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* WhatTheHellCastingAgency: Liam Neeson is a fantastic actor, everyone acknowledges but perhaps ''seventy'' is too old to be playing Phillip Marlowe at the height of his career.
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* WhatTheHellCastingAgency: QuestionableCasting: Liam Neeson is a fantastic actor, everyone acknowledges but perhaps ''seventy'' is too old to be playing Phillip Marlowe at the height of his career.
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Misuse - the trope is about wasted potential of plotlines already present in the work
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: A number of Raymond Chandler Phillip Marlowe stories could have been used in place of this or remakes versus a pastiche.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: A number of Raymond Chandler Phillip Marlowe stories could have been used in place of this or remakes versus a pastiche.
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* WhatTheHellCastingAgency: Liam Neeson is a fantastic actor, everyone acknowledges but perhaps ''seventy'' is too old to be playing Phillip Marlowe at the height of his career.
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* ClicheStorm: The film went so hard into making a clean-cut FilmNoir, it unintentionally turned into a checklist of stock characters, plot devices and dialogues so [[PurpleProse purple]], they went magenta - all served very straight and dry. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools It doesn't make the movie bad by itself]], but it takes a specific mindset to not be thrown off by its approach, while it undermines all the production value and effort put into it.
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* ClicheStorm: The film went so hard into making a clean-cut FilmNoir, it unintentionally turned into a checklist of stock characters, plot devices and dialogues so [[PurpleProse purple]], they went magenta - all served very straight and dry. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools It doesn't make the movie bad by itself]], but it takes a specific mindset to not be thrown off by its approach, while it undermines all the production value and effort put into making it.
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* ClicheStorm: The film went so hard into making a clean-cut FilmNoir, it unintentionally turned into a checklist of stock characters, plot devices and dialogues so [[PurpleProse purple]], they went magenta - all served very straight and dry. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools It doesn't make the movie bad by itself]], but it takes a specific mindset to not be thrown off by its approach, while it undermines all the production value and effort put into it.
* CommonKnowledge: "It's not an actual Marlowe adaptation". It is - but not from a story written by Creator/RaymondChandler.
* CommonKnowledge: "It's not an actual Marlowe adaptation". It is - but not from a story written by Creator/RaymondChandler.
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* CriticalDissonance: The movie was a review bomb from both critics ''and'' audiences, but at least audiences assumed it was SoOkayItsAverage, rather than ravaging it.
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