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
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