whenever Sarge returns we take my catamaran to Havana to cool it with some mojitos.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
sounds like you're a fiend for them
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
i would like a mojito rn
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
http://philadelphia.foobooz.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/miami_vice_mojo.jpg
― caro's johnson (Eazy), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
i got laughed at irl this weekend for saying that i really like this movie
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 15 May 2012 16:04 (45 minutes ago) Permalink
fuckin' Philistines
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
in general ppl look at you like an alien if you say you like michael mann
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, May 15, 2012 11:09 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
wtf is wrong with people?
― mh, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
first they came for the challopers and I said nothing
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
This is like the awkward party conversation where someone is like "I don't really like CSI or whatever tv show, but I like movie crime stuff" and I'm like "well, do you like 'Silence of the Lambs' and that type of thing because there was this movie by Michael Mann who starred the one dude from CSI and it's called Manhunter..." and then I get mocked about the fact there is a movie called Manhunter directed by Mann
― mh, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
many you guys need to hit better parties
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 17:48 (eleven years ago) link
*man
story of my life
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
still easily the best action film i've ever seen. too nervous to watch it again in case in doesn't live up to what i remember.
is the Director's Cut worth a watch just for the boat chase bit? the 'cold' opening is so good i can't believe there's a version, any version that *doesn't* start that way.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
There are some good extra character scenes (more Trudy iirc) so it's worth seeing. But yeah I'd rather jettison all of that for the in media res club bit.
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
man i love the boat race opening. it feels so expansive but cold (dunno if miami cold is like louisiana cold but kinda clammy and unnatural) and empty. the transition from that into the neon claustrophobia of the club is pretty awesome.
― adam, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
love this fuckin movie
― adam, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, May 15, 2012 12:48 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
so sad because this happened at _my party_
― mh, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
Boat scene is cool, but there's a chunk of stale exposition on the shore afterwords setting up the club sting that kind of kills it for me.
― circa1916, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
so I like this movie now!
Colin Farrell's hair though = so so so gross. It's like he poured crude oil over it.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 September 2012 13:31 (eleven years ago) link
It is so much fun to love this movie.
― Eric H., Monday, 3 September 2012 13:32 (eleven years ago) link
and the film was a hit:
Miami Vice opened at No. 1 in the United States, knocking Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest out of the number one position at the box office that weekend, after Pirates led the box office for almost a full month.[20] In its opening weekend, the film grossed over $25.7 million at 3,021 theaters nationwide, with an average gross of $8,515 per theater.[21] The film would go on to earn $63.5 million domestically.[21] Miami Vice would fare better internationally. The films aired in 77 countries overseas, grossing $100,344,039 in its international run.[22] Overall the film grossed $164 million worldwide[21] helping to further surpass the reported $135 million budget.
The film stands as one of Michael Mann's top three most financially successful films, next to Heat and Collateral.[23]
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 September 2012 13:33 (eleven years ago) link
i remember going to see this opening weekend and being forced to sit on the stairs
― young money color me badd (J0rdan S.), Monday, 3 September 2012 13:39 (eleven years ago) link
The story I've told before is that when I went to see this some weekend afternoon, it was bright and sunny when I went in, and when I went out everything was drenched, there were branches, leaves and other refuse strewn about everywhere, street lights were blinking yellow. It was like some hurricane hit outside in the middle of the movie. Very memorable.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 3 September 2012 14:11 (eleven years ago) link
the UK bluray has the theatrical version?!?!?!?
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 30 December 2012 05:27 (eleven years ago) link
Colin Farrell's hair though = so so so gross.
Zappa stache.
― your damn bass clarinet (Eazy), Sunday, 30 December 2012 05:29 (eleven years ago) link
Hey, Jose Yero is starring (with Jimmy Smits) in a play at Steppenwolf, and I'm going to opening night next week. Will try to shake hands with Cochi Loco and will send him all your ILX love.
― your damn bass clarinet (Eazy), Sunday, 30 December 2012 05:31 (eleven years ago) link
Yes it does. The lack of that opening on the American Blu Ray is why I refuse to plop 7 bucks down for it.
