

I'm open to suggestions of movies that you think I should review, but that doesn't mean I necessarily will review any given movie. If it doesn't seem like it's going to be fun to watch, I'm probably not going to bother. Because like the title says, "Movies Should Be Fun." Life's too short for anything else.