Was Bud there for moral support?

I meant to imply that modern sword fight scenes have too many back flips and acrobatics. not Anderson's. Sorry if that was unclear.

@avclub-ab60729bcbd8293eb5f31e5077c29049:disqus Agreed. As bad as his directing is, his dialogue is much, much worse.

I never understood why he wasn't content to let someone else direct all the prequels. He still would've received all the money and the credit, as he did with Empire. I know the common claim is that he is a control freak, but he had been content not to direct a movie for over 20 years between New Hope and Phantom…

I appreciate a good "Rick Perry is gay" joke as much as the next guy, but this is neither the time nor the place. Well, maybe it's the time, seeing as how the Iowa caucuses are upon us. But definitely not the place.

You're why we can't have nice things!

Needs more unnecessary back flips.

Baby, you got a stew goin'.

OK, OK, I understand it if you worked hard on a film. But how does that implicate the Wolverine movie?

Stan, you make draconian federal sentencing laws fun.

You're one of those people who holds his book up awkwardly on the bus so everyone can see the title, aren't you?

Grandma, what did I tell you about using the internet after 10 pm?

When I was in middle school, the kids couldn't get enough Harry Hamlin.

No, you're thinking of Lisa.

Hey! The first season was only bad in that lured me into watching the later, crappy seasons.

"What? Who the fuck towed my car?!?! Oh, hey Ashton." And so forth.

I just hope the re-release also includes the AT-AT walkers in the background of the Trevi Fountain scene, as Trumbo intended.

@avclub-5a1c0dcc8243c086c74ee944052f6f0f:disqus - Jesse Helms, foreign policy dynamo that he was, used to refer to him as "Kim Jong the Second" in speeches.

@MoSam:disqus -Most of the Popes of who served during the Church's most corrupt periods have not been canonized. Even the Catholic Church, it seems, wouldn't stoop so low as to bestow sainthood on a Medici or a Borgia.

"Mystical wisdom"? If you mean to say she was more concerned with promoting the bizarre views of her "personality cult" (your words) than actually helping people, I agree. I don't doubt that she believed, quite strongly, that what she was doing was good (which probably explains why her words, lifted from the context…