I watched L.A. Confidential 2 days ago and im watching Chinatown right now.. noir films are effing amazing.  
 what other noir movies are you gonna watch before L.A. Noire is out ?

Maybe some more classic noire flicks, The Third Man or some Hitchcock.

Sunset Boulevard, In a Lonely Place, etc.

The Untouchables.

Maltese Falcon.

The Untouchables.

" @Abyssfull

The Untouchables.

Wasn't that bootlegging 1930's "

" Maybe some more classic noire flicks, The Third Man or some Hitchcock. "

" @Dany said:

" @Abyssfull

The Untouchables.

Wasn't that bootlegging 1930's "

No idea. Been a while since I've seen it, though that's what came to mind when I thought up movies that resemble L.A Noire in some way. "

" @BaneFireLord said:

" Maybe some more classic noire flicks, The Third Man or some Hitchcock. "

ive never seen a Hitchcock movie.. im ashamed of myself. recommend some ? 
 

" Maltese Falcon. "

Hot tub Time Machine

The Third Man
The Maltese Falcon
The Big Sleep
Sunset Boulevard
The Lady From Shanghai
Touch of Evil
Scarlet Street

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.

How about "The Black Dahlia" ?

This movie is a procedural thriller in the 50s. Its not really noire. None of the lighting is noire because shadows are hard to do and they're showing off the face tech. LA Confidential isn't noir, while we're at it. Maybe school yourself on what actually qualifies as noire before moving ahead. Its tied intrinsically to a style of lighting not present in this game.

" Maybe school yourself on what actually qualifies as noire before moving ahead. "

 Mulholland Falls
       
I can't believe nobody said that one yet.   

" This movie is a procedural thriller in the 50s. Its not really noire. None of the lighting is noire because shadows are hard to do and they're showing off the face tech. LA Confidential isn't noir, while we're at it. Maybe school yourself on what actually qualifies as noire before moving ahead. Its tied intrinsically to a style of lighting not present in this game. "

" @ryanwho said:

" Maybe school yourself on what actually qualifies as noire before moving ahead. "

actually i like sounding a bit ignorant when i talk about things to spite perfectionalists like yourself who want everybody to look everything up before they speak in order not to make any mistakes. i want to be occasionally naive or ignorant or misinformed because we are imperfect people who make mistakes. apparently you spent half your life sitting with books around you reading and 'schooling yourself' about everything, and look where it got you. you're nothing but a bitter grumpy (and if i may, dickish) git "

"  Mulholland Falls       I can't believe nobody said that one yet.    "

" @Ahmad_Metallic said:

" @ryanwho said:

" Maybe school yourself on what actually qualifies as noire before moving ahead. "

actually i like sounding a bit ignorant when i talk about things to spite perfectionalists like yourself who want everybody to look everything up before they speak in order not to make any mistakes. i want to be occasionally naive or ignorant or misinformed because we are imperfect people who make mistakes. apparently you spent half your life sitting with books around you reading and 'schooling yourself' about everything, and look where it got you. you're nothing but a bitter grumpy (and if i may, dickish) git "

Resenting people with knowledge, huh. "

"  as for not noire movies that this game looks an awful more like than noire movies, I'd say The Usual Suspects and Seven are a good place to start. Because if those movies were set in the 50s and had men with silly hats, goobers like ^^^^ would call them noire. The Zodiak Killer is probably a lot less theatrical than this game will get but that's a solid flick. And it takes place in the 70s. Hey that's almost the fifties, I guess that means its almost noire.  M is considered a classic for starting a lot of trends, and it has film's first serial killer. Certainly worth a look. Again, not noire, but there are hats and it is black and white. For a point of reference, Sunset Boulevard is the quintessential noire film and there's nary a single flatfood or cigar smoking investigator in the whole movie. Its lighting, guys. Lighting and narration. But that's beside the point, because the films with the most in common with this game are not noire. "

Paul Blart: Mall Cop.

