The Ten Most Irritating Things About Watching 'The Black Dahlia'

1. Everyone says darl-yu instead of day-lee-er. Bleedin' septics.
2. Chunky KD Lang's embarrassing cameo as a torch singer at a Lesbian Bar.
3. Scarlett Johansson's cigarette holder.
4. The villain's horrendous Scottish accent, why not just get a Scottish actor?
5. The waste of resources; sets, props, extras, costumes to film short scenes which added nothing to the storyline, and were surely included because of someone's perverse need to make the film look expensive.
6. Josh Hartnett's deep gravelly voice over. This would have sounded tired and over-used in films made in the 1940's.
7. Fiona Shaw.
8. The novel drags you into the unhealthy obsessions of the cops working on the case, they are presented as men struggling to be good amidst corrupting evil, but never truly succeeding. You never believe in these obsessions in the film, the cops behaviour just seems inexplicable. Just not enough time spent on trying to get into the bruised psyche's of these characters, and too much on getting their suits looking authentic.
9. The plummet in respect for James Ellroy for apparently endorsing this crap.
10. Having to sit in an Odeon, I'm just not accustomed to these non-Arthouse flea-pits anymore, with pop-corn trodden into the carpet and the constant slurp of the bottomless Coke. Yuk.

Allegedly David (Fight Club) Fincher was planning to make a three hour b/w version, but withdrew when he didn't think the studio would go with it. Instead they thought this shite would sell? Well the place was half full, and lots of women, who I can only assume were there to ogle the beefcake?