If you've noticed a growing tension in the friendly fire system, I don't think you're wrong.

The longer we do this show, the more diverse our ideas have become about what makes a good war movie. That shows we're growing and maybe you're

doing that along with us and that's good. I think it's a reflection of a form of exposure bias.

Our consumption of war films has changed our feelings about the genre, the way world travel changes a person's view of the world and their place

in it. But it turns out war movie is a more elastic genre

than I think any of us thought possible. And out of all of the hells of

combinations or hell of combinations is, there are two kinds that challenge the delicate

sensibilities of the modern moviegoer the most, the very old war movie and the comedy war movie. The Very Old War Movie. Today's film is both.

Duck Soup.

Most film viewers can leap that first hurdle,

the one that involves getting used to a weird mid-Atlantic

accent and ancient production values and we've seen quite a few of those films

on Friendly Fire. The hit rate is pretty strong. I would argue some of our highest rated films come from there.

Far higher is that second hurdle, comedy. We've seen Good Morning Vietnam in the Army now and top secret and only one of those is any good and you know which one I mean

will Duck soup join the pantheon of great crossover films?

Or will our conversation be more like a duck hunt?

There's a whole lot of irrelevance in the circus on today's friendly fire, duck soup. Yeah, what is it good for?

Absolutely.

Nothing.

Uh huh, uh huh, yeah.

What is good for?

I'm absolutely not

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