come anticipate Miami Vice with me

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

http://www.englishforums.com/English/GrammarMiamiViceMovieTrailer/czwqv/post.htm

That grammer thread was more entertaining than this movie.

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).

otm. Season One was nearly perfect television (then it fell off the rails, sadly).

nrq you are apparently the tv series dvd expert. at £45 this seems like a pretty good deal, yes? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Miami-Vice-Complete-Collection-DVD/dp/B000SLW43M/

fuckin love this movie which is on atm.

WHAT CHANNEL

Universal HD. climactic shootout comin up

the praise heaped on this film on ILX made me watch it for the first time. i'd just like to say 'thankyou ilx!' and also that i'm absolutely flabbergasted this movie wasn't better recived by the critics. it's *brilliant*! wipes the floor with just about any big budget hollywood action movie i can think of from these last few years.
some have noted that the trailers made it look like BAD BOYS or whatever and yet it's an art film in many ways so it got a widespread 'huh?' from shoot-em-up loving teens etc.

the trailer park scene is one of the most tense i've ever seen.

the saddest thing is that if it had been any kind of hit, Mann wanted to do a sequel.

I should see this again. I remember just about zero about it, which usually is a sign that it's kind of a forgettable movie. But Mann is easy to underestimate, and I would at the very least enjoy LOOKING at it again.

Ha! Me, from earlier in the thread:

I won't remember anything about it in a month except for the way it looked, but hey.

I have to agree with myself here, if only for purely practical reasons.

i just saw this and it is fucking astonishing. so bummed i didn't see it in theatres.

http://www.leftfieldcinema.com/misunderstood-modern-cinema-miami-vice

Mann in the past has been well known for some of the ill-conceived music choices he made in his 1980’s films Manhunter and The Keep, in the case of the former in particular the soundtrack was the biggest issue the film has to contend with

absolutely no desire to read any more in an essay that contains this sentence

lot of run-on sentences in that post

Thief's score is worse.

i dont remember the score from thief which is usually a good thing w/ mann ficks--collateral and miami vice both had horrendous soundtracks (which i think sort of "worked" with the aesthetic), but manhunter had a rad soundtrack iirc

Thief had that Tangerine Dream score, which was great.

omg garda da vida (or however you spell it) is fucking ace!

okay that was less of a score, as it was a part in the film. the score was amazing too.

That article . . . ugh. It did make one valid point: The film would have been better served if it wasn't named Miami Vice. I suppose it's okay to belittle the audience for expecting to see a rehash or parody or pastiche of the TV show. But it's also hard to blame the audience for those expectations, since they were set by a deliberate choice of the filmmakers, who undoubtedly wanted the film to benefit from a direct association with the show.

The problems with this movie weren't addressed in the article. First, the acting was wooden. Second, Colin Farrell -- who absolutely was the lead, with everyone else, including Foxx, as distant supporting players -- had no presence, charisma, or charm. Third, quite a bit of the dialogue was hamfisted, and it stood out even more because of Mann's effort to make the film gritty and realistic (the dialogue wasn't helped by the acting, e.g., the stiff "I'm a fiend for mojitos" line).

i dont get why its weird to call the film miami vice? the aesthetic of the movie and the aesthetic of the show seemed pretty similar to me.

There are better articles than that one on the film, seeing as it has been elevated to the level of masterpiece by the blogosophere.

seems like whoever wrote that isn't familiar with the original series at all

yeah

was thinking maybe piscesx wrote it

i think the acting style and dialogue is vastly secondary to how the film was shot, scored, edited, and framed. not a criticism, i just think that mann was trying to make an entire picture of nothing but "michael mann moments" (and trying to get some kind of emotion from what some folks might find to be a cold style and story) and he succeeded. it's like 'gaucho' or something.

i was actually lookin for the miami vice dvd last week and couldnt find it anywhere, i was suddenly overtaken with the urge to listen to the commentary~

i will say that the score of manhunter was super distracting to me for some reason, normally i dig that kind of crap

not readin that gay article tho

i think the commentary is only available on the director's cut, which isn't as good as the theatrical. shame.

my man michael mann's manhunter