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I mean VV media is a national company with national reach. I'd almost rather they behave like a national alternative newspaper than pretend to be local.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 27 July 2006 11:10 (seventeen years ago) link

this is one of the craziest-looking movies i have ever seen

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link

So it's beyond good or bad?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I think that probably pretty accurately sums it up, yes.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Nietzsche, director.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link

no that would be tony scott.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link

i have hung out with miami drug kingpins but they were lame because i am 25 years too late just like this movie

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

have fun with the reviews

― kingfish cyclopean ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 27 July 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Steve Rhodes, INTERNET REVIEWS

hi, i write for INTERNET REVIEWS.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Thursday, 27 July 2006 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

HI SLOCKI I NEED TO KNOW IF I SHOULD SPEND MONEY ON THIS

― david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 27 July 2006 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

i will spend money on this no matter what!

scott foundas is a complete hack writer. is j. hoberman on vacation? is michael atkinson sick?

― gear (gear), Thursday, 27 July 2006 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link

haha my friend was told by his girlfriend that "maybe you need to see this with, like, one of your friends or something." brodown at miami vice seems only appropriate.

― david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 27 July 2006 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Critics IamQnzplaya05 0 5 minutes ago
This seems like another formulaic movie for heterosexuals arthurs-1 15 14 minutes ago
video game? evbatboy 0 18 minutes ago
Thief is Michael's best DJTL 8 20 minutes ago
And..Yet..another scathing review... Captaincaca 22 21 minutes ago
Terrence Howard Or Jamie Foxx as TUBBS ? ChilliCheeseDog 49 28 minutes ago
Mann, Stupid People, Miami Vice.... Admiral-6 6 29 minutes ago
I Take Back Everything I've Said... chappedass2001 72 30 minutes ago
Snakes On A Plane tom03eo25 6 30 minutes ago
Better Than Bad Boy II? Getemboy2004 5 37 minutes ago

― kingfish cyclopean ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 27 July 2006 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

i tried to get my bros to see 'miami vice' and they were all like, 'eh'. i guess they had to go knit or something, lol. so yeah i'm going to end up seeing it with my gf, though her enthusiasm for the film is somewhat muted compared to mine. i don't know why, i don't see how the formula of 'guns + grizzle + gong li' cannot result in anything other than funtime.

― gear (gear), Thursday, 27 July 2006 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

cuz fuckin Colin Farrell is in it? I liked "Heat" okay but the cult of Michael Mann mystifies me - this looks like super-shiny garbage.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 27 July 2006 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

it's not very shiny, actually.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 27 July 2006 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm still trying to figure out my take on this... but i guess i'd say there was some stuff i loved but it ultimately felt like 2/3rds of a movie. some fucking AMAZING-looking stuff though. i was actually quite shocked how dark and grainy, gainy, and generally video-y he let it look. ultimately i think collateral may have been more successfully, visually (combining the video with the film was actually quite a good idea in retrospect).

i would say... get really high and see this.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 27 July 2006 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link

oh that's just code for "this blows"

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 27 July 2006 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

i actually kinda like colin farrell in this, though him and jamie foxx are pretty much ciphers. still i dug no backstory & no lame wisecracking. very SERIOUS.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 27 July 2006 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I liked "Heat" okay but the cult of Michael Mann mystifies me

i like michael mann a lot and i think heat is one of his most run-of-the-mill endeavors. it's not a great movie (or even a great premise), it just has big "actor's studio" type stars and it caught the public attention at the right time.

― gothic Buddhist meets Old Hollywood (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 27 July 2006 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm just glad it's not an ironic piss-take of a film

― gear (gear), Thursday, 27 July 2006 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

heat is great, mann is great, i will like this no matter what.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Friday, 28 July 2006 07:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the average member of the public would have trouble remembering Heat unprompted.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 28 July 2006 08:11 (seventeen years ago) link

i dunno, the "famous confrontation of two of Hollywood's etc etc" is repeated in clip shows and whatnot often enough.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Friday, 28 July 2006 08:14 (seventeen years ago) link

haha Medulla Oblongta speech got the first spontaneous audience cheer since (ugh) Fahrenheit 911.

I can see why some people don't get it, the Havana scenes and some of the buddy interaction were stilted, but good God when Mann is focused and stripped down it is indeed BADASS.

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 28 July 2006 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

i kind of think that A MICHAEL MANN film that stayed true to the style and era of original miami vice could have been a high water mark for our 80s obsessed generation. if he's completely updated it then i don't see the point. i haven't seen it yet but it's the first film this summer that's grabbed my attention.

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 28 July 2006 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

The point = explosions! camraderie! stilted, technical tough-guy dialogue! Gong Li!

A Michael Mann film with a complete disregard for mainstream movie conventions - no romance, no family life, even less closure - might just be the greatest film ever.

