I tend to agree. I think there is emotion there — I found Carol moving (if sometimes still a little self-conscious), and I'm Not There is probably my favorite of his — but they usually feel like exercises to me. Even the much-loved Safe, though it kind of creeped me out and impressed me all at once, feels very…

Well, they try to make up for it (ish?) with the Avenged Sevenfold shirt this time.

Ahh, given how many people talk about stuff I know from my 20s as stuff they "grew up on," this admonishment is a soothing balm.

But I'm more of a #NotMyRowley guy myself

I had to look up this meme to make sure it wasn't some dumb Red Letter Media thing and THANK THE STARS it does not appear to be!

IT IS INDEED. As a member of the high school class of '98, it had the described effect on me.

Besides the policy that @benfoldsfanin3d:disqus describes, I personally kinda like the Wimpy Kid series. ROWLEY POWER.

C'mon folks… that one wasn't so bad. Help me out here, folks.

Gotcha. The thing is, as much as people speak with authority about this kind of thing, it's hard to actually quantify the reasons that any movie bombs.

You guys know that "gay panic" is not a term Rabin invented, right?

Wait, just to clarify, are you saying that no good British movie has ever bombed in America?

When most of SNL, often edited but not as heavily as the hourlong cutdowns, was on Netflix, I was in my glory. I don't see myself paying $3 a month for the ability to watch old SNL but maybe I'll subscribe for a few months at some point and try to mainline as much as possible.

I think Fallon solo would have been like that but Fey had a real edge to her stuff that made me wake up and pay attention to WU (rather than dreading it) for the first time since Norm. Which wasn't that along ago at the time, but it sure felt like it.

I think Fey and Meyers affect more of a traditional wiseass demeanor. Norm is obviously a wiseass, but his jokes tend to be a lot more conceptual and weird — he often used news items as an excuse to write his own little perfectly crafted jokes, whereas Fey and Meyers feel a little more genuinely engaged with the…

I believe he did — as did Christopher Guest! But I've seen so relatively little of those. Some of the cut down hourlong versions that used to play on Comedy Central, but those didn't always even bother including Update (or "Saturday Night News" as it was known for a little while).

I was in college from '98 to '02 (I feel like you gave yourself kind of a wide berth there, guess-wise; high school OR college for a seven-year period? All you really guessed is that I'm under 40!). I totally agree that people tend to love whatever SNL stuff was on when they were young, except (a.) I saw classic SNL…

I liked Nealon at the time — how could I not, he was the one doing Update when I started watching the show regularly — but every time I catch a rerun, I'm shocked by how tepid he is. Once in a while, he does a GREAT deadpan silly joke but the crumminess I remember as mostly being in his last season or two was actually…

It's not really a problem and I wouldn't even say I DEMAND he stop his show… I'd just personally be more interested if he did something else. I think he's brilliant and probably the most purely funny of any late night host. I just think he could do better than a somewhat tired format. Like if he was doing the Tonight…

He's probably my favorite, and I do think you could see his style influence even someone seemingly incompatible with it, like Fallon, who totally did some Norm-style jokes when he was on Update with Fey.

He had a second one, A Minute with Stan Hooper, that was closer to that mark.