Colin Farrell's just done a series with Apple TV along those lines too -
Thought I'd give this a go and after two or three episodes I'm really enjoying it. It's less a series than it is just an enormous number I'd clichés strung together - bur they are a load of clichés I really like so, so far, I'm into it.
The main character (Sugar) is a ridiculous film obsessive like Travolta's character in Get Shorty - they use this trick where they keep cutting in scenes and lines from classic films (mainly noirs). They did pretty much the same thing in the kitsch "classic" Myra Breckinridge which is often (somewhat unfairly in my opinion) described as one of the worst films of all time. I found it quite am enjoyable bit of fluff - though the book it's based on by Gore Vidal is totally different in tone (and I'd recommend it) so why they chose to adapt it like that I've never been quite sure.
Also Sugar carries an a gun that was actually used as a prop gun in The Big Heat (if I remember correctly that's the one where Lee Marvin throws scalding coffee in someone's face, a scene considered so violent as to be controversial at the time) but which is actually a working weapon, a concept which is pretty much the same as Matthew McConahoweveryouspellit's character in The Lincoln Lawyer.
I could probably describe several other direct lifts if i put my mind to it, and I'm sure there will be more to come. Why bother though, they are well chosen and for me they work perfectly well.
There is a bit where Chigurh (sorry Sugar) visits a doctor and he describes to the ignorant (when it comes to classic horror sci-fi films anyway) the bit in The Thing where the doctor places his hand on the man's chest and it turns into a mouth and bites off both his arms - I'll always remember that scene cos I watched it with two friends sharing a bottle of wine, when that happened I jumped so hard I literally threw my wine over everyone. I guess it was a good scene.
