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Film · United Artists · 1965

Thunderball

Name: Thunderball scores 33 — Live Historic
Item: Thunderball
Rating: 33
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33Leave it.

A bigger gadget than last time. The same license, and the same use of women.

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The review

A warhead is missing and the service that missed it sends the same man. The scale is larger than the year before. The character is not. He is still the person a government has agreed not to judge, and the film agrees with the government. I am not going to list the women. They are used and replaced, and the replacement is the joke.

If Goldfinger already taught the house the lesson, this one does not add a new one. It adds water and a budget. Adults who want the machine can watch the machine and keep their judgment. A crowd in 1965 made it one of the largest grosses of the year. The gross is not a character reference. Leave it off a boy's education in what men are for.

Journal

Keep Thunderball in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 33. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Truth 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

North by Northwest

48 instead of 33

North by Northwest is still a thriller film, and it scores 48 instead of 33. What you gain is stewardship: You can inherit a man who stops being ornamental.

The eight

6
Industry
He runs the mission, and the mission is competent, which is not the same as good.
2
Household
No household. Women are issued with the equipment and written off the same way.
1
Piety
A license stands where a conscience would have to answer.
6
Courage
The underwater work is dangerous, and he does it because that is the assignment.
3
Republic
Two governments and a bomb. The neighbor is whoever is standing in the set piece.
2
Temperance
The film is an advertisement for appetite with a flag pinned on it.
4
Truth
The bomb plot is the excuse. The lie is that this is what a capable man looks like.
2
Stewardship
Nothing here is safe to hand a boy as a picture of adulthood.

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Film · Britain · 1903

A Daring Daylight Burglary

33Leave it.

The roof is the thrill, the capture is the only part I trust.

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The review

Frank Mottershaw shot this in Sheffield, and it played in America too. A thief on a roof, a chase, a capture. A teen can watch it. I won't hand it a rank it cannot prove. It was one of the pictures around when Porter made the train film. That is context, not a medal.

The roof is the thrill they sold. The capture is the part I can live with. We can watch the run without pretending a burglary is clever work. When it ends, the sentence in this kitchen is short: he is caught, and the height was the bait.

Journal

Keep A Daring Daylight Burglary in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 33. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage 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 French Connection

45 instead of 33

The French Connection is still a crime film, and it scores 45 instead of 33. What you gain is industry: Two detectives work a heroin case, and the case is the actual job.