njohnson747
11-19-06, 05:11 PM
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I was really looking forward to this summers "Miami Vice" movie for one reason: director Michael Mann. The Mann Himself back at the reins of the storyline which defined "cool" twenty(!) years ago. He made the TV show a classic for all time but his efforts amounted to a bust at the box office. Damn.
I missed the Jan Hammer music in this past summer’s flick. It would sound synthesizer-hokey now but it was the shit back then. And remember those outfits? I know that Sonny Crocket in white linen and no socks would not go over well with today's audience. I don’t care how "edgy" Colin Farrell is supposed to be – he should have had the Scarab powerboat and the Ferrari Testarossa (but leave behind Don Johnson's wardrobe, thanks).
Jaime Foxx as Rico Tubbs? It could have worked, and didn’t. And Don Johnson will always and forever be Crockett, linen or not. And they should still have had Edwards James Olmos play the tough-but-quiet Vice Sergeant Castillo. With his gravelly voice and gravelly look he was a terrific character and perfect on-screen boss to rein in that motley crew of TV supercops. He had, like, two lines per show and won an Emmy for his performance.
At least the movie had no Glen Frey music. Thanks goodness for that, anyway. And perhaps they should have brought back Tom Cruise's alter-ego Vincent from "Collateral" as the villain...for a Michael Mann movie-with-a-plot bullet festival.
That would have made a “Miami Vice” worth seeing.
I was really looking forward to this summers "Miami Vice" movie for one reason: director Michael Mann. The Mann Himself back at the reins of the storyline which defined "cool" twenty(!) years ago. He made the TV show a classic for all time but his efforts amounted to a bust at the box office. Damn.
I missed the Jan Hammer music in this past summer’s flick. It would sound synthesizer-hokey now but it was the shit back then. And remember those outfits? I know that Sonny Crocket in white linen and no socks would not go over well with today's audience. I don’t care how "edgy" Colin Farrell is supposed to be – he should have had the Scarab powerboat and the Ferrari Testarossa (but leave behind Don Johnson's wardrobe, thanks).
Jaime Foxx as Rico Tubbs? It could have worked, and didn’t. And Don Johnson will always and forever be Crockett, linen or not. And they should still have had Edwards James Olmos play the tough-but-quiet Vice Sergeant Castillo. With his gravelly voice and gravelly look he was a terrific character and perfect on-screen boss to rein in that motley crew of TV supercops. He had, like, two lines per show and won an Emmy for his performance.
At least the movie had no Glen Frey music. Thanks goodness for that, anyway. And perhaps they should have brought back Tom Cruise's alter-ego Vincent from "Collateral" as the villain...for a Michael Mann movie-with-a-plot bullet festival.
That would have made a “Miami Vice” worth seeing.