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Film · United Artists · 1979

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Apocalypse Now

40Leave it.

I would not put that on in this house, not even late.

Take controlThis scores 40. Apocalypse Now cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

A captain is given a job, and the job is to go up a river and kill a colonel. The colonel has made a kingdom and answers to no country. That is the whole spine. The journey is what you sit through, and the destination is not a battle you can root for. It is a man who has already quit every flag that could call him back.

I would not leave this on in a house with kids, and I would not invite anyone to linger on the cruelty. The film is adult for a reason. What stayed with me was the assignment itself: one soldier still under orders, sent to end a man who will not answer. That is a true picture of a war that has lost its country, and it is not a mercy you pass along.

Journal

Keep Apocalypse Now in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 40. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

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

American Sniper

49 instead of 40

American Sniper is still a war film, and it scores 49 instead of 40. What you gain is household: A marriage frays on the phone.

The eight

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Industry
A captain's assignment is to go upriver and kill a colonel.
1
Household
No marriage or child is lived anywhere on this river.
3
Piety
Nothing on the journey shows a conscience stopping the colonel or the order.
7
Courage
The captain takes the river toward a man who has made his own kingdom.
6
Republic
A soldier under orders is sent after a man who answers to no country.
2
Temperance
The trip keeps drawing you farther upriver instead of teaching you to stop.
5
Truth
The destination undoes any clean story about a war still under a flag.
2
Stewardship
The journey ends at one man's kingdom, not a place left in good order.

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Film · Touchstone · 1998

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Armageddon

40Leave it.

A father and a crew. The world-ending is a fireworks show. The sacrifice is asserted, not earned.

Take controlThis scores 40. Armageddon cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

Rough men who can do a physical thing are sent to do it in space because the polished men cannot. That is a populist feeling the film is not wrong to have. A father who has been absent tries to bless a marriage before he dies. Those are human scraps.

The scraps are tied to a firework. You will be told when to cry. You do not have to. If the house wants a film about a crew and a real cost, Private Ryan is the adult one and Apollo stories exist. This is a cheer. Leave it.

Journal

Keep Armageddon in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 40. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

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

Consider this

Doctor Strange

50 instead of 40

Doctor Strange is still a action film, and it scores 50 instead of 40. What you gain is temperance: His ego is the subject.