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Film · 20th Century · 1975

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show

16Leave it.

Funny if you already live in the costume. Not for kids, and not a little church.

Take controlThis scores 16. The Rocky Horror Picture Show cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

People dressed for it. A newly engaged couple breaks down and enters a castle where a scientist from another planet is building a man. The songs became a midnight ritual. The joke is innocence walking into appetite and staying. If you are already inside that joke, it is funny. It is adult, and it is not for children.

They arrived engaged. The night does not hand that back. Staying is the punchline. I would not play this where a kid can hear the songs and decide the castle is the more interesting life. A ritual you dress up for is still a ritual, and this one is organized around wanting, not around getting anybody home.

Journal

Keep The Rocky Horror Picture Show in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 16. 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

Gigi

26 instead of 16

Gigi is still a musical film, and it scores 26 instead of 16. What you gain is industry: They teach her a craft.

The eight

2
Industry
A scientist builds a man for a song. It is a party, not a craft.
2
Household
They arrive engaged. The night spends that promise and does not return it.
1
Piety
No conscience pulls them back out. The joke is that they stay.
2
Courage
A breakdown and a castle door are not a risk taken for anyone else.
1
Republic
The ritual is a midnight crowd in costume, not a duty to anybody.
1
Temperance
Innocence walks into wanting, and the film treats staying as the laugh.
2
Truth
The engagement was a promise. The castle treats it as a setup.
2
Stewardship
What lasted is a dress-up ritual, not a life anybody could take home.

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The Wolf of Wall Street

16Leave it.

Scorsese shows the bill. The camera throws the party anyway. Leave it.

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Jordan Belfort robbed people over the phone and the film is three hours of how good the robbery felt. Defenders say the excess is the indictment. Sometimes a frame is an indictment. More often, in a crowded room, this frame is a recruitment poster, and the people being recruited are not subtle about it.

The standard does not require you to be humorless about sin. It requires you to notice who the humor serves. Here it serves the man with the yacht, not the person who lost the mortgage. You have limited evenings. Do not spend three of their hours apprenticing to a thief because the editing is superb. The editing is superb. That is not a defense.