― Gukbe, Sunday, 30 December 2012 05:34 (eleven years ago) link
really stoked that it's available in some form though, region free blu ray players are cheap these days
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 30 December 2012 06:27 (eleven years ago) link
Uk version is region free
― mh, Sunday, 30 December 2012 06:45 (eleven years ago) link
I gots it
oh snap
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 30 December 2012 06:47 (eleven years ago) link
good rec for a region free BD player?
― 乒乓, Sunday, 30 December 2012 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
Holds up on the 12th viewing.
If only the climactic deal were underscored by the original "In The Air Tonight" instead of the nu-metal version...
― only dogg forgives (Eazy), Monday, 12 August 2013 02:04 (ten years ago) link
Mann has pretty awful taste in music in general
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 12 August 2013 02:21 (ten years ago) link
"I'm a fiend for mojitos."
― This Is Not An ILX Username (LaMonte), Monday, 12 August 2013 02:35 (ten years ago) link
"I'm a fiend for Linkin Park."
You have to give Mann credit for working with Lisa Gerrard though.
― May I Call You Jiggleee? (Leee), Monday, 12 August 2013 03:46 (ten years ago) link
LIMIT
So what's up?Anything could be in those crates out of Odessa.This one has too many moving parts, too many unknowns.It's your call.Where you at?The message from Yero locates the agency and the officewhere the leak is coming from. I call that progress.So, let's take it to the limit one more time.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Sunday, 2 February 2014 07:53 (ten years ago) link
We need some Jose Yero gifs.
― tbd (Eazy), Sunday, 2 February 2014 07:56 (ten years ago) link
would kill for a theatrical cut on Blu Ray
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, 2 February 2014 08:22 (ten years ago) link
there is an all regions UK Blu Ray release of the theatrical cut fwiw.
― circa1916, Tuesday, May 15, 2012 11:10 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― circa1916, Sunday, 2 February 2014 18:23 (ten years ago) link
I sometimes have problems with the PAL/NTSC thing tho.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Monday, 3 February 2014 01:17 (ten years ago) link
Blu ray has no difference, hd
― mh, Monday, 3 February 2014 01:20 (ten years ago) link
oh really? That makes sense. I tried my Day Today DVD on a plasma I used to have, and it worked fine. Tried it on an LCD some time later and it said it couldn't read the signal. But yeah, the HD thing makes sense. Will investigate!
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Monday, 3 February 2014 01:26 (ten years ago) link
I'm gonna tell you what's gonna happenPeople are gonna come in hereYou know what they gonna say? They gonna look around and go 'Ola Hijo. That's some crazy motherfucking wallpaperWhat is that? Jackson Pollock?'No, viero. That was José Yero. Got splattered all over his own wall.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 3 February 2014 02:16 (ten years ago) link
http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/miamivice.html
FADE IN:EXT. OCEAN - CLOSE UP: WATER - MORNING LIGHTWe are at the delicate interface between ocean andair...liquid and gas...the event horizon where moleculesevaporate. This interchange is ethereal. Then, lowfrequencies rumble through depths...louder...closer, now...And the ocean surface is torn by a 46-foot catamaran and theROAR of 2,700 horsepower, rocketing at us at 140 knots...
EXT. OCEAN - CLOSE UP: WATER - MORNING LIGHT
We are at the delicate interface between ocean andair...liquid and gas...the event horizon where moleculesevaporate. This interchange is ethereal. Then, lowfrequencies rumble through depths...louder...closer, now...And the ocean surface is torn by a 46-foot catamaran and theROAR of 2,700 horsepower, rocketing at us at 140 knots...
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 3 April 2014 08:54 (ten years ago) link
I think the "director's cut" has that open and it's not as good!
― have a nice blood/orange bitters cocktail (mh), Thursday, 3 April 2014 13:43 (ten years ago) link
The prose is amazing.
This continues to improve on the 12th or so viewing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLFd6k1BHDk
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 03:12 (eight years ago) link
what a strange, brief movie. i think i loved it? i don't think i know what to make of it.
― goole, Monday, 30 November 2015 20:12 (eight years ago) link
(side note: hbonow got me flipping from leftovers to john adams and then to this; i swear, universe, i'm not the world's biggest justin theroux superfan)
― goole, Monday, 30 November 2015 20:13 (eight years ago) link
forgot he was in john adams
― balls, Thursday, 3 December 2015 02:00 (eight years ago) link