in which Eric serves
You got Ernst'd
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Friday, 16 September 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
I do like it when Cooper stabs Fredric March in the eye with a fork (Oscarworthy)
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 September 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
I'd like that irl
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Friday, 16 September 2011 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
really dark, too gory 4 sure but like bronson there'er some great scenes & refn is v skilled @ building tension. sound design & soundtrack are a+
― johnny crunch, Friday, 16 September 2011 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
he does appear to like his monotonous sequencers doesn't he
― goole, Friday, 16 September 2011 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
this will be my first time seeing a refn film (also never watched carey mulligan or gosling in anything)
also really want to see brooks be scary
On the phone from his home in Copenhagen, Drive director Refn says he "always wanted" Brooks for the role, but he still asked that the actor make his case for the part in person."There are certain things that I've wanted to do," Brooks says. "And one of them is to play a guy that's that guy — I don't like to call him a bad guy. I went to see Nicolas. [I said], 'You can go with the six people that are the bad guys in every movie ever made' — and I knew he wanted to hear this, because he asked me to come to his house — 'But, to me, it's more exciting when I don't know that I know everything that's going to happen when a guy comes on-screen.'"So Nicolas liked that, and he said, 'You know, when I was a young man, I watched that movie Lost in America and I saw you yelling at your wife, and it scared the hell out of me.' And I said, 'OK, that's good.'""Albert was like a volcano of emotions," Refn remembers, laughing. "There was something really unique — and threatening. I felt that this guy, eventually, he will kill somebody — so let's make it in a movie."
"There are certain things that I've wanted to do," Brooks says. "And one of them is to play a guy that's that guy — I don't like to call him a bad guy. I went to see Nicolas. [I said], 'You can go with the six people that are the bad guys in every movie ever made' — and I knew he wanted to hear this, because he asked me to come to his house — 'But, to me, it's more exciting when I don't know that I know everything that's going to happen when a guy comes on-screen.'
"So Nicolas liked that, and he said, 'You know, when I was a young man, I watched that movie Lost in America and I saw you yelling at your wife, and it scared the hell out of me.' And I said, 'OK, that's good.'"
"Albert was like a volcano of emotions," Refn remembers, laughing. "There was something really unique — and threatening. I felt that this guy, eventually, he will kill somebody — so let's make it in a movie."
^^^good idea for dark sequel to lost in america
― buzza, Friday, 16 September 2011 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
Projecting a #3 for the weekend at 11m. I think a midnight screening will be empty enough for me to see it tonight, after roadworks held me up in traffic and I missed an earlier screening.
― Gukbe, Friday, 16 September 2011 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i was thinking abt just going to see this tonight since im feeling to sick to go out properly
― Lamp, Friday, 16 September 2011 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
I like the thought of Morbs trying to find reasons not to see a movie and scrolling through the RT "Top Critics" section and finding the 2 Splats as enough justification to skip.
― Gukbe, Friday, 16 September 2011 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
Nicolas Winding Refn sought advice from Gaspar Noé on how to make brutal and realistic facial damage.
wtg Nick
― johnny crunch, Friday, 16 September 2011 22:55 (twelve years ago) link
that a movie is made for nerds who fetishize 'hypermasculine' slick violence is usu reason enough, Guk
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 September 2011 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
ie THAT'S A BINGO
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 September 2011 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
what about people who like thrillers?
― Gukbe, Friday, 16 September 2011 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
...or cars?
― Status Update...in my Seether? (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 16 September 2011 23:36 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046268/
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 September 2011 23:38 (twelve years ago) link
or, y'know, The Driver.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 September 2011 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
guess people should stop making movies
― Gukbe, Friday, 16 September 2011 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
just empty ones
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 September 2011 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
so is the problem that it's empty or that it's gory?
― Gukbe, Friday, 16 September 2011 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
htfdik
btw RT Top Critics are mostly syphilitic dumbshits.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 September 2011 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
then why are their reviews enough to convince you to skip it?
― Gukbe, Friday, 16 September 2011 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
you are annoying me; ta
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 September 2011 23:48 (twelve years ago) link
we really need an opens-umbrella-spins-on-heel-walks-away.gif for these moments
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 16 September 2011 23:59 (twelve years ago) link
Films that are likely to be unmorbs are obvious and he can tell immediately.
TA!
― mh, Saturday, 17 September 2011 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
some people find it hard to admit that they just don't like a certain type of thing.
― Gukbe, Saturday, 17 September 2011 00:08 (twelve years ago) link
What does this movie make you think and feel about Los Angeles?
― Pizzataco Five (admrl), Saturday, 17 September 2011 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
that the clippers are relevant
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 17 September 2011 00:24 (twelve years ago) link
hmmm
― Pizzataco Five (admrl), Saturday, 17 September 2011 00:25 (twelve years ago) link
Sometimes I don't know for sure I really truly liked a movie until morbs starts slamming it unseen.
