Is there not yet a thread for DRIVE, the forthcoming Ryan Gosling vehicle (geddit)?

I finally watched this today on a flight while I was in a weird dreamy cold medicine and travelling induced haze and I really freaking loved it.

This really would be the perfect movie for a weird dreamy cold medicine and traveling induced haze.

Yeah, I think it was a good choice.

I liked the film but I recoil now from its unnecessary grisliness. It was so good at suggesting a mood that the violence was redundant.

sure wish i'd had some sort of chemical enhancement while i had to sit through this tbh

xp yeah i think that's right.

i look back on this more fondly than i felt while i was actually watching it.

^^ how I felt about Meek's Cutoff

The US DVD release is one of the ugliest last-minute Photoshop rush jobs I've ever seen:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/91kjzaYRb0L._AA1500_.jpg

I finally watched this today on a flight while I was in a weird dreamy cold medicine and travelling induced haze and I really freaking loved it.

I just watched this the same way and didn't really like any of it, kind of seemed like shoot the piano player without all the jokes

fork in the eye was a decent joke

really needed to kill Gosling

i gotta say, this movie grew on me big time

this really needs to be a MAD movie parody

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/a2cc23e5de/drive-thru-official-movie-trailer

"what do you do?"
*grin*
"i drive... for movies"
*grin*
*looks away bashfully*
*silence*
*shit-eating grin*

― am0n

^^^ i think about this every time someone mentions the movie

gosling plays it kinda "special" throughout the whole movie

OK, so this film was "stylish"< with all the good and bad that labels contains. I have also been struck down by the lurgee, so the slow-prettiness of it worked rather well. Nice enough as a story, but Gosling's blank canvass act was irritating. Like, there was a big hole at the centre of the film which is usually filled with character? Nice soundtrack - not just the the tunes (where the electro noises meshed well with the cityscape) but the whole SOUND of driving.

And props once again for that tense opening sequence.

i ended up seeing the theatrical cut w/ the correct music and liked it just as much.

same dude did the music for Contagion btw.

also: http://www.shop-steady.com/Drive-Mens-Replica-Racer-Jacket-p/drive004.htm

gosling plays it kinda "special" throughout the whole movie

― latebloomer, Wednesday, January 4, 2012 9:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ha i thought the same thing when i saw it:

thought it was interesting that they exaggerated the stereotypical heroic stoicness/silence/singlemindedness to the point where the main character seemed borderline retarded. like he exhibited literally no signs of intelligent thought/planning, his only asset is being able to drive.

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, September 23, 2011 10:26 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I don't see how RG can be labeled so "cool" when he was lis'nin to the Clippers

he could tell they were going to sign chris paul this season

The more I think about this the more I like it. I wish I could watch it again right now.

clippers have been the la hipster team of choice for at least a couple of years now

so has anyone encountered the novel author's work before? He's written criticism/bios of crime writers too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Sallis

I haven't but I read this earlier which I thought was sort of interesting wrt people citing RG as playing the driver sort of special:

The novel Drive by James Sallis was published in 2005.[3] Producers Marc E. Platt and Adam Siegel of Marc Platt Productions optioned the novel after Siegel read a review of it in Publisher's Weekly.[4] The Driver intrigued Siegel because he was "the kind of character you rarely see anymore - he was a man with a purpose; he was very good at one thing and made no apologies for it." The character interested Platt because he reminded him of movie heroes he looked up to as a child, characters typically portrayed by Steve McQueen or Clint Eastwood.[4]

both of whom are borderline retarded....?

Well, "Shame" was pretty bad.

No I just think that whatever impression people got that he was playing it "special" (whatever that means really) might be down to the fact that his whole character really just has one purpose and that's it. There's no fleshing it out or need to really because that's his sole role and purpose and perhaps that's why he gave the impression that he did to some. Listen, I don't know much about movies I just thought it was interesting, that's all.

:)

fwiw some of the standout tracks were by the Chromatics/Glass Candy guy who (as I'm sure we went over upthread) had most of a soundtrack written for this that was shelved for Cliff Martinez's score

Martinez has done some excellent scores, including a few Soderbergh films -- his score for that version of Solaris is pretty freaking awesome

This may or may not have something to do with that
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/symmetrys-themes-for-an-imaginary-film-evokes-cinematic-soundtrack-of-life/2011/12/30/gIQAN4KwWP_story.html

the only Johnny Jewel song in this is the one that plays during the opening scene along w/ the Clippers broadcast.

also wtf @ you ppl: "special"?

have any of you ever watched a movie ever?

the only Johnny Jewel song in this is the one that plays during the opening scene along w/ the Clippers broadcast.

fwiw some of the standout tracks were by the Chromatics/Glass Candy guy who (as I'm sure we went over upthread) had most of a soundtrack written for this that was shelved for Cliff Martinez's score

Nah, not that one. There were a few articles on a handful of music sites that referenced it.

