Re Brad's comment below:
> Yes, but how many of them [the short list of
PI
> films from the last three decades I gave] are
any
> good?
John Lau's original post dealt with the *lack* of PI films
made in the last 30 years, not the quality. I was only
listing as many films as I could think of to show that the
genre was not yet dead in Hollywood. I wasn't trying to prove
that it's being done as well as ever.
That said, I really liked *Farewell, My Lovely*, *The
Drowning Pool*, the first *Shaft* film, parts of *I the Jury*
and an *An Unsuitable Job . . .*. I thought
*The Bodyguard* was lightweight but well-made and enjoyable.
I haven't seen some of the others, and I guess I'd qualify
those I have seen as crap, but, as Theodore Sturgeon so
succinctly put it, "98% of everything is crap."
JIM DOHERTY
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