They don't want to watch boring old documentary footage, because that's what black and white means. It's all real.

I'm not watching the video because I'm scared my computer will explode from the prescence of the internet's greatest menace

Don't worry, people with way more knowledge of the subject matter than you or I can't decide either. Therefore it's both, as using it as a movement eliminates some essential works (such as Third Man) and using it as a genre kind of forces it as a subgenre of the crime film (which omits some stuff like On the…

But part of the definition for Film Noir is that it's American; as I said in my example above, On the Waterfront isn't neorealist, simply because it's not from Italy. Film Noir was a movement applied in retrospect but, to me, it's so very important as one of very few of the sort for American filmmaking.

Please Don't Send us to the Lava Pit, Our Overlords!

I mean, literally, it was not produced in America or by Americans.

Also David Lynch is writing.

What would be the purpose, given it's impossible to even see so much as a frame of the show without erupting in laughter thinking of all the hilarious characters and the comical situations they find themselves in?

We're bound for another year of non-stop knee-slappers with the most outrageous comedy on TV!

It's not American. You'd not class On the Waterfront as neorealism because it uses the same techniques just because it couldn't possibly be part of the same movement. If it wasn't made in America between Maltese Falcon or Touch of Evil (more or less), I've a hard time calling it noir.

RIP Michael Bolton

Thrilling expose of the Koch Brothers ruined forever thanks to a man hard of hearing.

Glad I never got into Longmire.

I wouldn't trust her, she turned out to be a mole.

Jesus, not that weird.

His selfie stick is the last part to sink in the lava.

The Terminators are slowly and slowly more resembling Bender.

*chorus of Life is a Highway kicks in immediately*

Hm. It looks like the movies that made money are popular! Who'd have thunk.

Zac Efron is the Meryl Streep of the Shirtless Performance Category.