re: Is Miami Vice (2006) an underrated gem or an overrated mess?

Overrated mess.

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I like it, it has some incredible shots and scenes. The boat to Havana is beautiful and epic but it’s missing the glitz of the series. Mann was in his gritty realism period and it didn’t have the contemporary coolness, pop culture aspect that’s synonymous with Miami Vice. You see some people calling it hollow, that’s why.

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The glitz, contemporary coolness, and pop culture of the series isn't something that could have been duplicated in a movie. Different time and place, lightning in a bottle, etc. A retro movie wouldn't have worked and trying to bring the series vibe into 2006 I don't think would have worked either.

I’ve always loved it

I’m a dumb political board poster though

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I like it too it just doesn’t have the same feel as the series and I think that turned some fans of the series away from it

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I grew up watching the series. It's my favorite tv show of all time. The movie was never going to be like the series. It would be like trying to replicate the '80s. That's an impossibility. Almost all of the movies based on '80s tv shows have been done as camp. Starsky & Hutch, 21 Jump Street, Dukes of Hazzard, ChiPs, etc. They're just ok, at best. Miami Vice as a movie worked because it was the series as an updated, modern crime story with a ton of callbacks to episodes from the series.
The other '80s tv show where I liked the movie a lot was The Fall Guy.

Big fan of the series as well, I still watch it today from time to time. You were also a fan so you know there are discrepancies in the series as well. The 2 part pilot “brothers keeper” is different than the episodic tone of most of the series. The first 2 seasons are very different from the following seasons. We used to joke that the longer Sonny’s hair got the worse the show became. So to say that the original series was one specific thing is incorrect, it became campy and more light as it went along. What I’m talking about is that the city of Miami was a character in the original series. It wasn’t in the movie. To me the quintessential Miami Vice scene is when Tubbs meets Calderon at the club in “Brothers Keeper”. The tension in the scene, nobody knows who’s who or what’s going to happen, with the Miami night life and “All Night Long” cover playing in the background is the show in a nutshell.

quote]Posted by Havoc 9/30/23 at 7:23 pm to pevetohead
I liked it.[/quote]
These thread bumps good to see I’m consistent.

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there’s a director’s cut version out there

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The Director's Cut is worth the watch.

A mess but a very enjoyable mess. Especially the directors cut.

Mess. I watched it when it first hit cable and i cannot remember anything about it other than the two leads.