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Fatal Attraction - While there's an overlap between erotic thrillers and neo-noir, I wouldn't consider part of the overlap. But that might just be my current mental template. It is interesting looking back on this and seeing it worked with audiences, but Show Girls didn't, since they were both so over the top. Admittedly, I still don't know how I feel about Show Girls, and it might simply be the fact the former was an erotic thriller and the latter was a melodrama.
Body Double - I'd have to double check my ballot, but actually I don't think I considered any erotic thrillers. I know someone IRL who really loves this movie (and that era of De Palma), though I think they love Hitchcock even more. I'm not sure how I feel about it. Granted, I've also spent the last 12 years trying to adjust to Vertigo.
Mystic River - One of those movies I heard the title of over the years, but if you pressed me to guess what it was about, I would draw a blank. I thought I heard it in the same sentence as Cold Mountain, so I probably would have guessed they might have been a similar subject (not that I have a good sense what Cold Mountain is about either), so I would have been way off. Apparently it was directed by Clint Eastwood. I don't know if there's been a Clint Eastwood directed movie that I particularly love, but to each their own.
Mother - I enjoy Bong Joon-ho movies, but I seem to enjoy them less than other people. Haven't seen this one though. The plot synopsis always made me think of Poetry, which also not actively seek this one out, because it would probably do it no favor if my mind was comparing the two.
Killer Joe - This one didn't cross my mind to consider for the list. Not as a, "not a neo-noir," consideration. It just didn't cross my mind when thinking of possible neo-noirs. I'm sure I would have at least considered it. No idea if it would have made my ballot, but I'm sure I would have at least considered it.
Strange Days - I think I watched five minutes of this back in the 90s after it hit the cable channels. Given that it basically
ETA: re-reading my post from the middle of last night and I have no idea what thought I just randomly stopped in the middle of, right there. I think, "Given that it basically disappeared from availability for a long while there, I wish I had. Though, given I was a teenager at the time, I wouldn't want to rely on my memory of it, either."
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