Movies that are fun to watch without necessarily being particularly good. The sort of film you sit down to watch while eating copious amounts of popcorn and drinking soda by
the gallon at the theater.
Often contain a lot of fluff and special-effects, and are generally little more than silly, pure
escapism. Which is why they're fun to watch after a long week of dealing with fucktards at work or school.
The 90's and early 2000's were the
heyday of popcorn-movies thanks to the development of better special effects and filming techniques that were fun to watch... but often came at the expense of story and serious character development. However, with the growing popularity of "gritty" and "realistic" films (aka, boring-ass
Zack Snyder bullshit where everything is filmed in extreme shaky closeup and stories go on about twice as long as they need to), popcorn-movies in the late-2000's through the present no longer contain the fun or
wow factor they once had. Now it's just lame, joyless bullshit.
The 1999 version of "
The Mummy" is a REAL 'popcorn movie.'
Fucking "Transformers 17: Reign of the Rise of the Revenge of
Vengence in 3D" or whatever horseshit is passing for 'popcorn movies' these days is just
grating bullshit.