Miami Vice 2006 (viewed on DVD)
There are certain times in my life where my masturbatorial impulse is so great that I just have to stroke my own personal ego and hope that some good comes from it. Having said that, I will say that anyone can be a decent film maker if they are provided with a big enough Panaflex lens and a Miami sunset. The trick to being a great filmmaker is having a story.
Now, having said all that...
I turned Miami Vice off with one hour remaining. I can't think of the last time I stopped watching a movie (before the half way point). This fact comes to you from someone who was one of 6 people in the theatre for Joe's Apt., a movie so poor that they couldn't even afford to spell out "apartment."
I'm sad because I was looking for mindless entertainment with scattered ass and explosions and crazy informant characters and I really really really liked Heat, and all I got was just mindless.
Now, having said all that...
I turned Miami Vice off with one hour remaining. I can't think of the last time I stopped watching a movie (before the half way point). This fact comes to you from someone who was one of 6 people in the theatre for Joe's Apt., a movie so poor that they couldn't even afford to spell out "apartment."
I'm sad because I was looking for mindless entertainment with scattered ass and explosions and crazy informant characters and I really really really liked Heat, and all I got was just mindless.
posted by RB @ 10:19 PM
2 Comments:
At 1:45 PM,
Jon said…
I'm afraid I have to agree although I did actually get all the way through the movie and I will say there was more visual enjoyment in seeing it big. Compared to a kickass movie with a story, like The Departed, though, Miami Vice just doesn't compare.
At 5:22 PM,
Chris said…
Well, there was this whole bizarre aesthetic to it, that i had to kinda appreciate. Like it was taking cop cliches to a sort of refined art. for example, there are literally like two smiles in the whole movie. Jamie Foxx has a particularly amazing grimace.
And it was funny how there aren't any "regular" bad guys, only white supremacists and Colombian terrorists (who are also really into software pirating and stuff.)
My favorite scene is the one where you fully realize how committed to ridiculousness the movie is. It's where they're getting ready to go to Colombia, and then you see the plane and figure they're getting flown there, and then you realize Jamie Foxx is flying the fucking thing. Amazing.
It's also pretty intense how shitty Colin Farrell looks, although i guess it's not really funny per se, cause he was supposedly hitting the sauce pretty hard.
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