come anticipate Miami Vice with me

"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...

Just realized I've never seen the theatrical version of this, just the director's cut. Very strange and disorienting.

Some of these night scenes are grainy AF

I'm hardly a Michael Mann fan, but I love this stupid film

Which way is up

I miss the sweet boat race from the beginning of the director's cut

Starting in media res in the nightclub works better IMO

^ agreed

Tho that boat opening is cool n good, the exposition afterwards not so much.

Also I really wish he had a better handle on pop/rock music in this stretch of his career. Cheese then and time hasn’t helped.

Using digital video before it was truly ready and the “grain” involved actually a huge part of the aesthetic appeal for me. Love it.

The nightclub opening is better

John Ortiz has played likable dudes or cops in everything I've seen him in since.

Was nice to see him be a badass baddie in this. Tho dude needs to play more Battlefront or somethin, just walked out in the open and got shotgunned

I'm a disco guy

Did my annual watch of this last night, for the first time with some fancy-ass Bose headphones, which helped a ton with throwaway lines that end up being essential to the story.

So much of this feels like listening to a police scanner and trying to make sense of it.

The scene that suddenly seems ridiculously bad, for the first time, is when the Vice crew is badgering Nicholas in his penthouse to make the introduction to Yero. The lines, the editing, the information we're supposed to take in...all just bad.

Not just because of Farrell, was reminded of True Detective Season 2 this time: the ominous/serious tone taken to an audacious, the exceptional design on every level, the quips that pull you out of a scene, and what seems like obsessive research and accuracy of details that ultimately make both exceptional within their genre. That, and ridiculous moments that make both a solitary pleasure rather than having a hope of "turning anyone on" to them.

This was a better article than I expected it to be! Worth reading.

https://www.vulture.com/2021/10/miami-vices-journey-from-misfire-to-masterpiece.html

https://talkingcovers.com/2012/09/12/vintage-contemporaries/

An excellent history of vintage contemporaries paperbacks embedded in that vulture link

https://i.imgur.com/oyQnmIX.jpg

i'm long overdue for a rewatch. one of my favorites. that cold open is all time.

just the way the movie is shot is a lot of my appreciation, which I'm glad that article talks about at length.

I did enjoy how the 80s MV fanboys were up in arms about how "this ISN'T Miami Vice!!!". I love the show too but it and the movie are their own individual things.

Where is the theatrical cut available? I own the director's cut DVD but have never seen the theatrical version.

the director's cut is the first version I saw, and I like that speedboat opening

there's nothing wrong with the opening per se, esp since I saw it the week after I got home from SoBe and was amused to hear them reference some of the hip clubs there, but...

there was something really cool to the movie just cutting into the club with Linkin Park/Jay-Z "Encore" playing, and within seconds, you see Crockett and Tubbs. like I got an endorphin rush the first time.

I do recall having a difficult time following the movie the first time, but I saw it three times in week of release.

It's really more than that. You're dropped in en media rex, it's loud, you can barely hear what anyone is saying or tell what they're doing, just that they're in the middle of an undercover operation. And just as it gets going they get notified to drop everything, and the movie just shifts to something else entirely. I've never seen anything like it.

Because it can be hard to find:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qDC2X5j6yY

Except in the theatre it was super fucking loud and awesome, too.

yeah you don't even know what kind of operation they're on, you just get little hints of it based on context clues. the director's cut of course fills in the blanks of the operation, but you go in blind in the original.

there's also that one bit where Foxx physically strikes someone and immobilizes them in the midst of the club and manages to keep it discreet and under the radar, not just to the club crowd, but the viewing audience too.

there's a local professional Orlando theatre actor in the movie. I don't really know him, but he taught a few of my friends in an acting class, and I met him once or twice. named Stephan Jones, plays one of the Nazis, is the Nazi that gets shot at the end and drops next to his horrified buddy who watches from his left.

it wasn't for years after I saw the movie that I even knew Eddie Marsan was English.

The theatre was packed to the gills the Friday it opened. I had a mixed response at the time. I remember it as one of the last films fans bought on DVD/Blu-ray and watched over and over before the streaming era.

Tom Towles, who played the baddest Nazi ringleader, did a ton of theater in Chicago and seemed like a friendly bear in person. And the Russian who gets shot up during the early deal gone bad is one of Russia's great stage actors. (And Ciaran Hinds, who plays Castillo, does a ton of Broadway and London theater, too.)