Last week had a case of insomnia and was flipping around and found this .
Man it took me back. This move was soo cool esp Whilem Defoe, he was such a cool bad guy in this and Streets of Fire.
Hard to believe this was Petersons first movie. Awesome cast that as you look now some are huge , like Jane Leeeves ( Frasier) being the lesbian girlfriend. Man great pace and just keeps you on the edge of your seat. Plus I think it has the record for people being shot in the face I have ever seen.
I read up on it afterward and found out Mike Mann sued saying it copied Miami Vice too much.

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

It's hard to believe, because it wasn't. He was in Michael Mann's THIEF with James Caan - played the bartender. 'Jimmy' Belushi was in it too.

The funniest thing about To Live and Die in LA is that Paul Reiser's buddy from his TV show ends up inheriting the role of the heavy (John Pankow). Torturro was in it too I believe.

How could Wang Chung have done such a cool song, and then follow it up with "Everybody Wang Chung Tonight" ????

Sorry I meant first big role, should have remembered that .

I know the cast is great . in the orig version he was the one to catch the bullet.
I still like them plus they where told not to make a song named to live and die in la but Friedkin loved it when he heard it so

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

Unless you have that new digital channel called THIS, good luck trying to find this 1985 action film anywhere on cable or regular TV. I remember '80s musician Wang Chung recorded a great deal of the music used in "To Live and Die in L.A.", and when Tony Kornheiser had a midday radio show about a decade ago on ESPN Radio, one of the Wang Chung songs from this movie was used as bumper music coming out of a break. I've been seeing a lot of commercials on WCIU 26 "The U" & WWME 23 "Me TV" for THIS, which is a channel I don't get on DIRECTV, but those on Comcast digital cable can find it on Channel 246 or at WCIU 26.4 using a digital tuner. THIS is a collaboration between WCIU's parent company Weigel Broadcasting & the vast MGM/United Artists film archives. Thanks to THIS, "Svengoolie" has been featuring horror movies from the MGM/UA library that hasn't aired in quite sometime, and tomorrow's movie, 1988's "Child's Play" is a prime example of what I'm referring.

It was on HBO action , dude so di you think it was that good ? or not

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

It was a long time ago...

God you are such a Nancy

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

Cut me some slack! I don't get HBO, and it's been awhile since it was on broadcast TV...If I can find a cheap DVD, I'll see it in its entirety! Nancy nothing! I definitely have the CD soundtrack...

Wow sorry , I went out and got the book it was based on , damn you got no humor call me a retard or something

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

I apologize, Chaspoppcap... It's been quite sometime since the movie was on...That's all there is to it.

its on you got to find it , That is why i was in schock when it was uncut .

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"