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Rotten Tomatoes put down David Denby's review as a negative, but then reconsidered and now its a positive. I don't trust them anymore.

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 23:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Colin Farrell's hot factor is severly reduced when he is not speaking in an irish accent. :/

I want to punch Jamie Foxx in his long fucking face.

But Gong Li, yay!

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 23:56 (seventeen years ago) link

They've just released the second season on dvd, this movie is going to suck balls big time though.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 07:19 (seventeen years ago) link

GTFO

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 07:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Hmmm.

The look: Unlike the bright candy colors of the TV series, this version is dark, violent, and — like Mann's 2004 thriller "Collateral" — digitally shot, which adds to its raw, gritty vibe. There isn't an ounce of kitsch here. Any connection to the TV show is unrecognizable, both in visual and narrative style.

The plot: Mann doesn't bother with exposition. (This is a would-be summer blockbuster, after all.) Think drug busts, guns, speedboats, planes, danger and steamy sex.

The locale: "The allure of Miami has sustained itself in my imagination," Mann says on the film's official website. "The city has a perfumed reality, where things are not exactly what they seem. It's very attractive, alluring and sensual; it's also very dangerous."

The music: Where have you gone, Jan Hammer? Setting the aural mood this time are Moby, India.Arie, Goldfrapp, Mogwai and others, yet the soundtrack proves oddly disappointing.

The fashion: Crockett sports a handlebar mustache and both men sport sexy sunglasses. Expect more chocolate browns and charcoal grays than pale linens, but the suits are still expensive.

Memorable lines: "Things get emotional, moves get messy; moves get messy, and the wrong people die." "There's undercover, and then there is which way is up."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Both of those memorable lines were in the trailer, hopefully they didn't blow the best material in the preview again..

― Juan Donson (mike h.), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link

mogwai!?

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Setting the aural mood this time are Moby, India.Arie, Goldfrapp, Mogwai and others, yet the soundtrack proves oddly disappointing.

Oh, I can't imagine how that could possibly be true.

― Allyzay will never stop making pancakes (allyzay), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link

once again miami disappoints the nation.

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Michael Mann has the worst taste in music of any major film director evah

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link

pshaw!

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:58 (seventeen years ago) link

no, pshaw has better taste

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link

anyone has got the season 2 dvd ? I have the season 1 and am pretty excited by this. may wait till after the holidays to get it, though.

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Michael Mann has the worst taste in music of any major film director evah

I think we're ignoring the legacy of Max Steiner.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

the season 2 is beautifully packaged, but annoying differently packages to series 1. will get when cheap innit.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll probably see this film, but I had second thoughts upon seeing a picture taken in 1986 of my dad and sister in Sanibel, Florida. He wore white espadrilles.

Miami was a grisly place fashion-wise.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link

maybe but the whole thing is that mann is just using the name to get ca$hmoney to make... another michael mann film. it's not going to be 80s-retro.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

if the 100 minute movie is better than this 3 minute 20 second clip of the series i'll eat all my hats. this clip has makes me want 2 go get the series one dvd RIGHT NOW..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tnyp9tRXRo

― pisces (piscesx), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

you should, it's quite good, if a little chokingly cheesy at times.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

the 'what's love got to do with it' ep is terrible.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link

the season 1 is good but I think the best might be the 2 or 3 seasons that follow. no white ferrari in the first season !

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

the spyder (or whatever it is) is pretty deck though.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

the black one ?
"Crockett's Ferrari Daytona was actually a modified Corvette. Ferrari executives were so upset that this ersatz Ferrari was gaining such popularity that they offered to provide the series with their new flagship car, the Testarossa."

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link

i think that he means to say "The city is ugly, sticky, and boring and the people here suck donkey dick both ways to Arkansas." also, it's only dangerous if you're poor or black. like every other shitty city in this country. what a moron. at least he's right about things not being what they seem to him.

