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Film · 20th Century · 1986

Aliens

Name: Aliens scores 73 — Live Historic
Item: Aliens
Rating: 73
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73Worth an evening.

She goes back for a missing girl, and the company wants the creature as a product.

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The review

She goes back. Marines, a colony, a missing girl, and a company man who wants the creature as a product. Ripley will not leave the child. That refusal is the movie. The company is the second monster, the one with a budget and a plan.

Not for children, and do not narrate the bodies on the way home. She will not leave the child so a company can keep the creature. Adults who can hold a hard fight and still talk about the girl will see why it lasts. If the room only wants the guns, leave it off.

Journal

Keep Aliens in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 73. Yours can differ.

The glance

Temperance is the thin one.

Is appetite shown and then put down, or are you being trained to want the next one?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

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Seven Samurai

79 instead of 73

Seven Samurai is still a action film, and it scores 79 instead of 73. What you gain is stewardship: The farmers keep the harvest and their lives; the dead do not take the village.

The eight

8
Industry
Marines go in to do a job, and a company man rewrites it as product research.
8
Household
A missing girl is the life at stake, and Ripley will not leave the child.
7
Piety
She will not leave the child, and she will not hand the creature over as a product.
9
Courage
She returns to what wrecked her and stays for a girl she could have walked past.
7
Republic
A colony was owed a rescue. The company wanted a specimen instead.
5
Temperance
The product-hunger is condemned, and the fights can still train the next scare.
8
Truth
Her promise to the child holds. The company's interest is the creature, not the people.
6
Stewardship
She will not leave the child, and the company does not get the creature as a product.

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Film · Columbia · 1961

A Raisin in the Sun

73Worth an evening.

Worth an evening. The check is not the prize. A house, and the man the son is going to be, are.

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A father dies and the insurance money arrives in an apartment that is too small for the people in it. The son wants to invest in a liquor store and become someone the check can make him. The mother wants a house. The sister wants a school. The daughter-in-law wants the marriage to survive the son's idea of himself. A man from the neighborhood they are moving into offers to pay them not to come. The offer is the country's sentence, and the film does not blur the man's politeness into innocence.

This is one of the few pictures of the decade I would clear a weeknight for without a hedge. Watch it as a family argument before you watch it as a document. Ask what the son thought the money was for, and what his mother knew it was for. The answers are a stature and a house. The film is on the side of the house, and it is right. Older children can sit through it. The yelling is the sound of people who are not done with each other.

Journal

Keep A Raisin in the Sun in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 73. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

It's a Wonderful Life

85 instead of 73

It's a Wonderful Life is still a drama film, and it scores 85 instead of 73. What you gain is piety: Prayer is not a joke here.