Originally Posted by
jbjh
Not missing anything. Just that on
my list, I lay the failure at Mann’s feet as if he were the director, or it was a TV pilot.
Of course he later busts out Last of the Mohicans. Kind of a mess of a movie, but I watch it every time I come across it.
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So if he was the director, I'd agree with you. But the director was Paul Michael Glaser. Perhaps PMG was a poor choice and by extension that would be the fault of the producer, but again that wasn't Mann that was Michael Rauch whoever the hell that was.
Mann was just one of two "money companies" so the worst I could say was the Mann was responsible for iffy money management. It's not quite the same as Miami Vice the film, which was written, produced and directed by Mann...that one was 100% his failure. He can't even take credit for the one single good feature of the film, which was the new theme music.
Now I'm not here trying to give Mann a pass, maybe he was guilty of really believing in this project enough to be one of the production companies, but beyond that I can't lay Band of the Hand at his feet. The success or failure of a film usually begins with the director and ends with the cast. By the same token Heat was a success because that was all him, it wasn't because of the involvement of Regency Enterprises and Forward Pass. And by the same criteria LA Takedown was his responsibility, and pretty terrible, the only good thing about it was a test run film that resulted in a superior film years later.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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