i think friedkin's Bug is the lowest scoring movie in cinemascore history
Kind of a badge of honor.
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Sunday, 18 September 2011 06:01 (twelve years ago) link
loved this. puts the nail in bullshit slapstick post-post-post-Tarantino post-Ritchie SMOKIN ACES bullshit madcap gangster bullshit. crime is sad all up and down the chain.
loved the self-conscious retro vibe, the title typeface, the long holds, the complete absence of score, the vangelis-y soundtrack elements. There are really very few acts of violence. It's just that they're... violent, which seems a far more moral cinematic position to take than the typical spray of poorly aimed bullets and one-punch knockouts.
pace am0n the script was dope. our lead more or less speaks in monosyllables until... well, when his first consecutive sentences come out, everything changes. that's a very neat trick. very little dialogue at all, really.
reminded me, oddly (or not so oddly given that it's a noir with a lot of breathing room that captures LA's particular brand of loneliness) of BLADE RUNNER.
dunno what movie morbs saw but i don't get the nerd-fantasy aspect at all. great reminder of just how little you need to create suspense/horror/pity/catharsis. glad I saw it in a theater. made me like being at the movies for the first time in a long time.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Sunday, 18 September 2011 06:55 (twelve years ago) link
man, I really envy Gosling's toothpick.
I'd rather be Jake Gyllenhaal's bicycle seat.
dunno what movie morbs saw
I haven't seen it, I am gleaning the dissents.
YOU PPL WIN AGAIN, I'LL SEE IT, SOMEDAY, FUCK FUCK FUCK
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 18 September 2011 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
I think the only reason you come into these threads to say "I'm not going to see this" is so we can all badger you into a situation where you feel you absolutely MUST see it.
― Gukbe, Sunday, 18 September 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
Almost everyone you normally trust is on the CON side with this, Morbs. Don't know why you feel the need to catch it.
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Sunday, 18 September 2011 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
Saw this today. I've hated every previous Refn movie except Valhalla Rising, and/but I own both The Driver and Thief on DVD. This movie pretty much had me the second I saw the neon pink opening credits and heard the synth score. Beautifully shot, zero unnecessary elements...loved it.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Sunday, 18 September 2011 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
Eric, like Popeye Doyle, I don't trust anybody.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 18 September 2011 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
morbs do you own any records from the italians do it better label? did you watch ALOT of hbo in 1983? look at the poster - that font, blow yr mind? if the answer to any of these questions is yes you might like drive, otherwise don't bother.
― balls, Sunday, 18 September 2011 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
didn't have cable in '83
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 18 September 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
not even for the telegraph?
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Sunday, 18 September 2011 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
holy shit the violence in this film!
― buzza, Monday, 19 September 2011 02:52 (twelve years ago) link
i don't think a morbs would really dig this
i liked the visual aesthetic, the noir-ish "precision" in dialogue, albert brooks' performance.
i thought the soundtrack choices were very ~euopean~
― buzza, Monday, 19 September 2011 02:57 (twelve years ago) link
Still collecting my thoughts, but really dug this on the whole.
Russ Tamblyn was the crime doctor!
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 19 September 2011 03:09 (twelve years ago) link
i noticed tambs in the credits and couldnt even remember him in the movie
― The sham nation of Israel should be destroyed. (Princess TamTam), Monday, 19 September 2011 03:17 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, he's in the movie for literally 30 secs-1 min.
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 19 September 2011 03:26 (twelve years ago) link
YES! YES! YESHSHG! GO HOME TO SHITSYLVANIA, LOSERS!
― The sham nation of Israel should be destroyed. (Princess TamTam), Monday, 19 September 2011 03:43 (twelve years ago) link
wrong thread.
morbs skip it and rent 'bronson' instead
― am0n, Monday, 19 September 2011 03:49 (twelve years ago) link
I've had a screener disc of Bronson for 2-3 years.Will probably have time to watch it in January.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 September 2011 05:07 (twelve years ago) link
Watch Bronson! It pretty much single-handedly sold me on Tom Hardy's potential.
― mh, Monday, 19 September 2011 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
yeah Bronson is flawed but Hardy is really impressive
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Monday, 19 September 2011 14:44 (twelve years ago) link
I'd say that as a whole movie it's uneven, but some of the set pieces in there are really great and, hey, if nude Tom Hardy is your thing then it's even better.
