Miami Vice

[grady]

adam, I'd say don't hold your breath on old Ridley. Of course, that is just me though.

Brian, I too have always hated that fucking line in Collateral, and me being the Mann apologist/defender rationalizes it that he originally had something more 'classic' in there but then was unable to secure rights to whatever that may have been, but then was able to get a snippet of Miles Davis from Bitches Brew.

Huh? What doesn't make sense here? Why wasn't her dialog redubbed or fixed in post?

To quote the Chewbacca defense from that one episdoe South Park, "THAT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE!??!??!??!"

So now we can confirm two people saying Miami Vice=FUCKING AWESOME.

Now what we need is Manhola Darghis to write a love letter/make love to Mann with words, carassing him and the film in Friday's NY Times on the day of the films US release. Then follow that up with a nice verbose review from David Denby in the New Yorker where he references his own review of Collateral from 2004 and expounds on it further for MV as Vice being an extension of the filmmaking techniques Mann was beginning and exploring in Collateral both within his own asethetic approach to filmmaking and the use of digital technology.

Of course the above is all conjecture, but if it turns out to be half true, the audience may not get it and rather, will wait and see something else again, thinking the film Miami Vice is nothing more than what the film version of Starsky and Hutch or The Dukes of Hazard were.