If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. Or, you can say, “It’s better than the new Star Wars.” Sounds nice, but in fact, this is the second worst thing you could ever say about anything.
If you tell someone, “your homemade root beer is better than the new Star Wars,” what you’re really saying is, “your homemade root beer is so disappointing, so substandard, so soul-crushingly awful that the only thing in the world that is not better than your homemade root beer is the new Star Wars.”
Should the need arise, you could make the following statements:
“That haircut is better than the new Star Wars!”
“Going to the dentist is better than the new Star Wars!”
“Falling face forward into a vat of putrified rat gravy is better than the new Star Wars!”
And they would all be true.
