It’s easy to hate on movies. “Everything is just a remake,” you say. “The studios are only interested in money. Nobody just wants to tell stories anymore,” your friend continues. “But guys! Movies are awesome!” That last guy is me, rudely entering your hypothetical conversation. I do that sometimes. I have a good reason, though. Movies are awesome. I love movies. You love movies. We love movies.

About a week ago on Badass Digest, Film Crit Hulk put out a list of why we love movies. You can find it here-  http://badassdigest.com/2012/02/05/why-you-love-movies/ A few days later, Quint from Ain’t It Cool News followed suit and posted his list- http://www.aintitcool.com/node/53531. Now it’s my turn. In no particular order besides stream of thought, here is why I, you, we, and they love movies-

Because of watching horror movies in October.

Because anything can happen.

Because of Tony Jaa’s elbows.

Because where we’re going, we don’t need roads.

Because of what happens when Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Edgar Wright get together.

Because of being a teenager and working up the nerve to hold your date’s hand in a crowded theater.

Because of Indiana Jones.

Because of James Gunn.

Because of the prayer in Pulp Fiction.

Because of the feeling you get after the last preview in a movie you’ve been waiting for for months.

Because the first rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight club.

Because the second rule is you do not. Talk. About Fight Club.

Because Lola Bunny made me feel things my five-year-old body couldn’t understand.

Because of Pixar.

Because of getting the jokes you never used to understand when you were a child.

Because of the soundtrack to Drive.

Because of “Stuck in the Middle with You” in Reservoir Dogs.

Because my ex-girlfriend is catatonic after f*cking a dead guy, and my current girlfriend has sucked 36 d*cks.

Because of slapstick comedy.

Because of watching Joseph Gordon-Levitt go from a weird looking kid playing an alien to a great actor in great movies.

Because the first time I saw boobs in a movie theater it was during Team America: World Police.

Because the second time was Sin City.

Because this… is my BOOMSTICK!

Because of the worst toilet in Scotland.

Because El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth) is beautiful and brutal.

Because of every aspect about American Beauty.

Because of what Christian Bale did to his body in The Machinist.

Because of what Christian Bale did to other people’s bodies in American Psycho. 

Because of Abbott and Costello.

Because of the Marx Brothers.

Because David Cronenberg movies have the weirdest sex scenes.

Because the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park still look real.

Because of Bruce Willis in Die Hard.

Because they can change the way you think, the way you live, and the way you act.

Because of all this and much, much, more.

 

By: Will Bray

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