Man on Fire was terrible.
But the Denzel time bending bullshit one was p sweet.
― W4LTER, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 23:47 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― W4LTER, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 23:48 (sixteen years ago) link
tony scott:michael mann::buffy fanfic:h.p. lovecraft
― max, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 23:58 (sixteen years ago) link
tony scott:michael mann::talking to a 3 year old:talking to a 16 year old
― max, Thursday, 30 August 2007 00:00 (sixteen years ago) link
tony scott:michael mann::banana:plantain
tony scott:michael mann::FUCK YOU
― cankles, Thursday, 30 August 2007 00:05 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― Gukbe, Thursday, 30 August 2007 02:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Wes Studi should be in every movie, ever.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 30 August 2007 02:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Alfred, your gay bits cannot abide by my Promethean fire that burns so white hot you can see your reflection in it!!!!
― Leee, Thursday, 30 August 2007 02:46 (sixteen years ago) link
-- 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.
― Gukbe, Thursday, 30 August 2007 02:54 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah wes studi is a pimp. otm about the ending sequence too, just music and wacking dudes with hockey sticks
― cankles, Thursday, 30 August 2007 03:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I was thinking earlier tonight how it would be really hard to find a good birthday present for Michael Mann.
― Eazy, Thursday, 30 August 2007 04:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Which is not the case for Nancy Meyers.
― Eric H., Thursday, 30 August 2007 04:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Nancy Meyers, an Aveda basket would do the job.
― Eazy, Thursday, 30 August 2007 04:44 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Wookie Rookie, Friday, 31 August 2007 08:41 (sixteen years ago) link
-- max, Thursday, August 30, 2007 1:00 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
oh snap
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 31 August 2007 08:56 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Friday, 31 August 2007 11:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Thanks, Wookie. Nice ad.
― Eazy, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link
http://filmfanatic.org/reviews/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/cOX.JPG
Would you, uh, like to leave me your home phone number, Will?
― Joe, Saturday, 1 September 2007 03:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Do you know how you caught me, Will?
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Thursday, 6 September 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Two words:
LA Takedown
― Girolamo Savonarola, Saturday, 8 September 2007 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 8 September 2007 21:59 (sixteen years ago) link
x-post
Yeah, need to track it down: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097700/
― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 8 September 2007 22:02 (sixteen years ago) link
uhhh no you dont
― ☪, Saturday, 8 September 2007 22:49 (sixteen years ago) link
OK WHO VOTED FOR ALI
― jhøshea, Saturday, 8 September 2007 22:50 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Eazy, Saturday, 8 September 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 9 September 2007 13:15 (sixteen years ago) link
cosign
― kenan, Sunday, 9 September 2007 14:37 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 9 September 2007 14:44 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― cankles, Sunday, 9 September 2007 19:24 (sixteen years ago) link
he's doing the dillinger story. psyched.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 11 January 2008 12:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Johnny Depp + Christian Bale = awesomeness, as long as mann doesn't fuck up the party with chris cornell.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Friday, 11 January 2008 12:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Heat--Awesome Collateral--really good Miami Vice--awesome The Insider--AWESOME Manhunter--could go either way
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 12 January 2008 03:49 (sixteen years ago) link
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."
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 July 2008 02:57 (fifteen years ago) link
it seems really weird Alex in SF doesn't like this guy
― Niles Caulder, Sunday, 7 December 2008 16:24 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Moodles, Sunday, 7 December 2008 17:18 (fifteen years ago) link
they're fair but Mann eats him alive
― Niles Caulder, Sunday, 7 December 2008 17:23 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Moodles, Sunday, 7 December 2008 17:28 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― circa1916, Sunday, 7 December 2008 17:29 (fifteen years ago) link
he is an asshole driver
― omar little, Sunday, 7 December 2008 18:08 (fifteen years ago) link
"it seems really weird Alex in SF doesn't like this guy"
I'm actually overstating my dislike for him on this thread. He's done plenty I liked. He just tends to inspire the kind of acting that bugs the shit out of me.
― Alex in SF, Sunday, 7 December 2008 19:28 (fifteen years ago) link
And by plenty I liked I mean the Insider, the parts of Heat that don't suck, Crime Story, the parts of Manhunter that don't suck and actually that's probably it.
― Alex in SF, Sunday, 7 December 2008 19:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Just started Crime Story. Hopefully there aren't any further scenes where Farina has to cry.
― Leee, Sunday, 7 December 2008 21:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Scene from L.A. Takedown that became, almost word for word, the Pacino/DeNiro diner scene in Heat:
Trailer for fake movie, starring Benecio del Toro, that Mann made for Mercedes in 2002:
― Eazy, Sunday, 7 December 2008 23:27 (fifteen years ago) link
did anyone ever see his tv show with tom sizemore? LAPD robbery homicde or something? i caught a couple episodes i thought it was pretty dope
― beyonc'e (max), Sunday, 7 December 2008 23:35 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm trying to power through all the mann films but i'm stuck on "the insider" and it's 2.5 hr run time since school picked back up but
i was lukewarm on "collateral" until the scene in the DA's office. hon one of the most amazing looking scenes i've ever seen? everything pitch black except the city lights reflecting off the glass. and really the whole last 25 or 30 mins or so were incredible. train scene as well.
i LOVED "ali" tbqh. like, i'll acknowledge that it was *rolling my damn eyes* oscar baity, but god damn did mann shooting boxing give me a robust erection. i loved the way he used the music too, and i thought will smith was great & rightly funny at times. def the 'warmest' mann movie i've ever seen in terms of aesthetics. blues & daylight instead of blues & nighttime i guess.
― autogoon delight (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 4 October 2009 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link
― beyonc'e (max), Sunday, December 7, 2008 11:35 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
robbery homicide division iirc. never been able to find this on torrent :(
― history mayne, Sunday, 4 October 2009 20:55 (fourteen years ago) link
the insider was a serious letdown. hard for a movie to be an anticlimax from the credits all the way through, but it managed somehow. the scene with pacino on a BEACH shouting down the PHONE may have merit if viewed as self parody from all involved, but other than that it's just a fat russell crowe.
― Brewer's Bitch (darraghmac), Sunday, 4 October 2009 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link