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Detective Film Poll!

🕑 Added 2024-11-28 18:20:38 +0000 UTC

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Birdie Num Num

lol at The Game winning a detective film poll. in a landslide no less. I wonder how many voting have seen all the other films in the poll.

David Wilkins

Really looking forward to The Game!

Dan McComb

My #1 pick is Witness (IMHO Harrison Ford's best film), but I love that you put so many pre-1980 films in the mix (even if they aren't getting tons of votes).

ron clint

Wow...all decent choices and tough to decide. Whatever wins, you guys will rock it

David Wilkins

For future consideration, To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), but it’s more a Secret Service story than detective, although they are tracking down counterfeit money. Great cast and a great story.

RabidMango

I like "The Game" a ton. I think it's funny it's in a detective poll.

christopher brown

Hell or High Water (2016) Bullitt (1968) The Hidden (1987)

Future Boy

I love Michael Douglas, and they still have a lot of his best films to watch! The Game is my favourite. But I also would love to see reactions to The War of the Roses, Fatal Attraction, Wall Street, Basic Instinct, and many more!

Michael SCH

Perhaps The Name of the Rose (1986) with Sean Connery?

Paul Cox

Yeah, I consider myself very Altman-positive and even I'm kinda lukewarm on McCabe.

Florian Meier

My Favorite Poll, so many Great Films ...But Guys "The Game" is sooo good... Michael Douglas is my favorite Actor

Michael Buhl

The only reason I didn't vote for Blue Velvet is that I don't think of it as a straight detective movie. Nevertheless, it's a superb movie, and you should definitely watch it (and make a reaction video for it).

Tinker

Dead Again is a fantastic who dunnit. Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh, Robin Williams... one of my all-time favorite films.

Daniel N

Angel Heart! Fantastic

Birdie Num Num

After Young Guns destroyed some of the greatest westerns of all time in a poll, I don't share your optimism:) Silverado would handily beat McCabe in a poll, I'm sure.

Daniel N

Please do check out “In the Name of the Father” with Daniel Day-Lewis (1993)

Daniel N

Oddly enough, David Fincher isn’t very proud of it I’ve heard.

Ken Veader

The Game is a cool flick tho I'd categorize it as Mystery/Suspense

Ken Veader

I could see (and hope) McCabe & Mrs. Miller winning a Western poll

Han

The Game is amazing. Still holds up.

Matt C

The Game is a David Fincher masterpiece! I hope it wins.

Athos Count de la Fère

My favorite modern actor. 😞 Announced his retirement after the current batch of movies in the pipeline.

Athos Count de la Fère

Hah! 😂

Athos Count de la Fère

"Witness" is my favorite Harrison Ford movie.

Athos Count de la Fère

Let's stay on the Harrison Ford train. "Witness"

Antmovies

The I almost picked all of them. BLUE VELVET will make the best reaction methinks.

Birdie Num Num

No love for The Long Goodbye? Guess 3 Women may remain the only Altman film reacted to, its hard to see any of his films winning a poll.

Birdie Num Num

It's shame, but most here probably haven't seen it.

Keith Brown

Go Classics!, The Thin Man, Orient Express and The Big Sleep for starters!!

John Fitzpatrick

Another detective movie is Night Moves. Sadly overlooked.

Florian Meier

I fucking love this Film!!! Really hope it wins

Michael Figueroa

The Game, all the way. There are few here that I would cut, then add Angel Heart (with Mickey Rourke).

James

In the heat of he night and The Game!!

Paul Cox

Both Letterboxd and IMDb have really good genre collections (though neither has one specifically for detective films—some users have made their own lists), but going forward either one of those options would be far more likely to produce better polls and better winners than just a basic Google search.

Birdie Num Num

So is there an alternative to always just using google to come up with polls? I've lost track of how many times you and Daniel laugh after doing a reaction and say "this wasn't a comedy etc." So clearly you also see the flaws in google. Isn't imdb a better place for determining genre etc?

Paul Cox

Yeah, if/when The Game wins this poll in a few weeks, they shouldn't even mention the genre of the poll was "Detective" films when filming the reaction. Just say "it won our poll" to save themselves the grief of grouchy YT commenters.

Birdie Num Num

I really wish they would say that they compile these polls based on google in their intros. So many comments on youtube saying that "your patreons are idiots for telling you this is a comedy etc." It's not our fault!

Daniel N

It is an underrated classic. Borderline masterpiece.

Tyler Foster

If The Game wins I suggest doing the second place off of this as well somewhere, just so we actually get a detective movie...although Witness would be a funny second place because while it IS about a detective, it's probably also not what you'd expect from "detective movie," even though it's great.

Paul Cox

Google's been broken for years, so that tracks lol.

Future Boy

Win or lose, please do The Game as soon as possible. It's been in my top 5 films I most want to see on this channel for YEARS!

TBR Schmitt

Gotta take that up with Google, then! Google Search: "Top Detective Films" -Sam

Lee N.

Great list here. Very difficult to choose. Here's my recommendation for the future: Death on the Nile, another very good Agatha Christie adaptation featuring Hercule Poirot.

Tyler Foster

Yet another example of a poll that will result in a good movie but in which Google has led you astray - The Game is not a detective movie. It has a plot with a mystery in it, which is probably why it came up. Identity is also not a detective movie. That said, there's literally only one movie on this poll I don't like and it's only because I haven't seen it.

Smooticus

It's too bad The Thin Man has no chance. The dialog is terrific. "I have to keep her from spending all the money I married her for."

Birdie Num Num

Thank you for including some old noirs in this poll(even though they probably have no chance of winning). But almost all of these titles are must see's. Pretty diverse too, got every decade represented.

Chadwick Von

Fallen is a great movie. Denzel is awesome in it.

Analytical Guy

I imagine The Game will win, and it's a good solid movie, but a lot of reactors have already done it and I've never seen anyone do Blue Velvet!

Smooticus

I had to expand my bones from 3 to 6. All of these are worth watching!

Paul Cox

Sorry, but who's the "detective" in The Game? It will probably win because people want to see the reaction, but I'm baffled by its inclusion in this category.