" @Ahmad_Metallic said:

" @ryanwho said:

" Maybe school yourself on what actually qualifies as noire before moving ahead. "

actually i like sounding a bit ignorant when i talk about things to spite perfectionalists like yourself who want everybody to look everything up before they speak in order not to make any mistakes. i want to be occasionally naive or ignorant or misinformed because we are imperfect people who make mistakes. apparently you spent half your life sitting with books around you reading and 'schooling yourself' about everything, and look where it got you. you're nothing but a bitter grumpy (and if i may, dickish) git "

Resenting people with knowledge, huh. See you at the tea party rally, soldier. 
Anyhow, as for not noire movies that this game looks an awful more like than noire movies, I'd say The Usual Suspects and Seven are a good place to start. Because if those movies were set in the 50s and had men with silly hats, goobers like ^^^^ would call them noire. The Zodiak Killer is probably a lot less theatrical than this game will get but that's a solid flick. And it takes place in the 70s. Hey that's almost the fifties, I guess that means its almost noire.  M is considered a classic for starting a lot of trends, and it has film's first serial killer. Certainly worth a look. Again, not noire, but there are hats and it is black and white. For a point of reference, Sunset Boulevard is the quintessential noire film and there's nary a single flatfood or cigar smoking investigator in the whole movie. Its lighting, guys. Lighting and narration. But that's beside the point, because the films with the most in common with this game are not noire. "

" @ryanwho said:

" @Ahmad_Metallic said:

" @ryanwho said:

" Maybe school yourself on what actually qualifies as noire before moving ahead. "

actually i like sounding a bit ignorant when i talk about things to spite perfectionalists like yourself who want everybody to look everything up before they speak in order not to make any mistakes. i want to be occasionally naive or ignorant or misinformed because we are imperfect people who make mistakes. apparently you spent half your life sitting with books around you reading and 'schooling yourself' about everything, and look where it got you. you're nothing but a bitter grumpy (and if i may, dickish) git "

Resenting people with knowledge, huh. See you at the tea party rally, soldier. 
Anyhow, as for not noire movies that this game looks an awful more like than noire movies, I'd say The Usual Suspects and Seven are a good place to start. Because if those movies were set in the 50s and had men with silly hats, goobers like ^^^^ would call them noire. The Zodiak Killer is probably a lot less theatrical than this game will get but that's a solid flick. And it takes place in the 70s. Hey that's almost the fifties, I guess that means its almost noire.  M is considered a classic for starting a lot of trends, and it has film's first serial killer. Certainly worth a look. Again, not noire, but there are hats and it is black and white. For a point of reference, Sunset Boulevard is the quintessential noire film and there's nary a single flatfood or cigar smoking investigator in the whole movie. Its lighting, guys. Lighting and narration. But that's beside the point, because the films with the most in common with this game are not noire. "

Maybe you could pull this stick out of your ass and realize you're capable of fallacy as well.  I don't think the Noire is referencing the visual element of Noir film but the noir category of detective fiction which did start in the 30's with Raymond Chandler, which obviously fits the bill much more.  Also, I don't think he was resenting you for you knowledge just the fact that you throw it around like it makes you a superior being when he was saying it just makes you more cynical and bitter.  This would seem to be his mistake as it's obvious you're not knowledgeable on this matter and probably others that you throw your faux-intellectual asshat into the ring of, you're just a bitter cynic.  Yes, I have qualified myself on Noir, just finished an entire class on detective fiction and focused my finals paper on the connections of Batman and Rorschach to hardboiled characters like Phillip Marlowe. "

As it's Rock Star, watch any old noir film and you'll have the whole game spoiled.
 
Also, Ryanwho.  You're my favorite.

Third Man and Maltese Falcon.

" @ryanwho: You seriously don't know what the fuck you're talking about. While some film scholars are hard liners who say that you need the hard shadows of black and white for it to qualify as film noir, most people accept noir overall as a genre. If you want to split it down the middle you have classic noir, like the Maltese Falcon, A Touch of Evil (which is in my opinion hilarious for casting Charlton Heston as a Mexican) etc., and then neo-noir films such as LA Confidential, Brick, and even Blade Runner. However, they're both arguably subsets of a larger film noir genre.  "

" Hot tub Time Machine "

" So I'm completely wrong about something that's commonly argued? I feel like you're just being extra angry to fit in with the other pitchfork wielders, bro. I can't be completely wrong about something you just admitted is completely debatable. Nothing you said was incorrect, but you need to ask yourself why you have such a huge attitude with me over such a small distinction. Other people clearly don't know what they're talking about and they're just getting red in the face because that's how they handle being corrected, but you actually know some shit. You don't need to stoop to their level. "

" @Rockdalf said:

" @ryanwho said:

" @Ahmad_Metallic said:

" @ryanwho said:

