Miami Blues

Miami Blues

It has been a while. Too long some might say. Just look at Baldwin in that pic; one Uzi, aviator shades, white pants, grip-a-cash, it looks like a scene out of Vice City. For all you GTAers, this might be the movie that set the tone for that game (Scarface obviously excluded).

I first saw this flick with my homie J to the Izzo, S to tha Izz-H (BigUPS!). His pops took us to the movie theater to see it when it first came out in 1990. That means we were like two 13/14 year olds watching this ill ultraviolet shit. That's not really so surprising as I had seen The Shining at age 6. I remember me and J coming out of that movie fuking stoked. We though AB was THE shit; and we were right.

Baldwin was in his prime in this shit. Dude was actually deezed (cock diesel). Plus he was coming off some Hunt For Red October shit that had put him in the role that punk-ass Harrison Ford would later fill. All this was after the big breakout in Beetle Juice (I was in Juice!).

So basically, this is like the movie that he wanted to do. That is what is so dope about it. AB must have had the choice to do so many dope things off of the box office hits that he had made he knew he could pick some wild shit where his fingers get cut off in the end. Some shit where he carries around a .44 Desert Eagle. Some shit where he plays one of the most deeply interesting and conflicted characters ever portrayed---Frederick J. Frenger Jr..

This being one of my fave's, I can wholeheartedly say that it deserves a perfect 1,000,000/1,000,000.

Here is an actual quote:
Hare Krishna: Have you ever seen the movie 'Ghandi'? I'm Vendana, what's your name?
Baldwin: [breaks Hare Krishna's finger] Trouble.