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Film · Biograph · 1906

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The Hold-Up of the Rocky Mountain Express

21Leave it.

It's the train robbery sold again, this time from the engine.

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The review

Billy Bitzer set the camera on the locomotive and ran the train-robbery idea again. Bandits and a train, seen from the front of the engine. A child can watch it. That is not a reason to make a habit of it. Houses bought the imitation because you get a better view of the track, not because the hold-up grew a conscience.

The pleasure is still the robbery. The reel never treats the train as something a neighbor is owed. If we put it on, I'll say this is the Train Robbery sold a second time, then we'll go outside and do something that is not a robbery.

Journal

Keep The Hold-Up of the Rocky Mountain Express in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 21. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth 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

Now You See Me: Now You Don't

33 instead of 21

Now You See Me: Now You Don't is still a crime film, and it scores 33 instead of 21. What you gain is industry: Craft of the illusion.

The eight

3
Industry
Bitzer's job was the engine camera; the bandits' work is the hold-up.
1
Household
No parent or child appears; the train is only a target.
1
Piety
Nothing in the reel asks the bandits to call off the hold-up.
3
Courage
They risk the robbery, and the picture sells that risk as a view.
2
Republic
The train is something to stop, not a line a town is owed.
2
Temperance
Houses bought the same robbery again for a clearer look at the track.
3
Truth
It is an imitation of the train robbery, sold with a new angle.
2
Stewardship
Left behind is another hold-up reel, not a railroad kept safe.

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Film · Prime Video · 2000

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American Psycho

21Leave it.

The satire is real. The invitation to enjoy him is the problem. Adults. Do not quote him.

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The review

Bateman is what a certain greed looks like when it no longer bothers to impersonate a person. The film is often called a comedy, and the comedy is the colleagues, the cards, the restaurants, the inability to tell one empty man from another. That joke lands. The violence is not the joke. It is the film forgetting it had a point and reaching for a gasp.

You do not need his morning routine in your mouth. The useful line is dull: a life measured by reservations is already over, even if no one is bleeding. Leave the rest in the drawer.

Journal

Keep American Psycho in the record.