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Way too much time on your hands, Dave. :)

Because Colin Farrell is looking down? Or because he's looking down at Jamie Foxx's hand on his crotch?

Crockett just can't quit Tubbs.

I like the poster too....but that teaser trailer does nothing for me. I got a bad vibe.

As long as Farrell first fondles Foxx and then later rescues Foxx from an overturned car, then I can see Oscar gold.

Show a little faith in Michael Mann. He's done enough good for us to overlook a so so teaser.

I hope the movie is brilliant and that all the pain of making it will just be a distraction.

It is Mann. But I half-loved Ali, and was half-bored to death. I'm very curious what he's got up his sleeve on this one.

The big question for me is how is Gong Li going to play a Cuban?

Love Michael mann. master craftsman can handle Miami, so I am hoping all, Gong Li included, will rise to the occasion.

Gong Li is one of my favorite tough-broad actresses. I hope she kicks Farrell's hairy ass. and tells Foxx to shut-the-fuck-up if he starts singing.

I knew this film had production problems, but wasn't most of it just bullshit?

And the low point of the teaser to me was the use of "Numb/Encore." Everything else was pretty awesome. Mann won't let anyone down.

Michael Mann. Drugs. Dealers. Miami locale. Action scenes. Police. Intrigue. Mobsters. Whatever filming issues they had you have to be excited to see it.

I like the trailer but the poster sucks.
Where's the gun? The car? The Boat? The anything?

Yeah, being the Mann fan I am, I had this as my desktop back in December when the trailer was released. Awesome. And I love the trailer too. I expect it to be deep into Heat and Collateral territory, no question. Once we get past the initial "they're making THAT into a movie?" stuff, all will be well.

Most anticipated movie of the year for me.

The poster stinks!

Where are the pastel suits??? The sun and fun???

Give me the real MIAMI VICE. Not two men deep in thought. The only way you can tell there in the sun is sunglasses???

And someone shave Tubbs. Crockett is the only one with the 5 O'Clock shadow.

Isn't Michael Mann allowed to do a paycheck movie every once in a while? I think this flick looks like high-gloss trash. It'll probably make a mint.

I saw the trailer with the horrible LINKIN PARK song on it. Looks way too pretentious for me, like a HEAT in Miami, also includes shaky-cam and digital video footage like COLLATERAL.

I'll take the bright, energetic soft-pastels-Phil-Collins-tracks-und-Glen-Frey-Smuggler's Blues-sensibility cheese of the original over this Farrell rap anyway.

Why is Colin Farrel even getting star roles? Can someone mention one hit this guy had? He's either snarling in his bad boy schtick or he's getting all teary-eyed and crying like some "poof" in his movies (i.e. ALEXANDER).

A short black-haired good looking Irishman does not necessarily a star makes. He's from the Tom Cruise school, but without the once prevalent toothy grin 80s cocky charm.

MIAMI VICE will bomb. It appeals neither to the generation who grew up with the cheese of the 80s series nor the current teenage demographic who likes watching shit like DATE MOVIE and HOSTEL -- it will sink.

According to Academy Award-winner Dion Beebe, who shot Miami Vice, it's a really serious, dramatic action movie along the lines of Heat and Collateral. Also he had never really heard of the show before he started filming the movie.
And of course, if it's actually a quality movie, _that's_ why it will not make money.

I mean that it's serious and good, not because the cinematographer didn't know his pastels.

colin farrel gets every plum role in hollywood. its about time he started showing something.

I expect more from Michael Mann than to be gunning for paychecks. I hope hes above that. When we see him do "Bringing Down the House 3", I'll be scared.

umm, looks more akin to "Alien vs. Predator" ("AvP") than it should.

Let's face it.

If this was directed by anyone other than Mann we would be laughing at this and saying it will be one of 2006's Worst movies. Farrell and Foxx have been in one good movie between them. It's a cheesy 80's show that was all about the 80's. Doing it now seems kinda past its time.

I think there's a real disconnect between people who love and remember this show and those who don't. I'm in my 20's, and I've never seen an episode on TV, I know the soundtrack was famous, but that's it. This show was really popular for a certain age group and everyone else is probably shrugging in the theater and saying, "what the hell was that?".

I agree it faces an uphill marketing push because of the cheese factor. Are people really that unimpressed with Mann/Farrell/Foxx? The people who brought us The Insider, Collateral, and Phone Booth (okay , that last one's only okay...but I still like Farrell).

Everyone KNOWS the show.

Not everyone has SEEN the show.

It's pop culture. I don't think there are going to be many who feel betrayed by a reimagining.

Farrell has give us next to nothing to be impressed with so far in his young career. This could be the one that does it. Great director. Good co stars. Big property. If its not this, what will it be?

It's better to think about a Mann movie than to think about what is out at the BO this week. "Shaggy Dog", "Failure to Launch", "Hills Have Eyes".

Just terrible. Even something that sounds interesting like "Ask the Dust" is getting slaughtered.

I think that will benefit "V for Vendetta" next week when we're all dying just to see something that doesn't suck in a theater. Then Inside Man the week after...then....I don't know. Everything looks pretty bad.

2006 ain't off to the best of starts.

At least V FOR VENDETTA is coming.

INSIDE MAN looks semi good. Good cast.

A SCANNER DARKLY looks interesting in a few weeks. I liked the trailer it had.

Who's rushing out to see SHAGGY DOG?

I don't think Miami Vice was that huge in Australia (where Dion Beebe is from). But i may be wrong.

Isn't the Don Johnson character (So, Colin's) meant to be the main guy though? That's what I was always lead to believe and now Jamie Foxx (evilscum) is plastered in the foreground.

They're gonna need to change this poster I think. It doesn't stand out AT ALL.

you belong to the city kamizake

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