As for the film The Two Jakes, I didn't like it at all and
found it a huge
letdown after Chinatown, which does such a good job of
recreating an era.
I didn't find that sense of reality in The Two Jakes. One of
the cliches
of the movie industry is that it's difficult to make a sequel
that's
anywhere near as good as the original. That doesn't seem to
be true in
books, and I'm not sure why it should be in films.
James Reasoner
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