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Film · Columbia · 1964

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Dr. Strangelove

38Leave it.

The laugh is the warning. Men in love with the machine are not a farce to quote at dinner.

Take controlThis scores 38. Dr. Strangelove cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

A general uses a real plan to send bombers at the Soviet Union because he has decided the moment for it has come. The president and the generals sit in a room and discover the safeguards are made of the same vanity as the attack. One man on one base tries to do something physical about it. The famous lines are quoted as if they were a personality. They are a diagnosis. I would not put the diagnosis on for anyone who will only take the accent home.

Adults who already know what the bomb is can watch it and come away less impressed with rooms full of important men. That is the use. The limit is that contempt is the only medicine on offer, and contempt does not build the household the bomb would erase. Watch it once if you need the warning. Do not make it a favorite. A favorite is a thing you start to enjoy, and enjoying this is the title's own trap.

Journal

Keep Dr. Strangelove in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 38. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Temperance 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.

Consider this

The Guns of Navarone

54 instead of 38

The Guns of Navarone is still a war film, and it scores 54 instead of 38. What you gain is courage: They go up the cliff because the ships will not survive the guns, which is a reason.

The eight

4
Industry
Procedures are the joke, and the procedures are also how a real war room works.
1
Household
There is no household. The end of households is the joke they are telling.
2
Piety
Awe at the bomb has replaced any fear of God or of the neighbor.
3
Courage
One officer tries to stop a plane. The room full of powerful men mostly performs.
5
Republic
The public is everyone who is about to die, and the men in charge are inadequate to that fact.
2
Temperance
The excess is the laugh, and the laugh does not know the way to a restraint.
9
Truth
The inadequacy is the truth, and the film will not give you a competent savior.
4
Stewardship
You can inherit the warning. You cannot inherit a posture from it.

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Film · Marvel · 2015

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Avengers: Age of Ultron

38Leave it.

The interesting part is the weapon they chose to trust. The battle is the invoice.

Take controlThis scores 38. If you do not want Avengers: Age of Ultron in the house, the steps are on Disney+. Block it

The review

The only grown sentence is the first one: tired men try to outsource the watching of the world, and the thing they built does not love the world. That is an old warning, and it is the right warning for a decade that kept handing judgment to a system.

Then Sokovia lifts and the warning becomes a set. Stay if you want the argument about who gets to build a peace. Do not stay for the peace itself. The film does not have one. It has a sequel.

Journal

Keep Avengers: Age of Ultron in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 38. 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

Doctor Strange

50 instead of 38

Doctor Strange is still a action film, and it scores 50 instead of 38. What you gain is industry: Surgery, then a discipline with hours and a library.