I thought there was a good taut 80 - 90 minute film trapped in the 2+ hours of bloat. - sjb

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I thought there was a good taut 80 - 90 minute film trapped in the 2+ hours of bloat.

In Reply to: Miami Vice at a matinee -- it was OK. posted by clarkjohnsen on August 2, 2006 at 08:19:27:

MM has fallen in love with his own excesses. He loves fast cars and boats and coolness/toughness and according to some friends working on the project this was a heavily coke fueled production/post production process that was in dissary - as in he was making disorganized changes to the look and to the cut - until the absolute last minute before the release.
The time spent going to and from and being in Havana (and loving the cars) could have been trimmed away to help the pacing and he made the main characters SO cool and so full of tough guy platitudes that it was hard to feel any connection to them.
And yes, the combo of HD and the darkness of so much of the film resulted in an unpleasant and noisy picture much of time.
"Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. " T.S. Eliot

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Topic - Miami Vice at a matinee -- it was OK. - clarkjohnsen 08:19:27 08/02/06 (4)

Doesn't even work as a "fantasy" police thriller. - tinear 05:23:59 08/04/06 (0)

"You might as well just settle for Jacksonville Vice." -- Duncan Shepherd - clarkjohnsen 09:51:20 08/03/06 (0)

Re: Miami Vice - carbonman 20:12:58 08/02/06 (0)

I thought there was a good taut 80 - 90 minute film trapped in the 2+ hours of bloat. - sjb 09:46:23 08/02/06 (0)

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