(as for this movie: it is supposed to be nice to look at.. i will not get raped by any movie theater to see it though. third run, the apollo, i'm there)
― trees (treesessplode), Saturday, 29 July 2006 02:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― trees (treesessplode), Saturday, 29 July 2006 02:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 29 July 2006 02:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― gothic Buddhist meets Old Hollywood (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 29 July 2006 02:23 (seventeen years ago) link
http://tvphotogalleries.com/data/699/10-9699-sm.jpg
― gothic Buddhist meets Old Hollywood (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 29 July 2006 02:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― ryan (ryan), Saturday, 29 July 2006 06:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 29 July 2006 07:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 29 July 2006 07:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 29 July 2006 07:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Saturday, 29 July 2006 12:23 (seventeen years ago) link
Possibly, but not Miami Vice. I suppose the zero chemistry between Gong Li and Colin Farrell qualifies as anti-romance though. Closure it's got: the conclusion's unsentimental shorthand was perfect. But for most of the film's two-hour-plus running time we got an unsmiling "NYPD Blue" episode with little of the original show's splendid vulgarity (Gong and Farrell going to Cuba for mojitos and a few dozen shower-fucks excepted).
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 29 July 2006 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Saturday, 29 July 2006 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 29 July 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Saturday, 29 July 2006 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link
i think i suggested owen wilson upthread.
― gothic Buddhist meets Old Hollywood (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 29 July 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― gothic Buddhist meets Old Hollywood (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 29 July 2006 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link
ps. http://www.glumbert.com/media/roast.html
― BUJU DANSON (Adrian Langston), Sunday, 30 July 2006 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Sunday, 30 July 2006 13:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Sunday, 30 July 2006 13:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Sunday, 30 July 2006 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link
And too much Audioslave. But it's so fucking gorgeous that I'd be glad to watch it a few more times (and probably will). Funny how the landscape images are equal to the action in Mann's films - how Collateral is as much about just driving around L.A. as it is about people and guns.
― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 30 July 2006 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Sunday, 30 July 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Sunday, 30 July 2006 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link
I liked the result it gave... All the Miami scenes looked like they were filmed by a surveillance camera. Nice offset to the old-world brokendownness of Cuba & Haiti.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 30 July 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link
yes yes yes
― gothic Buddhist meets Old Hollywood (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 30 July 2006 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 30 July 2006 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 30 July 2006 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 30 July 2006 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 30 July 2006 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link
http://media.slate.com/podcast/Slate_Spoiler_Vice.mp3
― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Sunday, 30 July 2006 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Sunday, 30 July 2006 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 30 July 2006 22:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Sunday, 30 July 2006 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link
SPOILER SPOILER
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Trudi gets jacked on behalf of the cartel's intel guy who wants to kill them. GONG LI SAYS THIS if you're too dumb to notice on your own..
― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 30 July 2006 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link
Whispered comment during the movie: "Why are all white supremacists so ugly?"
― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Sunday, 30 July 2006 22:36 (seventeen years ago) link
SPOILER
i know!! that's why i said it felt like 2/3rds of a movie. you'd think at some point you'd, y'know, find out who the mole was
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 30 July 2006 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 30 July 2006 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost i remember very clearly an episode of miami vice where the director/editor/mann/whoever cross-cut a hott sex-scene filmed almost in the dark, with a red gel over everything, the participants gnashing their teeh and moaning, with some gangland torture and execution. i was watching with my parents and my mom rolled her eyes and is like "he's trying to equate sex with violence. i just think that is so... LAME."
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Sunday, 30 July 2006 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Sunday, 30 July 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh yes. And when Foxx finally takes out the intel guy, it's a real mess. That time you don't just get the splatter, you get a quick shot afterwards of the gory body with a huge hole in it and a nasty flap of skin somewhere it shouldn't be. Pure gun porn.
― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Sunday, 30 July 2006 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Sunday, 30 July 2006 22:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 30 July 2006 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link
And the finest in men's clothes, modern weaponry, cars, watches and gadgets.
I really loved the final, final shot, in part because it was as mundane as security-camera feed but moving as well.
― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 31 July 2006 01:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 31 July 2006 01:09 (seventeen years ago) link
i wished that gong li had stuck to the "hard-headed businesswoman" persona she was projecting in the beginning, and not turned into a vulnerable ho-bag. my favorite character was the female backup who shot the kidnapper.
― gothic Buddhist meets Old Hollywood (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 31 July 2006 01:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― gothic Buddhist meets Old Hollywood (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 31 July 2006 01:48 (seventeen years ago) link
The more I think about it, the more I agree with you. I was charged walking out of the theater, thoughtful by the time I got around to posting on ILE, and now reverent of Mann, as all film geeks should be. Ain't his masterpiece or anything, but damnit if he can't make a good goddamn movie.
― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Monday, 31 July 2006 02:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 31 July 2006 03:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 31 July 2006 03:18 (seventeen years ago) link