Slog - Comments on Radioactive Tea with Michael Mann http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/radioactive_tea_with_michael_mann Obviously, the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko was one of the best deaths of 2007, if not all time. Apparently Columbia Pictures agrees, because it's developing a movie based on the assassination. I should be thrilled, but somehow I'm doubting Michael (Miami Vice) Mann was the best guy for the job. Who needs bombast when you've got a cup of polonium 210-spiked tea? I'm still holding out hope for the Johnny Depp version. (I think I saw this first on indieWIRE.)... Copyright 2008 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:39:33 -0800 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:24:07 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Gabriel Yeah, I think there're several films of this story in the pipeline.

The punchline is that the prime suspect is now heading towards public office in Russia. That's Putin's Russia for you. Pretty amazing.

]]> Gabriel http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/radioactive_tea_with_michael_mann#c835619 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/radioactive_tea_with_michael_mann#c835619 Film Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:45:59 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe Michael Mann can do a good job when he wants to do a good job. Miami Vice was just waiting to suck, it had nothing to do with him.

I sure wish you'd get some of that good'ol tea, you disingenuous *****.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/radioactive_tea_with_michael_mann#c835762 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/radioactive_tea_with_michael_mann#c835762 Film Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:11:30 -0800 Comment by SDA in SEA I give Michael Mann credit for doing some good film in his style. However, I agree that he is exactly the wrong person for a Litvinenko film.

And Johnny Depp is god, and should be allowed to do anything he wants.

]]> SDA in SEA http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/radioactive_tea_with_michael_mann#c835852 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/radioactive_tea_with_michael_mann#c835852 Film Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:06:02 -0800 Comment by Jay "Miami Vice" actually rocked. It will just take about 5 years for people to realize that. Mann is one of the best living directors in the world. Calling his style bombastic indicates a complete misapprehension of his style. He's the opposite bombast. Michael Bay and Tony Scott are bombastic. Mann is about the cool, well except for in "The Last of the Mohicans."

]]> Jay http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/radioactive_tea_with_michael_mann#c836043 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/radioactive_tea_with_michael_mann#c836043 Film Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:32:07 -0800 Comment by Jay That should read: "he's the opposite OF bombast."

]]> Jay http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/radioactive_tea_with_michael_mann#c836047 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/radioactive_tea_with_michael_mann#c836047 Film Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:34:24 -0800 Comment by bill If Michael Mann tells the Litvinenko story with the same depth and style he did in his best movie, Thief, than it'll be fucking great.

]]> bill http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/radioactive_tea_with_michael_mann#c836097 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/radioactive_tea_with_michael_mann#c836097 Film Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:53:20 -0800 Comment by i wish I heard Daniel Craig's name bandied about as well. I love the Depp but I gotta go with Craig on this one. Unless Mann directs then both of them should run away.

]]> i wish http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/radioactive_tea_with_michael_mann#c836161 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/radioactive_tea_with_michael_mann#c836161 Film Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:08:23 -0800 Comment by annie @4: How can Scott and Bay be bombastic? They don't have anything to say.

]]> annie http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/radioactive_tea_with_michael_mann#c836403 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/radioactive_tea_with_michael_mann#c836403 Film Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:58:52 -0800 Comment by Jay Bombastic is a synonym of pompous and overblown. You're being a bit traditional and archaic with the meaning of the word. Bombast originally referred to language, but it's come to mean overblown, and that can mean overblown visually. The directors I named are visually and aurally bombastic. An even more bombastic director is de Palma, and he's bombastic in every sense of the word.

Mann is neither bombastic in the verbal/textual sense nor stylistically.


]]> Jay http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/radioactive_tea_with_michael_mann#c836719 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/radioactive_tea_with_michael_mann#c836719 Film Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:24:07 -0800