A couple of years old, learned that there was a real Neil McCaully in Chicago that a major case squad cop there told Mann about.
Mann co-wrote a novel about the main characters and…wants to turn it into a movie or series… I guess it hasn’t happened yet.
Heat, RONIN, Way of the Gun, LA Confidential- just great movies. I recently watched ‘Thief’ with James Caan. I was never a James Caan fan, but I think it is because I saw his later work. That is a great crime movie too. Caan fits in that one.
Does he ever explain why he memed the FNC into a thing? Did they pick it because it simply looked cool or because Al Pacino was some edgelord gun guy or what?
They’re awfully front heavy and kinda awkward. Wouldn’t be my choice at all if Colt 733s were available.
But yet, without the gun, the scene wouldn’t be what it was
I’m enough of a kid at heart to want one of these to go with the 733 clone I put together specifically because of this movie.
But I ended up not going through with the purchase because while very cool, it’s so “niche” that it really wouldn’t serve any valid purpose for me beyond LARPing.
I hate YouTube gun people, I hate Ian and Karl and their literal Satanic Antifa friends (like literally actually Antifa) and yet…
Yet they took what was in 1995 just another crime movie and one 15 minute scene that has been an online meme since the late 90s and replicated some nylon thing that some Hollywood prop people fabricated just to hold some magazines under a suit…
And took it next level so I have to give credit where credit is due. I would never buy it but I am glad it exists. I mean it’s taken things to kinda catch up but it’s refreshing to know that people understand sometimes why these little details appeal to certain people.
Beta test version, had it not been for that practice run, Heat would not have been the final version masterpiece it was. Michael Mann is one of my favorite directors and “Heat” is his masterpiece, although it should have been “Miami Vice” which ironically was one of his worst films.
Thief was exceptional and one of the first films where the actor acquired professional firearms training to make the film more credible.
Collateral was an amazing film considering how boring the premise actually was, again Tom Cruise made the film happen by obtaining serious instruction in firearms.
Public Enemies was brilliant, probably Mann’s second greatest film IMO.
Besides interesting firearm selections, Mann does this thing with light (notable in the tunnel scenes and final airport shootout in “Heat”) that is almost his signature thing. The other scene when DeNiro and Brenneman are looking over the city and talking about special lighted algae that only comes out at night in one part of the world.
To be fair, I like the occasional weirdo. When he made fun of Dave Grossmans furry children’s book; it was funny to me. Because Dave Grossman is one of the last people to listen to. I had to sit through one of his presentations once and it made me sick.
I don’t personally care if someone is a Satanist or not. I like the goth aesthetic from time to time, But it’s ultimately cringe.
I don’t look into peoples lives past what I see on YouTube so I’m always the last to know. I’m the guy living under the rock.
I noticed Ian was distancing himself after the George Floyd riots. When Karl made his black square statement.
As far as Satanism…meh. don’t care. It’s not what most people think it is and I’d be more concerned about the pedos hiding in the Catholic Church (or any other religious institution)
L.A Takedown is one of those movies that’s so bad it’s good. If it didn’t exist, we may not have Heat either.
None of the Antifa claims against Ian have ever been substantiated, but the stuff about Karl being a cringelord Satanist cuck, an actual cuck too, there’s a Facebook post from his girlfriend that he shares with another dude, are true. What people do at home is their business, but if you make it public you open yourself up to be cyberbullied as a result.