In the 80's when the TV show came out, it was inniovative as it was intended to be an MTV-Cop Show (For you yung'uns, MTV was still cool in the 80's).
Since then most "hip, cool" cop shows have borrowed heavily from the style of the 80's Miami Vice... fast, cool cars, cool clothes, smokey pop rock music... think Bad Boys, (which even takes place in Miami), SWAT, and other stuff I can't think of at the moment.
What can a Miami Vice movie possibly bring to the table 20 years after it became cliche? My early prdiction is that unless there is a hell of a story and characterization, this movie will be barely tolerable at best and shitty at worst.
This new Miami Vice movie.
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thibodeaux
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Early word I've heard is that after filming was over Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell hated each other. Their main problem was Colin's constant drinking and showing up drunk to shoot scenes.
I hear they have zero chemistry on screen.
The movie is also obviously being played up like a very tense drama, which the original series did VERY well on a few occasions, but the trailers come off as a jumbled mess.
I hear they have zero chemistry on screen.
The movie is also obviously being played up like a very tense drama, which the original series did VERY well on a few occasions, but the trailers come off as a jumbled mess.
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Dear fucking Christ. Colin just keeps getting cop/gov't agent roles. I don't think he can pull it off. Jamie is like the black Thomas Hulce (the dude that played Mozart in "Amadeus"). I've seen him in ONE & only one film where he gave a decent performance. I don't envision him winning any more awards.Didn't Foxx win an academy award, or something?Colin Farrell .... Det. James 'Sonny' Crockett
Jamie Foxx .... Det. Ricardo Tubbs
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He needs to stick to roles like Bullseye. I've wanted to fucking kill him every other time he's been on screen.Early word I've heard is that after filming was over Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell hated each other. Their main problem was Colin's constant drinking and showing up drunk to shoot scenes.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
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DoctorChaos
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But the real question is will the soundtrack feature any of Don Johnson's music?
Along the lines of 80's tv shows being made into to movies, they are making Magnum, PI. Dear God, when is someone going to get an original idea? I guess that's why the 'critics' are praising gay cowboys and trannies. At least it's something different.
Along the lines of 80's tv shows being made into to movies, they are making Magnum, PI. Dear God, when is someone going to get an original idea? I guess that's why the 'critics' are praising gay cowboys and trannies. At least it's something different.
Wadda mean? Other people can read this?!
Long as he doesn't use the same lame-ass writer that penned the last thiry minutes of "Collateral."Michael Mann is directing it, so I think it has a good shot at being decent.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."