Viceless in Seattle

[gwyn_r]

Ever since I heard that Michael Mann was making a Miami Vice movie, I have been gritting my teeth in agony. The show was so iconic of its time, so indelible to the '80s, its ethos and mindset, so groundbreaking in so many ways (seriously -- I could count the ways, but you probably don't want to read my dissertation on why it changed the face of TV

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Besides..

[cattraine]

NO WAY IN HELL can they ever replace Castillo. No fucking way. I refuse to watch those series redos. They usually suck.

Is there ANY good Crockett/Castillo out there? Any links appreciated.

Re: Besides..

[gwyn_r]

You know, most of the C/C slash was in zines, and I don't know how much of it migrated online (i've heard from one person that my story is one of the few out there, for instance, but I find it hard to believe!). But movies_michelle says that most of the online stuff is heavily C/T. Not my thing at all. She might be a good person to ask for recs, though, since she reads a lot more than I ever do.

[namastenancy]

I hear you with the "Why in the hell are they doing another crapistic remake of (fill in the blank)" Miami Vice was a ground breaking series - there is no way that can be repeated. The times are different, the actors are different (and WORD on Jamie Fox/gag) and the whole gestalt is different. I vividly remember Friday nights; my room mate and I would be plunked in front of the TV and our hearts would start racing the minute the theme music started. For the next hour we were in another world - of Crockett and Tubbs and Castillo. We would avidly wait for the next episode and discuss it into the wee hours of the morning. Mann brought it all together in an organic, revolutionary whole - from the music to the look to the stories. I do not intend to see the remake as I want to keep my memories. I rented the remake of Starsky and Hutch and shut it off mid way in disgust. I am not going to repeat the experience. What's that saying that you can't go home again? You can't duplicate perfection.

[gwyn_r]

Did you hear that NBC is going to air the original movie, with Farrell and Foxx hosting (and providing a special 5- min preview of their new film!!!! OMG gasp!!11), next week? Or maybe it's tonight... I can't remember. It just annoys me -- and I wonder if anyone is going to be fooled when they watch that movie all spiffed up like that, and be reminded of what an amazing series it was?

[mlyn]

(Still one of my favorite things we've ever done, and never downloaded off my site. Sigh.)

Seriously? What? Do people know it's there?

Me, I just watch the DVD when I want to see that vid...which is a lot.

[morgantree]

Gah! I just realized that I, too, have the vid on DVD! How did I miss this? And it is so fine on my new TV (new to me that is -- a refurbished Sony). What a wild ride! But sadly, the series is not available on DVD.

[gwyn_r]

I don't think it's so much that people don't know it's there (I mean, it's right there on the site, and also it's on the con DVDs from VVC two years ago, etc.), but that they don't care. It went over like a lead balloon at the con, and no one knows the series and so no one DLs it. They have no idea what it is or what it's for, it's not going to get pimped because it doesn't have a lot of fans, and so it really doesn't exist. In fact, I had it on there for a long time with a bad link, and I never knew till I met someone who loved the show and had just gotten high-speed, so she wanted to DL it but the link was bad. Took over a year for me to find that out!

[mlyn]

Yeah, well, we know fans can be dumb. I *love* the vid and I've never seen the show. Heck, it pimped me into wanting to see it!