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

tell us your thoughts, trace!

mind-mendingly wonderful, more like ;)

tracer otm

I preordered this on blu-ray, think it's shipped, I'm hyped. HYPED

I have thought about this movie a lot in the last month since I first saw it. To me that has to be a good thing.

Actually I have no idea how I'll feel on second viewing, but I really enjoyed Refn's other films I got around to watching

As of August 2011, Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn was attached to direct the remake of Logan's Run with actor Ryan Gosling attached to star.[17] Refn and Gosling had recently worked together on the 2011 thriller Drive.

did morbz watch 'bronson' yet

>Logan's Run with actor Ryan Gosling attached to star

See, this could be amazing or ghastly, don't think there's much chance of middle ground. <3 the original.

>preordered this on blu-ray

Yup, just awaiting delivery of mine; Apparently the blu has a phenomenal transfer, am looking fwd to cranking up College etc on the surround sound too.

Bronson was great, kind of a flawed film but a really great vision and showcase for Tom Hardy

I just about lost my shit when I was at the liquor store last week and "It's a Sin" by the Pet Shop Boys came on. Can never hear it again without remembering that scene from Bronson.

What is this Bronson? Should I see it?

It is a pseudo-biopic about a crazy violent British man who keeps getting imprisoned and/or committed starring Tom Hardy. And yeah, he takes the name Bronson after Charles Bronson.

So, yes.

yes you should see it, it is his best film imo.

Nice. Will do.

Should I see "Kill List"? Tyres is in this, right?

xp there's a lot more violence than drive if that's an issue, but it's kind of constant low level fighting and swearing rather than skulls and hammers 60 minutes into a moving tumblr

am0n, no

read Refn and Goz are doing some other non-Logan's Run film next

this http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1602613/

x-post - Nah, shouldn't be a problem. With the exception the head stomping elevator scene, the violence in Drive didn't really bother me.

i have 'pusher 3' added to my netflix, do those need to be watched in order

Hmm, another crime thriller, eh?

Liked Drive, despite having several issues with it, so i decided to check out Bronson. Big mistake.

valhalla rising, y'all

^^ really good but not at all what I expected. It's so dreamlike.

valhalla rising, y'all

yup. my favorite of the 3 refn films i've seen (chopper, VH & drive). like if om's conference of the birds was a movie about vikings.

haha otm

Yeah VR is better than Drive, for sure.

I'm guessing you've confused Chopper (which is a much better film) with Bronson, contenderizer)?

Should I see "Kill List"?

Yes.

Love Bronson, really impressed with Drive, but I still think Fear X is Refyn's best film. John Turturro is really great in the central role of a security guard who becomes obsessed with tracking down his wife's killer.
It's slow-building, but gets increasingly tense as we follow Turturro's character's descent into a type of mental disintegration. Some scenes - like the one where he breaks into a house in search of clues - are heart-in-mouth gripping. Others are tinged with a dark surrealism, especially when Harry checks into a (strangely Barton Fink-esque) hotel where reality and nightmarish fantasy overlap. It's less Kubrick this one, more Lynch doing Hitchcock. It rules.

Harry = Turturro's character.

god, Kill List was so bad

Brilliant film.

sure, for an incoherent mish-mash that hides its lack of a proper script behind some bullshit attempt at being enigmatic

I'm guessing you've confused Chopper (which is a much better film) with Bronson, contenderizer)?

lol yeah, and VH was supposed to be VR.

wonder if anyone else sees something quasi-fascist in chopper, valhalla rising, and drive. a romanticized, even eroticized celebration of "natural" and violent masculine stoicism in opposition to the hypocrisy of corrupt civilization. the image of the primeval male: inarticulate, simple, steadfast and morally untainted, his alienation proving his purity. VR and drive double down on this by emphasizing man-boy relationships, adding a heroic sentimentality to the mix.

have you confused chopper again?

guilty. someone made the comparison upthread, and the wires apparently got crossed in my head. there are lots of wires, btw, most of them uninsulated.

anyway, the thing to do is to read the preceding post as written, but mentally substitute the word "bronson" for the word "chopper". for example: wonder if anyone else sees something quasi-fascist in bronson, valhalla rising, and drive.

i think its a stretch to fit chopper into that schema, the movie is pretty skeptical of c. read in a lot of ways

valhalla rising and bronson are both in the interestin-but-flawed category for me. i think they're both kinda boring tbh. bronson's a great perf in search of a great movie. VR should be right in my wheelhouse since its about building cairns and also how odin is the one true god, but again, eh, maybe i shouldve seen it in the theater. some of the images are really striking

oh heh missed that you meant bronson

are bronson and chopper the same film?

choppers a lot better imo

are bronson and chopper the same film?

depends who you ask

Chopper > Bronson iirc

it's like this movie was produced in the eighties. Kinda like action films, sexy stuff. One critic called them European. I thought they were shit.

^ line from chopper, fyi

i would've liked the chopper but it was so obviously derivative of the driver.

i really liked this, ridiculous and sublime
all that slow tension violently punctuated, oof

and the soundtrack was great too

Don't sell it short, there's a lot of Thief & To Live & Die in L.A. in this, too

I may rewatch this tonight when I get back from a hockey game, in the dark, sipping scotch if I am in the mood

btw I have no idea (well, some idea) why they didn't use the superior movie poster art for the cover of the home release. The DVD/BIu-Ray cover is dumb.

this was also fulfilling in its LA-ness, yeah, and also made me want to drive (montreal does not make me want to drive)