" Maybe school yourself on what actually qualifies as noire before moving ahead. "

actually i like sounding a bit ignorant when i talk about things to spite perfectionalists like yourself who want everybody to look everything up before they speak in order not to make any mistakes. i want to be occasionally naive or ignorant or misinformed because we are imperfect people who make mistakes. apparently you spent half your life sitting with books around you reading and 'schooling yourself' about everything, and look where it got you. you're nothing but a bitter grumpy (and if i may, dickish) git "

Resenting people with knowledge, huh. See you at the tea party rally, soldier. 
Anyhow, as for not noire movies that this game looks an awful more like than noire movies, I'd say The Usual Suspects and Seven are a good place to start. Because if those movies were set in the 50s and had men with silly hats, goobers like ^^^^ would call them noire. The Zodiak Killer is probably a lot less theatrical than this game will get but that's a solid flick. And it takes place in the 70s. Hey that's almost the fifties, I guess that means its almost noire.  M is considered a classic for starting a lot of trends, and it has film's first serial killer. Certainly worth a look. Again, not noire, but there are hats and it is black and white. For a point of reference, Sunset Boulevard is the quintessential noire film and there's nary a single flatfood or cigar smoking investigator in the whole movie. Its lighting, guys. Lighting and narration. But that's beside the point, because the films with the most in common with this game are not noire. "

Maybe you could pull this stick out of your ass and realize you're capable of fallacy as well.  I don't think the Noire is referencing the visual element of Noir film but the noir category of detective fiction which did start in the 30's with Raymond Chandler, which obviously fits the bill much more.  Also, I don't think he was resenting you for you knowledge just the fact that you throw it around like it makes you a superior being when he was saying it just makes you more cynical and bitter.  This would seem to be his mistake as it's obvious you're not knowledgeable on this matter and probably others that you throw your faux-intellectual asshat into the ring of, you're just a bitter cynic.  Yes, I have qualified myself on Noir, just finished an entire class on detective fiction and focused my finals paper on the connections of Batman and Rorschach to hardboiled characters like Phillip Marlowe. "

Detective fiction is detective fiction, it precedes the noire movement (which is a film movement) by decades. At this point I could just copypasta from wiki but that's not the point. The point seems to be you guys have issues being corrected and now you're throwing names around. We could have just gone "oh some clarification" and moved along. Everything has to be drama around here. Im sorry what you "feel" like noire is doesn't align with what this game appears to be, but plenty of movies that aren't noire have a lot in common with this game and I thought the point of the thread was movies that have shit in common with the game. He can google "film noire" to just get a list of actual noire, but that list wouldn't have Usual Suspects or Zodiak Killer on it. "

but you need to ask yourself why you have such a huge attitude with me over such a small distinction. Other people clearly don't know what they're talking about and they're just getting red in the face because that's how they handle being corrected,   

 Maybe school yourself on what actually qualifies as noire before moving ahead. 

This thread is fun.

" As it's Rock Star, watch any old noir film and you'll have the whole game spoiled.  "

Watch Fincher's Zodiac. Not really noir, but very good, and one of LA Noire's  trailers reminded me of Zodiac.

" @HaltIamReptar said:

" As it's Rock Star, watch any old noir film and you'll have the whole game spoiled.  "

i.. dont follow? watching a dozen of western flicks before RDR didnt spoil it for me "

" @Ahmad_Metallic said:

" @HaltIamReptar said:

" As it's Rock Star, watch any old noir film and you'll have the whole game spoiled.  "

i.. dont follow? watching a dozen of western flicks before RDR didnt spoil it for me "

I believe he's making an attempt at comedy and saying Rockstar is incapable of coming up with an original story. "

Chinatown's sequel The Two Jakes is allright, it's not as good as Chinatown and it's a little far from regular Noir but I still like it.

Almost forgot to mention Fritz Lang's "M". Very cool movie.

sunset boulevard maybe?

Hollywoodland is a solid film and Ben, I can't stand him normally, he really made it work. Its a (very dramatically embellished) retelling of the investigation into the death of the actor who played Superman in the old black and white TV show. Just speaking of recent flicks, The Ghost Writer had a bit of the classic mystery sensibility, where a writer comes in to replace a man who died from an alleged suicide in finishing the memiors of a high profile politician then finds out a few things he probably shouldn't have. It takes some really strange turns.

" @ninjakiller said:

"  Mulholland Falls       I can't believe nobody said that one yet.    "

and looking at your avatar, you should've also said The Big Lebowski ! its considered a comedy noir film right ? "