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.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 October 2021 18:11 (two years ago) link
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?"
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Saturday, 6 November 2021 03:07 (two years ago) link
it is the best movie ever made
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Saturday, 6 November 2021 14:47 (two years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 November 2021 15:05 (two years ago) link
American things
― calstars, Saturday, 6 November 2021 16:12 (two years ago) link
Not the band, though! Canadian Vice!
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 November 2021 16:50 (two years ago) link
Which Canadian city is the most Miami?This question has no answer
― calstars, Saturday, 6 November 2021 16:52 (two years ago) link
Halifax Vice?
― calstars, Saturday, 6 November 2021 16:53 (two years ago) link
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).
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 6 November 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link
what a weird project. i enjoyed the hell out of it tho
― caddy lac brougham? (will), Saturday, 6 November 2021 16:58 (two years ago) link
Halifax Vice?― calstars, Saturday, November 6, 2021 1:53 PM (five minutes ago) bookmark flag link
― calstars, Saturday, November 6, 2021 1:53 PM (five minutes ago) bookmark flag link
Absolutely not.
― This Is Not An ILX Username (LaMonte), Saturday, 6 November 2021 17:00 (two years ago) link
i haven't seen a lot of Canada, but Vancouver? cocaine, waterways, central business district has noticeable aesthetic
― caddy lac brougham? (will), Saturday, 6 November 2021 17:07 (two years ago) link
"Vancouver Vice" is basically "The X-Files."
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 November 2021 17:42 (two years ago) link
hahaha
― caddy lac brougham? (will), Saturday, 6 November 2021 17:43 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3iBN8yz-2s
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 6 November 2021 20:07 (two years ago) link
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.
― circa1916, Saturday, 6 November 2021 20:37 (two years ago) link
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
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 23:05 (one year ago) link
Buht ye got ye tan in Meeami
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 January 2023 00:49 (one year ago) link
avclub circling the drain - their clickbait article (i clicked) on terrible films by great directors includes Miami Vice
― omar little, Thursday, 2 March 2023 18:33 (one year ago) link