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Film · United Artists · 1971

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Diamonds Are Forever

24Leave it.

The spy is a costume by now, and the jokes are the thing they are selling.

Take controlThis scores 24. Diamonds Are Forever cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

By this entry the spy work has turned into a wardrobe. Bond is sent after a diamond-smuggling ring, and the ring becomes a satellite weapon. That could have been a job with a real stake. The jokes and the gadgets are what the picture is selling. A weapon over other people's heads ought to sober the man. It does not.

He is not a model of a man. A teenager who wants the toys will not hear that from the film, so someone in the room has to say it. The assignment looks like duty and weighs about as much as a gadget. If you want someone under orders, pick a story where the orders take something he would miss. These are the gadget years, and the film is comfortable there.

Journal

Keep Diamonds Are Forever in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 24. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

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

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The Amazing Spider-Man 2

38 instead of 24

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is still a action film, and it scores 38 instead of 24. What you gain is household: An aunt.

The eight

3
Industry
Spy work is a costume here; the gadgets do the labor a man might have done.
1
Household
No marriage or child appears, and he is not offered as a man to copy.
1
Piety
Nothing in him stops for conscience; the next quip arrives instead.
4
Courage
He is sent into danger, but the picture never believes he will lose anything.
3
Republic
A satellite weapon threatens strangers, and the film treats it as a set piece.
2
Temperance
Jokes and gadgets are the product, built so you will want the next one.
3
Truth
A smuggling front hides a weapon, and nobody is made to live with that lie.
2
Stewardship
Nothing is left for anyone but the next gadget and the next quip.

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Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt

24Leave it.

Shock as a career is a thin life. Adults. Not near children. The desk will not linger on the gag.

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The review

The tile is a band that built a name on offense and now offers the documentary version of itself. A document can be honest about a scene, the drugs, the jokes, the people who paid. It becomes an ad when the offense is treated as proof of courage. Courage has an object. Being willing to disgust a room is not yet an object.

Skip it if you do not already care about the music. If you do, watch for whether anyone is allowed to have been harmed by the bit. A band is not a moral alibi.