it really is special
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
just director's cut unfortunately
Nicholas: They are vertically intergrated, they're... Det. Ricardo Tubbs: You mean they walk around with constant erections?
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
really? that rankles. rankles!
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
I saw Miami Vice this beautiful summer afternoon. During the movie the projector flickered once. When I came out, there had been this massive storm that passed through, with downed trees and power lines and stuff. It was totally disorienting.
True story.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
whoa
it was the movie that did it
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
i dont care much for MV as a movie but i do appreciate its filmmaking and as a collection of 'mann moments' (as omar put it). like most of his recent efforts, its incredibly frustrating for tantalizing you with visions of the film it could've been.
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:11 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol sorry...
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
the character actors make Miami Vice - John Hawkes, the kingpin and his evil henchman, the weaselly guy who gets the hooked into the cartel
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
i need to sit down and have a long think about public enemies one of these days
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
I hated the night-time gunfight scenes in Public Enemy - the way Mann shot them on video just didn't look right
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
more later, folks. work calls....
― omar little, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
Public Enemies was even less of what it could have been than Miami Vice was, but I enjoyed it. Perhaps the only Mann I've seen only once, though.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
At first I thought you were talking about the Cagney flick.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
You dirty rat.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
the gong li love sideplot was AWFUL
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
i still think farrell was channelling george w bush in MV
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
those little sour looks on his face, the slightly over-drawled american accent
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
the thing that kills me about mann is - he's an incredibly thoughtful, intelligent guy who does the legwork for all his movies, he understands the milieu of the characters like a real expert would, hes in the characters heads completely, and he does very little cinematically to convey that expertise, we're always on the outside looking in - its like for him the details just inform the work, but he should be letting us in on that stuff too
underrated perf in MV: tom towles as the AB leader
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
one-inch punch did 0/11
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
i like these bits from outlaw vern's MV review:
There is one scene where Sonny is with Gong Li and unless I misunderstood something, he tells her that his dad listened to the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd. This, to me, is hilarious, because as I’ve pointed out before, Mann goes into an insane monologue about Tom Cruise’s character’s off-screen dad’s love for jazz music on the commentary track for COLLATERAL. Michael Mann is kind of a weird guy and apparently that’s one of his obsessions, he for some reason thinks that to give depth to a character you have to figure out what type of music the character’s dad listened to.
and then later
Jamie Foxx is real good as Rico, mixing a little Jamie Foxx swagger with the quiet sensitivity of my man P.M. Thomas. Also he can fly a plane. Rico gets the one joke in the movie, which I gotta assume Jamie Foxx improvised and then he must’ve convinced Michael Mann that his character’s actions came from a song his father used to listen to. Otherwise I can’t think of any reason why Michael Mann would leave a funny part in a movie.
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
i saw thief when it came out and visually even then as a kid i was like wooooowwwww what the hell am i watching? i had never seen anything that looked like that or sounded like that. tangerine dream plus dreamsequence safecracking. thing was intense.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
INFERNAL AFFAIRS - this kept getting taken off my ballot because i felt it wasnt really an 'action' movie but then snuck back on every time i thought about how important the threat of action is to the movie, the loaded gun always in sight. also its just a p rad movie
THE FUGITIVE - didnt vote for this but i wish i had since a) CHASE and b) any movie that got parodied by the simpsons probably deserved a vote
COLLATERAL - i just really like the way this movie looks. but all the weird little parts of this movie really add up to something greater for me, like its less about anything than just everything. i remember i snuck into this movie with a friend on a whim after we saw something else, and the xp of seeing this enough to make me completely forget what we had gone to the movies to see in the first place
MIAMI VICE - i think i really came around to this after i rewatched it when it placed in the ilx films of the oughts poll. there are a bunch of good posts itt
― (_()_) (Lamp), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
I took collateral off my list precisely because of the 'way it looks' - mentioned in the collateral thread I think but it really is just michael mann making love to LA at night, the action is, well, collateral to that ; )
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
actually my least faves are wall-e, the toy stories, cars 1 & 2. the cars movies are so fucking bad. and offensive even.
― scott seward, Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:58 AM (1 hour ago)
I'm with you except I loved toy story 3, inexplicable because I didn't like the first two
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
I honestly cant remember anything about 'miami vice' except the beginning scene in the nightclub. v. dissapointing, im going to give another watch though
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
I freaking love MIAMI VICE. kinda fits my dream of Terrence Malick making an action movie.
I don't have anything good to say about TAKEN but i once took a class on "captivity narratives" and it's kind of an apotheosis of the form.
JAWS is like half horror, half action (tension and release), and that structure is one of the reasons i love it.
― ryan, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
miami vic seem cool. u guys like the rock?
― partytime, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
That reads like small talk re: drugs.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
miami vice and the fugitive were both p high on my ballot.
the fugitive was one of the first for-grown-ups movies i remember really enrapturing me in the way that things like ninja turtles and back to the future had only a few years earlier (i was 13 when it came out)
missed the bond clusterfuck but iirc "the spy who loved me" is for better or worse one of the most action-y of bond movies
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
i won't hear a bad word about TLJ in the fugitive
"i didn't kill my wife." "i don't care." << he found such a great mixture of pity, humor, resignation, and pride-in-office in that one reading
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
at this point i will see any movie with TLJ in it
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
it's no secret that i think Men In Black is top notch cinematic entertainment
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
Pretty much is. I recall it crossing some sort of threshold for costing a million dollars a minute, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
remember when he was two face
― max, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
i do remember
― (_()_) (Lamp), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
#90skid
― max, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
we should do a thrillers poll, thrillers is the best genre― lag∞n, Tuesday, February 14, 2012 5:35 AM (5 hours ago)
― lag∞n, Tuesday, February 14, 2012 5:35 AM (5 hours ago)
this is totally OTM. this thread and the voting thread made me realize i like thrillers prob 10x more than action movies.
we should have done 2 polls w/ a rule that a movie could only be nominated in one or the other
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
I wonder how many pre-1971 movies wd make that one
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
none
― max, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
not a single one
ya, because no one here has ever seen any old movies. and if they did, they would hate them, because ilx posters are stupid and ignorant. good call
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
But it's a scientific fact that movies did not get thrilling until the '70s. Until then they were merely suspenseful.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
that's true too
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
old movies more like ::plays violent videogame::
― (_()_) (Lamp), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 3:43 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark
co-sign, but I took it off my ballot cause it was more about the humor than the action imo
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
most old movies are just people like... talking
they aren't even in colour so many of them
― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
"I wonder how many pre-1971 movies wd make that one"
http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/4/A70-2159
― scott seward, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 4:03 PM (13 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
what?? really?? bleh!
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
ya, because no one here has ever seen any old movies
fukkov
and if they did, they would hate them
WELL LOOKS AT DA POLL
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link