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Bereamic Awesome Movie

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

OllieSuave-007 This might be an old black and white TV series from the 1950s, but it has definitely stood well through the test of times. Comedian Lucille Ball stars as Lucy Ricardo, the wife of Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz) who wants to become a star like her husband and, as a result, would get herself in the oddest of situations. She also makes life frantic in the apartment building she and Ricky share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz (William Frawley and Vivian Vance).This show has a combination of just the right amount of witty humor and slapstick comedy - tastefully done which sends side-splitting laughter to everyone. The timing of Lucille's comic relief is impeccable and her facial expressions in every frustrated, odd or comedic situation are just perfect. From Lucy's buzzed Vitameatavegamin episode to the chocolate-wrapping fiasco, and from her grape-stomping fight to her bread-making disaster, it's a TV-series in a league of its own! Grade A

Elewis1195 It's funny reading these reviews. I came here after I Love Lucy was praised in the new TV-book that came out and it was a ground breaking show in many ways. It was colorful, it was vulgar (for TV at the time), and it was comedy, so the vulgar was OK.I grew up in the 70s, this show aired in the 50s but it was still running in reruns when I used to watch TV as a kid. I saw a fair bit of it and I was never impressed. The physical humor didn't do it for me. (Lucy had talent but she was no Charlie Chaplin or Groucho Marks in the comedy scale). I found the show, while growing up, Tedius and Boring. As an adult, I can respect it more for what it meant to history but growing up it was among my least favorite shows. I realize now that much of the humor was geared towards adult/married audiences who might enjoy the marriage troubles so it was never really a kids show, the way much of television was.I also don't think it's timeless, I think it's dated. It's history, but it's not timeless. A lot of the humor seems flat by today's standards. I respect the show. I think it changed television but I never particularly enjoyed it. 10 stars out of 10 for it's effect on TV, 5 stars for it's watchability (and perhaps it deserves a bit less). People are welcome to feel different, and reading the reviews, many do, but that's my take.

bkoganbing I read somewhere that the biggest fear that CBS had in airing I Love Lucy was that Desi Arnaz's heavy Spanish accent would not be understood by the viewing audience. Not only did that prove not to be true, but Desi occasionally mangling the language became a good staple for jokes.The show that typified the 50s made its debut in 1951 and ran through to 1960 albeit in an hour occasional special format by then. And it ran it seemed forever and ever on weekday mornings on CBS. Long after Lucy and Desi were divorced in real life, everybody wanted to see Lucille Ball's antics even though they had seen them a gazillion times by then. Who didn't like to see Lucy stomping the grapes in Italy and getting into a grape fight with one of the locals? Or getting trapped against the kitchen wall by a loaf of bread she baked with too much yeast? Or my particular favorite, her buying two sides of beef and getting enough meat to stock a butcher store and then storing it in what she thinks is a cold furnace. Greatest barbecue in history as she points out in the end of the episode.And meeting movie stars, those episodes were in a class by themselves. Despite being married to an orchestra leader on TV and in real life, she was obsessed with celebrities of all kinds. Desi's trip to Hollywood was a season in and of itself with her getting Richard Widmark to autograph a grapefruit, John Wayne's footprints being stolen and my favorite of William Holden getting a pie in the face at the Brown Derby. Could Brad Pitt take a pie like Holden, I ask you?Lucy was aided and abetted in her goofy madness by Vivian Vance who was her neighbor and landlord's wife. Always reluctant, but always going along, the Ricardos and Mertzes had a landlord/tenant relationship like none other in history. The landlord was William Frawley irascible tightwad, but lovable in his own way. In real life Frawley and Vance couldn't stand each other and that lent their scenes a bit of unexpected bite. I Love Lucy set the standard for a half hour situation comedy that everyone else has followed. The writing was superb, the situations were classic and it's all imitated right down to today. Still those syndicated reruns are watched somewhere in the world every minute.What's not to like about Lucy?

earlytalkie What can I say that many others have not? Everyone has their favorite episode or episodes, the series has not been off the air since it's debut in 1951, and it deserves all the allocades it has gotten over the years. If there ever was TV "comfort food", it is "I Love Lucy." Depressed or bothered by something? Watching "Lucy" will make you, at least for half-an-hour forget your troubles. For a show made 60 years ago, the stories and situations still seem fresh and undated, not something you can say about other, more recent sitcoms. The mere fact that I can still laugh out loud while watching any episode of this classic, is testament to it's enduring greatness. "Lucy" is still played many times a day here in the Chicago area, on cable as well as local channels, and anytime I come across an episode while "channel surfing", I have the urge to see the whole thing. Yes, I have seen every episode untold number of times, but my enjoyment of the show remains undiminished. The film prints on the DVD sets are in beautiful shape, and I have no doubt that 100 years from now, people will still be watching and laughing at Lucy's manic antics. This is the classic of classics, and will always be the benchmark by which other sitcoms are measured.