Am I crazy or it's better to start in the middle of the story instead of starting from the very beginning?

Am I crazy, or is it better to start in the middle of the story instead of starting from the very beginning? I thought about it, and it would make for a shitty story because all the cool stuffs happen way past the very beginning, and it would be a chore to go through all of the events. You can just show some parts of the characters' backstory and skip much of it.