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Film · 20th Century · 1979

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Alien

66Worth an evening.

Ripley reads the quarantine rule. The company already decided the crew was expendable.

The review

The fright is what people quote. The paperwork is what decides it. A commercial towing crew, not soldiers, answers a signal. The company wants the organism. On the forms the crew is expendable. Ripley, the warrant officer, reads the quarantine rule. Someone brings the organism back aboard anyway.

Adult, and I am not going to describe the body. She is not a chosen one. She is the officer whose work is to say no when the cargo is worth more to the firm than the people hauling it. Watch who treats them as a line item and who treats them as a crew. The rule was the promise. Breaking it is the bill, and the company had already signed the crew away.

Journal

Keep Alien in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 66. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household is the thin one.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Arrival

74 instead of 66

Arrival is still a science-fiction film, and it scores 74 instead of 66. What you gain is household: A mother who chooses the daughter knowing the death.

The eight

9
Industry
A towing crew with ranks and a quarantine rule, and the job is the plot.
2
Household
No marriage, parent, or child is a life aboard; it is a workplace.
7
Piety
Ripley reads the rule that should stop them, and someone breaks it.
7
Courage
Holding quarantine means standing against the people who want the cargo.
8
Republic
The company marks the crew expendable; she treats the rule as owed.
6
Temperance
The firm wants the organism; the film stands with the refusal.
8
Truth
The paperwork lies about their worth, and breaking quarantine brings the bill.
6
Stewardship
A rule was the thing worth keeping, and the company would spend the crew.

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Film · Prime Video · 2012

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ParaNorman

66Worth an evening.

Fear faced by understanding, not by a spear. Good for a child who can take a ghost.

The review

Norman is bullied for a gift that is mostly the willingness to hear. The town prefers a mob and a story about a witch. The film's turn, that the cursed child was a frightened child and the curse was the town's, is the right turn. It does not ask you to pretend the dead are cute from the first minute. It asks you to stop the torch.

Some of the jokes are ruder than the fable needs. The fable holds. A house can watch it near Halloween and come out less eager to chant at the odd boy. That is a rare result for a cartoon with zombies.

Journal

Keep ParaNorman in the record.