Noir Film Poll!
Added 2023-05-28 01:31:36 +0000 UTCHelp pick the Noir Film we will react to!
Please feel free to suggest other options in the comments for future polls!
Comments
I voted for Dial M for Murder (not exactly noir, but still a good movie y'all should see), but i'm really surprised it won with as big a gap as it did
Smooticus
2023-06-27 14:41:14 +0000 UTCLooks like you're about to be disappointed
Smooticus
2023-06-19 11:17:49 +0000 UTCShadow Of A Doubt is one of my Hitchcock faves.
Neal Romanek
2023-06-02 12:17:03 +0000 UTCHoly cow! So many good movies here! Strangers On A Trains is pure Hitchcock - not so much noir - but is amazing and you should watch it however you can. There are two Billy Wilder masterpieces here that have to go to the top of your list though - Double Indemnity and Sunset Blvd.
Neal Romanek
2023-06-02 12:06:29 +0000 UTCDIAL M FOR MURDER isn’t noir, so it’d be nice if it didn’t win.
Jason Chirevas
2023-05-30 21:52:56 +0000 UTCYes, I really enjoyed Lifeboat. It was my first introduction to the great Tallulah Bankhead.
Robert Boyd
2023-05-29 23:38:06 +0000 UTCAnother single-setting Hitchcock film I love is Lifeboat, though it's not even the least bit noir. Something about it stayed with me in a way others didn't, and I rank it among my most favorite Hitchcock works.
Paul Cox
2023-05-29 22:35:53 +0000 UTCThe best representations of film noir in this list are Double Indemnity, The Big Sleep and Kiss Me Deadly. The Maltese Falcon was a great film noir. Dial M isn’t really film noir but deserves to be seen. It was Hitchcock’s only film to be shot in 3D and takes place almost entirely in one setting. Hitchcock previously did this with Rope, which does take place entirely in one setting and in real time. Actually, Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt is a great film noir. It’s also my favorite Hitchcock film. Hopefully, it eventually will end up on a list.
Robert Boyd
2023-05-29 22:11:36 +0000 UTCFYI, that "lady" that Christopher robbed in Sopranos that you didn't recognize is Lauren Bacall, star of The Big Sleep with her husband Humphrey Bogart. They had one of the more celebrated romances in Hollywood history.
Birdie Num Num
2023-05-29 19:53:48 +0000 UTCHoly shit this is hard. Every single one of these are amazing.
daron85
2023-05-29 15:14:38 +0000 UTCYes I’m shocked that Laura isn’t on this list. Classic film noir.
Catherine LW
2023-05-29 15:01:30 +0000 UTCYou're inventing subtext. I just meant that the only predictable thing about the internet is its unpredictability.
Paul Cox
2023-05-28 23:13:25 +0000 UTCPeople SHOULD behave the way that I want them to. Euphemism meaning that people on the internet are stupid.
Shawn Brink
2023-05-28 22:59:18 +0000 UTCWhy would you watch the quintessential one first? You gotta build up to that.
Kevin Charley
2023-05-28 21:01:13 +0000 UTCOk...? "At some point" could mean after they react to literally every old school noir film. I wasn't demanding they do so immediately, just "at some point". And you should probably search "maltese falcon reaction" on youtube.
JayWantsACat
2023-05-28 20:49:05 +0000 UTCDial M is amazing but I’m surprised Sunset isn’t doing better.
Korny
2023-05-28 20:22:41 +0000 UTCThanks for the help, I figured it out and voted appropriately.
Korny
2023-05-28 20:21:39 +0000 UTCWhile I don't disagree that there are many, many great neo-noirs, I would definitely feel like the classic noirs are the ones that need a fair shot on reaction channels rather than neo-noirs. I obviously don't watch every reaction channel but TBR is the only one I know of to have even done The Maltese Falcon.
Tyler Foster
2023-05-28 19:40:13 +0000 UTCAre the boxes square? If the selection buttons are square with a checkmark you should be able to check further options after you've checked one. If they are round with a dot in the center then you can only choose one option.
Tyler Foster
2023-05-28 19:38:37 +0000 UTCCouldn’t agree more Jarrod.
Michael Soukup
2023-05-28 18:12:48 +0000 UTCI love the genre but I don't know enough. I won't vote but I look forward to what's chosen.
PIG
2023-05-28 17:18:01 +0000 UTCYep, that’s my favorite on the list with Sunset Blvd being second.
