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Film · Warner Bros. · 1969

The Wild Bunch

Name: The Wild Bunch scores 29 — Live Historic
Item: The Wild Bunch
Rating: 29
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29Leave it.

Aging outlaws, a code, and a massacre they walk into. The code is not a virtue by itself.

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The review

An aging gang botches a robbery and runs into Mexico. A general hires them. They turn on him because he tortured one of their own. The film loves their competence and calls the loyalty a code.

Adult. The violence goes on, and I am not going to list it. The code is real between them. It is not a virtue by itself. A house does not need this as a picture of honor. If men you know quote it, ask who was in the square when the competence started.

Journal

Keep The Wild Bunch in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 29. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

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

Consider this

The Iron Horse

40 instead of 29

The Iron Horse is still a western film, and it scores 40 instead of 29. What you gain is industry: The gangs building the transcontinental line do work the film treats as real.

The eight

4
Industry
They are professionals at robbery and at a massacre. The skill is the lure.
2
Household
The gang is the only loyalty. No wife and no child is the point.
2
Piety
The code replaces conscience. It does not answer to anything above the gang.
6
Courage
They walk back in for one of their own, knowing what that walk is.
2
Republic
A general, a gang, a town used as a battlefield. No law they honor.
1
Temperance
The killing is prolonged, and the film wants you to admire it.
5
Truth
It does not pretend they are sheriffs. It does ask you to love the code.
1
Stewardship
What it hands a man is a style of dying. The square is left worse.

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Film · De Laurentiis · 1986

Blue Velvet

29Leave it.

He finds an ear and then wants the night more than he wants an exit.

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The review

He finds an ear in a field and follows it, a college boy treating a crime as a personal door. By day the town is lawns and robins. By night there's a singer, a criminal, and a detective's daughter. I'm not describing the cruelty. The detail that decides whether you should leave it on is simpler: he wants the mystery more than he wants to leave.

Not for teenagers, and not as a style to borrow. The neat lawn isn't proof the place is sound, and his curiosity isn't a favor to the neighbors. He could stop. He doesn't want to. If your house already flatters people for poking into the dark, this will flatter them again. You can admit the film is skilled and still keep it off this week. He wants the mystery more than a way out. That is the warning.

Journal

Keep Blue Velvet in the record.