{"id":269,"date":"2017-02-28T22:53:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T22:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ratandfox.net\/billpaxtonmovieguide\/?p=269"},"modified":"2017-02-28T22:53:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T22:53:59","slug":"miami-vice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ratandfox.net\/billpaxtonmovieguide\/2017\/02\/28\/miami-vice\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Vice"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Streetwise&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ratandfox.net\/billpaxtonmovieguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/miami01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-271\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ratandfox.net\/billpaxtonmovieguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/miami02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-272\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ratandfox.net\/billpaxtonmovieguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/miami03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-273\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ratandfox.net\/billpaxtonmovieguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/miami04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a big believer in Karma. I was a stink beetle in my last life, and I guess I&#8217;ve moved down from there.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Bill Paxton<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah, <em>Miami Vice<\/em>. One of my favorite shows back in the 80s. And this episode is relentlessly <em>Miami Vice<\/em>\u2014full of angst and pastel ennui and Crockett&#8217;s Testarossa. (I always liked the Daytona better, myself, but I&#8217;ll take any old kind of Ferrari you want to give me.) Bill plays Vic Romano, rookie undercover cop who falls for a hooker and gets caught with her and a gram of pharmaceutical coke in a vice sweep. Complications ensue.<\/p>\n<p>Bill&#8217;s got one of those guest starring roles that seem to be there for the express purpose of a) giving Crockett the opportunity to be big-brotherish and tortured and b) demonstrating yet again the sheer pointlessness of existence. (Did I mention I loved this show? I do, really. It&#8217;s just that, as a friend of mine said as we watched this episode together, &#8220;I&#8217;d forgotten how much <em>Attitude<\/em> this show had.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ratandfox.net\/billpaxtonmovieguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/bom.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"27\" \/><br \/>\nOkay, this was filmed in 1986, when Bill was 31. And he looks like he&#8217;s about 16. (He always seems to look ten to fifteen years younger than he really is.) So when Crockett calls him &#8220;the kid,&#8221; he by god looks like a kid. And, this being <em>Miami Vice<\/em>, they&#8217;ve got him looking all sleek and pouty. We get some bare chest action in the opening scenes, and some kissing scenes with the girlfriend. Very watchable.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-142\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ratandfox.net\/billpaxtonmovieguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/star-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"30\" height=\"29\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-142\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ratandfox.net\/billpaxtonmovieguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/star-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"30\" height=\"29\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-142\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ratandfox.net\/billpaxtonmovieguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/star-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"30\" height=\"29\" \/>Three stars, because Bill&#8217;s cute and it&#8217;s <em>Miami Vice<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n<div class='easySpoilerWrapper' style=''>\n<table class='easySpoilerTable' border='0' style='text-align:center;' align='center' bgcolor='FFFFFF' >\n\n<tr style='white-space:normal;'>\n<th class='easySpoilerTitleA' style='white-space:normal;font-weight:bold;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle;font-size:120%;color:#000000;'><a href='' onclick='wpSpoilerToggle(\"spoilerDiv507e8001\",true,\"Show\",\"Hide\",\"fast\",false); return false;' onselectstart='return false;' style='text-decoration: none;color:#000000;'>Dead or Alive?<\/a><\/th>\n<th class='easySpoilerTitleB'style='padding:0px;text-align:right;vertical-align:middle;font-size:100%; white-space:nowrap;'><a href=''  class='easySpoilerButton' style='font-size:100%;color:#000000;background-color:#fcfcfc;background-image:none;border: 1px inset;border-style:solid;border-color:#cccccc;display:none; margin: 3px 0px 3px; padding: 4px; ' align='right'>Select<\/a><a href=''  id='spoilerDiv507e8001_action' class='easySpoilerButton' value=\"Show\" align='right' style='font-size:100%;color:#000000;background-color:#fcfcfc;background-image:none;border: 1px inset;border-style:solid;border-color:#cccccc;display:none; margin: 3px 0px 3px 5px; padding: 4px;'>Show<\/><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr><td class='easySpoilerRow' colspan='2' style=''><div id='spoilerDiv507e8001' class='easySpoilerSpoils'  style='display:none; white-space:wrap; overflow:auto; vertical-align:middle;'>\n<strong>Dead!<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat did you expect? You could tell by the end of his first scene that he was going to buy it before the end of the episode. It&#8217;s not a bad death scene, and at least he makes it through nearly all of the episode before going out in a hail of gunfire, in typical <em>Miami Vice<\/em> fashion.\n<\/div><\/td><\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class='easySpoilerConclude' style=''><table class='easySpoilerTable' border='0' style='text-align:center;' frame='box' align='center' bgcolor='FFFFFF'><tr><th class='easySpoilerEnd' style='width:100%;'><\/th><td class='easySpoilerEnd' style='white-space:nowrap;' colspan='2'><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class='easySpoilerGroupWrapperLastRow' colspan='2' style=''><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Streetwise&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m a big believer in Karma. I was a stink beetle in my last life, and I guess I&#8217;ve moved down from there.&#8221; &#8211; Bill Paxton Ah, Miami Vice. One of my favorite shows back in the 80s. And this episode is relentlessly Miami Vice\u2014full of angst and pastel ennui and Crockett&#8217;s Testarossa. (I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ratandfox.net\/billpaxtonmovieguide\/2017\/02\/28\/miami-vice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Miami Vice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ratandfox.net\/billpaxtonmovieguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ratandfox.net\/billpaxtonmovieguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ratandfox.net\/billpaxtonmovieguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ratandfox.net\/billpaxtonmovieguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ratandfox.net\/billpaxtonmovieguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ratandfox.net\/billpaxtonmovieguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/www.ratandfox.net\/billpaxtonmovieguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ratandfox.net\/billpaxtonmovieguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ratandfox.net\/billpaxtonmovieguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ratandfox.net\/billpaxtonmovieguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}