Miami Vice: The 2006 Movie vs. the 1980s Series

darthtexan

darthtexan

Which is better? Miami Vice the 2006 movie or Miami Vice the 1980s series.

To be honest I have only vague memories of the 1980s series when I was a ***. But the 2006 movie kicks ass. I'm sorry, but I still think that deep down the reason most people didnt like the 2006 movie was because it was nothing like the 1980s series. They missed the pastel colors and kakis and endless action from the series.

Personally I think Michael Mann (who co produced the series) deserves a lot of credit for having the discipline to create a movie that was more sympatico to the Miami of today rather than the Miami of the 80s. I think its great that he decided to put some originality into the movie.

The movie is beautifully shot, the movie is dead serious. It is way darker and more gritty than the series. No stupid banter between Crocket and Tubbs. The movie is mostly plotting with very little action and I like that. I also like the undercover cop jargon that was used in the dialouge. It didnt take time to explain things. It made the movie seem more realistic - like you are really there.
 
Jason-X

Jason-X

Series! Didn't like the Movie.

Cheers!
Jason-X :cool:
 
Ravenholm

Ravenholm

I can honestly say that I have never seen the movie and I never will. I love the TV series though. My memories if it shall remain intact - un-***** by the modernization of the shows premise by todays movie makers. I made the mistake of viewing The A Team movie which blows donkeys for quarters compared to the class TV show from which it is based on. I also wont be making the mistake with MacGyver the movie when it comes out. Yes it's coming folks!. It can rot as well. MacGyver is one man and that's Ricky Dean Anderson. His show was based in the 80s and first couple of years of the 90s. Those times are ****** now. Move on. Use those millions to make original movies. And if there is no talent in Hollywood to do so... HIRE SOME!.
 
Rey C.

Rey C.

Racing is life... anything else is just waiting.
The series was sort of campy (a little like the old Batman series) and that was part of its charm. The movie, IMO, took itself too seriously. It just tried too hard. The series did a great job of capturing the Miami of the 1980's... the mood of the 1980's. Times have really changed. And part of why I didn't like the movie (at all) is because there just isn't a mood to really capture now. The series featured the "Go-Go 80's", "greed is good", "live fast, die young", "work hard, play hard", "it's only wrong if you get caught" and the varied and rather amazing music of the 80's... all that crazy, hedonistic stuff - that's just where much of the nation was back then. But where is the nation now? "I'm sad. I'm so sad. I'm so very sad. I'm so very, very sad. Why won't my therapist take my calls?" And so much of the music scene sucks balls now. So... :*****:

The series eventually jumped the shark and I stopped watching it well before it ended. But as much as I wanted to like the movie, I was ready to walk out about half way through. I **** going to a movie that I think I'm going to like (that I want to like) and I end up hating it. Plus, Jamie Foxx was sort of OK as Tubbs. But Colin Farrell didn't pass as Sonny Crockett at all in my book. Horrible casting decision, IMO!
 
John_8581

John_8581

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The TV series. :bowdown:
 

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Doc Scurlock

Doc Scurlock

The series, easily. The movie didn't even feel like Miami Vice. They could have called it something else and you would have never guessed it was based on the TV show. Crockett and Tubbs didn't even seem like friends in the movie nor did they act like their characters from the TV show. It was just bland.
 
Ravenholm

Ravenholm

Did anyone notice on the show every time Crockett fired his handgun he only ever fired two shots or three shots. It was never any more that I noticed. Most would unload the clip when firing at baddies. Crockett must be a precision shot taker haha.
 
Johan

Johan

Series
Miami Vice is a crap movie that shouldn't have been done in the first place !
 
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