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link

t/s: buying Heat to watch this weekend, or just going to see this again at a Sunday matinee...

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

you could probably do both for $15 bucks tops

― gear (gear), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:53 (seventeen years ago) link

xp. explosions and camaraderie are great in anyone's language. i just thought this could be something special IN A BIG WAY in the right hands. i should prob accept the fact that the world goes on outside my head rather than in it.

― michael wells (michael w.), Saturday, 29 July 2006 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link

lf you being too rough on Miami. there are better cities of course, but they are all not in the united states.

(as for this movie: it is supposed to be nice to look at.. i will not get raped by any movie theater to see it though. third run, the apollo, i'm there)

― trees (treesessplode), Saturday, 29 July 2006 02:02 (seventeen years ago) link

what I'm also wondering is what kind of idiot is Michael Mann for changing the clothing/style by purposefully setting it not-in-the-1980s? Versace and Armani's Spring '07 collections are BASED on the colors, fabrics and cuts of 1980s Miami fashion drug discotheque fabulosos. (They're nice-looking clothes).

― trees (treesessplode), Saturday, 29 July 2006 02:06 (seventeen years ago) link

win-win!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 29 July 2006 02:09 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm sooo looking forward to the 1989 fashion revival -- benetton meets nubian pride meets chili peppers skatebaggy!

― gothic Buddhist meets Old Hollywood (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 29 July 2006 02:23 (seventeen years ago) link

WHERE IS MOTION PICTURE REMAKE

http://tvphotogalleries.com/data/699/10-9699-sm.jpg

― gothic Buddhist meets Old Hollywood (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 29 July 2006 02:34 (seventeen years ago) link

wow this was great! gorgeous throughtout, and such a MICHAEL MANN movie. luckily i love those.

― ryan (ryan), Saturday, 29 July 2006 06:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I really liked it too, though Colin Farrell's American accent is ridiculous.
I think a lot of the negative reviews of it are by people unable to divest themselves of their preconceptions about movies based on TV shows.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 29 July 2006 07:05 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought it was sort of "mann-ish" in a slightly depressing way. the way that "face/off" was woo-ish. kind of an interesting movie in some respects, though i was bored for a lot of it.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 29 July 2006 07:06 (seventeen years ago) link

The pictures were just beautiful, beautiful. I don't know enough about film school stuff to express the how the texture of the digital pictures pushes buttons associated with old TV shows in just the right way.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 29 July 2006 07:12 (seventeen years ago) link

i like michael mann a lot. however, colin farrell is unwatchable.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Saturday, 29 July 2006 12:23 (seventeen years ago) link

A Michael Mann film with a complete disregard for mainstream movie conventions - no romance, no family life, even less closure - might just be the greatest film ever.

Possibly, but not Miami Vice. I suppose the zero chemistry between Gong Li and Colin Farrell qualifies as anti-romance though. Closure it's got: the conclusion's unsentimental shorthand was perfect. But for most of the film's two-hour-plus running time we got an unsmiling "NYPD Blue" episode with little of the original show's splendid vulgarity (Gong and Farrell going to Cuba for mojitos and a few dozen shower-fucks excepted).

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 29 July 2006 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Perhaps reactions differ based on one's reaction to the TV show (me: hives).

― milo z (mlp), Saturday, 29 July 2006 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

As I just told a friend, did it ever occur to Mann to cast Jamie Foxx as Crockett? At least audience empathy would have been assured.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 29 July 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

i always figured if this film were made, matthew mcconaughey would be crockett. i was wrong!

― gear (gear), Saturday, 29 July 2006 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link

i always figured if this film were made, matthew mcconaughey would be crockett. i was wrong!

i think i suggested owen wilson upthread.

― gothic Buddhist meets Old Hollywood (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 29 July 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link

(he's too goofy-looking though. not that colin farrell isn't goofy-looking, but you know.)

― gothic Buddhist meets Old Hollywood (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 29 July 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link

what about brad pitt? he's got the muscles and the suave-redneck thing, but he doesn't read "smart" to me the way don johnson's crockett did. don was perfect for the role because he always looked like his brain was engaged when he was solving cases, and he wasn't JUST delivering cop-show lines.

― gothic Buddhist meets Old Hollywood (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 29 July 2006 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

this was pretty kewl imho, but there was pretty much no way it couldn't be what with colin farrell's crazy facial hair situation and whatnot. gear otm about everything ever

ps. http://www.glumbert.com/media/roast.html

― BUJU DANSON (Adrian Langston), Sunday, 30 July 2006 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Uh people Don Johnson was TOTALLY goofy looking!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Sunday, 30 July 2006 13:14 (seventeen years ago) link

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/IMAGES/MMPH/263775.jpg

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Sunday, 30 July 2006 13:16 (seventeen years ago) link

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