“Chinatown” is still a great movie.
I also liked the movie more... but the ending left me pissed.
It was typically Hollywood when the elderly oligarch/villain is shown disappearing into the sunset/moonlight with the girl we’ve been told is his daughter and who he raped when she was 15... and the concerned Nicholson character is told: “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.”
AND to add to that message the pedophile Polanski directed this!