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Just bought the first two series on DVD (unopened from a charity shop I was donating stuff to, my wife was delighted I brought stuff home)
Will I be disappointed or will it be just as good as I remember it.....
having missed it the first time round (was too young & more into the A-Team 😃) I saw the other day the first season is actually available to watch free via Amazon/Freevee but have only watched the pilot 2-parter so far (where they spend a full 3 minutes driving round at night just listening to Phil Collins, great scene 😂)
I enjoyed it! Will definitely be watching more. But then I do love the 80s. And it is very 80s. Apparently only the first 2 seasons are good (Michael Mann) and it went downhill after that.
where they spend a full 3 minutes driving round at night just listening to Phil Collins, great scene 😂
He also starred in at least one episode and his songs were in several!
This scene:
and Phil the Shill
and
Not PC, but my favourite track from MV...
I'll get around to Miami Vice. I was too young the first time around but noticed it's available for free so I'll check it out.
The A-Team is still mostly watchable if you enjoy how daft it is. Falls off rapidly when Hannibal and B.A. refused to turn up for work and it became the Face and Murdoch show.
Knight Rider is mostly amusing but I haven't seen as much of that.
I recall it being American rubbish.
I absolutely loved it, it was the epitome of 80s cool.
God, I loved that show.
I remember that it cost over a million dollars an episode to make which was unheard of back then and it was one of the reasons it got canned in the end.
It easy to look back and think it's cheesy but it was the absolute epitomy of style at the time. I suspect if anyone in my age group said they didn't like it they would've been laughed at.
I can hear the intro music and vid in my mind as I type this. It was just incredibly exotic from the get go.
Now? Having seen every show (I'm pretty sure) I don't think I'd go back to watch it as it would spoil the rose tinted memories I have of it. 😁
I loved it. Might have even worn a T shirt and jacket a few times 😁
The music was always great, and some of the filming.
This scene seemed to stick in my teenage mind.
I still wear a black t shirt with linen jacket! Not a V neck T of course 😉
Not a show I ever really watched, so I may investigate on Amazon.
Found a boxed set of The A Team a few years ago. Definitely better the first time around....
It is still really good, i also found some of it in a charity shop.
First couple of series are pretty good. Tubbs episodes tend to be worse than Crockett ones. We've been watching on FreeVee, I never really saw it originally - slightly too young.
Always loved MV, and have the full box set.
The thing that attracted me to it most (apart from the cars and girls (pretty much in that order, saddo that I was and am)) was the way it episodes usually end at the climax... which sounds odd to say, but loads of things have the big shoot-out with the baddy, and then have five or ten minutes winding down, tying up all the loose ends. In MV, they have the shoot-out... and roll credits. You never find out if the girl lived, if the informant escaped, if the money really was in that bag. It was kinda messy and unresolved, and felt much more "real" to me as a result, even if everything else about it was pure fantasy land.
Jacket and t-shirt? Tick
Deck shoes and no socks? Tick
Strangely awkward pose by tall building and sports cars? Tick
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Yeah, I might have watched an episode once
I was surprised how well it held up when I re-watched it in the noughties.
I also still wear a blue linen jacket with a T shirt.
As said above, the first couple of seasons are great but it rapidly went downhill after that. I seem to remember its nadir was when Tubbs started affecting some kind of bizarre Caribbean accent.
very stylized. i loved loved it and many scenes stick in my mind. the sequence in the above is very atmospheric
you monsters! i'm sucked in! 😀
I have to say your carry it off well!
However, it being you wca were you waiting outside A&E there for a medic to unglue your foot from your thigh or something?
Apparently only the first 2 seasons are good (Michael Mann)
I was today years old when I found out Michael Mann did the TV series.
But this does explain why I like the MV movie from 2006. Always loved Mann’s work.
La Takedown (or Heat) and Collateral, great films.
Watched the pilot last night (first 2 episodes)
Did not disappoint - though I think my wife liked it more than me but then she is a proper 80's girl.
Funny, I can't stand Phil Collins but somehow in MV it works
One thing is annoying - Like most people I rarely use a DVD player these day and the sound isn't properly sync'ed with the TV - will have to fiddle around with the settings.
On the whole a very good use of a fiver and it went to charitee too
This just peaked my interest so I went in search on Amazon and Freevee. Available to buy on Amazon, not on Freevee.
Booooo!
Mate had the box set at sea, remember a couple of episodes, the one where they spend 5 minutes creeping around in the intro to the 12" intro to Relax and the one where Edward James Olmos goes bush with a Kitana.
Never did see the Testarossa, doesn't sound like I missed much.
i remember reading somewhere that enzo ferrari gave don johnson the testarossa because he loved the show so much
Superb series.Original car was not actually a Ferrari though. I think even the engine noise was dubbed.
https://rossoautomobili.com/blogs/magazine/the-story-behind-the-miami-vice-ferrari-testarossa
yes, it was a replica. they later had a white testarossa. turns out that the car enzo gave don was silver.
There is a little vid on YT I looked at a couple of nights back when this thread started. It shows a sequence with all the cars he had in the series. He had an old 50's pick up for a while after his Daytona was blown up.😁
I recently spent a few days on a caravan floor resting my back, watching daytime itv3 or 4 or something.
Managed to see a couple of episodes of Dempsey and Makepeace which is still brilliant. Also The Saint which was incredibly cheaply done. Casualty off of the 80s where the chief concerns are lack of beds and bad management.
Then the Professionals. Which is, while good, jot a patch on D&M.
Dempsey and Makepeace which is still brilliant.
i watched some reruns about a decade ago. it was better than i remembered