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Saturday, 17 September 2011 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
let's face it, he's a maniac
― Pizzataco Five (admrl), Saturday, 17 September 2011 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
He'll kill us all.
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Saturday, 17 September 2011 00:59 (twelve years ago) link
Har, I went and saw Shoeshine in rep tonight instead of this. Morbs would've been proud.
― Status Update...in my Seether? (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 17 September 2011 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
i doubt drive is less "empty" than the driver. i love a film that is 100% style/technique
― buzza, Saturday, 17 September 2011 02:38 (twelve years ago) link
ha i think i meant more but w/e this is going to very stylized and the noir-by-numbers plot won't really get in the way of enjoying the visuals i reckon. and i def don't care for gratuitous violence but i'll wait to see the flick before commenting on that.
― buzza, Saturday, 17 September 2011 03:56 (twelve years ago) link
Sometimes I don't know for sure I really truly liked a movie until morbs starts slamming it unseen
You told me I didn't like it, sweet stuff! (also, this is the sight-unseen-I'm Not-There guy)
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 17 September 2011 04:39 (twelve years ago) link
Saw this tonight. There was this obnoxious fat idiot behind me commenting on how "ugly" Carey Mulligan was, and he said it in the most disgusting popcorn-eating fat slob voice: "GAH, (nom) SHEESH (nom) UGLEE!" I wanted to kill him.
Anyway, it was alright. Gorgeous to look at, great score and some awesome moments of tension, but still pretty hollow.
― occam's hellraiser (latebloomer), Saturday, 17 September 2011 06:16 (twelve years ago) link
Worth seeing, though.
― occam's hellraiser (latebloomer), Saturday, 17 September 2011 06:18 (twelve years ago) link
that was me
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Saturday, 17 September 2011 06:24 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― occam's hellraiser (latebloomer), Saturday, 17 September 2011 06:26 (twelve years ago) link
this is a pretty good character study about a man whose clippers fandom turned him into a rageful monster
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Saturday, 17 September 2011 06:35 (twelve years ago) link
this is pretty good, but like you said its hollow. the stylishness, tension, perfs carry it a long way. gosling's been promoting it as pretty in pink with violence, which made me afraid that it'd be some lame character study instead of a head-smashing good time. but the violence in it exceeded all expectations, reminded me of old school verhoeven like how total recall would have these explosions of comic brutality out of nowhere. i could see it again just for the gore money shots.
but in my opinion it fails at being a john hughes movie because gosling and mulligan are both from the wrong side of the tracks. hughes would never have stood for a same side of the tracks romance. nice try, you danish punk.
it would've been a lot closer to a great movie if they hacked out the carey mulligan character. nothing against her, but the character's a big nothing and has no place in a lean-n-mean walter hill ripoff. plus, gosling is already the movie's blank slate (he reminded me a little of leon from the professional - they're both unsettlingly childlike) - you cant bounce two blanks off each other like that
the multiplex audience was very uncomfortable with the movie's rhythms. lots of walkouts, even before the violent bits kicked in.
its no The Driver, but worth seeing if you dig that kind of movie
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Saturday, 17 September 2011 07:18 (twelve years ago) link
but in my opinion it fails at being a john hughes movie
first plausibly good thing I've read about it
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 17 September 2011 08:45 (twelve years ago) link
i wanted to see this before i heard about all the ultra-violence (don't enjoy that kind of thing usually). but ill see it anyway, since Valhalla Rising was kinda vacant but really gorgeous.
― ryan, Saturday, 17 September 2011 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
This was a completely senseless good time. And aside from one or two decent pieces the actors were completely wasted throughout (why even both getting good people if you aren't good to even use them well). I did like that it moves at such a languorous pace for the first hour before the violence explodes (audible gasp in my movie theater during the first such sequence--there seem to be a high percentage of folks who thought this was a "date movie", I guess.) Anyway I wasn't bored and the movie (and LA) looked great.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Saturday, 17 September 2011 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
The Driver might be a better movie than Drive (have to rescreen it) and Thief might be better too (which I also kept thinking of) but I'd rather watch Gosling than either O'Neal or Caan.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Saturday, 17 September 2011 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
The Driver is pretty good, but when did it become one of the unassailable '70s classics?
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Saturday, 17 September 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
yea i dont hold the driver or thief for that matter in v high regard & ive seen both fairly recently
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 17 September 2011 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
When Drive came out apparently. Walter Hill really is underrated though.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Saturday, 17 September 2011 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
I don't view it as such -- only saw it for the first time this spring -- just that it seems to be the most efficient ancestor of this film. I'm guessing Alex doesn't consider Drive the equal of Le Samourai, which some of the more wild-eyed supporters of this movie seem to be writing.
xxp
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 17 September 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, but c'mon. The Warriors > The Driver and everyone knows it.
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Saturday, 17 September 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link