Filmspotting #117: Miami Vice / Bringing Up Baby / Top 5 Drug Movies
How do you take the pleasure out of a "guilty pleasure"? Hire Michael Mann to direct. Unflappable and existentially fraught super cops Crockett and Tubbs (Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx) are back in the big-screen version of Mann's executively-produced hit TV series "Miami Vice," but the kitschy cool of the original show has been replaced by a grim seriousness. Mann still displays a knack for using music, striking visuals and deliberate pacing to establish mood -- but Adam and Sam disagree on just how much that seductive mood makes up for the movie's weak dialogue and contrived plotting.
Also, Filmspotting continues its look at classic screwball comedies with Cary Grant in "The Awful Truth" and "Bringing Up Baby." 'Agonizing' isn't typically a word used to praise a bona fide 'masterpiece' like "Baby" ... and it isn't here, either. If there is a cinematic hell, Adam and Sam have surely just punched their tickets...
Plus: our Top 5 Drug Movies, Listener Feedback and Massacre Theatre, presented by The Armageddon Dance Party, premiering this month at the 10th Annual New York International Fringe Festival.
Music by Enon courtesy of Touch and Go Records.
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Filmspotting #117
:18-18:22 - Review: "Miami Vice"
18:23-19:08 - Audio Feedback
Music: Enon, "Kanon"
19:58-26:25 - Peerflix Winner (Austin Burns)/New DVDs, Donations
26:26-37:10 - Listener Feedback (Animation, Lady in the Water, Clerks II)
Music: Enon, "Natural Disaster"
37:52-40:53 - Massacre Theatre (Winner: Kara Moore)
40:54-42:23 - Podcast Awards, Dope Sheet Winner (Jennifer Cullimore)
42:24-58:05 - Screwball Marathon #3: Bringing Up Baby, The Awful Truth
Music: Enon, "Shave"
58:49-1:02:56 - Listener Feedback (Male Bonding Movies)
1:02:57-1:11:13 - 'Rent Boy Memorial' Top 5: Drug Movies
1:11:14-1:13:36 - Next Show/Close/Outtake
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13 Comments:
Totally agree with you on "Bringing Up Baby." I also thought "The Awful Truth" was ok until I saw Preston Sturges' "The Palm Beach Story" which covers similar territory, but does a much better job.
If you hate on the Sturges on the next marathon show, I have no idea what I'll do, but it will probably involve sending an email where I disagree with you and quite possibly mock you.
-RT
Can you guys play any more crappy music?
You guys have the worst taste in music.
Yes we can!
For some reason my iTunes only downloaded 30 minutes of the show. I tried several times but there seems to be some glitch
Hey! Well, I for one loved the music for this show. This is the first time I've been compelled to look up an artist who was featured on Filmspotting/Cinecast.
Great music, guys! I'm definitely going to look into "Enon", they sound fantastic.
whoa, i was just getting on to let you know the music by Enon was a cool change from the usual tunes. Don't listen to Gene L. Whenever you throw in a random style like that it only raises my attention to sheek quailty of your show. And I know you two would be the last to call yourselves "sheek". I'm a musician, but i don't listen to your show for music, i listen to it because a love of movie talk. But good work guys.
Hey guys,
You've managed to leave out "42:23 - 50:39" in the show notes. This was somewhat confusing. :p
Dan
Good show guys!! I really liked the music choice....
You guys should watch "My Neighbor Totoro"... not as easy to find as some of Studio Ghibili's other stuff, but very well worth it!! Great animation and real cute story, one of my favorite Miyazaki films!!
FYI, the Firefly podcasts dont want to split the Browncoat vote and have already made announcements telling listeners to make all votes for The Signal... um, that will be a lot of freaken votes so good luck winning fellas!!
Yeah, we've heard. I'm dying to know they decided which of the two deserved the win. In any event, it was nice to be nominated.
I did a similar anime "marathon" in order to relate more effectively with my teenage son, who is a big fan of the genre. I did a great deal of research in advance and these are the films I chose:
Akira
Grave of the Fireflies
Ghost in the Shell
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Princess Mononoke
I won't offer my impressions but I will say that, since that time, I've had a chance to watch several other anime DVDs with my son and, other than Miyazaki's film Spirited Away, I have yet to find anything that has captured my imagination in the same way each of the films above did.
iTune only gave me 32 minutes of the episode. Any way to fix this?
For Anime, I would suggest Spirited Away over Mononoke. Also, Metropolis is really cool... please consider this one!
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