Heat (The Movie and The Weather)
I'm not a big Michael Mann fan. But I do like the movie Heat with Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro. It's just so damn long. And it's Omar's favorite movie. He's currently annoying the daylights out of me by anticipating all the scenes in the movie and asking me if he's right about the movie (he's in the kitchen).
There's a couple stories here they didn't need to tell; I see the reasoning for telling them and Pacino and DeNiro definitely make it worth the length. But Michael Mann is annoying. I hated Collateral. HATED IT. I don't know if it's because I find Tom Cruise to be an irritating, ingratiating jackass since he dumped Nicole Kidman (and she definitely got the better deal out of that one, except it looks to me like she gave up primary custody of her kids and I think that's weird) or because the movie was just bad and I'm also not a Jamie Foxx fan. But Omar likes Michael Mann movies so we're off to see Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx ruin yet another piece of eighties nostalgia with Miami Vice for the big screen. That's a weird thing to remake.
One thing we can't understand here: does Amy Brenneman stay with DeNiro after the robbery because she's scared of him or because she loves him? And Ashley Judd doesn't look good as a blonde, people. She looks like she screwed up the Clairol order. And did Val Kilmer wear a wig for this movie? He definitely looks better with short hair.
It's hot here. Like, disgusting hot. Humid, yucky and nasty hot. Thank god we have central air. I don't think I could take just fans and open windows. Walking from the back parking lot into the mall (someone tell me why when you're renovating one department store in a mall you have to close off TWO parking lots) I felt like my lungs were clogged and my clothes were sticking to me. It was too hot to walk that far and I wasn't even parked that far from the entrance. It's just too freaking hot!
Pacino and DeNiro should only ever make movies where they play tightly wound men with good hair cuts. Of course this is over ten years ago when both were still relatively young. It's hard for me to believe that Pacino and DeNiro really aren't that much older than my parents. It's easy to think of them as ancient because they've been making movies for so long, but they're really not that old.
This movie has the cast of thousands in it, but the acting really is phenomenal. I think I love Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro. But Jon Voight looks creepy here. But then again, when does Jon Voight not look creepy?
There's a couple stories here they didn't need to tell; I see the reasoning for telling them and Pacino and DeNiro definitely make it worth the length. But Michael Mann is annoying. I hated Collateral. HATED IT. I don't know if it's because I find Tom Cruise to be an irritating, ingratiating jackass since he dumped Nicole Kidman (and she definitely got the better deal out of that one, except it looks to me like she gave up primary custody of her kids and I think that's weird) or because the movie was just bad and I'm also not a Jamie Foxx fan. But Omar likes Michael Mann movies so we're off to see Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx ruin yet another piece of eighties nostalgia with Miami Vice for the big screen. That's a weird thing to remake.
One thing we can't understand here: does Amy Brenneman stay with DeNiro after the robbery because she's scared of him or because she loves him? And Ashley Judd doesn't look good as a blonde, people. She looks like she screwed up the Clairol order. And did Val Kilmer wear a wig for this movie? He definitely looks better with short hair.
It's hot here. Like, disgusting hot. Humid, yucky and nasty hot. Thank god we have central air. I don't think I could take just fans and open windows. Walking from the back parking lot into the mall (someone tell me why when you're renovating one department store in a mall you have to close off TWO parking lots) I felt like my lungs were clogged and my clothes were sticking to me. It was too hot to walk that far and I wasn't even parked that far from the entrance. It's just too freaking hot!
Pacino and DeNiro should only ever make movies where they play tightly wound men with good hair cuts. Of course this is over ten years ago when both were still relatively young. It's hard for me to believe that Pacino and DeNiro really aren't that much older than my parents. It's easy to think of them as ancient because they've been making movies for so long, but they're really not that old.
This movie has the cast of thousands in it, but the acting really is phenomenal. I think I love Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro. But Jon Voight looks creepy here. But then again, when does Jon Voight not look creepy?
posted by Lucy Starr @ 10:13 PM
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