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

ps spyders are mad fin

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link

aw. it's not michael mann's fault you never got to hang out with miami drug kingpins, lfam, who despite being rich and often non-black probably find life kind of dangerous. who knows though eh?

the soundtrack looks dire, but i probably said the same thing about glenn frey and phil collins in the 80s.

the voice review of this is atrocious and embarrassing

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link

the voice review of this is atrocious and embarrassing

"About half the movie doesn't even take place in Miami!"

oh my god though, it really is bad. but the author isn't even a new times guy plucked from blogscurity; he's written for fucking 'cinema scope'!!!

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Thursday, 27 July 2006 07:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Setting the aural mood this time are Moby, India.Arie, Goldfrapp, Mogwai

basically the 21st century equivalent of the music used in the series.

― gothic Buddhist meets Old Hollywood (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 27 July 2006 07:59 (seventeen years ago) link

moby=phil collins ?

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Thursday, 27 July 2006 08:02 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought the s/t was by the rza...

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Thursday, 27 July 2006 08:14 (seventeen years ago) link

when is the movie released by the way ? i'm not feeling it at all (no flashy clothes, cars etc + awful cast = no fun).

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Thursday, 27 July 2006 08:21 (seventeen years ago) link

there will be clothes and cars, just not from the '80s.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Thursday, 27 July 2006 08:26 (seventeen years ago) link

well, the thing is you could wear flashy clothes from now. they just chose not to, apparently (and that would have been more interesting if there were no clothes at all !).

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:24 (seventeen years ago) link

so it's half set in miami, not set in the 80's, will have none of the original music, therefore = none of the original MV culture.

Why even get excited by this?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:27 (seventeen years ago) link

it's a michael mann film!!!!!!!

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:29 (seventeen years ago) link

whaddaya wants, 'S.W.A.T. 2'?

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:30 (seventeen years ago) link

stick to the original series DVD's i say.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:44 (seventeen years ago) link

from that Voice review

"But it's not often enough noted that Mann is the creator of many strong female characters"

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:57 (seventeen years ago) link

i haven't seen so this is part-guess, but mann isn't interested in the series. but because the name has brand recognition it is useful to him in making a movie. which is what he's done. i like the series but don't see the point in doing a feature length version of it.

xpost

hahaha!

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:59 (seventeen years ago) link

more or less every line in the vv review is like, O RLY?

But as is often the case in Mann's films, there is also a romance...

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Thursday, 27 July 2006 10:06 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.laweekly.com/general/features/a-manns-mans-world/14073/

― gothic Buddhist meets Old Hollywood (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 27 July 2006 10:11 (seventeen years ago) link

"It is the story of the night and the city and the men who inhabit it"

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 27 July 2006 10:24 (seventeen years ago) link

"Inevitably, there will come a woman, and with her the momentary illusion of a 'normal' life. And just as inevitably, that hoped-for bliss will prove as out of reach as Proust’s dream of fair Albertine. This is not always the story, for Michael Mann has made a historical epic about the French and Indian War..." (continues)

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

"What I am describing here is not some adolescent when-men-were-men fantasy (on my part or Mann’s)"

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 27 July 2006 10:29 (seventeen years ago) link

"we’re interrupted by a cell phone call. It’s Mann’s wife, Summer, asking about a replacement ink cartridge for their home computer printer. The interlude is a powerful corrective to those who might imagine that Mann’s Spartan protagonists are somehow alter-egos or examinations of self: Michael Mann has a wife."

this guy is a genius.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Thursday, 27 July 2006 10:39 (seventeen years ago) link

but it's shitty that la weekly and vv run with the same review.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Thursday, 27 July 2006 10:47 (seventeen years ago) link

It would be fine if the review was interesting!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 27 July 2006 10:54 (seventeen years ago) link

"michael mann has a wife" is the new "killy has a bf"

― gothic Buddhist meets Old Hollywood (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 27 July 2006 10:55 (seventeen years ago) link

i guess (doesn't really bother me, i don't live in either place) but shdn't the alternapress be about diversity in ten cities and ting? plus i know an underemployed LAW contributor...

xpost

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Thursday, 27 July 2006 10:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I agree but if a) the NY one sucked and b) the LA one was good, I'd rather read the LA one. In NY. Of course this is the new world of VV Media, where it ALL sucks!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 27 July 2006 11:06 (seventeen years ago) link

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