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Film · Columbia · 2014

Fury

Name: Fury scores 39 — Live Historic
Item: Fury
Rating: 39
Author: Live Historic

39Leave it.

The tank is a house that is also a slaughter. Adults. The last stand is a romance of the last bullet. Leave it if the room wants to cheer.

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The review

David Ayer puts Brad Pitt's sergeant in a Sherman called Fury in April 1945. The early fighting is sour and frightened, which is the right flavor. Then the film makes a chapel out of a stopped tank and asks five men to die picturesquely against a crowd of Germans so the audience can feel that the war meant something in the last week. It meant something. Not this.

Adults, and I would still skip it in most houses. The scene in the apartment with the two German women is the film telling on itself: it wants the power, then it wants to be sorry, then it wants the power again. If someone insists, ask them at the end whether the last fight was a duty or a wish. Make them answer before the music does.

Journal

Keep Fury in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 39. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship 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.

Consider this

Warhorse One

51 instead of 39

Warhorse One is still a war film, and it scores 51 instead of 39. What you gain is household: The whole stake is a child who has no one else in the valley.

The eight

7
Industry
A tank crew's work is specific, and the film knows the inside of the machine.
3
Household
The crew is a vicious little household. A scene with a German girl is the tell.
2
Piety
No faith. 'Fury' is a name painted on steel, and the name is the creed.
6
Courage
They stay when leaving was possible. Courage, and also a sergeant who wants the war more than the men.
3
Republic
The war is almost over. The film cannot bear to end it without a last altar.
2
Temperance
The cruelty is relished. That is the disqualifying note.
5
Truth
The tank fight against a Tiger is a real kind of fear. The last act is a fantasy.
3
Stewardship
What it leaves is a boy wanting the nickname. Refuse him the nickname.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 1951

A Streetcar Named Desire

39Leave it.

Adult, and too many men wanted to be the husband. That is reason enough to skip it.

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The review

She has already lost the family estate when she shows up at her sister's in New Orleans. She still wants to be someone the world bows to. The husband is force, and the house is his. A sister is caught between them. I knew that shape, and it still sat badly.

There is sexual cruelty near the end. I will not describe it. This is not a family evening. A lot of men wanted to be that husband, and that fact sits on the film heavier than the acting. It tells the truth about force and about a gentility that cannot pay its way. It also recruited. I can grant the first and still leave it off the shelf.

Journal

Keep A Streetcar Named Desire in the record.