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For the first retrospective of 2019, I wanted to take the Aftertaste into realms it hadn’t been in. Yes we have covered a variety of franchises and film series. But one thing we haven’t done is focus on the resume of one filmmaker and one filmmaker only. Who better to do this with than the master of the ‘ultimate man film’, Michael Mann. With a wide variety of films and a meticulous style that has attempted to be replicated but has never been duplicated, Mann presents quite a set of films to look at. In order to do so, we once again brought in Michael Guarnieri from the Hannibal Lecter Retrospective to do what he had originally contacted me to do to begin with. A Michael Mann Retrospective.
Though The Insider was a major critical success for director Michael Mann, the box office didn’t reflect the same amount of prosperity. At the same time, movie star Will Smith was coming off the biggest disaster of his career in the at this point infamous 1999 western/comedy Wild, Wild West. Fortunately for them, their paths would cross in the form of boxing legend Muhammed Ali. After decades of script drafts and start/stops with other directors such as Spike Lee and Barry Sonnenfeld (yes, THAT Barry Sonnenfeld) Mann and Smith were ready to take on the film called Ali. How’d they do?
Join myself, Mike, and Matt as we answer that question and a hell of a lot more in this intricately detailed podcast. Hear Mike’s respect for Ali‘s namesake subject, and mine, which admittedly had to develop over time. Where does Matt fall into with all this? Listen below to find out!
Ali (1999) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)
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