From a Time Gone By…

[MATRIXParticipant 2342]

When men were allowed to be men and women were still b.itches, but you couldn’t get arrested every time they opened their b.tch mouth.

There is NO wisdom in signing a contract with someone who benefits from breaking it.

[Faust For ScienceParticipant 22521]

I have recently been watching the Miami Vice series. The DVD Boxset is cheap. This series is red pilled in the extreme. And the production quality of the series is on par with many good action films of that time.

[CPT ObviousParticipant 2727]

Gawd I loved Miami Vice back in the day. My parents wouldn’t let me watch it, but I always found a way.

"You don't know a woman till you have met her in divorce court."

[EGParticipant 1852]

CPT Obvious wrote:

My parents wouldn’t let me watch it, but I always found a way.

Was “red-pilled” too much for some people to handle even that long ago? Not that the term even existed back then but…

[CPT ObviousParticipant 2727]

EG wrote:

Was “red-pilled” too much for some people to handle even that long ago? Not that the term even existed back then but…

They were very tradcon and that was not something they wanted their young teenage son watching. Too much violence and scantily clad women they said.

But we had a VCR so I would program it to record the episodes and watch when they weren’t home.

"You don't know a woman till you have met her in divorce court."

[CPT ObviousParticipant 2727]

Still my favorite Miami Vice scene:

In the Air Tonight

"You don't know a woman till you have met her in divorce court."

[CPT ObviousParticipant 2727]

Edit. sorry dupe post —- cannot figure out how to embed video

"You don't know a woman till you have met her in divorce court."

[SpiderHerderParticipant 3758]

Cool. I was talking about the film Collateral with Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx recently and guess what…

Michael Mann is involved in both. Director in one, executive producer in the other. That may be why I liked it so much.

Anyway, trivial I know.

[CPT ObviousParticipant 2727]

SpiderHerder wrote:

Michael Mann is involved in both. Director in one, executive producer in the other. That may be why I liked it so much.

Michael Mann is phucking brilliant. Not only did he give us Miami Vice, he made one my favorite all-time movies: “Heat” with Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.

Great acting, script, cinematography and music. The bank robbery scene and massive gunfight with police is epic.

"You don't know a woman till you have met her in divorce court."

[MATRIXParticipant 2342]

Miami Vice was a great feel good 1980’s show, for those of us of a certain age.

It epitomised the 1980’s for me and was a decade I loved living through.

Hell, 30 years younger, the cars, the boats, the colourful neon lights in wet city streets.
The better attitudes all round back then…

It always had an edge and some of the best were the later episodes as the characters got more developed. Particularly Sonny getting more and more jaded with each passing year until a boat explosion and memory loss put him firmly as the bad guy, Sonny Burnett. Those episodes kicked ass.

Shows like that will never come again.

There is NO wisdom in signing a contract with someone who benefits from breaking it.

[MATRIXParticipant 2342]

Before the boat explosion, a jaded Sonny tracks down Hackman, who murdered is wife and unborn child. The story started in 1986 and concluded with this episode in 1988.

Sonny finally blowing that scum away makes my day, time after time…

His expression and that gunshot echoing around the island, all added to the ending and Sonnys final downfall to become a bad guy.

Crucifix was significant in the earlier story.

There is NO wisdom in signing a contract with someone who benefits from breaking it.

[Faust For ScienceParticipant 22521]

CPT Obvious wrote:

Still my favorite Miami Vice scene:
In the Air Tonight

That song embodies that series. That is also a wonderful 1980’s red pill song.

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