On behalf of all miserable, lonely people in the world, let me say how grateful I am to be alive and reasonably well.

I love Lucy (pun intended) and grew up watching it on Nick at Nite, but as a '90s kid, I only recently discovered "The Jack Benny Program."

It's ultimately a sad song, so the advantage has to go to Judy.

2D. I personally hate 3D and refuse to support it. Maybe someday technology will enable 3D movies to be actual immersive holograms like the "chess board" on the Millennium Falcon. Until then, I'm not really interested in putting a pair of dimming glasses over my eyes at the theater.

It was definitely worth it to see it with an eager audience, though they probably laughed more often than I did .

The atmosphere at my opening night screening was surprisingly dignified.

Does Ignatiy still write long(er)-form criticism? I loved his pieces on Mubi/The Auteurs Notebook.

"This IS the movie you're looking for!" - Every other review/Gene Shallit's ghost

"Greatest" meaning large or immense, we used it in the pejorative sense!

I can't wait till they throw his hatless butt in jail!

This thread made me realize that The Simpsons has 20 different quotable jokes involving hats.

1) You could do with this with most films. The story beats in a horror film, western, working-class indie drama are going to have the same elements.

The common, lazy accusation that the movie is a copy of ANH really isn't true. There are some plot details that have had a clever twist applied to them. But that's all. If anything, the movie also "copies" ESB and ROTJ just as much.

Looking at the Amblin library…

"OH MY GAAAAAAD."

The movie definitely isn't awful or badly made. It's just shallow as hell (even by rom-com standards) and wrong-headed as fuck. I think the key to its longevity is the bubbly energy and star-studded cast. This is the movie you have on the background while wrapping presents or talking on the phone.

I respect these last few episodes…but I didn't like them. I absolutely loved the first third of the season and then it gradually lost momentum for me. Then this finale tried to salvage it through more Coen references and a faux-profound anti-climax, which itself might be a Coen reference (i.e. No Country).

Did anyone at AV Club go to the Star Wars world premiere tonight? Dowd, Ignatiy, Sean O'Neal? Seems like every major movie/pop culture website had at least one writer there.

1) Harry Simeone Chorale (reverent, old fashioned magic)
2) Jackson 5 (being sung by an actual boy feels right)
3) Pentatonix (love the beatboxing and buildup/outro)
4) Crosby/Bowie (performance is just solid, but pairing these two is amazing)

While there's no political personage that literally everyone can agree on — especially a black woman — Michelle Obama continuously polls as the one and only consistently popular figure year after year.