Korny
2023-05-28 16:01:13 +0000 UTCBlood Simple is great. Thanks for the thoughtful post.
Korny
2023-05-28 15:58:51 +0000 UTCHmm, as soon as I touch one of the boxes it immediately shows results with no other voting options.
Korny
2023-05-28 15:56:45 +0000 UTCOut of the Past is the quintessential noir and should be the first one they watch and react to.
Jarrod Hornbeck
2023-05-28 15:19:28 +0000 UTCHitchcock dominating a genre poll he shouldn't be in, but losing a director poll he should be in contention for winning. Ahh the internet 🙃
Paul Cox
2023-05-28 15:06:07 +0000 UTCTough call between Sunset Blvd. and The Third Man for me, but I finally went with Sunset.
Michael Buhl
2023-05-28 14:23:53 +0000 UTCI don't think of Dial M for Murder as a film noir. Certainly it's less of a film noir than the other choices here.
David Martin
2023-05-28 08:41:24 +0000 UTCSome other essential noirs not mentioned - Out of the Past, Detour, Criss Cross, The Asphalt Jungle, Nightmare Alley(the original), Night and the City, Scarlet Street, Too Late for Tears, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Fallen Angel, Black Angel, The Big Heat, Key Largo. and many more...
Birdie Num Num
2023-05-28 08:10:20 +0000 UTChere are 1000 noirs worth a look(includes neo noir etc) https://www.theyshootpictures.com/noir1000.htm
Birdie Num Num
2023-05-28 08:02:34 +0000 UTCI really like The Big Sleep, but Bogart needs a poll of his own.
David Martin
2023-05-28 07:06:07 +0000 UTCGoogle? It's the 50's and 40's What is this Google you speak of. I demand to see the manger! 😡😆😆😆
INFJ-T Tyrone
2023-05-28 06:39:23 +0000 UTCI wish Out of the Past was in the poll. But I would get bummed if it got only a few votes. In the real world, most noir historians rank it at least top 5 noir. I consider it the definitive noir. And regardless of genre, it has some of the best dialogue of all time in any film.
Birdie Num Num
2023-05-28 06:38:00 +0000 UTCThis is the only poll I've seen where all films are worth voting for IMO.
Birdie Num Num
2023-05-28 06:36:00 +0000 UTCIt would be nice if only people who've seen all the films on the poll were allowed to vote, haha.
Birdie Num Num
2023-05-28 06:34:09 +0000 UTCA once a month Noir would be GREAT.
Tyrone Tyrone
2023-05-28 06:33:06 +0000 UTCIf you're a movie buff with a sense of film history, Noir is going to surprise you with how great some of the dialogue is. And you'll constantly be saying is that a young so and so or wow, she or he was great but they didn't go on to further stardom I wonder what happened.
Tyrone Tyrone
2023-05-28 06:30:59 +0000 UTCdeleted
Birdie Num Num
2023-05-28 06:16:47 +0000 UTCYou want to see something worth viewing, vote for Touch of Evil. Orson Welles' last Hollywood picture.
Bennett Holleman
2023-05-28 05:17:19 +0000 UTCYou have great taste! Out of the Past may not be the most famous noir, but it's probably the greatest. It's almost the Platonic Ideal of a classic noir picture. The 1980s remake, Against All Odds is actually pretty terrific, though mostly forgotten.
VivendoBem
2023-05-28 05:12:14 +0000 UTCShadow of a Doubt. Directed by Hitchcock is in my opinion the 3rd best Hitchcock film behind Psycho and Rear Window. It is powerful
John Frilando
2023-05-28 04:06:33 +0000 UTCAn often overlooked, but an excellent example of the genre, is Out of the Past, with Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas (in his first speaking role) and the gorgeous and talented Jane Greer. Greer is a femme fatale in the most complete definition of the term -- beautiful, deceptive, and deadly. So many classic scenes. If you like Double Indemnity, I think you'll love Out of the Past. Every movie on this list is worth watching. Hard to make a choice.
David Martin
2023-05-28 03:56:36 +0000 UTCYou know you can vote for multiple options, right? (But yes, I hope Spinal Tap gets a fair shake in the future.)
Paul Cox
2023-05-28 02:57:06 +0000 UTCI hope at some point you two take a look at neo-noir films. Some modern takes really do the genre justice.
