After missing it in the Japanese theaters and on airplanes in-flight service and in hotel rooms’ pay-per-view, I finally saw Collateral last night via rental DVD. Due to a sense of high school nostalgia caused by Manhunter and Miami Vice (forgiving a misstep with The Keep ), I am willing to watch just about anything Michael Mann makes. Moreso that Heat , Collateral felt like a return to the stylings of Miami Vice’s action and drama, with natural, well-paced comedy to even out the emotional pacing. In a word, Collateral was good. With all the freak-out based press Tom Cruise has been given, and hearing what appears to be zealotry in his responses to a German interviewer who questioned the data as Cruise presented it, it is even easier to watch him in the role of a villain. It is probably preferable; he did a good job with the arrogant, untouchable Lestat in Interview with the Vampire , though that character was a bit more ham-fisted than the role of assassin, Vincent, pla...
Uh. Whoa. What the hell? I mean. Whoa.
ReplyDeleteYeah.
Whoa.
The liquid-hoff, or the German video?
ReplyDeleteWhere in the name of all that is holy are you finding this stuff? Here I was, just starting to recover from those Finnish people. And now I fear that I am permanently scarred.
ReplyDeleteIt is my gift. It is my curse.
ReplyDeleteAnd more than that, they come from my friends, who come and go on the waves of teh intareb zeitgeist, frolicking like drunken gnomes.