come anticipate Miami Vice with me

They said this at least once more with a different word at the end!

there was a lot of 'let's do this'. you can't really have too much of that, though.

my favorite character was the female backup who shot the kidnapper.

seconded.

maybe on the dvd it will be possible to decipher what the fuck they're talking about, but i loved it.

the music is REALLY BAD. just totally fucking anonymous. i usually like mann's music.

thanks, as suspected i never need to see this.

Haha, Paul Verhoeven does this too.

I just started watching the DVDs of Crime Story, Mann's follow-up series to Miami Vice. Four or five episodes in, it's not quite as good as MV. The characters, especially Dennis Farina's, are much more archetypally Cop-y), but the action and the art-direction are just as much fun (in the Abel Ferrara-directed pilot, especially).

heat
the insider
manhunter
thief
collateral
the last of the mohicans
miami vice
the keep

there were a few oddly-pitched moments like this, when one of the characters would make some flaky pop-culture reference in a completely deadpan voice, and no one would respond to it. i enjoyed this for its utter strangeness.

Thinking about all the night combat scenes and general weirdness still makes me happy.

there were a few oddly-pitched moments like this, when one of the characters would make some flaky pop-culture reference in a completely deadpan voice, and no one would respond to it. i enjoyed this for its utter strangeness.

i saw it at the arclight in hollywood the day after it was released, so naturally the theater was awash in screenwriter scum, laughing in full voice at all the popcultrefs and mann-isms.

poetry

and i might rank LotM higher if i'd seen it in the past 12 years!

my favorite character was the female backup who shot the kidnapper.

I loved the way she shot him, waiting for him to speak and thus be distracted enough for her to pull the trigger. Took me by surprise anyway.

and now EVEN MORE ANNOYINGLY they rerelease series 1 in the new-style packaging THE SWINE.

That movie blew so much. I was actually expecting more, expecially cuz I like some of Mann's other stuff.

Thanks too.

living on a boat is probably pretty cheap, that said.

Not the movie, but I've been watching season 3 lately and I was deeply saddened at them killing off Larry, Swyteks buddy.

It's pretty great though, the series, even if there's a lot of rerunning of similar plots I still love Manns arty neon shots. And sooo many cameo roles (never realised Steve Buscemi had been in it).

I think the only parts that let it down are the sex scenes, not so many in season 3 but i remember season 2 being littered with them, especially for Tubbs. They go on for too long and play that horrible same sex music.

i would love to see this remade as a series, in the style of 'the shield', with the complexity of 'the wire'.

woah season 4 is pretty much a joke, although the occasional episode does entertain and it does end with a decent cliff hanger.

And Viking Bikers in season 3 is the funniest thing ever

maybe on the dvd it will be possible to decipher what the fuck they're talking about, but i loved it.

I've now watched this movie on DVD about 12 times in the past 18 months, and it's finally making sense: the go-fast boats, the FLIR images, all that narc jargon -- and that the guy in the white linen jacket at the club buying the hookers is part of their team (was he going to have sex with them?) and that the rest of the team follows Sonny and Crockett into Jose's Hatian den and Justin Theroux tosses Crockett a hand grenade during the negotiations. And so many scenes finally make sense where initially it's like watching the end-credits of Cache.

That all made sense the first time.

You've got split-second vision and an ear for high-tech counterintel, my friend.

this movie

amazing. best film of that year?

the color of the sky in the final big shoot-out (blood-black?) deserved an oscar all by itself. i want the michael mann crayola set.

i used to be against the numetal phil collins cover at the end but now i think it fits perfectly

felt the same about cornell in collateral

i'm glad i was proved wrong here and this turned out to be a great film