It's a good movie, but incredibly solemn, and the second you start seeing the ridiculous side of it, it all falls apart. I saw it in an empty theater with one other friend, which is definitely the way to go. Otherwise, I have a hunch that the audience would have been laughing the entire time.

Speaking of Maria Covarrubias, I'm glad to see that Laurie Holden is doing all right for herself. If you're going to hitch your wagon to a writer/director's star, you could do a lot worse than Frank Darabont.

At this point, the best we can hope for might be a couple of new TV movies—which, to be honest, wouldn't be altogether a bad thing. Maybe on December 22, 2012?

Judging from the last X-Files movie, they'd be better off keeping Chris Carter as far away as possible.

@Zack and Todd: If there's any uncertainty about whether you're going to push onto the second and third seasons of Millennium, please, please at least give us writeups of "Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense" and "Somehow Satan Got Behind Me." (If nothing else, you owe it to yourselves.)

I seem to remember that "Home" aired with a special disclaimer about how disturbing it was. If anything, they understated their case.

Hey, from this season alone, we've still got "Home," "The Field Where I Died," "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man," "Paper Hearts," "Never Again," "Small Potatoes," and probably a few more that I've forgotten about. Not all are classics, but they're at least interesting.

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Always loved X's death scene, even though it's pretty much a straight lift from The Untouchables. I also wish they'd postponed the explanation of "SRSG" to a subsequent episode—Maria Covarrubias slides into place a bit too neatly, and those bloody letters on the floor would have been a nice final image.

@Dr.Robuttnik: My brief flirtation with stockpicking ended in the best possible way, i.e., with zero success, but no particular loss. These days, I outsource my investing, such as it is, to Vanguard—index, diversify, buy and hold—and I'm much happier. (If nothing else, it means I have more time to post on the AV Club.)

@Dr.Robuttnik: Yes, a laptop would be useful, too. Luckily, mine already has a DVD player, so I think I'm set.

My story: in 2002, I bought 100 shares of stock in Netflix—one of the first stocks I ever bought—when it was trading at $7.00 a share, thinking that it was a promising company with a great business model. Within a few weeks, it jumped to $9.00 a share, so I promptly sold it, netting a nice $200 profit. Sweet.

I'll second that. All I really need in life, aside from Mrs. The Information, is Wi-Fi, Netflix, and a library card.

A boy with gonorrhea has never wept, nor dashed a thousand kim.

I also like the "Gorilla's Choice" brand of bananas from a later episode.

@Fat Tony: Okay, drop the knife, Stabitha!

I believe that "stabby" originated with The Simpsons, circa 1999 (Fat Tony: "I don't get mad—I get stabby"), unless there's an earlier Buffy reference that I don't know about.

@Z: Agreed about everything except the Pirates movies, which are unique in being the only existing megafranchise—and arguably the only such franchise in history—that is utterly dependent on the involvement of its lead actor. Spider-Man? You can reboot it with a new actor, at least in theory. But not Pirates. Which is…

Also, why does Jolie get first billing? She's erratic at the box office, at best, and he's arguably the biggest male star in the world who isn't named Will Smith.

He looks pretty good to me. Although maybe it's also because this is his first movie in years—well, except for Public Enemies—where he isn't wearing some kind of bizarre disguise.

I've had a huge crush on Pidgeon ever since State and Main (and The Winslow Boy), so maybe it's just a matter of taste.