Yeah, it was kind of weird for Pitchfork to hint in their Symmetry review that these songs were the ones meant for Drive, even though, from what I can tell, he's pretty much flat out said these aren't those scrapped songs.

In the Refn interview with Elvis Mitchell, he breaks down, in pretty specific detail, how the movie is a fairy tale, and the driver is a knight.

Refn says it here, too:

I read Grimm fairytales to my daughter a few years ago, and the idea with Drive was similar. You have the driver [Ryan Gosling] who's like a knight, the innocent maiden [Carey Mulligan], the evil king [Albert Brooks] and the dragon [Ron Perlman]. They're all archetypes.

It takes place in a city of millions but you never really see anyone. That isolates them, makes it very specific.

It took me about an hour to figure out what you ppl meant by "special." GTFO

gosling plays it kinda "fancy" throughout the whole movie

Reminds me of when a friend's wife took him to see the movie "Radio" in the theater. About five minutes in, he turned to her and angrily whispered, "You didn't tell me this was a movie about SPECIAL PEOPLE!"

Nah, not that one. There were a few articles on a handful of music sites that referenced it.

― mh, Friday, January 6, 2012 3:19 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah, it was kind of weird for Pitchfork to hint in their Symmetry review that these songs were the ones meant for Drive, even though, from what I can tell, he's pretty much flat out said these aren't those scrapped songs.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, January 6, 2012 3:24 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

From this entry from the comments of that IDIB blog entry I linked to upthread it's clear that indeed a) there was a soundtrack that Jewel & Walker made and b) this was not the stuff that is now released under the Symmetry banner and c) Angelo Badalamenti was originally hired for the job?!

Italians Do It Better said...
HEY JESSICA, YOU SAID IT NOT US : )
BUT WE AGREE...IT'S PRETTY COMMON KNOWLEDGE NOW THAT THEY WERE REALLY INSPIRED BY THE IMAGERY OF "NIGHT DRIVE". WE HEARD THE STUFF JOHNNY & NAT DID FOR DRIVE.IT'S SICK...BUT IT'S MORE AMBIENT THAN SYMMETRY. CLIFF & JOHNNY WERE GIVEN THE SAME TEMP CUES. MOSTLY BRIAN ENO'S APOLLO & MUSIC FOR FILM, WITH A LITTLE BIT OF ANGELO BADALEMENTI IN THERE WHO WAS APPARENTLY THE ORIGINAL COMPOSER HIRED FOR THE JOB. XO

Yeah, electronic badalamenti would have been all over this flick

So, wait, have their original tracks for the movie actually been released, or not really?

apparently not, but JJ has said they'll probably release it in some form

1) this interview (already linked a few times upthread) will answer every question you could possibly have about Johnny Jewel's involvement with this movie (without actually hearing anything he recorded): http://www.boxofficemagazine.com/articles/2011-09-johnny-jewel-on-developing-the-unique-soundtrack-for-drive

2) the screener i downloaded had Eno, Badalamenti's Mullholland Drive theme, as well as Trent Reznor's theme from The Social Network, if you wanna see it: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6700250/Drive_2011_SCR_XviD-playXD

3) Angelo Badalamenti was never a part of this project, his name was just used as a "place-holder" in the opening credits of that screener: http://welcometotwinpeaks.com/movies/drive-david-lynch-angelo-badalamenti/

Thank you x 3. First clicked to this thread yesterday, should have spend some more time reading through it before posting.

no, when it comes to 500+ post ILE movie threads, you really shouldn't waste time reading the whole thing

excellent detective work, all

Would Morbs approve?

http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles24/832885/projects/2783319/85d53eb378ac684fcb30d58970501fc3.png

From: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Movies-From-An-Alternate-Universe/2783319

This is the real tester:

http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles24/832885/projects/2783319/cd8e7625a989ba2386e664300c08cf85.png

John Ford would point out that there's "no story."

lol @ the avatar poster

lol @ morbs.