JayWantsACat
2023-05-28 02:52:04 +0000 UTCI have 4 that I want to watch with them but I don’t want to waste my vote like I did with Spinal Tap. What to do…
Korny
2023-05-28 02:45:59 +0000 UTCThese are all excellent films, and I know that y'all are concentrating on the classic noir movies. My most enthusiastic vote goes to "Strangers on a Train." For future reference, however, I hope you'll see some of the very good noir films made since the 80s, such as "Hollywoodland" (2006), with Ben Affleck; "The Black Dahlia" (2006), Brian De Palma's take on one of Hollywood's grisliest murders; and "Mulholland Falls" (1996), not to be confused with Lynch's "Mulholland Drive." These three films have all the elements of the classics, and they're all set (obviously) in Los Angeles, as many noir classics were.
William 1611
2023-05-28 02:39:36 +0000 UTCTouch of Evil. Directed by Orson Welles. Fantastic cinematography. Oh, and a movie not on this list should be "Laura" 1944 directed by Otto Preminger. Also "The Postman Always Rings Twice" 1946 with Lana Turner.
Athos Count de la Fère
2023-05-28 02:13:01 +0000 UTCGun Crazy is an underrated one.
Tim Raths
2023-05-28 01:57:58 +0000 UTCA lot of you haven't watched Double Indemnity and it shows.
Paul Cox
2023-05-28 01:56:40 +0000 UTCThis is a great list. Only thing about suggesting further noirs is that when we're talking about anything that's older than the 1970s I think the drop-off between the "big" titles and the "obscure" titles is going to be pretty sudden and pretty wide -- you're going to have big guns like Maltese Falcon and Touch of Evil and then you're going to have lots of stuff that 10-50 people who vote in these polls have seen. If I were trying to think of some titles that might stand a chance, I would suggest Laura (1944), The Big Combo (1955), and one of my all-time favorite noirs, In a Lonely Place (1950). Also, every year I try and participate in my friend's online film challenge #Noirvember, where you watch a noir every day in November. I've never managed to go a whole month doing one a day but I have seen a ton of great noir. Last year I saw a great one by Fritz Lang called Secret Beyond the Door (1947), so I'll suggest that too. I also agree with Eddie: you may not want to do Hitch's whole filmography but maybe all of the Hitchcock movies should go on their own recurring Hitchcock poll. Also, speaking of filmographies, you know I'm still hoping for a Coen filmography run, so I gotta mention that their debut feature Blood Simple (1984) is an all-time great neo-noir, and they returned to the genre years later with The Man Who Wasn't There (2001).
Tyler Foster
2023-05-28 01:52:39 +0000 UTCLOL -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2023-05-28 01:51:39 +0000 UTCI voted for every movie.
Kevin Charley
2023-05-28 01:50:36 +0000 UTCAll these are amazing. But my personal favorite is GUN CRAZY.
Philip Davetas
2023-05-28 01:48:12 +0000 UTCLove Hitch, but wish he wasn't included in these polls since he always wins. He's sort of his own genre, not pure noir(like Double Indemnity, Big Sleep etc). Hitch's style began before the noir cycle in 1920s/1930s Great Britain. Noir began in 1941(according to most textbooks) in the US with Maltese Falcon. So he wasn't influenced by all the crimes films that suddenly popped up with similar themes in the 40s/50s. Sorry, I'm a bit of a noir historian, I take the genre very seriously(and I was the one who suggested the noir poll! thanks for giving it a shot!)
Birdie Num Num
2023-05-28 01:47:35 +0000 UTCSweet Smell of Success should be on a future poll like this. It's in my Top 10 films of all time-It just happens to be Noir.
Brandon Royce
2023-05-28 01:46:06 +0000 UTC*As a reminder, as we get these comments on every single poll, we have not seen these films. If you disagree with the genre pairing of a film, you'll have to take it up with the folks at Google ;) -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2023-05-28 01:42:24 +0000 UTCDial M For Murder isn’t really a film noir.
Tim Raths
2023-05-28 01:37:25 +0000 UTCOdd Man Out (1947) is one to be considered in future polls. It's a man against the clock sort of film where every minute counts. Riveting! And James Mason is brilliant.
Paul Cox
2023-05-28 01:37:22 +0000 UTCAll of these must be watched but Sunset Boulevard and Double Indemnity are the quintessential film noir.
Tim Raths
2023-05-28 01:36:50 +0000 UTC
