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Film · Warner Bros. · 2014

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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

75Worth an evening.

The treasure was the test, not the reward. He fails it, and then he tells the truth.

The review

Smaug falls in the first minutes, and the picture still has a war to get through. The war is the bill for a king who got his mountain back and could not see past the coins. Bilbo's bravery here is not a sword. It is handing the one jewel to the other side so that fewer people die. Thorin comes back to himself long enough to say the gold was the lie.

The battles are too many. Stay for the confession and the walk home. A child should hear that the end of the quest is a small door, and that a fortune which costs your friends was never the inheritance.

Journal

Keep The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 75. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry is the thin one.

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 Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

81 instead of 75

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is still a adventure film, and it scores 81 instead of 75. What you gain is stewardship: They carry the one thing that must not be used, so other people's children can keep a garden.

The eight

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Industry
The mountain is won. The work left is whether a king can still see a person standing in front of the gold.
7
Household
Bilbo's road ends at his own door. The company was never a substitute for the house.
7
Piety
Thorin's last clear words are a confession. The gold is named as the sickness.
8
Courage
Bilbo takes the Arkenstone to stop a war, knowing the company will call it theft.
8
Republic
A war starts over a share of metal. The film does not pretend the cause was noble.
8
Temperance
Dragon-sickness is appetite with a crown. The story puts it down, at the price of the man who wore it.
8
Truth
He tells Thorin what he did. The lie of the secret stone does not get to stay convenient.
8
Stewardship
The gold is not worth the people on the field. What Bilbo brings home is a kettle, not a hoard.

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Film · Prime Video · 1957

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12 Angry Men

75Worth an evening.

Keep it. A room, a reasonable doubt, and the courage to be the first no.

The review

Eleven men want the afternoon back. The twelfth wants the testimony walked through, because a life is not a schedule. The film is a whole civics lesson in one sweatbox: prejudice with a smile, prejudice with a shout, and the slow work of looking at a knife and a train schedule until the story the state told no longer holds. Nobody is romanticized for being angry. The quiet man is not a saint. He is simply unwilling to be rushed into a killing.

A teenager should see this before they see another thriller about a genius detective. Justice here looks like staying in the chair. That is a picture this house can use.

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