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Let's get this straight: "film noir" stopped getting made because black and white "sucks". Okay. Do you have a brain, Cranky, or does your spinal cord just double back and connect to your asshole? Over the past 100 years there have been a hell of a lot more shitty films in color than in black and white (granted, the sped-up production of films in the past twenty years kind of lopsides that fact). Sturgeon's Law states that 90 (or is it 98?) percent of everything (arts and entertainment-wise) is shit, no matter where you go. Simply dismissing the first third-to-half of the last century's films as "sucking" because they were in black and white is childish. Remember, a good portion of those films have either been the inspiration or the trendsetter for the films you have enjoyed in the past twenty years. Where would "Star Wars" be without the old samurai movies by Kurosawa? Or "Chinatown" without the late thirties-early forties "film noir" of which you mitterate upon in this very review? Hell, "Nixon" was damn near a remake of "Citizen Kane", sans Rosebud, of course. Need anyone school your ass anymore?
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