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Film · 20th Century · 1979

Alien

Name: Alien scores 66 — Live Historic
Item: Alien
Rating: 66
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66Worth an evening.

Ripley reads the quarantine rule. The company already decided the crew was expendable.

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The review

The fright is what people quote. The paperwork is what decides it. A commercial towing crew, not soldiers, answers a signal. The company wants the organism. On the forms the crew is expendable. Ripley, the warrant officer, reads the quarantine rule. Someone brings the organism back aboard anyway.

Adult, and I am not going to describe the body. She is not a chosen one. She is the officer whose work is to say no when the cargo is worth more to the firm than the people hauling it. Watch who treats them as a line item and who treats them as a crew. The rule was the promise. Breaking it is the bill, and the company had already signed the crew away.

Journal

Keep Alien in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 66. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household is the thin one.

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

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

76 instead of 66

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is still a science-fiction film, and it scores 76 instead of 66. What you gain is stewardship: What he leaves is the crew alive, and a funeral held in space.

The eight

9
Industry
A towing crew with ranks and a quarantine rule, and the job is the plot.
2
Household
No marriage, parent, or child is a life aboard; it is a workplace.
7
Piety
Ripley reads the rule that should stop them, and someone breaks it.
7
Courage
Holding quarantine means standing against the people who want the cargo.
8
Republic
The company marks the crew expendable; she treats the rule as owed.
6
Temperance
The firm wants the organism; the film stands with the refusal.
8
Truth
The paperwork lies about their worth, and breaking quarantine brings the bill.
6
Stewardship
A rule was the thing worth keeping, and the company would spend the crew.

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Film · Universal · 1930

All Quiet on the Western Front

66Worth an evening.

A teen can watch it, and there is no parade at the end because it isn't a victory.

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The review

Best picture, the figure the tallies still print. A wilder number sometimes gets hung on Tom Sawyer, and that is not this ledger. Schoolboys are talked into the Great War by a teacher. The boys who believed the speech are eaten by it. Lew Ayres. The boots pass from one dead man to the next. Germany banned it. A teen can watch. I won't linger on the wounds, and I won't let anybody call the ending a win.

The last image is a hand reaching, not a victory. That is the correction to the speech. Kids can hear a room cheer for a war and not know the bill. This one shows the bill without a parade attached. If you put it on, stay for the quiet. Say the ban: a country did not want this picture of its own boys. The boots are what get passed on. Not a reason to want another war.

Journal

Keep All Quiet on the Western Front in the record.