Netflix pick for 7/8/13 – ‘Chinatown’

Okay, some of you are going to be all like, “Chinatown? What the fuck, man? Think I’m an idiot? I’ve seen this movie already! This pick ain’t that special!” To which I say, relax broheem, we’re all good. This pick ain’t for you and it ain’t for me. No sir, this pick…this pick is for the kids.

See kids (cause I know you’re out there reading this shit and listening to Cinema Crespodiso), back before you were born in the 1990s, movies were still being made, you dig? And in 1974, the incredibly awesome “Chinatown” was unleashed upon the world. Made during a time when film noir movies stopped being all the rage (a time which persists to this very day), “Chinatown” is the most bad ass film noir movie you will ever see, kiddies.

What is film noir, you’re asking? Just know that it has to do usually with a private detective, a damsel in distress, and a conspiracy that is usually way too big for the the private eye, but he takes it on anyway. Add a lot of shadows and a gloomy atmosphere and mood, a dire outlook on life itself, and BOOM! you got yourself some noir.

“Chinatown” takes all of these things and amps them up like woah. Jack Nicholson is perfect in the lead, and he’s surrounded by great actors like Faye Dunaway and John Huston, and it’s all directed by Roman Polanski at the height of his directing powers and a few years prior to that whole statutory rape thing, so everything was just firing on all cylinders and the resulting movie is a masterwork of cinematic in your face-ed-ness. You feelin’ me, kids? (I’m still talking to the kids.)

Anyway, kids, watch this thing and marvel at how awesome it is, and people who have seen it already, maybe you need to take the time to sit down and watch it again and remember why we all agreed we liked it in the first place.

Watch “Chinatown” right here on the Netflix Instant!