come anticipate Miami Vice with me

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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.

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.

yes yes yes

http://media.slate.com/podcast/Slate_Spoiler_Vice.mp3

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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..

Whispered comment during the movie: "Why are all white supremacists so ugly?"

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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

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

i feel odd saying this, because i'm ambivalence about cronenberg's movies while i've been a mann booster in the past, but the scenes of violence in "history of violence" (admittedly much less protracted than the ones here) were models of clarity compared to what was going on in "miami vice."

yeah very few people can pull those off. thank god for brian depalma

good action. stylish. a little convoluted maybe, but i found it gripping for the most part. some great shots and very intense scenes.

that'd be Doug Liman, who first showed up with Swingers and the Tiger Woods golf-ball-juggling advert.

Nice guy in person, but I haven't seen any of his action flicks yet.