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THIS! I've been saying for years that there's a good story to be told in the Phantom Menace. It damn sure had a great villain with Darth Maul, and it even has a great title. They needed to flesh-out Qui-Gon, and explore why he wasn't on the Jedi Council. There were hints and whiffs throughout that perhaps Qui-Gon

These truly are the moments that make me proud of all of us.

Liam Neeson, too!

You remember Hipster Douchebag, right?

That's a long way to go for such a deep cut, but so very satisfying.

Pam Anderson, another Canadian!

If you refuse to use your blunderbuss, what then shall become of us?

No, that's a still from that Cavemen show from several years back.

Bullshit. The aide whispered the news to him and he could have said something important just came up and he had to leave. He didn't have to say anything about terror raining down from the skies, since everyone could tell NY and DC were targets, not FL. Besides, the kids must have found out about the attacks pretty

Of course he should have left immediately! His aide thought the news was important enough to interrupt reading-circle time for. They needed to gather the whole team and put their heads together and figure out what the hell to do next. Unless, of course, Bush's head simply wasn't needed or welcome in such planning

The French have also been pretty no-fucking-nonsense when it comes to Somali pirates hijacking their ships.

It certainly sums up why the people who like him like him: simple, declarative sentences; decisiveness; braggadocio; and, above all, action (as in movement) instead of thought.

Not in Happy Valley, though.

As much as I hate Bush, he and his junta were only part of the problem. The even bigger problem were/are the 55-60 million people who voted for him, McCain, and Romney.

The jailhouse sleepover was jawdroppingly tasteless (not on Moore's part).

Confusingly, he also had a long record of marching in favor of civil rights and an end to Jim crow laws.

I think Heston came out publicly as demented around the time of the movie's release, and Moore talked about agonizing over the decision about what to do with that interview. I think he said he kept it in because it was conducted before anyone knew about Heston's condition. I think that's defensible. Still, there's a

Then the Tea Party happened, and you realized that a disturbingly large part of America had completely lost its damn mind, right?

Remember the boos he got for denouncing the looming invasion of Iraq when he accepted his Oscar in 2003? Steve Martin, hosting the show, even made a joke about Teamsters loading him into a car trunk.

The movie's website at the time compiled documents ostensibly backing up every factual claim in the movie. I didn't bother checking anything out, but maybe some conservatives were scared off by that, and thus there was little backlash. I think conservatives were able to point to the silly stunts, like the ice cream