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Film · MGM · 1950

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King Solomon's Mines

40Leave it.

The trek is hard, and the people who live there are used as scenery.

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The review

A woman hires a hunter to find her husband. The trip is the film: heat, a treasure, a land treated as a map. It was the large live-action gross of the year, so the expedition sold. Courage is the trek. I can grant the trek. I will not pretend it is the only fact in the frame. Somebody is being paid to get her through the heat.

The people of the place are mostly a backdrop. Say that if you show it. Stewardship of the land is not the film's interest, and a missing husband is closer to a reason for walking than to a marriage you watch anyone live. Diamonds pull harder than any duty to a neighbor. An adventure, if you want one. Do not let a child file those faces under landscape.

Journal

Keep King Solomon's Mines in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 40. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Republic 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 Guns of Navarone

54 instead of 40

The Guns of Navarone is still a adventure film, and it scores 54 instead of 40. What you gain is republic: The debt is to the men waiting on the beach who cannot climb anything.

The eight

6
Industry
She hires a hunter, and getting through the heat is his work.
4
Household
A missing husband starts the trip more than he makes a home.
2
Piety
No conscience stops the hunter, the camera, or the treasure.
8
Courage
The courage the film actually has is the trek, and the trek is hard.
2
Republic
The people who live there are scenery, not neighbors anyone owes.
3
Temperance
Treasure and a missing man keep the want moving across the map.
5
Truth
The hire is to find her husband; the picture's interest is the journey.
2
Stewardship
Care for the land and its people is not what this film is after.

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Film · Touchstone · 1998

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Armageddon

40Leave it.

A father and a crew. The world-ending is a fireworks show. The sacrifice is asserted, not earned.

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The review

Rough men who can do a physical thing are sent to do it in space because the polished men cannot. That is a populist feeling the film is not wrong to have. A father who has been absent tries to bless a marriage before he dies. Those are human scraps.

The scraps are tied to a firework. You will be told when to cry. You do not have to. If the house wants a film about a crew and a real cost, Private Ryan is the adult one and Apollo stories exist. This is a cheer. Leave it.

Journal

Keep Armageddon in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 40. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic and Temperance and Truth 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 40

Doctor Strange is still a action film, and it scores 50 instead of 40. What you gain is temperance: His ego is the subject.