There's some sort of rule that a love interest played by Bryce Dallas Howard must always be punished.

Best use of that accent: playing her own identical cousin in Coffee & Cigarettes.

I think an unusually helpful South Park once put it: "Tolerance doesn't mean you love everything people do, it means you put up with it if they'll put up with the stuff you do."

Yeah, the Nazis were the first thing I thought of, but I always try to think of an alternative if I can.

I feel like defying their parents was probably the one thing they thought was missing from their relationship up to now.

Yeah I think OMMF meant it in the sense of "exclusively".

Actually I'm thinking the old guy is Regina's step-father or uncle or something, and that he molested her when she was young. John found out about it years afterwards, shot him. Possibly leading to John becoming such a control freak. No hard evidence, but that fits the facts for me.

Definitely reminds me a lot of fellow geeks with detailed "If I Was An Evil Overlord" or "When The Zombpocalypse Breaks Out" plans.

I was getting that vibe to such an extent that I over-predicted, and thought that Waltz would turn out to just be a smokescreen for the true villain…Monica Bellucci. Because otherwise what's the point of her character? Can't even say if that would have been better or worse.

M: "We've decided to issue everyone Walther PPKs."

Quentin of Tarentinos

All the Trumbo-written screenplays will be under other names, but they'll be typed on blue paper…

Specific to the case: if someone flies the Soviet flag, or the confederate one, or burns the U.S. flag, they have the right to do that, and I have the right to think they're doing a bad thing.

That's liberal society. My disagreement with something doesn't take away its right to exist; its right to exist doesn't mean I have to agree with it.

But symbols are used to threaten violence and make people think that they are in danger. And I'm not saying that individuals should be stopped from flying that flag, just that flying it is a bad thing. Which I suppose brings us back to Trumbo: his right to be a communist doesn't make being a communist "okay", but…

True, and a lot of fans of the confederate flag really are interested in preserving their cultural heritage. But it doesn't make them right to want to fly it.

I could have done without him saying: "I am the one that types."

From what I've read Trumbo was a for-real, follow-the-orders-of-the-comintern communist, possibly the only one out of the ten. And blacklisting him still harmed the USA much more than the USSR.

Also, the later mention of "someone with a Tardis" could mean The Master.