Recently I was speaking to a friend, who's a few years younger than me, about our favorite movies. And to my dismay, it transpired that he'd never heard of "Heat." Not just hadn't seen it, but never heard of it. And honestly, I felt like I had to sit him down and have a little Al Pacino and Robert De Niro-style heart-to-heart after he dropped that bombshell.
Unfortunately, this was one of those moments when I realized that I am, in fact, incredibly old and that 1995 actually wasn't just a few years ago. To be specific, it was almost 30 years ago — more than enough time for the film to be obscured beneath several layers of cinematic sediment.
This is why it's so great to see Michael Mann's excellent crime epic (though the director doesn't consider it a crime movie) in the Netflix top 10 these days. It seems "Heat...
Unfortunately, this was one of those moments when I realized that I am, in fact, incredibly old and that 1995 actually wasn't just a few years ago. To be specific, it was almost 30 years ago — more than enough time for the film to be obscured beneath several layers of cinematic sediment.
This is why it's so great to see Michael Mann's excellent crime epic (though the director doesn't consider it a crime movie) in the Netflix top 10 these days. It seems "Heat...
- 5/20/2023
- by Joe Roberts
- Slash Film
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