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A great show up until Tom Sloane is introduced, at which point it slips into the same banal, tired "teenage" (aka what TV executives think teenagers are like) melodrama that the show ironically skewered in the previous seasons. Still worth watching, though, if only for the side characters who manage to keep on keeping on, even if not as much as they probably should.

It's not as good as the two movies that preceded it, of course, but it's not as bad, either. On its own, though? It's a solid film. I'd recommend it for some carefree, silly fun.

I thought the book was bad, but this was something else entirely. Saoirse Ronan, as always, is talented, and knows how to keep you interested. Brian Eno made one hell of a great soundtrack. But both are ultimately wasted because the movie ultimately fails to deliver everywhere else. The movie has no idea what it wants to be, like many have said, but hey, at least PJ didn't keep that one scene from the book in - you know the one. Doesn't mean his version is any less reprehensible, though. Overall, Roger Ebert was right and if I could give this movie zero stars, I would. It's, in my opinion, the worst movie I have ever seen. Even on its own, it's a disgusting waste of potential (the March 2007 screenplay was so much better than the final product) and to treat the subject matter so flippantly leaves me breathless, especially Peter Jackson's remarks about how detractors of his direction should just "go watch SAW" or whatever. Lost all respect for the guy, especially when so many primetime TV shows and movies have managed to depict the subject matter decently enough. If you don't feel comfortable tackling a serious issue, then don't do it. Makes me wonder how Lynne Ramsay would've handled things; probably without all the masturbatory CGI nonsense, that's for sure. Simply put, watch anything else.

The GOAT, as far as I'm concerned. Picked up where the Simpsons left off (as the zombification began) and ran with it. Even its worst episodes are better than whatever they produce today. A bonafide classic that shows what happens when you actually try to make a quality program instead of just checking tropes off a list to own some vocal, terminally online minority.

Probably the worst decline and fall you'll ever see in the world of television. Props to Matt Groening and team for changing television as we know it, but you put George R.R. Martin to shame, Matt, with how little you care about your own work.

Sure, maybe it started to falter in the end (hence the four stars) but overall, this show was great. Everyone played their roles perfectly, and there's plenty of laughs to go around, as the show pokes fun at the silly, mundane aspects of life. They took a simple premise and ran with it. A shame it didn't get the ending it deserved. It's My So Called Life all over again - another show that didn't get its fair shake.

The most overrated show of all time. Also, don't blame D&D for how dismal the ending was. Blame George R.R. Martin for not finishing his series, leaving them with no choice but to wing it. Maybe he should've pulled himself up by his bootstraps (like old folks so often like to say) and got to work instead of slacking off? Nice soundtrack, though.

Thanks for the memories, James, but you really need to put yourself out of your own misery at this point. You clearly have lost all interest in your work, and like George R.R. Martin, you're stringing along your fans, desperately trying to get them to give a hoot about anything other than what's keeping you from working a boring 9-5 like the rest of us. Bigger and (to be honest) better folks have picked up the torch from you and ran with it, and now you're just the YouTube equivalent to the Simpsons. It's a shame. Used to like your stuff, but with all that's gone on, the magic's gone. What a crapload of frick, as you'd say.