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Forum: Movie Reviews 2 hours ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
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one vote. jackie brown was my #13. as of writing, my pick for tarantino's best, one where he's willing to tone down some of his more bombastic qualities (flaws?) for the sake of a relatively muted...
Forum: Movie Reviews 2 hours ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
Posted By Iroquois
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no votes. strangers on a train is good, though like most hitchcock films i haven't felt much inclination to revisit it. the big heat is okay.
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 day ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
Posted By Iroquois
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two votes. ace in the hole was my #10, just a fine piece of muckraking that more than holds up over 70 years later. notorious was my #20, one of the more undeniably solid hitchcock works.
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 day ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By Iroquois
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one vote. high and low was my #23. easily the best of kurosawa's noir films and one i should definitely revisit soon (at least before it finally gets hit with an american remake). i used to like the...
Forum: Movie Reviews 2 days ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
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Forum: The Television & Music Forum 2 days ago
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Fallout (Amazon Prime show)
Posted By Iroquois
Re: Fallout series coming to Amazon

the frank frazetta style of those pics is but one piece of the fallout aesthetic, which has incorporated cartoonish irony from the very beginning (most obviously in the form of vault boy and how the...
Forum: Movie Reviews 2 days ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
Posted By Iroquois
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four votes.

stray dog was my #13, using a great noir plot in having a policeman search for his missing gun to examine postwar japan, being led masterfully by mifune and shimura.

detour was my...
Forum: Movie Reviews 2 days ago
Replies: 1,590
The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By Iroquois
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no votes. dark city is a good film but i haven't seen it in ages. le cercle rouge i've seen more recently and also think it's very good.
Forum: Movie Reviews 4 days ago
Replies: 1,590
The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By Iroquois
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three votes.

seen gone girl at least two or three times and think it's a generally solid time, though i guess i'd put it somewhere in the middle of a prospective fincher ranking.

collateral...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 week ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
Posted By Iroquois
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no votes. the lost weekend is really good - didn't think of it for this list, which does make me wonder how many different titles i'd have voted for if i'd really gone to the trouble of verifying...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 week ago
Replies: 1,590
The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By Iroquois
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two votes.

the big lebowski was my #8. i don't know exactly how much you can consider it a quote-unquote parody of noir films due to how it reimagines the archetypal private eye narrative through...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 week ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
Posted By Iroquois
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six new films and still no votes. most of them are pretty good, except for the strange loves of martha ivers (think it's just alright) and the wrong man (which i haven't seen).
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 week ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
Posted By Iroquois
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two votes. rififi was #6, one of the best heist films ever made. elevator to the gallows was my #11, maybe one of the finest examples of classic noir vibes ever.
Forum: Upcoming Movies & Sequels 1 week ago
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The Matrix 5 - Drew Goddard directing
Posted By Iroquois
Re: The Matrix 5 - Drew Goddard directing

maybe it's because i'm in the minority that actually liked resurrections (and the other two sequels, if enough people are still unhappy about that), but this is almost certainly going to end up being...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 week ago
Replies: 1,590
The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By Iroquois
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no votes. as much as i've liked most other films shane black's been involved in, kiss kiss bang bang just doesn't click for me no matter how many chances i give it even as recently as last christmas....
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 week ago
Replies: 1,590
The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By Iroquois
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no votes. loved blade runner 2049 when it came out (saw it twice in theatres), but i don't think it's held up on recent rewatches, either on its own terms or as a sequel to blade runner (it's...
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 2 weeks ago
Replies: 20
Seeing all avatars as the same picture
Posted By Iroquois
i love police story but it's the wrong kind of...

i love police story but it's the wrong kind of funny for an april fool's joke.
Forum: Movie Reviews 2 weeks ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
Posted By Iroquois
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one vote. odd man out ended up at #21 on my list. i do appreciate a movie that's almost entirely getaway and this is a very good example of that.
Forum: Movie Reviews 2 weeks ago
Replies: 1,590
The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By Iroquois
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no votes. a simple plan is a great effort by sam raimi to deliver a quote-unquote serious film, one that downplays his more distinctive traits as a filmmaker in order to do right by the kind of...
Forum: Movie Reviews 2 weeks ago
Replies: 1,590
The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By Iroquois
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no votes. have been holding off on watching blast of silence since it's my understanding that it's a christmas movie. the player is really good, but i wouldn't have thought to count it as a neo-noir...
Forum: Movie Reviews 2 weeks ago
Replies: 1,590
The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By Iroquois
no votes. i really liked you were never really...

no votes. i really liked you were never really here and saw it twice in theatres. a welcome variation on the vigilante sub-genre that had been reinvigorated after the success of taken (do i have to...
Forum: Movie Reviews 2 weeks ago
Replies: 1,590
The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By Iroquois
Re: The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown

no votes. oldboy is solid, though it might well be my least favourite of park chan-wook's vengeance trilogy (or maybe tied with lady vengeance behind mr. vengeance) because it's probably the most...
Forum: Movie Reviews 2 weeks ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
Posted By Iroquois
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no votes. i do like both these films quite a bit, though.
Forum: Movie Reviews 2 weeks ago
Replies: 1,590
The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By Iroquois
Re: The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown

no votes. i saw pale flower at some point in the last year or two and liked it very much, would definitely watch it again. the departed is a film i have a somewhat complicated opinion of - you can...
Forum: Movie Reviews 2 weeks ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
Posted By Iroquois
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no votes. i watched niagara for the first time recently and found it quite enjoyable. haven't seen they live by night.

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