m
> Thanks for the comments on Marlowe's impact on
the
> hardboiled genre. I decided to bail out on
Chandler
> during the Forties but to pick back up with THE
LONG
> GOODBYE in the Fifties.
>
> I got The Big Sleep with Bogart and Bacall from
Net-
> flix and watched it til it froze up. I'm having
a
> lot of problems with DVDs getting slow spots,
with
> some of them flat-out refusing to go on. It
didn't
> matter much on this one. I just couldn't jack
up
> any enthusiasm over The Big Sleep. The most
excited
> I got was the intro when they listed Faulkner
and
> Brackett for the screenplay. I think maybe
I'll
> check out the later version with Robert
Mitchum.
>
> Can I talk about Netflix here? I think so. A
while
> back I complained about not being able to rent
those
> old noirs at the video stores in town. I joined
an
> online thing called Netflix. I heard they had
12,000
> DVD titles, which included almost everything
that's
> on DVD. Not so. I'm only finding about 30 or
40%
> of the ones I'd like to see.
>
> Some of these movies aren't very good, either.
I
> rented The Killer Inside Me and I was braced for
some
> really horrible scenes. Then Lou punches Joyce
once
> and she bounces off the furniture and is dead. I
took
> it out of the player and started reading
Willeford's
> WILD WIVES. I don't mind a movie varying from the
book
> a little or a lot, but this movie wasn't doing a
thing
> for me.
>
> miker
> --
I agree with you that the film version of THE KILLER INSIDE
ME isn't much chop (although I've always liked THE BIG
SLEEP). Do yourself a favour & avoid the Mitchum BIG YAWN
(this from a big Mitchum fan) - some bright spark decided the
story would be better set in contemporary - 70's - UK. Bob M.
looks old, tired & thoroughly unimpressed in this
debacle. If you have a hankering to see the big guy do
Marlowe, I recommend FAREWELL, MY LOVELY, made a couple of
years before and featuring cameos from Jim Thompson, as the
father of the bad seed daughters, & film noir stalwart,
John Ireland. Mitchum's still a little long in the tooth here
but still carries it off nicely. Rene
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