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25 July 2019, 06:12 AM | #31 |
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The music is great
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25 July 2019, 08:59 AM | #32 |
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Great show for the occasional glimpse of pre-merger AMGs
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25 July 2019, 09:03 AM | #33 |
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Actually you're not alone Bas. I watch it a couple times a week, usually late night. Amazing show, definitely has a darker edge to it. It's a TV classic.
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25 July 2019, 09:32 AM | #34 |
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My Uncle's house was used in an episode. For the 80's it was a very modern looking home with huge windows overlooking a lake. Fit in perfectly with the style of the time. It was an unmitigated disaster though and he said if he knew what it would entail he would never have agreed to it. As a 13 yr old kid at the time though I thought it was the coolest thing ever.
I lived in the heart of South Beach in the mid 90's and loved the Miami Vice vibes, architecture and of course the beaches and weather. |
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My brother loves that show. Of course, he is still stuck in the 80’s. Lots of YG day dates in the show. That was the watch to have.
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25 July 2019, 10:36 AM | #36 |
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Series was good, movie wasn't that great... NY Undercover was also good back then
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25 July 2019, 11:51 AM | #37 |
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Great show! I was in college and we always watched it on Friday nights before going out. One of these days I am going to pick up a gold 1980s Rolex in honor of Sonny Crockett.
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25 July 2019, 12:11 PM | #38 |
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+1. Miami Vice was so ahead of its time!
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25 July 2019, 12:30 PM | #39 |
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Love that show! Surprised they never got the band back together.
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25 July 2019, 01:17 PM | #40 |
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I enjoyed that show when it was on. I remember waiting for the new show each week. I was such a fan in my younger years I bought the exact model Crockett carried....but can't talk about it here
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25 July 2019, 02:52 PM | #41 |
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So, does any one remember the Miami Vice episodes with Ed O'Neill and Michael Richards in there pre Married With Children and Sienfeld days.
The antithesis of there future characters. |
25 July 2019, 03:00 PM | #42 |
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Totally loved that show. Wore a lot of pastels and linen back in 5he day. And I still have have my Ebel 1911. Never heard of Ebel until Miami Vice. :)
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25 July 2019, 03:28 PM | #43 |
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Best show of the 80's. Hill Street Blues was great too but MV (along with MTV) pretty much defined the 80's. At least my 80's :) Crockett and Tubbs were just too cool.
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25 July 2019, 04:04 PM | #44 |
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One of the best shows of all time.
It also changed South Florida forever: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/loc...le2266518.html Miami Beach was a wasteland before this show. They could film on location in the middle of the day....because nobody was there except for retirees on fixed incomes who didn’t drive..the streets were empty. The producers made the area look nicer than it was and broadcasted it. Of course the edgy, darker side didn’t deter growth one bit...just so cool, people had start going there.. It spawned 35yrs of growth...that shows no signs of slowing down. |
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Never seen it myself. A bit before my time
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25 July 2019, 05:06 PM | #47 |
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Crockett wore a DD in the first season so far. Would love to own a DD
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25 July 2019, 11:23 PM | #48 |
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That is a classic. If you like the 80's cop shows I would also recommend the TV series Wiseguy. It's not as prolific as Miami Vice but equally entertaining.
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100% agree.
What we know today as SoBe was indeed quite run down in the 80s; with low-cost retirement condos by the beach (faded paint peeling buildings, etc.). The movie Scarface during the Colombian incident near the beginning gives a 'better' (more realistic) visual of what SoBe was back in the 1980s. There were some prime RE back then such as the Fountainbleu, Ritz on Key Biscayne, etc., yet as you said overall SoBe was a wasteland-ish desperately in need of the investment that eventually occurred. MVice did feature some then new 'art deco' places including the then new mall between Hollywood and Miami (forget the name). They also filmed in lower-end places such as side/back roads (per se) a few blocks West of Biscayne Blvd. As others have said, the entire MV team did an excellent job and they were well ahead of their time. They sure did give Criteria Studios in Miami a lot of work.
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The documentary was actually about 2 photographers who took thousands of pictures of the times, as they both grew up there then. End of an era and a beginning of a new one began. http://www.thelastresortmovie.com/about |
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In the summer of ‘80, Castro opened the port at Mariel, Cuba and put every unwanted person he could find on a boat to Miami. Fidel literally emptied his mental hospitals and prisons onto Miami-bound boats. “You have a boat, and want to take your sweet grandmother home with you? Fine, BUT you must also take with you these other 40 ‘gentlemen.’ ” Miami got about 125,000 (largely ... ummmm ... “difficult”) refugees in the space of one summer. It was a very, very bad time. In ‘81, Time Magazine did a cover story on Miami, titled “Paradise Lost.” That was the nadir. Then came Miami Vice in about ‘84, then (IIRC in ‘87), Calvin Klein did a big fashion shoot in the Beach Deco District. The Cardozo, the Carlyle, and the Leslie hotels were open on South Beach (Leslie is where they filmed the famous opening shot of The Birdcage), but not much else. You could’ve fired a cannon down Lincoln Road at noon and not hit a soul. Lots of the worst of the ‘Marielitos’ from the Cuban boatlift had settled in South Beach, among the retirees - It was a slum. A gorgeous beach and hundreds of Deco-charming buildings, all just 10 minutes across the causeway from downtown Miami, yet - a slum. Today? You can buy the new South Beach-front Ocean Drive penthouse just south of me near 3rd Street ... It’s yours for only $11 million. (Glad I bought my little place in ‘90 - At that time, this was considered so odd that my purchase merited a mention in the newspaper!) It’s weird to think of it this way, but Michael Mann and Calvin Klein arguably saved Miami. (Until the seas rise, anyway.) I must add that Miami wouldn’t be at all the great city it is today without our Cuban and other Latinx friends (though I might’ve selfishly preferred that only the women had come!). |
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The documentary I mentioned stated that as well. The old people still there were afraid to go out of their apartment buildings because of fear of being mugged or worse. It went from their paradise to their prison.
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Loved the show. One of my favs of all time. I am known to still work some of the Sonny attire from time to time. Love the look. Cool and comfortable. In fact sported an off white linen silk blend suit yesterday with light blue t shirt and off white loafers.
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All 5 seasons are available to stream for FREE on nbc.com
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Im looking for SS or TT .....thought i found one some months ago but it was in such bad shape it was not worth what he wanted........i would prefer TT over SS.....trying to find one good shape is hard.
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Love the show, I was in Navy Flight school back in those days and we used to stay in to watch the show. For a bunch of 20 something Navy Pilots staying in on a Friday night says a lot about how good it was!
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LOL I was not offering that watch to you. I was just trying to say that I have the strong connection with Ebel and Miami Vice and agreed how difficult it is to find a good one - no matter if in Steel or in Gold. It took me years, but they are out there, good luck with your hunt. |
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