another michael mann crime drama? i'm in

No Ferrari Testarossa
No Daytona Spyder
No Alligator
No bulky cell phones

Looks like Bad Boys 3.... but its Mann so I'm still there......

You make an interesting point Jack. When you consider the source material and how it was presented, one would think they would take the cheese and nostalgia factor and push it to the limit. Once Mann was attached as the director, I knew he would approach it as a straight out action/drama and avoid what could have easily been a pitfall. The fact that he isn't trying to re-make his old series but rather re-imagine it in today's world illustrates his desire to continue the crime saga he began with Heat and more or less continued with Collateral.

But Bady Boys is all bad one liners and huge explosions, this film looks more serious. And like you said it's Mann so Ill be there too.

No Jan Hammer?

Looks interesting. I'm a little young to have watched Miami Vice (I remember the stunt show at Universal Studios though!) but the serious take on it looks nice.

Sonny better have an alligator named Elvis on his boat

Appears so.

Looks like it could be interesting but it also looks like any other trailer nowadays. It appears they just want the name factor and tossed the rest.

That might be the best approach. We gotta be honest, the 80s=cheese. This has to be straightforward or they may as well make a comedy/action along the lines of Charlie's Angels.

Looks like another great Michael Mann effort.

I don't know how this movie is going to work outside of the '80s. Really after a certain point in the original series the show stopped making sense because the times changed. The stuff in that trailer looked like a bad episode from the third season...

80s movie = Rocky IV
90s movie = Rocky V

A lot of people didn't like the transition, even though Rocky IV is a pretty braindead movie and the worst-written of them all. Wonder how Rocky VI will handle the 21st century.

I know! How dare they take that Emmy-snubbed classic drama of the late-70s, and turn it into something silly!

The Hollywood rape continues!

Wait...they're taking this seriously. Oh, man (or should I say: Oh, Mann).

colin just does not seem right as sunny.

I truely hope he keeps the serious tone to it, while I didn't care for Collateral that much, I did like the tone/darkness to the movie.

i'm pretty sure it'll be rated R. it looks very much like collateral, especially the night shots.

I'm not sure about the Crockett character look though; why does Collin Farrell look like a cowboy with a mullet? The goofy mustache coupled with his mullet is hilarious. Take a look at this on set photo:



Hahaha.

Well, for Charles' angels I should have just piled it into "make it into utter crap" but I guess I was just typing fast.

In anycase, Miami Vice was a Emmy nominated and won a couple of emmy's. I would hate for it to be tossed into the comedy stick of TV <-> Film conversions mainly because people can't get over the 80's clothes.

This is an updating of it and it's under Mann's hand. So why would he parody himself and make it comical?

Your previous post:
aren't you contradicting yourself here?

I don't see the contradiction.

Anyway, I'm really disappointed Mann is taking the digital route once again... It just doesn't look as good!

It's a tiny Quicktime clip on the Bacardi website. Why not at least see the teaser on the bigscreen before writing off the image quality?

I doubt that'll change matters much. You can easily see the film was shot digitally from looking at that low quality video. I stand by the opinion that 35mm film looks better than current high-def digital video, and I wouldn't be surprised if Mann did, too; but shooting on video does simplify things considerably and is more forgiving with low light levels. So I understand the choice to go digital; I just still prefer film.

I guess I don't see the point of this if they are going to make it as a straight-ahead serious movie.

Miami Vice was a big dumb action show. Speed boats, explosions and girls in bikinis. Any serious issues in the show were dealt with through melodrama and most of the episodes were a vehicle for Don Johnson to look tough & cool for the men and swarthy and hot for the women.

Miami Vice the looks like them just being tough with the rest of the stuff gone. Also, it betrays the main ingredient of the show, the visual aspect. In the TV show everything was so bright, and yet in this movie everything is dark.

What I am trying to say is that this movie looks good. So good I don't understand why it needs the Miami Vice moniker. It betrays the source material so much that it is a completely different story. Just give it a different name and be done with it.

Becuase back then it was a straight-ahead serious crime drama? Maybe it is a big dumb action show through the eyes of todays entertainment. Oh look at that guy with a silly shirt on.. And a gator on his boat.. LOFFA!

At the time I would toss it to what is seen as CSI today. In 20 years I'm sure they will be considered big dumb action shows with vegas show girls/dead bodies, inside camera aspects of bullet holes going through bodies and most of the episodes were a vehicle for Gil Grissom to look cool, confident and spit out a witty one liner. Lets make that into a film in 20 years and head it into a comical self parody and see what that is like.

The show was for its time, a modern representation of "cool", it used the music and atmospher to tell its story. Considering this is being made by the same person who made the show what it was, the writer, I don't see why it would be a bad idea to update it to what is the representation of "cool" today.

No, actually, I'm not. Even though it's silly by todays standards, Charles Angels was an Action Crime Drama and the film was anything but serious. I would hope that the person who felt it was serious back then would also take the hard edge approach with it again with a sort of modern update of it.

I'm not sure why you say this. It has what looks to be a crime story with them taking on the drug cartels of florida. while cheesy 80s music plays in the background. In the trailer alone I heard cheesy contempory music, THREE different scenes of a boat chase, Planes doing what would look like a drug run, a cool as ice shot of them driving in a car with added car chases, plenty of day shots, a lot of guns clicking and a lot of women dancing.

Seems to me that it's not betraying anything... well, we didn't see Elvis.. No betrayal here especially with the executive producer of the show as the Director.

Wow. Add me to the list of people amazed that it's a serious attempt at redoing a cheesy TV show.

I didn't expect a movie I would be willing to see in the theater but I doubt I would even rent this one.