Let’s not forget that the upcoming Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series is Marvel’s second attempt at turning S.H.I.E.L.D. into a series. The first was the truly terrible TV movie Nick Fury: Agent of Shield on Fox in 1998. In fact, I think the Nick Fury movie was Marvel’s last attempt at live action TV up until the new Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
– Vice President Selena Meyer, Veep, accidentally taking on the accents of her Finnish hosts saying “neither” in “Helsinki”
Looks like The X-Files with a superhero vibe. Not that this is a bad thing at all.
It’s nice to see that the film Miami Vice (2006) is finally starting to get some recognition:
Then there’s the atmosphere. The movie opens and ends seemingly mid-scene; there is no set-up and no sense of resolution. The tone is doomy; writer-director Michael Mann—who executive-produced the TV series—refashions leads Tubbs and Crockett (Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell) into weary professionals. The world they inhabit is murky and fatalistic; everything matters only insofar as it continues the flow of information (for the police) or the flow of cash (for the criminals). It’s a movie about drug dealers that features no drugs and a movie about cops that features no arrests. Its characters exist within an endless cycle of informants and moles, takedowns and retributions, seizures and countermeasures.