The Michael Mann poll

mohicans is what i voted for.

man now i need to buy the studio cut of 'miami vice'. the first hour of that film, right up to farrell and gong li going to cuba, is my favourite film ever at the moment.

You guys are all cocks, Ally included, for having and trying to impress your reactionary and stodgy aesthetics -- like the ending of a film matters??? -- personally upon me as the lot of you are deleted from ILX and replaced by 1000 cankles (who is OTM) clones.

Smoke a cigarette, dude.

Smoke a cock, bro. ^_^

Light my fag end.

:D

ps ally comparing michael mann to tony scott is o_O

have you seen Domino? incomprehensible bullshit
man on fire? crazy looking, jumpy bullshit with WORdS ON THE SCREEN wtf

Man on Fire was terrible.

But the Denzel time bending bullshit one was p sweet.

Walken's quote from Man On Fire, something like " death is his art, and he's about to paint his masterpiece"

So very o_O

tony scott:michael mann::buffy fanfic:h.p. lovecraft

tony scott:michael mann::talking to a 3 year old:talking to a 16 year old

tony scott:michael mann::banana:plantain

tony scott:michael mann::FUCK YOU

Mohicans is awesome, even with that poorly handled scene where the French officer talks to Magua

F.O.: Sup Magua
MAGUA: Magua hates the White Hair because blah blah blah blah blah
F.O.: Dude, I was just askin' wussup. le chill.

Fantastic ending though. DDL kickin' ass with muskets, chick kills herself, Wes Studi in general.

Also, "I face north and turn left real quick like"

Don't get the Tony Scott thing though. Mann apes Le Samourai and we get the fantastic Collateral. What would happen if Scott were to do so?

Wes Studi should be in every movie, ever.

Alfred, your gay bits cannot abide by my Promethean fire that burns so white hot you can see your reflection in it!!!!

Wes Studi should be in every movie, ever.

-- Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, August 30, 2007 2:45 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Somebody should do a Wes Studi poll, though part of me wonders whether it will just descend into Mystery Men quotations.

yeah wes studi is a pimp. otm about the ending sequence too, just music and wacking dudes with hockey sticks

I was thinking earlier tonight how it would be really hard to find a good birthday present for Michael Mann.

Which is not the case for Nancy Meyers.

Nancy Meyers, an Aveda basket would do the job.

By the way, the latest Nike commercial featuring LaDainian Tomlinson was directed by Mann. Makes me think that Any Given Sunday would've been great in his hands.

tony scott:michael mann::talking to a 3 year old:talking to a 16 year old

-- max, Thursday, August 30, 2007 1:00 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

oh snap

LOTM and Manhunter are awesome, particularly LOTM which battles with Roger Rabbit to be my favourite film ever. Miami Vice SuXoR, haven't seen the others.

Thanks, Wookie. Nice ad.

http://filmfanatic.org/reviews/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/cOX.JPG

Would you, uh, like to leave me your home phone number, Will?

Do you know how you caught me, Will?

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Two words:

LA Takedown

Missed this. 'Heat' ages so well, it deserves this, even though I agree the ending is weak, and I hated it the first time I saw it. 'L.A. Plays Itself' notes some blatant mistakes of local geography, but the whole cool-cops-vs.-cool-bad-guys thing you either love or hate.

'Ali' read like a great script when it was excerpted in Vanity Fair, but so much of what was supposed to be going on in those scenes was internal to his character that you wondered how it could be filmed, and of course it turned out it couldn't.

I could not, for one second, believe Tom Cruise as a hitman in 'Collateral,' so that was pretty much a beautiful wash for me.

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Yeah, need to track it down:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097700/

uhhh no you dont

OK WHO VOTED FOR ALI

Hey, I spent an hour at the Museum of Contemporary Art's bookstore today reading this Taschen coffee-table book on Michael Mann's films.

Wow, I never realised Thief was Michael Mann. It's way better than most of that shite. I'll take James Caan over post-1980 Al Pacino every day of the week.

cosign

But I didn't see it on the list at first so I voted for The Keep which I saw as a teenager and as I remember is strange and maybe a bit rubbishy but in a good way.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=55BZ2gSsSmY

HOLY SHIT THIS IS SO FUCKING COOL. HAHAHAHA IT USES THE MUSIC FROM THE END OF LAST OF THE MOHICANS TOO

he's doing the dillinger story. psyched.

Johnny Depp + Christian Bale = awesomeness, as long as mann doesn't fuck up the party with chris cornell.

Heat--Awesome
Collateral--really good
Miami Vice--awesome
The Insider--AWESOME
Manhunter--could go either way

Some 'Public Enemies' stuff plus this anecdote:

When I spent time on his "Ali" set in Miami, he insisted on shooting a scene where Ali first sees Malcolm X at the exact mosque where Malcolm was preaching. He also shot a scene set in the backyard of Ali's Miami home at Ali's real house, even though the backyard was right in the flight pattern of Miami International Airport, meaning a plane flew overhead every 90 seconds, repeatedly drowning out the dialogue. One of the production guys shook his head, grumbling "We didn't have this problem when we shot near LAX with 'Heat.' " Why was that, I asked? "Michael got the flight controllers to reroute LAX traffic to a different runway for a few hours."

it seems really weird Alex in SF doesn't like this guy

My brother is an aspiring filmmaker and he is obsessed with both Mann and Tony Scott, so I figure the comparisons aren't completely off-base.

His enthusiasm encouraged me to watch several of Mann's films. I thought that Manhunter, Heat, and Collateral were all pretty meh. But then I watched Miami Vice (Director's Cut) and found myself enjoying it way more than I thought I would. Reading this thread makes me want to see it again.

I bought the Taschen book mentioned above for my bro as a Christmas present a couple years ago.

they're fair but Mann eats him alive

I could see someone (not me) make the argument that Scott's films are more entertaining. Mann can be kind of dull at times. Still, anyone who could make a movie as bad as Domino clearly can't be too great.

I love Heat if only for how awesome the guns sound during the bank robbery. Dude can film a pretty meaty and satisfying gun fight.

he is an asshole driver