Somewhere between Collateral and Miami Vice I realized that Michael Mann is my favorite filmmaker working that doesn’t feature Martin Scorsese’s magic eyebrows. The guy just embodies everything that I need in a person behind the lens of a [digital] movie camera. He doesn’t have the range of Scorsese, the grace of the Coens, or the sick and twisted brilliance of Cronenberg but he makes movies that I watch over and over and over again. I have watched Miami Vice at least eight times in 2008, something for which I should either be lauded or committed for. I love him like a transient loves shoelace scampi.
Public Enemies is his next film, and it’s a crime film and therefore 100% guaranteed greatness. Johnny Depp is John Dillinger, he of robbed banks and gigantic penis. Christian Bale is Melvin Purvis, he of police badge and no relation to miniature gentleman Jack Purvis. Dante Spinotti is making it look amazing and Stephen Lang and John Ortiz are doing their part to contribute to their side gigs as Michael Mann repertory actors.
It’ll be the best thing happening next July, including my birthday and a thus far secret American invasion of Nepal.
Empire Magazine, by far the best film magazine ever published [yes, including Movie Insider], has gotten some official stills from the film showing the two leads in action and I like the “Robert Patrick by way of Dean Winters” look Depp’s sporting up there. To see them large and in charge follow this link and tell ’em CHUD sent ya. Then click back here and read everything I’ve ever written since 1998 and be baffled at my massive non-growth as an author.
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what about nelvedine/taylor?
I don't click links on this site. You guys bitch and whine about people not clicking so much I don't click out of general principal. Then every once in a while some spastic ad will pop up and block me reading the site entirely. Fuck generating revenue for you. Get a real job. Oh – and stop begging for people to Digg your site – it's pathetic. I googled Empire instead and checked it out that way.
How did you get to this page, douchebag? I'm betting a click was involved.
But you came to this site, didn't you, lol? And you clicked a link to read this article. And then you bitched about it in the talkbacks.
Why do so many people come here just to bitch about the site and the people who run it? And they keep coming back. It's like some sick and twisted relationship you can't stop yourself from having, and that's sad.
Miami Vice '06 is great. Fuck the haters. That trailer park standoff is one of the greatest moments of the decade.
There's some good Miami Vice attention. I always thought it was a good movie but it got zero attention back in the day.
Hopefully this new movie is good, I think it will be simply because he has so much to work with this part of history.
BTW, what's that other guys problem, who goes to sites they don't like. I tend to avoid them. And all this talk about clicking, what's that?
– izi
Nick, thanks for the heads up. I've been hoping for more information on Public Enemies, and this is pretty nice. I definitely feel the same way about Mann's movies as well. My DVDs of Manhunter, Last of the Mohicans, the Insider, Heat, Collateral, and Miami Vice have been watched in my house more than those of any other director.
And, the talkback section is something I'm willing to live with because most people who comment are still intelligent and open-minded. But if the comments start to look like those on Youtube, I'm not sure what I'll do.
Miami Vice is horrible, you retards are the few that support the Star Wars prequels and Clone Wars
No there is no horrible Michael Mann film . How the hell did you get clone wars out of this ? Maybe your not familiar with this site I can't recall anyone heaping praise upon the Star wars prequels . Certainly not clone wars
Empire isn't even the best film magazine in England never mind full stop! Mind you when I've stayed in the states the serious lack of film magazines over there might lead one to that conclusion, but seriously if that's the best you've found you're deluding yourself.
then why dont you offer alternative movie rags, you fucking scone eating, tea drinkin, wrong-side-of-the-road driving bastard! (seriously though, i love brits)
Devin probably thinks you're the scum of the earth Nick for, you know, having the nerve and temerity to enjoy multiple viewings of the same film (Miami Vice) within a narrow timeframe.
If this site wasn't so shitty and Devin wasn't such a fag I wouldn't have to visit it every hour and post comments. Fuck this face.
The prequels and The Clone Wars? Those movies have been nothing but eviscerated on this site. Miami Vice was great, probably not enough explosions for your tastes. Probably expected Bad Boys Part 9. Go troll IMDB mouth-breather.
Mass generalisations aside, you all really do suck a lot of cock
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Boy, I'm glad the talkbacks are back!
What, no love for THE KEEP? That shit is classic, and we're STILL waiting for the damn DVD.
Empire hasn't been any good since circa 1992 when they started dumbing down to lure in the Tarantino crowd. It used to have some genuine quality writing, now it's all 50 best such-and-such lists just like every other rag. Sight and Sound is probably the best British mag but is way overpriced. I've given up on movie mags but for music Uncut is pretty good (the film reviews aren't too bad either).
Empire is a monthly dose of kiss ass free marketing for the studios…. it's not a real magazine. It's a fucking brochure you have to buy. It does my head in the way they just have page after page of so called coverage. and all they do is repeat the mantras fed to them by the marketing teams of the studios.
Empire varies from issue to issue. It has been pretty shit since that pompous cunt Dan Jolin joined. What a humourless, joyless prick he is. Totalfilm on the other hand has turned into a starfucking tabloid.
I live in London. Although Empire has been realy hit'n'miss of late, it's still the only movie magazine I'll buy; all the rest spend too much of the mag reviewing DVDs IMHO.
The top 100 issue(or should I say issues? 100 covers!) was bullshit though; I was tempted but didn't bother; why should pay £4 just to have a mag with one of my fave movies on the cover? (might still get the Robocop issue off of Ebay or something though….)
Michael Mann is alright I suppose. But if ever there was a Director happy in his comfort zone it's him. Manly men doing manly cops n robbers stuff. I think my favourite films of his is MOHICANS – but its still the same template is most of the rest of his stuff. Do a comedy or a musical or something Michael.
Look who got a day off from the cigar shot and posted an article. Can't wait to see MEG!
Like Ben, my favourite film of Mann's is Last of the Mohicans, and I think it is simply because of that score. Damn me if that isn't just the best movie score since… since… well, ever. And don't fret the lack of mega-fame, Nick. Who needs fame when you've got a beard?
For my money, the best film magazine is Film Comment.
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