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MustangSVT
Lifer
michael mann. I expected nothing less. my fav director.
LegendKiller
Lifer
Ok, saw it with my wife last night.
1. They tried to be too damn technical. "Wow, look at this FLIR image". Nobody knows what the hell FLIR is except for mil or tech geeks. That happened through the *WHOLE* movie, "Better duck under radar or the AWACS planes will get ya". Yeah, like everybody know an AWACS plane is a converted airliner with a big radome on the top that is uber-powerful.
2. Colin Ferrel tried to be too "badass". His whole gravelly/deep voice sounded like utter garbage. It reminded me of certain scenes in Batman where Christian Bale tried to sound all tough in the suit. Seriously, "badass" sounding voices turn out like utter garbage. Add to that his totally unbelievable lines, his delivery was utter crap. Foxx, on the other hand, was cool playing the hole. The lines didn't sound fake and he sounded like he *BELONGED* there. He is a *much* better actor than ferrel and should have had a more leading role.
3. Starting off in the dance club, interrupting, throwing us into another story line with Mr. Scrawny and Horrible Actor sucked. It put the whole story line into a massive jumble.
4. Where were the goshdarn babes? We only got 2 chicks and no bikinis or anything? Seriously, the show had TONS of hot chicks on the beach and stuff.
5. The whole movie was too rushed, it's like they took 30 hours of film, had a nice continuous story, could have cut it down to 2 hours but still be continuous, but slapped togeather disjointed scenes.
I love Heat, LOTM, Collateral...etc. But I *HATED* this. I can't believe MM would release this steaming pile of dog poo. It grossed $22M and everybody is saying it beat the crap out of Pirates, wow, a couple million bucks on opening weekend compard to a movie thats been out for weeks????? This is supposed to be a hot summer movie? It only made $22M? WTF?
1. They tried to be too damn technical. "Wow, look at this FLIR image". Nobody knows what the hell FLIR is except for mil or tech geeks. That happened through the *WHOLE* movie, "Better duck under radar or the AWACS planes will get ya". Yeah, like everybody know an AWACS plane is a converted airliner with a big radome on the top that is uber-powerful.
2. Colin Ferrel tried to be too "badass". His whole gravelly/deep voice sounded like utter garbage. It reminded me of certain scenes in Batman where Christian Bale tried to sound all tough in the suit. Seriously, "badass" sounding voices turn out like utter garbage. Add to that his totally unbelievable lines, his delivery was utter crap. Foxx, on the other hand, was cool playing the hole. The lines didn't sound fake and he sounded like he *BELONGED* there. He is a *much* better actor than ferrel and should have had a more leading role.
3. Starting off in the dance club, interrupting, throwing us into another story line with Mr. Scrawny and Horrible Actor sucked. It put the whole story line into a massive jumble.
4. Where were the goshdarn babes? We only got 2 chicks and no bikinis or anything? Seriously, the show had TONS of hot chicks on the beach and stuff.
5. The whole movie was too rushed, it's like they took 30 hours of film, had a nice continuous story, could have cut it down to 2 hours but still be continuous, but slapped togeather disjointed scenes.
I love Heat, LOTM, Collateral...etc. But I *HATED* this. I can't believe MM would release this steaming pile of dog poo. It grossed $22M and everybody is saying it beat the crap out of Pirates, wow, a couple million bucks on opening weekend compard to a movie thats been out for weeks????? This is supposed to be a hot summer movie? It only made $22M? WTF?
GrammatonJP
Golden Member
Theres my motivation to go.. nice..
Art Vandelay
Senior member
What are you talking about, Christian Bale was awesome as Batman and that voice added so much to the role :thumbsup:
I thought it was great. I think the people that didn't like it simply don't like those types of movies. I know a lot of people that hated Collateral as well, but it's one of my absolute favorite movies.
There were some problems with it just like all movies, but I was entertained and I would recommend it.
There were some problems with it just like all movies, but I was entertained and I would recommend it.
I actually have to agree with LegendKiller on this. There were several "I'm trying to sound tough" scenes that just didn't fit Bale or the character, imo. I think a more calm and reserved Bale would have been much better, especially seeing that he has that controlled-psycho personality that we all saw and loved in American Psycho.
I'm referring specifically to the scene where he strings up one of the cops and asks "Where are the other drugs going?!?!?!?!" with this half-shaking, jaws-clamped look. It was horrible. I think being surprisingly strung up, lifted several stories and interrogated by a guy in a bat suit would be intimidating enough.
LegendKiller
Lifer
That is exactly what I am talking about. Now, I *REALLY* liked Batman, better than Superman or Spiderman. So it's not that I don't like Batman just because of that. However, if Batman had had all of the crappy things like Miami Vice *AND* that stupid wannabe "badass" voice, it would have sucked.
amddude
Golden Member
I don't know what theater you were in...but I have never seen a worse movie in MY LIFE. The soundtrack was HORRIBLE. Piano segways to...alternative rock? WTF? Incessant sex scenes...seriously, Jamie's ass is great and all...but I don't need to see it that much. Storyline was senseless and random. I cannot recommend to you guys strongly enough how sad this movie is and how much I was disappointed.
