Michael Gildea
13May11
I fell asleep trying to watch this a couple of times myself but eventually made it through. Once you get through it, its well worth it.
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Adam Z
23Jan12
I prefer the 1946 version. If you can put Chandler out of your mind a bit, this is a great film, unquestionably. That's not to deny that the film reproduces a lot of what is great about Chandler, including Marlowe's cleverness, just that it's not quite the book. This is a Bogart/Bacall vehicle and a thoroughly Hollywood movie, and as such it doesn't get at Chandler's melancholy.
DT
10Jan12
Pulp fiction. A curious specimen, with the screenplay simultaneously being incomprehensible, badass, flirty and entertaining in its own dirty kind of way. And it’s as much the eccentric assortment of walk-in characters as it is the luscious, pot-boiling atmosphere that brings this to life; in front of all that, Bogart is just way too cool, and Bacall is just way too sexy.
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Zach Closs
23Nov11
This is quite possibly the most entertaining, intelligent, sharply-scripted, well-shot film noir I have ever seen. Blown away.
DADA WEATHERMAN
30Sep11
"You do sell books, HMMM?" -- More and more, I realize that adoring this film is easily warranted based off this scene alone.
Xose Manoel Ramos
22Aug11
A película ten algunhas das mellores replicas e contrareplicas da historia do cine. E os dous protagonistas teñen unha química instantanea. E (elemental para un bo 'noir') a femme fatale (que non é Bacall) é fermosísima
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Catarina Gomes
12Aug11
Amazing chemistry between Bogart and Bacall. It was my first movie of the double and I'm most obliged. Some compelling lines and a well conduced mistery and you got yourself a classic noir.
Dave
22May11
Everything comes together here for a classic noir. The script from Faulkner, Brackett, and Furthman makes Chandler's dialog crackle. Hawks' direction is superb as usual. And the chemistry and attraction between Bogart and Bacall is electric. A classic example of noir that should be seen by all fans of classic cinema.
Michael Gildea
13May11
The Big Sleep is an unrelenting series of screw jobs that keeps the viewer on their toes and at times just as much of a victim as the parade of suckers that compose the cast of supporting characters. Bogart and Bacall's chemistry is undeniable and the movie is a big-scale example of film noir at its finest. The dialogues is superb and the scene with Dorothy Malone left me with a new definition for the word "wanting."
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ruby stevens
22Mar11
there were two versions of the film. it was shelved for a couple years as the studio had a backlog of war films to get out. then it was recut with added scenes to take advantage of the bogie-bacall relationship, creating a possibly better film that never quite makes sense.
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Rahul
21Mar11
This is all about a superb Will Faulkner script, and Bogart and Bacall talking about horses. Bacall reminded me of Marlene Dietrich, with the exotic features and faux accent. Bogie himself is a force of nature as the sardonic, cynical Marlowe. The film is a great example of style and form trumping substance and content.
carmen
16Feb11
So confused while watching this, but loved these lines: "Is he as cute as you are?" "Nobody is."
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saptarshi
6Jan11
Ironically I fell asleep twice. In two separate sittings. When I woke up bogart was kissing bacall. And then the mgm montage music came on and I turned it off.
Mark_Med
4Nov10
Notoriously hard to follow, (even the director couldn't figure out whodunnit!) but who cares when Bogart and Bacall start sparks every time they appear on screen!
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Pri Lima
11Aug10
What a complicated noir!So many people were killed that i forgot some of them and i gave up to try understand why people killed or were killed.Besides,i found most of people so mean that i thought they deserved all that suffering. Baccal singing And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine made the movie worth the view.