Mar 1, 2017

So I'm kinda trying to have a thread for all of the great filmmakers we all know and love/want to learn more about.



Michael Mann is easily my favorite action director and among the most experimental and emotional filmmakers in all of American cinema.

Post ya lists.

1. Blackhat
2. Ali
3. Public Enemies
4. Miami Vice
5. Thief
6. Heat
7. The Insider
8. Collateral
9. Manhunter
10. The Last of the Mohicans

 

Mar 1, 2017

I'm not quite the Michael Mann devotee that many film buffs are and my taste in Mann films skews kinda pleb. With that said, I do pretty much like all of his work.

1. Collateral
2. The Insider
3. Miami Vice
4. Manhunter
5. Blackhat
6. Ali
7. The Last of the Mohicans
8. Heat
9. Thief
10. Public Enemies (sorry @Vahn )

 

Mar 1, 2017

One of the audiovisual pioneers. Pretty much all of his movies are about hyper masculine men fighting the tides of their professional life to reach an end game that they all subconsciously know they'll never reach. Manhunter/Vice/Collateral end up on the more positive end of the spectrum, with Heat/Public Enemies/Thief/Blackhat all but abandoing hope for their subjects. You could almost call Blackhat a more refined, digital rendition of Thief's formula, the main difference being Caan's unhinged ambition versus Hemsworth never losing control mentally or physically. The parallels from that set of films is insane, Mann growing visibly more detached from the original idea of materialist ambition in his characters to more grounded, philosophical concerns starting with Heat. Caan boasting about his money and crimes to impress his girl or Will's ego in Manhunter are far crys from where he' gone since. Tony Scott is probably the only other action filmmaker who has tried to delve so deep into that psyche, maturing in each film that explores it. So real, entertaining, and inspiring to watch. Few things get me more hype than watching Mann characters, so f---ing cool.

1.) Miami Vice
2.) Ali
3.) Blackhat
4.) Public Enemies
5.) Manhunter
6.) Collateral
7.) Thief
8.) Heat
9.) The Insider
10.) The Last of the Mohicans
11.) The Keep

NEED THE KEEP IN HD, THAT TANGERINE DREAM SCORE HAS SO MUCH WASTED POTENTIAL

 

Mar 1, 2017

Real as f---.

Also, thank you for mentioning Tony Scott, we need a thread for him too

 

Mar 3, 2017

@Papa Andy come get this thread popping off too m8.

 

Mar 3, 2017

Blackhat #1 is a steamingggggggg #hot take

 

Mar 3, 2017

thought blackhat was awful tbch

 

Mar 3, 2017

oh s--- - get him @Vahn. ben clearly you havent studied the american masters enough!

Definitive:
1. Heat
2. Thief
3. Ali (personal favorite tbh. dat opening :)
4. Manhunter
5. The Insider
6. Miami Vice
7. Collateral
8. Public Enemies
9. Blackhat

 

Mar 3, 2017

that texas accent thor had alone made me want to die lmaoo

 

Mar 3, 2017

Heat
Ali
The insider
Thief
collateral
Manhunter'
The last of the mohicans
Miami vice
public enemies
blackhat

the last 3 are pretty a--- imo

 

Mar 3, 2017

Da cool thing about Michael Mann is that literally all his films minus The Keep are classics so the lists differ so greatly.

Blackhat is a masterpiece tho, another top 15 American film oat.

 

Mar 3, 2017

Whew the plebs are in the cut

 

Mar 3, 2017

Miami Vice rly underwhelmed me initially. I've since come to appreciate it more.

But yeah. I'll only accept Johnny Depp as a gangster if he's with Pacino. Sry Mann, Sry Whitey Bulger

lol never change vahn

 

Mar 3, 2017

tfw i actually studied film in college lol

 

Mar 3, 2017

lmao it keeps getting better

 

Mar 3, 2017

no sane human on earth can take 133 minutes of thor's awful accent in blackhat

 

Mar 3, 2017

did you?

..did you?

 

Mar 3, 2017

should of put studying its my minor

 

Mar 3, 2017

"Vahn's Objective Top 15 American Films of All Time" coming soon

 

Mar 3, 2017

i look forward to laughing