Going to this in a couple of hours. Escape to the Movies is a great video series basically because Bob sees the movies for the same reasons I do. If I wasn't going to 2012 to expect big fun visuals and big dumb fun and wanted, I dunno, a dark reimagining of the "end of the world" genre then there'd probably be something wrong with me.
Dumb doesn't mean bad by the way. Dumb is watching a sitcom at the end of a hard day's work. Dumb is engrossing yourself in a simple-minded movie with great visuals as a complete escape from your mundane existance. There's nothing wrong with this, in fact if the only reason you go to films is to see something that probably will be nominated for screenplay Oscars then fuck right off because you bore me. Sure those films are great to but I don't go to the movies to see those kind of films, (unless it's a film festival.) I go to the movies to see something that's going to blow my mind without actually requiring it to do any work.
As an aside, is anyone else getting sick of the "dark reimagining" thing?