whats with the terrible sound job at the end of LA Takedown? When McLaren is going to kill Waingro it has this loud guitar music playing over the dialogue. In post production surely they should have known to clean that up.
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how dare you discuss black market in my prescence!
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Thats no excuse
"What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?"
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Its not about time, its about knowing what to do and doing it right. Its called professionalism. 'L.A. Takedown' was a tv film so there may not have been the same enthusiasm/dedication as for a feature film. But still this is Michael Mann, a perfectionist. This was originally a pilot for a tv series, pilots are usually the best episode of a potential series because they have to deilver a lot in the 90-120 min slot as well as promising much more for the following episodes. The pilot for 'Crime Story' was easily the best episode of that series.
To me they just wanted to stick in Billy Idol's cover of 'L.A. Woman' at some point of the film hence its shaky inclusion in the climax. Regardless of time and money constraints we are still entitled to critizise it as we are paying to see it.
Comparatively speaking the editing job at the end of this film is an anomaly in Mann's work.
"This was 1989, and it's not as easy as it is now to release something in a sort amount of time, and get everything great."
This sentence is not very coherent so I dont know how else to address it.
"What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?"
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Do you even know the meaning of the word "excuse"? They can be excused for not achieving "big budget" standards if they didn't have the "big budget" time and "big budget" money to make it.
Anyway, Mann usually puts louder than usual music over the finale of his movies (Thief, Manhunter, etc...) so it could have been a deliberate choice rather than a mistake. Heat got an even louder shootout and Collateral got a club scene, both so loud you couldn't hear dialogue.
Next you'll be complaining about the conversation in the noisy kitchen... Duh! It's supposed to be noisy because they don't want their conversation to be overheard!!!
Now go back to posting about Marisa Tomei's breasts and other hot "birds".
Not necessarily; budget constraints are not the only parameters that permit fine film. To demonstrate some of the finest films ever made, 'Aguirre' and 'Terminator', were made on comparatively small budgets but yet are excellent films with no major goofs (It was also early in the career of both Herzog and Cameron, furthering my point that professionalism and efficiency is imperative.) The sound editing job that I referred to in 'L.A. Takedown' was simply not well done, all it needed was a bit more sync and it would have been ok. Now as some other poster kept reminding me. I dont know what went down in the editing room for 'L.A. Takedown' there may have been cash/time problems... wow. But just the same that is assumption.
Another point for you; if a high flying professional like James Cameron or Ridley Scott makes a really shoddy poor film because the films budget was low, is that an excuse? ... No, because its wasting everyone's time with half-arsed work and the filmmaker is capable of so much more.
"What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?"