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

no, i hear you. my ideal movie would've been a lot more like that (killer) opening sequence, though i still liked it for what it was. and you're otm about that kid/mom montage being exactly where it started to lose me

I think it was supposed to be neato that they went to some little woodsy oasis by the LA river, but it was pretty cheesy and kinda even borderline embarassing

I thought they avoided embarrassment through ritualized undercharacterization and a lack of pursuing anything really novel. Chilling at a park? Most generic human experience.

i'm with homo on this one, i kinda cringed at that part

I really liked this.

I think the mom/kid stuff served the exact purpose it was supposed to: give a searching and aimless person something to find a purpose in. I agree with whoever said it was like a comic book hero origin story.

it was very similar to Valhalla Rising i thought, just more successful, or at least the religious overtones seemed a little more moving this time.

the mask was really interesting! also tons of visual stuff going on with light/shadow--kind of in the Western mode of the hero exiling himself from the Eden he helps create.

did he really wear the mask just because it was creepy

its p creppy

I don't really need any more justification than that, tbh. its a fascinating image! I loved the slo-mo shot of Perlman grinding on some random blonde.

each to their own

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/108867adc4/drive-to-shitty-music-trailer

Watching this movie made me want to rewatch The Driver, which uh I did at work today because the entire movie is on YouTube.

^^I rescreened it on dvd the other day. Forgot how much Adjani's part consisted of looking alternately cool & scared in the cab of pickup.

i love that the descrip on the youtube vid is "the full movie of the driver enjoy"

the font was fucking awesome

^^I rescreened it on dvd the other day. Forgot how much Adjani's part consisted of looking alternately cool & scared in the cab of pickup.

― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, September 28, 2011 7:11 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

yeah adjani is just there to look pretty, but then again so is ryan o'neal (who has always struck me as a ridiculous actor). the romantic stuff in the film is completely superfluous.

i like the driver but i feel like it doesn't go all the way in the minimalist direction that is it's raison d'etre, and if it doesn't go all the way it's sort of a problem since going all the way is the point.

it's = its

I cannot comprehend ron perlman really

I've only seen o'neal in Barry Lyndon, so i probably have a very distorted view of his effectiveness.

one other thing i liked about this movie was how it was very self-referentially about Refn himself "going hollywood."

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

― am0n, Sunday, September 18, 2011 12:29 AM (1 week ago)

This is hilariously otm. Loved it though

yeah adjani is just there to look pretty, but then again so is ryan o'neal (who has always struck me as a ridiculous actor). the romantic stuff in the film is completely superfluous.

i like the driver but i feel like it doesn't go all the way in the minimalist direction that is it's raison d'etre, and if it doesn't go all the way it's sort of a problem since going all the way is the point.

The romantic subplot is ridiculously vague. Of course, it's roughly xeroxed from the Delon/Rossier plotline in Le samourai, minus Melville's symbolism.

Having looked at both of those films after catching Drive, it reinforced one of things I found most refreshing about the new film: No cops. (Aside from the opening chase & Mulligan's interview after the blown heist). It's all about these underworld types slowly self-destructing.

that makes me think of ghost dog

you know: the way of the samurai

oh THAT ghost dog

congratulations congratulations that was the joke

oh THAT was the joke

congratulation

hey guys i think we can all agree the prequel, GHOST DOG: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD, is best forgotten

No love for Strongo Hulkington's Ghost Dog Part Deaux?

this was BOSS

"what do you do?"
*grin*
"i drive... for movies"
*grin*
*looks away bashfully*
*silence*
*shit-eating grin*
― am0n, Sunday, September 18, 2011 12:29 AM (1 week ago)

but yeah this is otm

q about the opening sequence: did he just ditch those dudes in the parking garage? like was he bailing or was that a job done?

I think that was the end of the job?

ah ok. i assumed as much, it just seemed like the dudes in the backseat were a little "wait what are we doing here"

maybe they're saving that for the sequel

he was past his 5 minute mark, he said explicitly anything that happens after that isn't his business, so I think he was just getting out of there. I assume they got caught. maybe not though.

the five minutes was for outside the place, no?

yeah p sure that's the case

Guy who's in charge of the pawn shop job knows the score basically. Gosling's character is too hard to work wih

q about the opening sequence: did he just ditch those dudes in the parking garage? like was he bailing or was that a job done?

― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Friday, October 7, 2011

job done.

timed precisely to get them into the Staples Center garage just as the Laker game ends (seen on his TV at halftime in establishing). silver impala now one of hundreds. all three blend into crowd and walk out whistling.

I kind of liked that you couldn't tell if the other two dudes got out ok

it was the Clippers iirc

Oh right. It was. Still: perfect getaway.

"what do you do?"
*grin*
"i drive... for movies"
*grin*
*looks away bashfully*
*silence*
*shit-eating grin*
― am0n, Sunday, September 18, 2011 12:29 AM (1 week ago)

but yeah this is otm
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Friday, October 7, 2011 4:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Yes it is.. but I don't see anything wrong with that.

http://s23.theawl.com/hair/up/2011/10/Drive9.jpg

more

yeah that's so great

i don't get the big deal about this movie.

>:(

"How you gonna fit all them titties into two seconds?" is what the weird asshole part of my brain just thought.

lol

i love that lady's reviews