I kind of wish that the film noir genre still existed today outside of Batman movies. Was I counting down the days until The Batman , starring Robert Pattinson, came out? Absolutely I was. But do I wish that we had movies like Mildred Pierce coming out today? Again, absolutely. In the modern mind, noir mostly exists as a parody. There's the detective who talks funny, there's the gorgeous femme fatale he's in love with, there's some kind of murder. These elements are easy to parody and exaggerat…