come anticipate Miami Vice with me

still easily the best action film i've ever seen. too nervous to watch it again in case in doesn't live up to what i remember.

is the Director's Cut worth a watch just for the boat chase bit? the 'cold' opening is so good i can't believe there's a version, any version that *doesn't* start that way.

There are some good extra character scenes (more Trudy iirc) so it's worth seeing. But yeah I'd rather jettison all of that for the in media res club bit.

man i love the boat race opening. it feels so expansive but cold (dunno if miami cold is like louisiana cold but kinda clammy and unnatural) and empty. the transition from that into the neon claustrophobia of the club is pretty awesome.

love this fuckin movie

many you guys need to hit better parties

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, May 15, 2012 12:48 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so sad because this happened at _my party_

Boat scene is cool, but there's a chunk of stale exposition on the shore afterwords setting up the club sting that kind of kills it for me.

so I like this movie now!

Colin Farrell's hair though = so so so gross. It's like he poured crude oil over it.

It is so much fun to love this movie.

and the film was a hit:

Miami Vice opened at No. 1 in the United States, knocking Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest out of the number one position at the box office that weekend, after Pirates led the box office for almost a full month.[20] In its opening weekend, the film grossed over $25.7 million at 3,021 theaters nationwide, with an average gross of $8,515 per theater.[21] The film would go on to earn $63.5 million domestically.[21] Miami Vice would fare better internationally. The films aired in 77 countries overseas, grossing $100,344,039 in its international run.[22] Overall the film grossed $164 million worldwide[21] helping to further surpass the reported $135 million budget.

The film stands as one of Michael Mann's top three most financially successful films, next to Heat and Collateral.[23]

i remember going to see this opening weekend and being forced to sit on the stairs

The story I've told before is that when I went to see this some weekend afternoon, it was bright and sunny when I went in, and when I went out everything was drenched, there were branches, leaves and other refuse strewn about everywhere, street lights were blinking yellow. It was like some hurricane hit outside in the middle of the movie. Very memorable.

the UK bluray has the theatrical version?!?!?!?

Colin Farrell's hair though = so so so gross.

Zappa stache.

Hey, Jose Yero is starring (with Jimmy Smits) in a play at Steppenwolf, and I'm going to opening night next week. Will try to shake hands with Cochi Loco and will send him all your ILX love.

Yes it does. The lack of that opening on the American Blu Ray is why I refuse to plop 7 bucks down for it.

really stoked that it's available in some form though, region free blu ray players are cheap these days

Uk version is region free

I gots it

oh snap

good rec for a region free BD player?

Holds up on the 12th viewing.

If only the climactic deal were underscored by the original "In The Air Tonight" instead of the nu-metal version...

Mann has pretty awful taste in music in general

"I'm a fiend for mojitos."

"I'm a fiend for Linkin Park."

You have to give Mann credit for working with Lisa Gerrard though.

LIMIT

So what's up?
Anything could be in those crates out of Odessa.
This one has too many moving parts, too many unknowns.
It's your call.
Where you at?
The message from Yero locates the agency and the office
where the leak is coming from. I call that progress.
So, let's take it to the limit one more time.

We need some Jose Yero gifs.

would kill for a theatrical cut on Blu Ray

there is an all regions UK Blu Ray release of the theatrical cut fwiw.

― circa1916, Tuesday, May 15, 2012 11:10 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I sometimes have problems with the PAL/NTSC thing tho.

Blu ray has no difference, hd

oh really? That makes sense. I tried my Day Today DVD on a plasma I used to have, and it worked fine. Tried it on an LCD some time later and it said it couldn't read the signal. But yeah, the HD thing makes sense. Will investigate!

I'm gonna tell you what's gonna happen
People are gonna come in here
You know what they gonna say?
They gonna look around and go
'Ola Hijo. That's some crazy motherfucking wallpaper
What is that? Jackson Pollock?'
No, viero.
That was José Yero.
Got splattered all over his own wall.

http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/miamivice.html

FADE IN:
EXT. OCEAN - CLOSE UP:  WATER - MORNING LIGHT
We are at the delicate interface between ocean and
air...liquid and gas...the event horizon where molecules
evaporate.  This interchange is ethereal.  Then, low
frequencies rumble through depths...louder...closer, now...
And the ocean surface is torn by a 46-foot catamaran and the
ROAR of 2,700 horsepower, rocketing at us at 140 knots...

I think the "director's cut" has that open and it's not as good!

The prose is amazing.

This continues to improve on the 12th or so viewing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLFd6k1BHDk

what a strange, brief movie. i think i loved it? i don't think i know what to make of it.

(side note: hbonow got me flipping from leftovers to john adams and then to this; i swear, universe, i'm not the world's biggest justin theroux superfan)

forgot he was in john adams

I had to check that claim. Apparently he's in the episode of "John Adams" I never rewatch.

that's the one you never watch???

I stick around for Jefferson's silken menace.

all this john adams talk reminds me i need to get around to watching san andreas

i forget every time until this movie starts that justin theroux is even in miami vice, he just kind of in the background a few times

feel like you need to watch the leftovers to really love justin theroux. and maybe some goofy stuff he scripted

just moved into our house, no internet until tomorrow, guess what i pulled out of ye olde dvd box?

http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbptw0YrnP1ra202ro1_500.png

Buster?

Forgive Us Our Debts might be one of the most powerful episodes of the original series that i know of.

I've rewatched it yesterday for the first time since 2006 and it's funny because it had left no impression on me initially but right now, I think it's the most exciting and glorious movie ever !
Everything's been said about it in this thread but a little trivia : Gong Li was 11 years older than Farrell at the time. That must be pretty rare that the female is older than the male in a Hollywood movie.
And their boat trip to Cuba is so stunning.
Anyway, I might need to watch it again soon...