Doesn't that apply to every movie with something bad happening, though? War is terrible, and it's always going on somewhere, but people don't (generally) complain when a movie has a war in it.

How high are you setting the bar for "persistent"? US folklore only goes back a few centuries, to when everyone suddenly turned white and started speaking English.

I've heard that the sword fights in "The Duellists" are realistic. I'm not expert enough to know, but they sure were different.

I can't tell if that's Grace Kelly or Tippi Hedren.

As long as Big Ben gets blown up, I'll be satisfied.

Olympus Has Fallen 2: Fall Harder

"Guy" is not the preferred nomenclature. Masculine-American, please.

I think it's between mauve and ocher.

Sssh, be quiet or you might inspire them to make a gritty Gone With the Wind reboot.

That's great that you have books and everything, but I'm pretty sure it was just named after some really big-mouthed crook named Narcthaniel.

We Agnostistic Pantheists are declaring war on your heathen sect. DEATH TO THE INFIDELS.

Oh yeah, I forgot that stuff. All I remembered was Ent siege —-> Shire scourging.

There isn't a final conflict between them, though. The hobbits find him holed up in the Shire and let him leave, but then Wormtongue ices him. Gandalf is off partying with his elf bros.