Letters to the Editor
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Great Ride --- er, movie
I thoroughly enjoyed this movie! I was a bit put off by the negative reviews but went anyway. It was great fun. The first movie that made me feel the same way as when I go to Disneyland. Yeah. I love going to Disneyland. So what. Fun is fun and this movie is fun if you are not too pretentious to like that sort of thing. I cannot wait to see the end next summer! Of course movies can be so much more, but sometimes I just want to enjoy three hours on a ride and this was it. Reviewers need to keep in mind that not all movies are about anything but having fun. Everyone should just have fun sometimes and fun is sometimes stupid but so what. A great reviewer can understand this and say as much. A narrow-mnded reviewer thinks every movie should be worthy of study in film school. For everyone who works all week and wants to blow three hours having fun on Friday night those reviews are worthless. I love that Salon actually reviews indie's that may not get reviewed elsewhere but I would love it even more if Zacharek could appreciate good crap when he sees it, because sometimes good crap is really, really good crap. Sometimes that's what even thinking people want. "None stop excitement" as Zacharek puts it is wonderful in its own right when it keeps you engaged. So maybe if I were a film critic I would be bored by it, but as a guy who works all week that is sometimes all I want. I loved it. If you can be twelve or want to be twelve for three hours, this movie is for you. If your are just too grown up for that sort of thing, skip it. But, it achieves its aims and anyone trying to consider whether they should see it, must consider that because some movies that aim there fail and this one does not.