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Film · Paramount · 1946

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Blue Skies

35Leave it.

The songs are why anyone went, and the marriage is just the string they hung them on.

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The review

Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire again, with a stack of Irving Berlin songs between them. I knew the tunes before I cared about the people, which is the order the country paid in. A nightclub romance fails and is remembered in numbers. The marriage is a thread. A house can watch it. I was fine with the dancing. I got restless the moment I tried to say who stayed with whom.

It is thinner than the inn picture, and that is a comparison, not a compliment. You come for Berlin. You do not come because a household is being kept. If the kids like the numbers, let them stay. Don't tell yourself the night was about a marriage. The songs outlast the people who were supposed to be holding them.

Journal

Keep Blue Skies in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 35. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth 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.

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West Side Story

51 instead of 35

West Side Story is still a musical film, and it scores 51 instead of 35. What you gain is republic: A street is a public.

The eight

6
Industry
Nightclub work is the setting; Berlin's songs are why the country paid.
4
Household
A nightclub romance fails, and the marriage is only a thread.
2
Piety
No number asks a conscience to stop the romance or the show.
3
Courage
The romance fails and is remembered, which is loss without a risk.
2
Republic
A large musical gross, and nobody owes a neighbor or a town.
3
Temperance
You are walked from one Berlin song to the next, and that is the want.
4
Truth
The failed romance is remembered in songs, not kept as a promise.
4
Stewardship
What the country kept was the songs, not the marriage between them.

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Film · MGM · 2015

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Spectre

35Leave it.

Brand maintenance with a funeral in it. The craft is professional. The reason is thin.

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The review

There is a real public question under the tux: who watches the watchers when every camera is one system. The film picks the question up and sets it down for a childhood grievance that makes a franchise feel like a family saga. It is not a family saga. It is a product arranging its villains into one line.

Adults who like the craft can see the craft. Do not call it serious because it is gloomy. Gloom is cheap. The question about the cameras was the part worth keeping, and they spent it.

Journal

Keep Spectre in the record.