― mh, Monday, 19 September 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
On thread topic, I actually saw Drive yesterday and will write something here after my thoughts come to a head.
― mh, Monday, 19 September 2011 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
"Logan's Run"No, seriously: Gosling and Refn can't get enough of each other. They're planning on a remake of this 1976 sci-fi classic, with Gosling playing the starring role of a guy living in a dystopian world where no one is allowed to live past the age of 30. The project has long been in development, with directors like Bryan Singer coming and going. Fingers crossed that Gosling and Refn can succeed where others have fallen short.
No, seriously: Gosling and Refn can't get enough of each other. They're planning on a remake of this 1976 sci-fi classic, with Gosling playing the starring role of a guy living in a dystopian world where no one is allowed to live past the age of 30. The project has long been in development, with directors like Bryan Singer coming and going. Fingers crossed that Gosling and Refn can succeed where others have fallen short.
― am0n, Monday, 19 September 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
Last I'd heard an LR remake was going to lower the age to 21 for greater appeal to the core audience.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 September 2011 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
The age in the book is 21!
― mh, Monday, 19 September 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
"eyes crossed"
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
why would anyone cross their fingers that a Logan's Run remake will happen?
― Gukbe, Monday, 19 September 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
bcz really, remaking '70s garbage is the summit of cinematic aspiration
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 September 2011 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
can't wait 4 remakes of remakes
― am0n, Monday, 19 September 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
..(wait for it)... of remakes.
― am0n, Monday, 19 September 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
The Award for Best Movie Musical based on a Musical based on a Movie...
― Gukbe, Monday, 19 September 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
"can't wait 4 remakes of remakes"
The Thing is coming out in October.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 19 September 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
I'm going to remake The Maltese Falcon.
― mh, Monday, 19 September 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
they remade Casablanca as Barb Wire, so y not
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 September 2011 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
Alan Cumming in Peter Lorre's role
― mh, Monday, 19 September 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
Meryl Streep as Gutman.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
I... did not know this
what the hell
― sick yr finger up his butt (DJP), Monday, 19 September 2011 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
Rufus Wainwright as the gunsel
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 September 2011 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
OK, I just got on a mental tangent of imagining what films would be like with different casts.
Drive starring Seann William Scott as the driver
― mh, Monday, 19 September 2011 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
Dude, Where's My Million Dollars?
― that's not funny. (unperson), Monday, 19 September 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah this isn't Tarantino-style geek violence.
― Gukbe, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
i totally fucking enjoyed this.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 09:05 (twelve years ago) link
also dr morbius i know this probably won't and shouldn't prompt any public self-reflection but your whole highbrow tsk-tsk schtick is embarrassing and too revealing -- it demonstrates exactly the opposite of what i expect you want it to demonstrate (that you're a cynical sophisticate).
anyway this film is by no means perfect. but i'm deeply skeptical of the usual "style over substance" complaint. style _is_ substance. and this had a lot of style. i didn't like the use of slo-mo, though paradoxically (?) i wish that refn pushed the boundaries of taste (not in terms of violence but in terms of film language) a bit more. on that score i liked the brooding superimpositions.
anyway on the level of "would you recommend that other people see this" i'd say HELL YES.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 09:12 (twelve years ago) link
also LOL at people who have well-formed opinions on MOVIES THAT THEY HAVEN'T SEEN.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 09:13 (twelve years ago) link
also some reviews seem to complain about gosling + mulligan being "unconvincing." what wold convince them? that they have INTERESTS IN COMMON? or A DEEP INTELLECTUAL CONNECTION? i mean, it's not that kind of movie. their characters are axioms. there's one brief but spellbinding sequence where gosling is about to leave her apartment and there are a few silent close-ups where they lock eyes and it's like THIS IS ON. that's all we need, really.
also nice that the italo revival now has a feature film to its credit. :)
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 09:16 (twelve years ago) link
i mean this movie could have been smarter, more intricate. it could have been better. but taken at face value it was super-entertaining to watch.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 09:25 (twelve years ago) link
haha refn is so plastered here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/video/2011/may/22/cannes-film-festival-ryan-gosling
if i was hanging out in cannes with an expense account i'd be sloshed too
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 09:27 (twelve years ago) link
also danish accents are fascinating because they basically learn better english than we americans do.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 09:29 (twelve years ago) link