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Film · Biograph · 1904

The Suburbanite

Name: The Suburbanite scores 49 — Live Historic
Item: The Suburbanite
Rating: 49
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49Watch it awake.

They moved for the good life, and the reel says they missed it.

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The review

A city man hauls his household to the suburbs. The house, the commute, and the neighbors are a disaster. Biograph, 1904, and it was popular. A house can watch it. The move was supposed to be the good life. I have wanted that move on a loud week, so the joke landed closer than a costume comedy usually does.

It is still a comedy, not a wake. The household is what gets dragged, and the neighbors are part of the mess. We can laugh and then admit the quieter life was a sales pitch. The reel already said it is not.

Journal

Keep The Suburbanite in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 49. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Courage and Stewardship are the thin ones.

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.

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Grandma's Boy

59 instead of 49

Grandma's Boy is still a comedy film, and it scores 59 instead of 49. What you gain is courage: The charm is a fraud; he does the brave thing anyway, and it is his.

The eight

5
Industry
The commute is part of the disaster, so the job still owns the day.
7
Household
He moves his household, and the new house fails the promise.
2
Piety
Nobody's conscience is on trial; a bad move is the joke.
3
Courage
He bets the household on a move the reel calls a disaster.
5
Republic
The neighbors are a disaster, not a street that receives him.
6
Temperance
The want for a suburban good life is what the comedy punctures.
7
Truth
The move was sold as the good life, and the reel says it is not.
4
Stewardship
After the move they have a house, a commute, and a mess of neighbors.

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Film · Disney · 1954

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

49Watch it awake.

A boy can watch the ship, but the captain is not a clean hero.

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The review

A boy can watch most of it, which is why the captain needs a sentence before you start. A professor, a harpooner, and a sailor are taken aboard a submarine by a man who has declared war on warships. The ship is a wonder. It is also a weapon. An island and a squid are the adventures people keep.

He is not a clean hero. The men he took did not choose his war. I liked the ship the way a child likes a machine, and I do not want that to be the whole talk. Say the weapon part out loud. The hour is a Disney adventure with a private war sitting in the middle of the dive.

Journal

Keep 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 49. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Republic 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

The Adventures of Robin Hood

61 instead of 49

The Adventures of Robin Hood is still a adventure film, and it scores 61 instead of 49. What you gain is republic: He takes the tax back for people a prince who is not the king was spending.