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ToddVanDerWerff
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Ah, but do you want to push the original or the sequel? Both are great, but I figure in a situation like this, you really need to rally behind one or the other. In that case, I would probably go for Pig In The City.

Crash is the rare time when the Best Picture winner already had a very large, sizable group of detractors who weren't arguing that it didn't deserve BP, but, rather, that it was actually a terrible movie. Add to that the fact that it won the award because of at least some degree of homophobic Brokeback Mountain

I'd include Girls in the number of shows where fans were heavily disappointed by the second season after the first, sure. I thought it was a really strong season of TV (if not as good as the first), but it was unquestionably full of stuff that turned off some portion of the fanbase. Season three seems to have won most

Babe would actually be my pick for that year and is very high on my top 10 movies of that year. It's wondrous.

Sense And Sensibility and Babe are both really good. Apollo 13 is enjoyable. Il Postino was never going to win but is also fun. Really, either Sense or Apollo WOULD have won, but their momentum got stunted by Ron Howard and Ang Lee's director snubs. It was widely seen as Howard's year until that happened, and then

Crash is by far the worst. But I think there are only maybe around five others that can seriously compete with Braveheart for second worst.

He got a makeover, and he looks very fancy now.

Well, we're also not covering it weekly, so.

I think you may just be reading comments in the wrong order because a.) we don't have a moderator and b.) I can see all of them in the right order.

Nobody's deleted anything? Your reply is right there. I just read it.

"Modern Warfare" was the lowest-rated episode of season one. It's not "the reason the show is still on the air."

As I explained below, his jokes were usually at the expense of those less powerful than himself, AND they were predictable and unfunny.

My point isn't that I want a bland, stagnant show. It's that Fallon is already being blanded out by The Tonight Show.

Every single "study" of the Millennial generation has concluded they are far more earnest and sincere than their immediate predecessors, Gen X. I think generational theory is pretty much bullshit, but NBC is obviously banking on it with the Fallon choice.

See below.

Every single one of his major recurring segments is about making fun of people from a position of superiority. Like, what is Jaywalking but that? And what is Headlines but that? That kind of humor MAYBE has its place, but Leno's Tonight Show overrelied on it to a stunning degree.

a.) A "neutral review" is impossible, because reviews are inherently biased.

If Jay Leno joins the Jackass gang for the next movie, I will be more than happy to revise my opinion on him.

I don't particularly care if the monologue is unfunny if everything else is crackling along. For instance, I think Conan is similarly weak at monologues, but I have fun with his show when I drop in after the monologue. (Conan's comedy bits between the monologue and the interviews are often among the best out there.

I liked Rapper's Delight a fair amount. Evolution of hip hop dancing didn't make me smile even once.