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[commedieu]

whatever happened to Tom Sizemore anyway?

He got bad into drugs.. I think he was on that show with Dr.Drew, the rehab one? Ran off on camera.. to sneak back home or something. Damn, a google says he got busted with heroin in 2014. Man..
http://www.vh1.com/shows/celebrity_...b-tries-to-pick-up-tom-sizemore/471219/video/
http://www.*****************/tvshow...ng-clean-Celebrity-Rehab-three-years-ago.html


Future RIP if he doesn't break it.

 

[D4Danger]

whatever happened to Tom Sizemore anyway?

I think he fell hard into drink and drugs.

I googled to see if he was dead. he's not. I'm actually impressed.

 

[Diseased Yak]

I need to watch this again. Great movie. I even liked the part when the ex-con couldn't get a decent job so felt like he had no choice but to go back to crime. I really liked everything about that movie. So many believable sideplots as well.

So heartbreaking.

"What you hangin' with me for, Lily?"

Dennis Haysbert is amazing.

One of my favorite movies of all time.

 

[NealMcCauley]

Pretty sure Sizemore's also a pretty hardcore sex addict and abuser. That and the alcohol/drug problems make him practically unhireable for insurance reasons.

Heat's one of my favorites if you couldn't tell by my username.

 

[strafer]

Love it.

 

[Straight Edge]

whatever happened to Tom Sizemore anyway?

For him, the action is the juice.

 

[gutter_trash]

For him, the action is the juice.

 

[J.EM1]

Such a stupid way to cock a gun.

GOAT film tho

Not cocking the gun. That's called press checking.

 

[gutter_trash]

 

[Jobbs]

Such a stupid way to cock a gun.

GOAT film tho

Isn't he checking to see what's in the chamber?

 

[D4Danger]

Isn't he checking to see what's in the chamber?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113277/trivia?item=tr0613340

Lt. Hanna is shown "checking chamber" on his handgun in at least one scene. This is a trademark of the character Nick Stone in a series of novels by Andy McNab, who was technical weapons training adviser on Heat (1995). Although not an uncommon thing to do with a handgun, it is rarely given such visual prominence in films. Also, the crew's tactics in the bank robbery shootout are notably similar to the "response to enemy fire" tactics featured in the book and film of McNab's Bravo Two Zero (1999).

 

[CrichtonKicks]

Lynch (from the Kane and Lynch) is totally based off of him

I'm pretty sure 50% of all video games at this point are some combination of Aliens and Heat.

 

[Androidsleeps]

2nd best Mann's film; first being Thief.
Also, GREAT ASS!

 

[CadetMahoney]

only the main action bank scene was good tbh.

 

[onepiecefan]

I agree. I tried rewatching the film and everyone mumbling their lines and Pacino's sleepwalk-y performance really bored me. It was never one of my faves but I didn't think it held up well.

Damn, I never thought I'd see anyone say Heat doesn't hold up well.

 

[Shy]

Saw it in the cinema when it first came out. Fucking God-tier.

Also, Be sure to check out the Michael Mann commentary, it's really good. (as all of his commentaries are)

 

[UncleSporky]

I watched this whole movie waiting for The Heat Is On to come on as part of the soundtrack and it never did. For some reason I just assumed it was one of those blockbuster songs.

 

[ToD_]

Love the night driving scene when this song starts playing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN5hSvu1dzw

 

[TheSeks]

I still have not seen it.

WHAT. You're how old and you haven't seen Heat!? :O!?

 

[Daffy Duck]

My all time favourite film, fantastic film, fantastic cast and just sublime in every way!

You know you've done it right when GTA pays tribute.

My mum taped over it years ago and I was wrecked, she ended up buying it for me on DVD because she knew dun goofed.

 

[TheLostBigBoss]

I'm pretty sure 50% of all video games at this point are some combination of Aliens and Heat.

...

ok that's a fair point

 

[Extra Sauce]

The stuff with the step daughter feels tacked-on but otherwise great film.

 

[firelogic]

Greatest shootout in the history of film. It's objectively fantastic. The pace. The intensity. The realism. The sound effects. The lack of background music just as the first shot is fired. Brilliant.

 

[gutter_trash]

''I just had coffee with McCauley, HALF AN HOUR AGO!!!!!!!!!'''

 

[MichaelFassbender]

Man, gonna have to have another re-watch tonight. Legendary stuff.

 

[Steez]

Still my all time favorite film.

Here's hoping that Mann's next movie is going to be better than Blackhat.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

The sound of that shoot out is amazing.

whatever happened to Tom Sizemore anyway?

