Going to the movies can be just for . . . fun

RE the review of “10,000 BC” [“Way Out of the Past,” March 7]: I was glad to see that even Kenneth Turan is willing to give credit (up to a point) to a film with no other agenda than to amaze and excite and thrill and simply provide a fun time at the neighborhood movie theater.

Some movies are elegant works of art. Others are galvanizing depictions of the human drama. Still others skillfully toy with our perceptions -- of reality, of time, of truth. And some are simply fun.

I remember when my father would ask my 12-year-old self if I wanted to go to a movie, he never once said, “C’mon, it’ll be edifying.”

David Butler

Los Angeles