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    Blackhat (Michael Mann)

    BLACKHAT

    Director: Michael Mann

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    Undoubtedly, the best movie I've seen this year so far.

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    Hehe. And I do want to see this
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    I thought this was good. He cannibalizes his own work more than usual, but it's very fleet and smooth and well-crafted. Watching it was almost a relief after the lousy Q4 films I'd been watching. I wouldn't say it comes anywhere close to the heights of The Insider, but it's not at the bottom of his filmography either like his most recent film.

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    Quote Quoting Weems (view post)
    I thought this was good. He cannibalizes his own work more than usual, but it's very fleet and smooth and well-crafted. Watching it was almost a relief after the lousy Q4 films I'd been watching. I wouldn't say it comes anywhere close to the heights of The Insider, but it's not at the bottom of his filmography either like his most recent film.
    Public Enemies? I still don't get the love that gets in certain critical circles.
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    Public Enemies was great.

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    Quote Quoting megladon8 (view post)
    Public Enemies was great.
    Said no one ever.
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    This totally bombed. 4M against a 70M dollar budget. Bad idea to open a Michael Mann movie against a highly publicized Clint Eastwood war movie.
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    Top Gun - 7
    McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
    Crimes of the Future - 8
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    Valley Girl - 8
    Summer of '42 - 7
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    Quote Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
    Said no one ever.
    Except for myself, meg, and many people on the Internet. LOL.
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    C'mon folks, really? Still my #1 for the year.
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    Quote Quoting Rowland (view post)
    C'mon folks, really? Still my #1 for the year.
    Taken 3 is better than this.
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    Earlier this year I have watched through Mann's filmography with one mind on how a semi-cult from many critics and fans have developed around the latter half of his career, specifically around Miami Vice and Public Enemies. I don't quite get the cult on those two, but then this somehow mostly clicked with me. I think the key here is that this time, the material, although realistically executed to some degree, still feels inherently goofy to me. Freed from the 'respectable' sheen in genre trappings of Vice or Enemies, Mann's lauded sensory abstractions just somehow fit this thrillingly. Coupled with the romanticism of an 80's Asian actioner, it is one visceral ride. Could have been shorter, but quite a good time nonetheless.
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    The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
    The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
    Sisters (1973) - 6.5
    Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5

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    Quote Quoting Rowland (view post)
    C'mon folks, really? Still my #1 for the year.
    Same. Now it's August and it's still the best film I've seen this year. Ant-Man is probably #2, surprisingly enough.

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    Yeah. There is a lot of foreign/arthouse stuff I haven't seen, but this is still my favorite.

    I love Miami Vice, and dislike Public Enemies, for the record.

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    The event that turns the movie on its head - if you've seen it, you know the one - needed to come much, much sooner, because what we have here is a long dull game of chase the clue with characters that don't really spark off each other at all, followed by what is essentially a hard-headed revenge picture, except it is rushed and carries no weight as a result. Still not big on Mann's digital obsession - it looks like ass.
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    The days of Heat are long gone. It's likely Mann has nothing left in the tank. This was as generic as it gets on top of being very 90s looking in tone and structure. We are still doing the whole "beep" thing when when a string of numbers scrolls past the screen?
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