Svnla
Lifer
I saw this movie earlier today. It was ok, not bad but could have been much much better.
Flaws: <beside others alread pointed out> POSSIBLE SPOILERSSSSSSSSSSS
All of those guns from the bad guys and they only able to wound one good guy?
I am sure you can hop on a cigarette boat to Cuba and back without any problem with Castro government, yeah righhhht. Remember Bad Boys 2? They went into Cuba and shoot the whole town up yet government/local police were no where to be found.
The trailer park only has one guard outside and one boy inside? Yeah riiiiighhttt.
A love story? LOL, that Asian chick cried while she first had sex with Sonny? Talk about mixing business with pleasure. He is a cop yet he let her go at the end? I am sure that how things run in government operations, not...
EDIT: So we still didn't know who was the mole in the goverment at the end?
I know it is a movie, make belive but come on, be a litte more realistic and more believable.
Flaws: <beside others alread pointed out> POSSIBLE SPOILERSSSSSSSSSSS
All of those guns from the bad guys and they only able to wound one good guy?
I am sure you can hop on a cigarette boat to Cuba and back without any problem with Castro government, yeah righhhht. Remember Bad Boys 2? They went into Cuba and shoot the whole town up yet government/local police were no where to be found.
The trailer park only has one guard outside and one boy inside? Yeah riiiiighhttt.
A love story? LOL, that Asian chick cried while she first had sex with Sonny? Talk about mixing business with pleasure. He is a cop yet he let her go at the end? I am sure that how things run in government operations, not...
EDIT: So we still didn't know who was the mole in the goverment at the end?
I know it is a movie, make belive but come on, be a litte more realistic and more believable.
Electric Amish
Elite Member
I really didn't care for this movie, then I haven't been a fan of any Mann films.
First of all, other than the credits, there is basically no relationship with the original TV Series. C'mon! Give me some opening credits music....or at least a Jai'Alai clip! Throw me a bone here.
Since when did crocket ever call Tubbs by his first name? It's ALWAYS TUBBS!!! None of this Rico BS!
The dialog was hard to understand with half the cast trying to mask accents and the other half using accents.
It felt long and slow, just like Heat did.
I was disappointed in Tubb's dismisal of the bad guy...and overall this film needed more fisiticuffs and action...less dancing.
The only thing that was really cool about this movie.......
The sound of the .50 cal sniper rifle.
All in all, maybe 2/5 stars.
First of all, other than the credits, there is basically no relationship with the original TV Series. C'mon! Give me some opening credits music....or at least a Jai'Alai clip! Throw me a bone here.
Since when did crocket ever call Tubbs by his first name? It's ALWAYS TUBBS!!! None of this Rico BS!
The dialog was hard to understand with half the cast trying to mask accents and the other half using accents.
It felt long and slow, just like Heat did.
I was disappointed in Tubb's dismisal of the bad guy...and overall this film needed more fisiticuffs and action...less dancing.
The only thing that was really cool about this movie.......
The sound of the .50 cal sniper rifle.
All in all, maybe 2/5 stars.
I liked this quite a bit. Very michael manny. Fans of his style won't be disappointed probably. I liked it a little more than collateral I think.
Spoilers
Svnla, might want to pay attention while watching movies. The chick said she knew people who could get them through to cuba when sonny said his passport might not be accepted. Trailer park had multiple people inside. They didn't work for the government, they were miami police officers. They explained which department had the mole.
Spoilers
Svnla, might want to pay attention while watching movies. The chick said she knew people who could get them through to cuba when sonny said his passport might not be accepted. Trailer park had multiple people inside. They didn't work for the government, they were miami police officers. They explained which department had the mole.
To call this Movie Miami Vice was an Insult to the original... the whole miami theme and atmosphere that dominated the series is missing... the music for MV was way outa place... you cant replace Jan Hammer with Audioslave.. the old music really set the Miami mood...
now as just a new crime story it was ok and if it hadnt been touted as Miami Vice it prolly would be a better movie...
Tubbs and Crockett are completely out of character when compared to MV.
the plot holes left in are terrible left open for what I suspect will be a bad sequel.. when in this type of movie in this setting you dont need to leave things open.. it should have been resolved.
never watched Miami Vice huh?
well in Miami to catch a drug lord as a vice cop you better look the part..
think about this for a sec.. would you do a deal with soemone driving a mustang/taurus/crownvic/impala or other crappy unmarked police vehicle?
no you wouldnt.. deep cover agents use props like this all the time... houses cars clothes jewelery etc etc.. you better look and act the part when you play with these type of people or you end up feeding fish..
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