The Michael Mann poll

the world's tiniest synth is pulsing out a brooding score for vadim rizov and his tragic groundhog day-like dilemma

i'd take that over watching a "Miami Vice" ep or a spiffier "ooh look at the deep blacks" digital version of same.

maybe vadim should have thought twice before scrawling 'michael mann is a flawless jesus' on his bedroom ceiling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtJoN68ZCf8

Looks weirdly generic and the snippets of dialog sounds like boilerplate, but I have faith in Michael Mann.

A boiler-plate Michael Mann technothriller sounds pretty good actually.

I think that looks incredible, I'm getting a kind of miami vice 2006 vibe from some of it.

90% Miami Vice, 10% https://blogatkiwi.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/eng_the_net.jpg?w=300&h=279

http://hd-report.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/blackhat-chris-hemsworth-still1-600x255.jpg
http://public.media.smithsonianmag.com/legacy_blog/1995-pizza-dot-net-sm.jpg

Is that Jose Yero as Thor's FBI handler? I'M IN.

Yep!

idk this looks pretty dumm

this hemsworth dude with his generic good looks is the main turnoff for me. seriously, the hacker has to look like an abercrombie model?

most of us do *runs hand through hair*

with these mann flicks you've got to just embrace and accept the ridiculousness bc the good shit lies beyond it.

Brogrammer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xpfJEBU9BA

Interviews, etc.:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/30/blackhat-featurette_n_6395866.html

same as ^^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bVH0bWdP3I

"Don't Call Him A Stylist...This Mustard-Yellow Wall Just Happened to Be There"

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-sneaks-michael-mann-20150111-story.html

Well, saw a screening of this tonight and, as usual, left humming the scenery and feeling like I'd vicariously just done and felt some very important things.

Solid flick.

Another interview:

Do you have any Starsky & Hutch memories?
I remember writing that there was a robbery, and a car jumped the curb and went through the window of a car dealership. And then they shot it. I said, "Wow, this is crazy. I write this stuff, and they go and do it." So then, of course, the ambition increased.

blackhat looks pretty bad, doesn't it? i might see it anyway.

Another interview:

quite amused that michael mann is being interviewed by "men's journal"

lede: "Michael Mann is a man."

his fanboys almost give dePalma's a run for their money

http://i59.tinypic.com/f4r87l.png

i thought "public enemies" was pretty indefensible, but some mann-stans still repped for it. i don't have much hope for this one. the reviews from those not in the "converted" camp are pretty dire.

also what's with mann's cult seeming to grow and grow even when he stops making good movies? something similar happened to paul verhoeven.

actually i don't know if it's growing or just increasing in amplitude.

Well, if you are new to Mann, there is no decline, just a pile of cool films to watch in any order. But are any Mann newbies dipping into Mohicans or Ali or Insider, or just sticking with the crime thrillers?

i thought public enemies was pretty excellent and i really liked the final scene, the one between cotillard and lang.

big miami vice and collateral fan here too. i don't think he's really fallen off that much. i do think he's kind of zeroed in more on his own particular obsessions and moved away from making films as coherent as the insider and heat, but i think for mann that kinda works well.

I love Miami Vice and Collateral. Public Enemy was the first of his that did little for me (aside from its innate Mann-ness). But love him or not, from Ali on, he's been pretty divisive.

I can buy the Verhoeven comparison. There seem definite divisions between early period defenders vs. late period.

I'm not even sure many American (at least) Verhoeven folks are into his early (European) period. In his case we're talking middle period Verhoeven. Of course, there has been very little late period Verhoeven. Black Book and Hollow Man is about it for the past 20 years, and the latter is a POS with no fans.

Hollow Man is awesome

:)

Black Book felt like it was going to be the start of a new phase.

Mark Harris called Blackhat Mann's Marnie, so maybe the Verhoeven early-middle-late thing applies here. Not many love a whole lot of Hitchcock's British movies outside of the obvious highlights (e.g. Sabotage, 39 Steps, Man Who Knew Too Much).

Black Book has bits as inspired as anything V's ever done.

I liked Miami Vice better a second time but all his movies have indigestible hooey in them.

Just got the Lightbox schedule, and they've got a series running over the winter (everything through Public Enemies except The Keep, whatever that is). I've seen them all, but I'll order for Heat and Collateral for sure, maybe a couple of others.

this was p bad & super dry, i get that is maybe what ur going for, hackers as detached actors, villains lacking motive other than $$, idk that does not make for a v compelling film imo; also i prob havent seen hemsworth ever before but he is such a blank its ridiculous

'dry' is what I feared. Dry does not suit MM, does it? It's all about mood and a kind of exaggerated pathos backed with some sort of dadtronica.

About to see this. Bad sign it's on the little screen.

yea theres little to no mann™ moodiness idk i think w/ such a global scope itd have needed to be 4 hrs if he tried to incorporate it

this movie appears to have been a bomb which isn't surprising. tbh whatever its merits may be, the ad campaign is awful, one of the worst I've seen recently.

yea my hunch is that the studio could tell it was tracking 2 be a bomb and really amped up that awful (agreed) advert campaign but idk who theyd poss be pulling in w it

centering the poster ads for your globetrotting action movie around a lock of chris hemsworth's hair is fucking strange.

yeah trailers were abysmal, made me want to see Mortdecai almost