Film Noirs That Are Actually Good & Watchable
When I have started watching different genres of past movies, I, as many do, have gone straight to the films that were praised by a politically-motivated Hollywood. Unfortunately, so many of those movies are uninteresting or just dull, and it discouraged me from trying others because I assumed if these were the best, the others were obviously worse so why bother?
Well, there are many, many films that are entertaining to modern eyes but are never spoken of. This is my list of such films in the Noir genre. Some of these actually are touted by Hollywood, but many are not. My goal is to post the ones that I personally like and maybe you will like them, too.
There are quite a number of classic titles you will not see on this list, e.g. Double Indemnity, The Maltese Falcon, et al. These two films in particular are good examples of titles I do like aspects of, but as a viewer I simply was not as captivated. To digress, Bogart perhaps was more appealing to audiences of the day and he seemed a good man, but I just don't find his screen presence very appealing.
You will also find some titles that are not Noir, but have strong themes and are criminally overlooked anyway, so I have no guilt putting them on this list. Ha!
Well, there are many, many films that are entertaining to modern eyes but are never spoken of. This is my list of such films in the Noir genre. Some of these actually are touted by Hollywood, but many are not. My goal is to post the ones that I personally like and maybe you will like them, too.
There are quite a number of classic titles you will not see on this list, e.g. Double Indemnity, The Maltese Falcon, et al. These two films in particular are good examples of titles I do like aspects of, but as a viewer I simply was not as captivated. To digress, Bogart perhaps was more appealing to audiences of the day and he seemed a good man, but I just don't find his screen presence very appealing.
You will also find some titles that are not Noir, but have strong themes and are criminally overlooked anyway, so I have no guilt putting them on this list. Ha!
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