Bryce’s Comments (group member since Jul 05, 2008)

Bryce’s comments from the Watching The Detectives group.

Well to be fair Graphic Novels can make pretty kickass crime stories, see Torso, Criminal, and Sin City.

Hmm.... Good question I can't quite think of any.

Closest I can come up with is the film version of Zodiac, and The Ripley books.

Then again Ripley is the protagonist and he's just making everyone look stupid so I'm not sure if that counts.

It's heart is definitely dark enough.

When I was a kid, I really loved Kinsey Milhone and wanted to be her. But as an adult going back and reading Sue Grafton, it's a little too cheesy for me. "

Damn straight I had an aunt who loved them and I used to DEVOUR those things. I think I made it up to I or so before I lost interest.

I've actually got A,B, and C on my shelf, I picked them up at a garage sale, but they remain unread. Perhaps for the best.

You've gotta love the Sprague clan in Elroy's Black Dahlia. I love the idea of this upper crust family going completely batshit without anyone noticing, and just using all their money and power to let their freak flag fly.

Gerry Gilmore from Darkness Take My Hand actually cost me a couple nights sleep.

And while he's more of an antihero, you've gotta love Tom Ripley. Anyone who can kill so indiscriminately and with such little malice is simply terrifying.

I'd say they fit. This isn't strictly noir discussion, just general hardboiled and crime fiction.

The Getaway's great, but I'll never forgive the screenwriter for cutting out El Ray.

Can you imagine a fucking Peckinpah directed El Ray?

Cinema would never be the same.

I love the Continental Op.

Here's a quick question which kind of PI do you prefer?

The Sherlock/Kenzie/Marlowe investigative type?

Or the sledgehammer type like Marv, Continental, Spillane version of find someone who just finds someone who knows more then they do and beats it out of them.

I love Kiss Me Deadly, it's definitely in my top ten of all time.

The Grifters is the shit.

God Anjelica Huston is awesome in that flick. Even if she scared the poop out of me. Everytime I see her in a "nice" role like The Royal Tenenbaums or Art School Confidential I just keep waiting for her to flip out and kill everyone.

Robert Mitchum is the coolest man to ever live.

Thank God he wasn't a cult leader or every man, woman and child in the world would have drank the kool aid.

I'm partial to Patrick Kenzie from Lehane's series. Smartass, East Coast, and Irish, so I can relate.

I like that he's not a tough guy, and doesn't come to any great leaps of intuition. He's just a decent guy who gets into bad situations and knows how to think on his feet.

Marlowe. Of course.

Also Marv from Sin City. Sociopaths have never been so fun to read about.

What Film Adaptations of Hardboiled fiction really get the author's work?

Gone Baby Gone really got the feel of the novel, even if was more of a Kenzie mystery, rather then a Kenzie and Genarro one.

And while The Big Sleep is the Classic with a capital C and Bogart the definitive Marlowe I always felt like Murder My Sweet really got the whole feel of Chandler alot better.

Also Sin City. Unsurprisingly.