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Film · Paramount · 1933

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Duck Soup

30Leave it.

The crowd rejected it, and the war in it is still just pride with a punch line.

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The review

Failed with the crowd, and later people kept it, which is a strange afterlife for a war comedy. A bankrupt country hires a fraud as leader. He starts a war because a neighboring ambassador insulted him. The mirror routine is the bit everybody knows. Nothing was at stake but pride. The war is the joke.

A house can watch it. I laughed at the mirror and then got sore that an insult spends a country. It is not a history lesson and it is not brave. Tell the kids it flopped when it opened. Then ask what is funny about a fight that was only pride. We can like the brothers and still refuse the excuse.

Journal

Keep Duck Soup in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 30. 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

Scooby-Doo

41 instead of 30

Scooby-Doo is still a comedy film, and it scores 41 instead of 30. What you gain is household: Friendship is the household.

The eight

2
Industry
A bankrupt country hires a fraud, which is not a leader's work.
1
Household
No marriage, parent, or child is a life in this country.
2
Piety
An insult is enough for him; nothing like a conscience stops it.
2
Courage
The joke is that nothing was at stake but pride.
5
Republic
A whole country is spent because a fraud was hired to lead.
3
Temperance
Pride starts the war, and the joke keeps feeding that pride.
6
Truth
The leader is a fraud, and the crowd of the time rejected it.
3
Stewardship
It flopped, then stayed, and the country in the joke is spent.

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Film · Prime Video · 2026

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A Doctor to Die For

30Leave it.

Medicine is a trust. A poster that breaks it for a scare has not earned an evening.

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The review

The tile is a close face and a title that turns a physician into a body count. Sometimes that story is about a real betrayal of an oath, which is a grave subject. More often it is a white coat as a costume for a thriller. The desk will not invent the chart.

Do not learn what a doctor is from a poster like this. The oath is older than the twist. If the film is actually about the oath, the scores on truth and stewardship can be revisited. Until then it is a scare with a stethoscope.

Journal

Keep A Doctor to Die For in the record.