So I just watched Miami Vice...

[veggz]

Honestly, I had no idea what was going on. Granted I was pretty sleepy going into the theater, but the plot had me lost within about 15 minutes, mostly because half the time I couldn't understand what they were saying. So for the rest of the movie I sat trying to figure out why the producers would cast foreign actors for half the parts as well as trying to rationalize Colin Farrell's embarassingly bad performance.

Oh, and could someone be so kind as to provide a somewhat comprehensive explanation of the plot? It is really bugging me.

 

[pinoy]

thanx for the heads up! you just saved me some money.

 

[Sentinel]

Comprehensive...that might take a while. But I didn't think it was bad, aside from Farrell who doesn't play a down-to-earth, gritty American very well.

 

[veggz]

Originally posted by: pinoy
thanx for the heads up! you just saved me some money.

No prob .. go watch Collateral or Heat instead. Damn, I hope Mann picks it up again with his next movie.

Originally posted by: Sentinel
Comprehensive...that might take a while. But I didn't think it was bad, aside from Farrell who doesn't play a down-to-earth, gritty American very well.

I dunno, I find Farrell to be mediocre in most of his movies, but this performance was just awful.

 

[ScottMac]

Aside from one or two scenes, I can't believe that this movie could have possibly sucked any more than it did. The Bobcat Goldwait (sp?) clone playing Sonny Crocket could easily have been replaced by a claymation character (who would have been much more believable and effective).

I'm even more shocked that it was done by Michael Mann ... it was pretty much a (poor) rip-off of "Smuggler's Blues" from the TV series.

Total waste of time & money

Man(n), it sucked. Seriously sucked. Even the sex scenes ... Nice boats, cars, & airplanes ... some interesting Real Estate.

The entire cast should be shot. Survivors should be shot again.

Bad movie.

(IMHO)

FWIW

Scott

 

[veggz]

Originally posted by: ScottMac
Aside from one or two scenes, I can't believe that this movie could have possibly sucked any more than it did. The Bobcat Goldwait (sp?) clone playing Sonny Crocket could easily have been replaced by a claymation character (who would have been much more believable and effective).

I'm even more shocked that it was done by Michael Mann ... it was pretty much a (poor) rip-off of "Smuggler's Blues" from the TV series.

Total waste of time & money

Man(n), it sucked. Seriously sucked. Even the sex scenes ... Nice boats, cars, & airplanes ... some interesting Real Estate.

The entire cast should be shot. Survivors should be shot again.

Bad movie.

(IMHO)

FWIW

Scott

Haha.. I suppose the fact that I wasn't sure who you were referring to when you mentioned Sonny Crocket shows the extent of my cluelessness..

One of the things I do remember is having an awful sense of forboding after the opening scene featured a club playing Linkin Park

 

[bozack]

Originally posted by: ScottMac
Aside from one or two scenes, I can't believe that this movie could have possibly sucked any more than it did. The Bobcat Goldwait (sp?) clone playing Sonny Crocket could easily have been replaced by a claymation character (who would have been much more believable and effective).

I'm even more shocked that it was done by Michael Mann ... it was pretty much a (poor) rip-off of "Smuggler's Blues" from the TV series.

Total waste of time & money

Man(n), it sucked. Seriously sucked. Even the sex scenes ... Nice boats, cars, & airplanes ... some interesting Real Estate.

The entire cast should be shot. Survivors should be shot again.

Bad movie.

(IMHO)

FWIW

Scott

Guess it is a wait for video then, wonder how many kickbacks the metro movie critic got for giving it a four out of five...I always question his ratings anyway

 

[HardcoreRobot]

i agree

but there is already a thread for this

 

[veggz]

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
i agree

but there is already a thread for this

hmm?

 

[madeupfacts]

Is Colin Farrell not teh guy who try to bag the 60 year old actress?

 

[LegendKiller]

As I have said in the previous thread, this movie sucked. That is, unless you have ADD so severe that you have the attention span of a crack monkey so this non-linear mishmash movie seems "cool".

Funny how in it's first week it only got 25m, Talladega Nights grossed almost double that. Hollywood wonders why ticket sales are down, well, Miami Vice is your answer.

 

[AkumaX]

hmm, pirates is only 53% fresh and it made 375mil after 5 weeks

there's nothing out there that i really wanna see...

 

[veggz]

Originally posted by: madeupfacts
Is Colin Farrell not teh guy who try to bag the 60 year old actress?

What? She's more like 40..

 

[purbeast0]

i liked this movie and will see it again when it comes to dvd.

:thumbsup :thumbsup:

 

[ViviTheMage]

i didnt liked the movie, HUGE lack of action...

and man did colin look nasty.

 

[theNEOone]

i didn't hate the movie, but i also didn't think it was good.

basic plot: an FBI undercover case is "blown" when a mole inside a federal agency notifies the bad guys (white supremacist drug trafficing middle-men). miami vice duo takes on the case to find the mole (which they never really discover - they only figure out the agency/office from where the intel is being fed), partially because they previously involved to a witness (police informant) in the case but mostly because they were solicited by an FBI director because Miami PD was not part of the inter-agency task force originally assigned to the case. the rest of the movie is history.


=|

 

[LordMorpheus]

i thought it was a fairly fun film, not great, but worth watching.

 

[torpid]

Originally posted by: LegendKiller
As I have said in the previous thread, this movie sucked. That is, unless you have ADD so severe that you have the attention span of a crack monkey so this non-linear mishmash movie seems "cool".

Non-linear? Sorry, maybe we don't have the same understanding of the term non-linear. I am fairly certain that everything in the movie took place in linear order. Mishmash seems off too. Perhaps you are the one with ADD. I did not find it mishmashed, confusing, non-linear, or anything of that sort. Certainly wasn't an innaritu film.