For me, American cinema today has a lot of things going for it, but good stories are hard to come by. My experience of watching movies tends to be getting engaged and into the plot, trying to guess the whole way what’s going to happen next, and either becoming disgusted with how predictable it is or (even worse) feeling totally betrayed by some stupid ending to what was otherwise an interesting story.

This is why I tend to like Science Fiction movies, the occasional clever comedy (or ridiculously stupid comedy), and more “serious” genres like romances or dramas if they’re a little quirky. All of them I judge based on the quality and philosophical content of the story-line.