jcm8002204 Posted July 18, 2009 Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 This has probably been covered, but ever try to put together all of the MV Episode themes that were covered in the 2006 feature film. It was almost if the writers reviewed all of the DVDs, scripts and pulled together threads from many of them...I know there were a lot of them throughout the movie, specifically a similar theme as Prodigal Son regarding the 'vertical integration' of the drug biz....THANKS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shill Posted July 18, 2009 Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 smuggler's blues to start with Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neworder Posted July 18, 2009 Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 The boat scene where they pick up the dope off the big boat and put it into the speedboats is lifted pretty much straight from 'Yankee Dollar' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodriguezisdead Posted July 18, 2009 Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 One Way Ticket for the jet scene. Pretty much any scene at OCB in the meeting room for the way they pan the camera round the detectives early on in the film - they always used to do this in MV with the camera training on everyone in the team, often coming full circle. The shootout scene at the end of the film looks uncannily like the shootout at the end of Freefall if you ask me. I haven't seen the film since it was in the cinemas - when/if I get it out again it'll no doubt jog my memory some more. Be interesting to have a similar discussion for Heat or Collateral or for that matter any Mann movie - there are similarities throughout his work. Heat is still head and shoulders in my book above anything else he's done as far as films go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neworder Posted July 18, 2009 Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 Heat is still head and shoulders in my book above anything else he's done as far as films go.Agreed. Heat is fantastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Vercetti Posted July 18, 2009 Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 I think The Insider is his best film Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stinger390X Posted July 18, 2009 Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 I think The Insider is his best filmDITTO...and then some........................... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators timm525 Posted July 19, 2009 Administrators Report Share Posted July 19, 2009 It's been too long since I saw the movie to remember and I don't care to watch it again. Wasn't high on my list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodriguezisdead Posted July 19, 2009 Report Share Posted July 19, 2009 It's been too long since I saw the movie to remember and I don't care to watch it again. Wasn't high on my list. I was really disappointed with the film when it came out - but I guess I'm about ready to have a re-watch now. As for themes, does Farrell's ponytail vs the Burnett saga count? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodriguezisdead Posted July 19, 2009 Report Share Posted July 19, 2009 Calderone's Return and the boat scenes crossing oceans are also obvious similarities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neworder Posted July 19, 2009 Report Share Posted July 19, 2009 As for themes' date=' does Farrell's ponytail vs the Burnett saga count?[/quote']Sounds like a good correlation, this photo shows it well. https://nbcuphotobank.com/sales/sales_image.php?name=NUP_100007_0012.jpg&id=252647&lb=-1&size=medium Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maynard Posted July 20, 2009 Report Share Posted July 20, 2009 Mann is still the reigning master of night time shoot outs...MV 2006 and Public Enemies...shootouts on TV were a joke before Vice...just watch the A-Team! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frey Posted July 20, 2009 Report Share Posted July 20, 2009 Mann is still the reigning master of night time shoot outs...MV 2006 and Public Enemies...shootouts on TV were a joke before Vice...just watch the A-Team!No kidding! All those bullets fired and no one had their name on one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
23bw Posted July 22, 2009 Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 I'm one of those suckers who bought the 2006 DVD! Seriously though...the movie wasn't all that bad. I've seen far worse movies. Since buying it I've watched it 3 times. Each time viewing it, I'm constantly reminded of "Smuggler's Blues" and "Prodigal Son". Similar plot and a lot of the dialog was taken from the episodes too. Best acting in the movie was the Jose Yiero character. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators timm525 Posted July 23, 2009 Administrators Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 It was an OK cop movie. It had no ties to MV other then the character names. I thought the character introductions were pretty weak. I didn't even know which was Larry and Stan till the second time I watch it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
23bw Posted July 23, 2009 Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 I didn't even know which was Larry and Stan till the second time I watch it. Same here. First time viewing it I though Stan was one of the bad guys they were staking out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chum981 Posted July 23, 2009 Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 Smuggler's Blues is the most obvious reproduction...The Boat scene is of course just like Calderone's return...I also noticed the long hair of Colin Farrel and likened it to Burnett end of Season 4...I didn't think about Prodigal Son though, but can see similarities now.The shootout at the end, I thought was like Evan, just on a bigger scale - in the sense that there's a meet in some industrial area at night, baddies' cars are there as well - I suppose those sort of meets happen quite frequently in MV.The Trudy + Tubbs love was new. In the MV series, Tubbs didn't show any interest, right? I can remember Trudy showing interest in Walk Alone.And there's no love interest b/w Sonny and Gina in the movie.Of course the black convertible Ferrari F430 is just a modern take on the black convertible Daytona. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary1911A1 Posted July 23, 2009 Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 In the movie they certainly changed Gina's character. She was more of a badass in the movie. They even gave her the theme of Sonny's line from the TV Show "Glades" when they went to rescue Trudy in the trailer. My kind of woman! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chum981 Posted July 24, 2009 Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 In the Air TonightThis was reused of course! But just like they tried to do a 21st century "updated" take on Miami Vice, they did the same with the song and ruined it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viceman Cometh Posted July 24, 2009 Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 I think The Insider is his best filmMy fave is "Thief" with James Caan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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