come anticipate Miami Vice with me

u just dont know what mann vibes really are mannn

DONT START W/ME TAMTAM

lol anyway public enemies was uneven, but the high points were vv high, def some moments where i felt like i was seeing something new and brilliant in the world of movies

fukkin <3 collateral

collateral was dope but cruise and fox are both uncool tryhards which is somewhat off putting in combo, feel like it wouldve been better if the fox roll had been played by someone more chill

Collateral would have been better served if Mann had held Javier Bardem in close-up for 159 minutes.

yo homie

manhunter's good but i always found it a bit cold - def need to see it again though, its been a long time

mohicans is just amazing. has some of my favorite mann movie weaponry, from the gunstock clubs to the long rifles and muskets. if you started a discussion about the best screen villains of the 90s, you'd have to start with Magua and gary oldman in the professional and work from there. and its genuinely stirring/moving in a way mann's never approached again. the end sequence, where the synthesized score drops out and is replaced w/the live celtic sounding track that plays throughout magua's pursuit, is breathtaking. and when they catch up with magua, it's russell means not the white protag who gets to exact vengeance. and it has guys saying 'kan-tuck-ee.' perfect movie basically.

never seen it

idk i shd try again... i like it but mann's thing is photographing cities, is it not?

(+ go-fast boats)

when i go into a mann film i am fiending for that extreme stylized cosmic shit, mohicans is cool but its sort of a tease as far as hardcore mann vibes, its too human

Day-Lewis is inhuman!

It makes perfect sense that Mann chose one of the most popular shitty classics ever inflicted on totally suspecting high school students.

hah yeah DDL actually gives the worst performance in that movie, but it's possible that it's just not a very rewarding role.

cruise is awesome in collateral btw. foxx is good in it too but he's more suited to playing scared cab drivers than badass undercover agents, he doesnt bring much physicality to the table which is what mann generally demands of his leading bros

public enemies is on tv right now, my favorite scene is when purvis guns down pretty boy floyd in an orchard... cant believe channing tatum was in this

Would smh Billy Crudup.

*downloads mohicans*

lol at "leading bros", that is basically it. who is the best leading bro?

"miami vice" is great but i still think it's a tad long

"collateral" is better & also has some of his most breathtaking scenes, altho cruise chews some scenery in that bitch like it's big league chew

still think "ali" is hella underrated even by mann stans

That's the one where Jon Voight as FDR rises unaided from his wheelchair, walks into the ring, and knocks out Foreman, right

Collateral is fantastic too. think I bought that dvd the day it came out

i think "ali" his most beautifully shot movie

I would read a contrarian take on Ali; at the time I didn't think his mythmaking worked when supporting an actual legend. I need to rewatch it.

will smith i just cant, its a tragedy, dont want to talk abt it

Ali's a great looking movie with an amazing opening, that shot of ali walking out of the tunnel at the stadium in zaire, and a cool ted levine cameo - but it's kinda sterile and dull and does nothing to illuminate what kind of man Ali was, and also is maybe overly reverent towards him imo

tho it was a little inappropriate that they retconned Ali into defeating the entire Viet Cong army

i think that if you view mann's films thru an aesthetic lens first & then consider everything else afterword, "ali" comes out in a much better light

that being said it's not like i have a problem w/ sports biopics or anything

but it's kinda sterile and dull and does nothing to illuminate what kind of man Ali was, and also is maybe overly reverent towards him imo

― marios balls in 3d for 3ds (Princess TamTam), Monday, January 31, 2011 6:52 PM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah basically typical biopic trap, also will smith apparently plays ali

ice cr?m is being so unjiggy right now

imagining what Scarface would have been like if Mann and not De Palma had directed

would've loved to have seen an Ali movie that portrayed him as a monster instead of this safe recycling of shit we already saw in When We Were Kings

i rewatched ali a few months ago -- it just kind of disintegrates into tedium rly, basically just recreating things that happened and were documented, but there is gold in there too

http://vjmorton.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/ali-greatest.jpg

heat is really fucking long and i have things to do. collateral is maybe the only tom cruise movie where i dont want to vomit all the way through. i feel like mann is the only director who uses video where i feel like it looks great *as* video. like it seems like it comes from the same pot of alchemised shit that makes encore seem epic. i totally love that song anyway tho

btw i wasnt paying attn when ali was on tv but i have no idea what makes it any diff from like walk the line or smthg

walk the line is better

not that ive seen it

but i bet i'd be way more into it!

biopics are usually horribly awful and all exactly the same

except Before Night Falls and Carlos.

i find it hard to think b4 nite falls is any good not bc of anything to do w/ the movie but bc schnabel is such a joke of a painter

he is maybe the worst painter of all time including this girl who was in my class who. i mean i dont wanna even get started.

that reminds me i need to do that Prefontaine vs. Without Limits poll i was planning on

heat is really fucking long and i have things to do

You're not working yet, son. Make time imo.

i find it hard to think b4 nite falls is any good not bc of anything to do w/ the movie but bc schnabel is such a joke of a painter

Lucky for all of us he became a much better director.

schnabels transformation from awful painter to rad filmmaker is one of the great mysteries of contpo art - before night falls is a straight up classic great movie

walk the line is better

― marios balls in 3d for 3ds (Princess TamTam), Monday, January 31, 2011 7:04 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it is better!

not really a mystery--painting is hard--making a movie is easy

pfft painting isnt hard check this out *paints*

did schnabel do basquiat? thats the only one ive seen. its ok.