I just looked his wikipedia-page up:

True Romance (1993), Natural Born Killers (1994), Strange Days (1995), Heat (1995), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Black Hawk Down (2001), Pearl Harbor (2001)


The guy was on a roll in the late 90s/early 00s..

 

[Patrick Bateman]

edit.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

Spotify link to song in the OP
https://open.spotify.com/track/44popH5Cn6SuButI40fovC

 

[Jb]

To celebrate, RollingStone put up an interview with Mann looking back on the film.

 

[D4Danger]

The sound of that shoot out is amazing.

Behind the Scenes Feature

I like that everyone involved realised the redubbed movie sounds sucked and used the production sound in all it's echoey goodness.

still the best shootout 20 years later

 

[Discotheque]

Definitely one of my GOATs. Dat duality at play, I honestly would put the airport chase over the bank shootout, both were great scenes though

You can't fuck with mann's sound design. I have yet to hear gunfights as loud and violent as his.

Probably just second to Insider for me as mann's best movie ever

 

[The Kree]

This movie was the only time I've ever heard a theater cheer for the bad guys.

 

[MichaelFassbender]

You can't fuck with mann's sound design. I have yet to hear gunfights as loud and violent as his.

The film Open Range (Duvall, Costner, 2003) comes pretty close.

 

[Extra Sauce]

You can't fuck with mann's sound design.

Mann slowly going deaf is definitely fucking with his sound design...

 

[Count of Monte Sawed-Off]

He got bad into drugs.. I think he was on that show with Dr.Drew, the rehab one? Ran off on camera.. to sneak back home or something. Damn, a google says he got busted with heroin in 2014. Man..
http://www.vh1.com/shows/celebrity_...b-tries-to-pick-up-tom-sizemore/471219/video/
http://www.*****************/tvshow...ng-clean-Celebrity-Rehab-three-years-ago.html


Future RIP if he doesn't break it.

Fucking Tom Sizemore man. He was working with some of the best directors in the industry, doing great work, and he threw it all away.

 

[Neuromancer]

Such a stupid way to cock a gun.

GOAT film tho

It's a press check. It's always impressed me as it's very rare to see anyone do this ina movie.

 

[strafer]

Definitely one of my GOATs. Dat duality at play, I honestly would put the airport chase over the bank shootout, both were great scenes though

You can't fuck with mann's sound design. I have yet to hear gunfights as loud and violent as his.

Probably just second to Insider for me as mann's best movie ever

Yep.

Just listen to that damn pistol in Collateral.

loud as fock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLi0OX_Ttt8

 

[surrealist]

Truly and amazing film. That firefight, the cinematography. And the way he captures that polished, but still gritty atmosphere of LA.

 

[0.1.1.2.3.5.8.13.21.34.55]

agreed OP, Heat is amazing... but how can you not mention Thief in the post? Miami Vice (the film), Public Enemies, & Blackhat are shite by comparison.

 

[davepoobond]

i'd say its DeNiro's second best after Godfather part 2 and Pacino's second best after Dog Day Afternoon


only thing i didn't like about Heat was that Pacino and DeNiro weren't really in the same scenes very much and it looked like they probably shot 90% of the scenes they were interacting with each other at different times.

 

[close to the edge]

This may be my favorite movie. I only watched it for the first time a couple of months ago, but the ending hit me like no other movie has yet. The way the music swells up and it cuts to the credits, it's perfect.

 

[Browny]

Great film. I picked it up on DVD a few years back, but only watched it at the beginning of this year. (And several times since.)

The robbery is one of the all time great scenes.

 

[BioHazard]

probably the best mann

 

[Interficium]

"What I came to later was to the perfect equivalence of the connection. It occurred to me that Neil was fortunate enough to die in contact with the only other guy on the planet who was really similar, almost like him, and understood him totally. That became the end of a dialectic which I then reverse-engineered into a lot of previous scenes which preceded it. I could build off that final moment."

 

[Concrete Charlie]

Great movie... one of my favorites. Happy Birthday Heat!

 

[8-Bit Sunset]

L.A. Takedown was the better movie in every respect!

edit: to avoid breakdowns I forgot to add: IMO

 

[DarkJediKnight]

My top 3 films ever!!!

Just love it! The restaurant scene, the infrared scene, the shootout, the ending....

We'll never get a movie like this again. Mann in his prime!

 

[majik13]

To celebrate, RollingStone put up an interview with Mann looking back on the film.

wow he really did lift the bank robbery from Heat for LA Takedown. Very similar.

Also the Detective is Pancho from Predator!

 

[El Daniel]

I think he fell hard into drink and drugs.

I googled to see if he was dead. he's not. I'm actually impressed.

lmao, look at his imdb page

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001744/