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Film · Warner Bros. · 1973

Enter the Dragon

Name: Enter the Dragon scores 55 — Live Historic
Item: Enter the Dragon
Rating: 55
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55Watch it awake.

The fights are real skill, and the mission is still somebody else's job.

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The review

The fights are why it lasted. A martial artist is sent into a tournament on a crime lord's island to bring back evidence. They filmed the fights as skill, not as noise, and that is how Bruce Lee reached a world audience. You can see what the body was trained to do. That part is worth a seat.

The errand is the part not to copy. The mission is still a job for other people's intelligence service. He does not own the purpose. He performs it. Magnificent at the thing he trained, and thin on who the island is for once the evidence goes back. If a child is watching the kicks, say the discipline is his and the errand belongs to the men who sent him.

Journal

Keep Enter the Dragon in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety are the thin ones.

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.

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Superman

66 instead of 55

Superman is still a action film, and it scores 66 instead of 55. What you gain is household: A Kansas farm raises him, and Lois is the person he breaks the clock to save.

The eight

8
Industry
The fights are the work, filmed as skill, and the mission is a real assignment.
2
Household
Family is not the life here; he is on an island doing someone else's job.
4
Piety
A crime lord is the target, but conscience is not what the tournament is about.
8
Courage
He enters a crime lord's island on an errand that can get him killed.
5
Republic
He owes a service the evidence; the people on the island do not set the job.
6
Temperance
The skill takes discipline, even while a tournament feeds you the next fight.
6
Truth
The tournament is the cover; bringing back evidence is the actual errand.
5
Stewardship
The world kept the skill on film; the service kept the errand.

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Film · New Line · 1984

A Nightmare on Elm Street

55Watch it awake.

The first one is a parents' secret and a girl who will not sleep. The sequels sold the joke.

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The review

People know the glove and the joke. That came later. This one is a dead killer in dreams, a street of parents who share a secret about how he died, and a girl who has to stay awake. The sequels turned him into a punchline. The first film is still the adults' lie.

Not for children. If a teenager is going to meet it anyway, put the secret in front of the monster. Sleep is the ordinary thing she would like to have, and she gives it up because the block will not say what it did. I would rather a house remember a girl who will not lie down on that pact than remember a quip. Leave the later ones off.

Journal

Keep A Nightmare on Elm Street in the record.