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Blazing Saddles

49Watch it awake.

The town has to choose what it hates, and plenty of the jokes only punch.

The review

A corrupt official appoints a Black sheriff so a Western town will fall, and a railroad can take what is left. The town then has to decide what it hates more. That choice is sharp, and it is the part worth defending out loud.

The jokes around it are filthy on purpose. Some punch up. Some just punch. Adult, and a bad bet for children even when the room already thinks of it as harmless fun. I laughed at the railroad scheme and went quiet when the film was only being dirty. Keep those piles apart. A badge used as sabotage is a real joke. Not every gag has a target.

Journal

Keep Blazing Saddles in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 49. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household 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

The Searchers

63 instead of 49

The Searchers is still a western film, and it scores 63 instead of 49. What you gain is household: A niece is the whole stake, if he can still call her kin.

The eight

6
Industry
The sheriff's badge is a real job, handed out as a trick against the town.
2
Household
A sheriff and a town full of neighbors carry it, not a couple raising a child.
5
Piety
The town has to decide what it hates more, a stranger or the men selling it.
7
Courage
He takes the badge knowing he was sent so the town would collapse.
8
Republic
A corrupt appointment and a railroad scheme are a town being sold out.
2
Temperance
The filthy jokes keep coming, and some of them are there only for the shock.
5
Truth
The appointment is a lie meant to wreck the town and clear the way for the railroad.
4
Stewardship
What the town has left depends on what it decides it hates more.

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American Sniper

49Watch it awake.

The skill is not the same thing as the war. Adults. The wife is the witness. Watch awake.

The review

A shepherd of men, in his own mind, looks through a scope and has to decide what a child in the street is holding. Those seconds are the serious part. The film is often more comfortable on the roof than in the kitchen, and the people on the other end of the shot are rarely given a kitchen at all.

Adults. Do not put it on as a recruitment poster or as a debunking. If you watch it, stay for the grocery store, where a man who was decisive cannot be. Ask what a country owes the person it trained to do this, and what it owes the rooms it never filmed.

Journal

Keep American Sniper in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 49. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic and Temperance 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

The Patriot

59 instead of 49

The Patriot is still a war film, and it scores 59 instead of 49. What you gain is household: He fights because they took his children, not because of a speech.