Why was miami vice(2006) so expensive
The budget on that thing is 135 million $. Why was that movie so expensive. None of it takes place in an elaborate set built for the movie or it doesn't have excessive visual effects or anything like that. It is just a bunch of locations that look like natural locations in cities. How did it cost so much ?
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Re: Why was miami vice(2006) so expensive
Mojitos.
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That movie sucked
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Re: Why was miami vice(2006) so expensive
Craft services
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Re: Why was miami vice(2006) so expensive
the movie definitely sucked
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Originally Posted by rambond (Post 2045456)
the movie definitely sucked
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Re: Why was miami vice(2006) so expensive
Yep, locations. And the leads.
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Originally Posted by aronisred (Post 2045433)
The budget on that thing is 135 million $. Why was that movie so expensive. None of it takes place in an elaborate set built for the movie or it doesn't have excessive visual effects or anything like that. It is just a bunch of locations that look like natural locations in cities. How did it cost so much ?
Often times films like that are used to launder money, Michael Mann wrote, directed and produced it so I wonder how many checks he ended up taking. I wouldn't be shocked if half the budget went to Foxx, Farrell, and Mann |
Re: Why was miami vice(2006) so expensive
I liked Miami Vice.
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Originally Posted by JoaoRodrigues (Post 2045598)
I liked Miami Vice.
As far as budget and location work goes that depends a lot on the productions and the locations, a high end production with a large crew and a lot of equipment in exotic locations isn't cheap. |
I liked the overall vibe of the movie Miami Vice, the female actor, also John Ortiz was great, the soundtrack, and I'm a sucker for Cuban, Miami themes. Yes, I also liked Collateral, it's one of the only movies I liked Tom Cruise, and his character is one of my favorite characters ever made in any movie, ever, the subject reminds me in a way of Natural Born Killers, the media dramatization of death to avoid making homicides a banality and turn the exploited against the explorer, pure anarchy, survival-based hierarchies. Collateral made it more soft, more quiet, more jazz, ups and downs, improvisation, no glorification, more existentialist, tried to make it more factual, more reasonable, I like it because of that.
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Originally Posted by Siddon (Post 2045582)
Often times films like that are used to launder money, Michael Mann wrote, directed and produced it so I wonder how many checks he ended up taking. I wouldn't be shocked if half the budget went to Foxx, Farrell, and Mann
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Re: Why was miami vice(2006) so expensive
Clue's in the title - hookers and blow ain't cheap.
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Originally Posted by JoaoRodrigues (Post 2045621)
I liked the overall vibe of the movie Miami Vice, the female actor, also John Ortiz was great, the soundtrack, and I'm a sucker for Cuban, Miami themes. Yes, I also liked Collateral, it's one of the only movies I liked Tom Cruise, and his character is one of my favorite characters ever made in any movie, ever, the subject reminds me in a way of Natural Born Killers, the media dramatization of death to avoid making homicides a banality and turn the exploited against the explorer, pure anarchy, survival-based hierarchies. Collateral made it more soft, more quiet, more jazz, ups and downs, improvisation, no glorification, more existentialist, tried to make it more factual, more reasonable, I like it because of that.
Again though I don't think it does too much wrong from memory and it does have the classic Mann documentary(he actually started off his career making docs) style to it. That obsession with showing "how things are done" and trying to feed it into the drama. |
Originally Posted by aronisred (Post 2045631)
i didn't know they could do that
Adam Sandler is notorious for doing this, shooting a cheap movie and cutting huge check to his friends. Our US secretary of the treasury was a hollywood producer who released... King Arthur, Batman V Superman, and Pan all films that look like they've got an extra 100 million dollars in their budget's. Where do you think that money ended up going? |
Originally Posted by MoreOrLess (Post 2045647)
I can see why it was mocked a bit, Mann does always take himself SO seriously with his films having very little self awareness. With something like Thief, Heat or Collateral that have a fairly weighty drama I don't think many have a problem with that but here you are talking a pretty standard crime thriller. It does all feel rather like a very corporate kind of coolness its trying to project as well, "the street "via Rolex and Armani.
Again though I don't think it does too much wrong from memory and it does have the classic Mann documentary(he actually started off his career making docs) style to it. That obsession with showing "how things are done" and trying to feed it into the drama. |
Best Michael Mann movie by far.
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