come anticipate Miami Vice with me

It looked almost cheap for a $120mln film.

sometimes (as in parts of "collateral") mann goes for artifacts and other "cheap" elements as part of the visual design. one problem w/digital is a sort of correlative to its ability to get a lot of detail in darkness: controlling the points of light in the mise en scene becomes potentially difficult, as any stray bulb can take a sudden prominence.

angela bassett in drag

Season Two gets underway with a two hour episode titled “The Prodigal Son.� The two part episode is nothing short of excellent and sets the season off on the highest level. Crockett and Tubbs travel to New York on the hunt of a Columbia drug ring that is killing off federal agents. Crockett walking the streets of New York at night as the Glenn Frey song “You Belong to the City� plays is hands down one of the best sequences in the history of the series. Another great moment involves Tubbs rushing to the airport as the Phil Collins song “Take Me Home� plays in the background.

also: steamy sexoring w/ tubbs & pam grier (to the sounds of the aforementioned phil collins song! best montage ever.)

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You can't have the same guy playing Ray Charles play Tubbs, man. Foxx ain't as lionesque.

hum... let me think...

http://www.urbanzone.somborinfo.net/images/pit.jpg

So psyched.

-- gear (speed.to.roa...) (webmail), June 25th, 2006 9:11 PM. (gear) (link)

can't wait.

also, the trailer's full of modern day music, wtf?

-- mark p

this is so wronnng... the absolute of this movie has to be that its played 100% dead straight, and no mercy to ironic nostalgia! anyway how can u not get a boner to speedboats at sunset with "i've becoooome so NUUUUUUUMB" skyscrapering over the top, cmon

should have been tiga, maybe.

i am ridiculously excited for this.

philip michael thomas was a TERRIBLE actor! don johnson was underrated, i think.

I'm sure I've related the story in this thread, but I saw the movie if not opening day then perhaps that Saturday. I went to maybe the 2pm show, something like that, and it was only my love for Michael Mann that dragged me there, because it was sunny and gorgeous out. So I see the movie, love it, and then leave ... and I guess some time in those 2 hours there had been a *massive* storm I missed! Trees were down, it was dark, street lights were out, it was 20 degrees cooler, etc. I'll never forget it.

The other thing I remember from a Mann interview was his insistence that those giant Nazi guns sounded authentic, and how they went to great lengths to capture the exact sound one of those military grade rounds makes piercing the side of a car door.

watched for the first time in over 10+ years, loved every minute just as I always had. possibly even more.

"Only you get dead. do you believe that?"

it is the best movie ever made

Not related to the movie but not unrelated, the other day I heard this really shitty butt rock song by a band called Honeymoon Suite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKE59-VfrBM

Sort of like the Cars "Moving in Stereo" if it was totally and unconvincingly macho. I'd never heard of them before, but I guess they're Canadian, and had a knack for getting their bad songs into movies and stuff, like "One Crazy Summer." Then on wikipedia I came across this:

In 1989, "Bad Attitude" was featured in the series finale of Miami Vice, played during a Ferrari driving segment that mirrored one from the series' pilot episode, continuing throughout Crockett and Tubbs' final battle.

So I thought, ooh, it's going to be a lost moody midtempo AOR song! But no.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOCI37y2umw

And that, my friends, is the difference between 1984 and 1989, and the first season of Miami Vice and the last.

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Not the band, though! Canadian Vice!

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Halifax Vice?

I forget where I read it, but Mann’s original plan for ‘06 Miami Vice was to use the original Phil Collins “In The Air Tonight” (which could have been amazing) but then swapped in the nu-metal Nonpoint version instead (which does the job and fits the vibe).

what a weird project. i enjoyed the hell out of it tho

Halifax Vice?

― calstars, Saturday, November 6, 2021 1:53 PM (five minutes ago) bookmark flag link

Absolutely not.

i haven't seen a lot of Canada, but Vancouver? cocaine, waterways, central business district has noticeable aesthetic

"Vancouver Vice" is basically "The X-Files."

hahaha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3iBN8yz-2s

Sick. I never really considered it before, but this movie in relation to Michael Mann occupies the same space in my head as Twin Peaks: The Return does to David Lynch.

Amazed that Sonny Crockett can go undercover with this accent:

This speech. Colin Farrell telling Brendan Gleeson he loves him. The emotion. The charisma… Toxic masculinity found dead in a ditch!!!! #GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/xWGngZ9UId

— Meech (@MediumSizeMeech) January 11, 2023

Buht ye got ye tan in Meeami

avclub circling the drain - their clickbait article (i clicked) on terrible films by great directors includes Miami Vice