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Film · MGM · 1967

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The Dirty Dozen

39Leave it.

The training is the fun, and then you are asked to like the killers.

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The review

The army offers convicts, some of them murderers, a suicide raid in exchange for their sentences. A hard officer trains them. The training is the pleasure: men getting good at a job the film wants you to enjoy. The mission is a chateau full of officers, which lets the picture say the target is worse than the men sent to hit it.

I do not take the bargain. It has told you they are dangerous, then it asks you to like them because a war needs them and the other side is officers in a fancy house. Competence is not a cleaning. If this house watches war movies, use this one as the test. A uniform and a worse target do not make the killers into the men you were hoping the army would be. The film enjoys them anyway.

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The glance

Household and Piety 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?

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The Guns of Navarone

54 instead of 39

The Guns of Navarone is still a war film, and it scores 54 instead of 39. What you gain is courage: They go up the cliff because the ships will not survive the guns, which is a reason.

The eight

7
Industry
A hard officer trains them, and the training is the part the film enjoys.
1
Household
No marriage or child is a life here; the unit is the whole cast.
2
Piety
The film knows some are murderers and does not let that stop the liking.
6
Courage
The raid can kill them, and they take it to get clear of their sentences.
5
Republic
The army offers the bargain, and a chateau of officers is the target.
3
Temperance
You are trained to enjoy the drills, then to cheer men it called dangerous.
4
Truth
It tells you they are dangerous, then asks you to forget that for the mission.
3
Stewardship
A raid is what remains, not a reason to trust the men once the war is over.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 1972

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Deliverance

39Leave it.

They wanted a wild weekend, and the film never gives that weekend back.

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The review

Four suburban men wanted a last wild weekend on a river a dam is about to bury. They got a trip they were not built for. The river was the point, and then it was not. One of them is changed in a way the film does not heal. That refusal to tidy the ending is the honest part.

Adult. Do not describe the assault, and do not make a contest out of who can sit through it. The dam was already going to spend the river for people who do not live on it. One of them carries that change home. If someone in the room goes quiet, stay with that, not the canoe.

Journal

Keep Deliverance in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 39. Yours can differ.

The glance

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

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

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The Manchurian Candidate

46 instead of 39

The Manchurian Candidate is still a thriller film, and it scores 46 instead of 39. What you gain is industry: The army and the campaign are work, shown as institutions that can be used.