my mommy and daddy know me
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Ok that line did make me laugh. Also âIâm a fiend for mojitos.â
Yeah this is a locus of a lot of criticism of this movie but the movie makes 100% sense and is just presented very quickly by people who do not explain their vocabulary. I guess shrug literally just said this same thing. But I think the movie is a lot more poignant when the details of its plot are understood, so the emotional resonance of certain choices can also be understood.
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I saw Miami Vice for the first time when I was like 11 and I have never understood why everyone thinks the plot is incoherent. I was a weird kid I guess.
I guess I overstated it, having read a lot of that criticism myself. I was mostly able to follow it, but it did have bits that completely eluded me to the point that I didnât even realize I missed anything at the time, e.g. the bit where they mess up the cartelâs drug shipment at the beginning of the operation.
It is a motion picture where the Lead Pair just donât say any of the shit that they wouldnât need to say to each other were they Eye Are Ell because they donât need to say it, theyâre habituated pros who trust each other. Sometimes it leaves a gap for your brain to double back on because itâs not gonna draw the hardest possible bridge between wrecking drugs/boats and âhey we heard you had a shipment problem we have some nice boats and a plane.â I was born to love this movie.
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anyone else think every day about how mann wanted adam sandler as max and briefly thought about jada pinkett smith for vincent
since you didnât like miami vice I recommend thief and manhunter (theatrical cut) next, then his 90s stuff
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Manhunter has
color
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Manhunter is ultra-stylized, uses color like a fucking Seijun Suzuki film, has a baller soundtrack comprised entirely of weird shit off Michael Mannâs mixtape and itâs FUCKING AWESOME so critics in 1986 can suck whatâs left of my dick and die.
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i often find myself in quiet, desolate moments thinking of will grahamâs realization that the toothfairy processes film and nearly come to tears at the absolute cinematic mastery of that scene.
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if this song doesnât fuck you up when you hear it youâre a clown
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tfw your primary sensory intake that makes your dream live is seeing
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Halfway through Heat right now and itâs really good. Love this take on the crime thriller where everything stretches out and we get to just hang out on the balcony watching a nice date with a criminal mastermind. Also Pacino is acting completely ridiculous in this, holy shit, I love it.
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make sure the volume is at LOUD
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im very angry ralphâŚyou can ball my wife if she wants you to, but you do not get to WATCH MY MOTHER FUCKING TELEVISION SET!!!
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in her dead tech post modernistic bullshit house
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I told you baby when we got together you were gonna have to share me with every shitposter and double-irony scumball out there.
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We are in sync RE: Mann. Will have to rent Manhunter this week.
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god I love Pacino in heat
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I canât stop thinking about the FvF scene in which Henry Ford II has a big baby blubbering breakdown after heâs taken on a 200mph full-tilt test drive in the GT40, a machine which is ultimately a product of his Massive American Ego, but which results in the (momentary) dissolution of said ego. âI wish my Daddy were alive to see this.â
heâs the only (male) character that actually lets go emotionally like that, even though he has the absolute least amount to actually cry about of any of them. I dunno where Tracy Letts came from before this last year but heâs pretty damn good. Damonâs face and implacable gum chewing also rock that scene, and McKinnonâs line is also choice, âthis is about where the uninitiated defecate themselves.â
good movie
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