Whoops, my bad -- I was thinking of the Chicago stock exchange. They probably hacked the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, which has absorbed the Chicago Board of Trade
― mh, Saturday, 19 February 2022 19:11 (two years ago) link
I watched Thief recently, my first Mann, and it was different from the expectations I had from reviews and the impression I've developed of his work. I anticipated something that was a very slick, flashy, image-obsessed thriller with existential pretensions, and while this isn't an incorrect description, the actual film came closer to a muted, downbeat late 70s demimonde character study (though it was by no means amateurish). I didn't love it, but probably liked it more than the film I thought it would be. I guess "slick" and "flashy" both underwent exponential growth over the course of 80s filmmaking and TV; I guess I thought I would be seeing the Lexicon of Love of crime films.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 21 February 2022 16:37 (two years ago) link
aside from his involvement in the miami vice tv show i would describe no mann project as slick or flashy
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 21 February 2022 20:07 (two years ago) link
Colin Farrell's hair is very slick in Miami Vice
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 21 February 2022 20:08 (two years ago) link
his shirts are flashy
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 February 2022 20:27 (two years ago) link
omigod @ "the Lexicon of Love of crime films -- what a phrase and aspiration!
What about Diva?
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 February 2022 20:28 (two years ago) link
>> the Lexicon of Love of crime films
The Thomas Crown Affair (original)
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 21 February 2022 20:51 (two years ago) link
I prefer the '99 remake.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 February 2022 21:15 (two years ago) link
I would too (I'm a McQueen agnostic-at-best) if it weren't for Denis Leary.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 21 February 2022 21:19 (two years ago) link
aw yeahhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3oWrNQo_Ng
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 March 2022 22:41 (two years ago) link
iβm a fiend for sake
― mh, Monday, 14 March 2022 22:45 (two years ago) link
looks like a TV show. visually a little dull?
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Monday, 14 March 2022 22:47 (two years ago) link
it is a tv show?
― mh, Monday, 14 March 2022 22:48 (two years ago) link
Yeah. And Mann is exec producer.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 March 2022 22:50 (two years ago) link
right, but luck didn't look like a tv show. maybe it's just the trailer.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Monday, 14 March 2022 22:50 (two years ago) link
Mann directed the first episode of this, too.
He's also in pre-production on an Enzo Ferrari biopic starring Adam Driver. The Jez Butterworth screenplay that become Ford v. Ferrari was originally a Mann project.
He's getting up there in age. I hope we'll see another good movie from him.
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Monday, 14 March 2022 22:57 (two years ago) link
Don't give a poop about a Ferrari movie - leave that shit to Ridley Scott - but I saw something about a Michael Mann sci-fi project ...
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 March 2022 23:03 (two years ago) link
Ford v Ferrari was a good movie, though!
― mh, Monday, 14 March 2022 23:18 (two years ago) link
I read the book Tokyo Vice is based on - looking forward to this
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 04:59 (two years ago) link
ugh ansel elgort. i'll watch this but still ugh.
― na (NA), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 14:13 (two years ago) link
First episode is really good so far. Very Mann. Totally cold open. Looks beautiful.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 8 April 2022 23:31 (two years ago) link
Yeah, loved the opening, loved the setting and also how dialogue could seem credibly "stilted" given the cultural and language barriers between the characters.
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Friday, 8 April 2022 23:33 (two years ago) link
echoing the sentiment of THE THIEF being underrated i this poll, a glorious mess of a marxist parable
― k3vin k., Monday, 25 April 2022 23:49 (two years ago) link
I watched Hacker (or Blackhat) yesterday and...it was pretty bad.I LOVE Miami Vice (and mojitos) and this one had some Mann touches that were great (the glorious shots over HK or in the port at night for instance) but the whole thing is kind of a mess and doesn't gel or make sense imo (for instance the silly final fight).and most of the actors didn't help (particularly bad acting/lack of charism for the heroine).It all felt like an inferior, botched variation on MV.It's surprising following the raving comments here but it just didn't work for me.
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 09:31 (two years ago) link
Pop's been watching the tv Miami Vice for two weeks, so I'm treating him now to the movie.
as shitty as life has been lately, this is the good stuff!
― Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 17:21 (two years ago) link
watched the MV movie for the first time a few months ago and v much enjoyed its unabashed dad movie swag, Neanderthal i'm jealous that you are watching it with an actual dad. also the wife and i had great fun for weeks afterward spontaneously announcing to each other that we were fiends for mojitos.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 17:41 (two years ago) link
search ilx posts for "fiend for mojitos" and revel in the glory
― mh, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 17:46 (two years ago) link
I tried watching Blackhat but scene where the (white) protagonist has the big idea of overlaying the routes of some couriers to the amazement of the Chinese cops was incredibly RMDE.
― Human-shaped trash bag (Leee), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 17:49 (two years ago) link
i'm a disco guy
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 17:56 (two years ago) link
mh it all makes sense now
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 19:55 (two years ago) link
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 19:59 (two years ago) link
xp mojito eye open
― mh, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 02:47 (two years ago) link
Thinking about the parallel between MV and hackerblackhat and about their respective main charachters : the hero : crockett/hathawaythe sidekick : tubbs/dawaithe love interest : isabella/lienthe boss/colleague : trudy, lieutenant castillo / barrett, US marshalthe lil baddy : yero / kassarthe big baddy : montoya / sadak
They are ALL in a different league in MV, both the charachters and the actors performance.Like do we even know what kind of music kassar enjoys, huh ?
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 10:01 (two years ago) link
added Thief to my list of awesome first films, there are many, and if someone wants to do a poll I can give you a lot of recommendations
― Dan S, Saturday, 4 June 2022 01:36 (one year ago) link
From another thread:
Feel like someone should recut the end of Manhunter with Paradise by the Dashboard Light instead of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.
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― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 16:15 (one year ago) link
Canβt believe Thief and Manhunter scored so low in the poll. His only essential movies alongside Heat
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link
I think Thief might have been relatively low profile back when the poll was taken. It's subsequently been Criterion Collection-ed and whatnot so its reputation has grown. But yeah, it absolutely deserves to be number one here.
There's a Blu-Ray of Miami Vice sitting in my PO box right now; gonna pick it up tomorrow.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 19:38 (one year ago) link
Tokyo Vice renewed for second season.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 June 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
i was giving them the benefit of the doubt for employing sexual predator ansel elgort for s1, assuming it was shot before those accusations came out (like west side story), but i guess it doesn't bother HBO if they're going to keep him around for s2
― na (NA), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 20:18 (one year ago) link
MIAMI VICE (both cuts) is now streaming on HBO Max pic.twitter.com/fkLIPKQQQa— Chris Evangelista (@cevangelista413) June 1, 2022
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Friday, 17 June 2022 19:32 (one year ago) link
is anyone here enough of a superfan/dad to read the heat 2 novel that's coming out this summer?
McCauley lives!
― Slowzy LOLtidore (Neanderthal), Friday, 17 June 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
I'm kind of inclined to listen to Heat 2 as an audiobook on long walks, just to experience the voices instead of sitting with it.
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Friday, 17 June 2022 19:55 (one year ago) link
Also, did my annual-ish viewing of Miami Vice last night, and what stood out this time is the reflections of clouds on the water in a couple of scenes, especially the one on the first flight back that goes over...is that the Everglades?
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Friday, 17 June 2022 19:59 (one year ago) link
Oh, I am waiting for that book.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 17 June 2022 20:05 (one year ago) link
shocked they didn't get it out in time for father's day tbh
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Friday, 17 June 2022 20:07 (one year ago) link
preparing the "Great Ass!" collector's edition and they ran behind
― Slowzy LOLtidore (Neanderthal), Friday, 17 June 2022 20:08 (one year ago) link
The sound on the Blu-Ray is astonishing. There were some explosions early on, when the Nazis murder the federal agent, that I swear lifted my couch off the floor. My wife came in from the next room, behind a closed door, to see what the fuck had just happened.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 17 June 2022 22:02 (one year ago) link
oh hell yeah, I haven't seen the cold open theatrical cut in years
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 17 June 2022 22:35 (one year ago) link
doing this tonight, but with the theatrical cut
me at 19: i need to watch new film a day so i can build extensive film knowledge in every categoryme at 25: every single night im gonna get drunk and watch the first 30 minutes of miami vice until i pass out— robert franco, wandering ronin (@responsiblerob) June 2, 2022
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Friday, 17 June 2022 23:19 (one year ago) link