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

a re-al-human-being and a re-al-hero. who else has had this song going through their head for 10 straight hours?

[raises hand]

well, for at least 10 hours after seeing the film. but that was a while back.

Yup.

I love that song. It does get stuck in my head a lot but I also listen to it a lot on purpose.

I don't really like that song. but the Kavinsky one was cool.

sometimes it comes up on my ipod when i'm driving at night and it's awesome /cliche

it is a great song. never minded having it stuck in my head.

i get the chromatics song stuck in my head when i'm driving at night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWD7k6TrJ-g

imo just make a cd that is that track repeated until the cd stops and then glue it into your car's cd player

This film shouldn't have been called "Drive", it should have been called "Gormlessly Smirking At Each Other And Doing Fuck All Else" is what it should have been called.

Not enough driving, not enough Christina Hendricks, not enough ANYTHING in this movie. Just vacant gazing. Ryan Gosling's too young and too pretty to pull off the silent Steve McQueen type. Carey Mulligan's a good actress, but she's a rosie-cheeked meatsack with nice eyelashes in this. Why have two main characters whose default personality setting is switched to "off"?

Somehow I didn't find the violent bits at all shocking, only in retrospect and reading through this thread did I think "Oh yeah, they did shoot someone through the side of the head", but I've become so desensitised to this kind of on-screen gore through films and video games that it doesn't register any more.

Slickly produced? If "slick" translates as "devoid of any emotional impact + garish pink fonts lifted from an early-'90s teen comedy", fair enough.

Hot Seats, Cool Beats

Loved Bronson though...

Also, anyone else notice that bit where Perlman gets knocked off the cliff is eerily similar to Guillermo del toro's 'Cronos', also starring him?

Watched the blu-ray of this last night, and cosign all those who says it looks magnificent, even if it is very early21c O&T-ified. On second viewing, the stylised lighting/directing and lack of any kind of characterization stopped being a problem, and I just enjoyed what was rather than being annoyed at what it wasn't.

so much Teal! so much Orange!

that is now officially the least interesting thing you can say about a movie on ilx fyi

or anywhere

It would make a good Wiz Khalifa parody video though

Brooks was so good in this. It's always nice to see Perlman act like a human. Cranston has the spine of jelly down pat, now doesn't he?

Cranston has a hell of a range!

I heart him. He is way dreamier than Gosling.

I think I have a sugar high from this mountain dew, please ignore that last statement.

i'm sure mountain dew has caused stranger things to happen

enjoyed this last night. made me tense! the violence was very crunchy.

can't believe nobody mentioned the mad men lady on this thread. at least in passing. thought people loved her.

she was in the movie for five minutes!

true. but it was memorable!

this movie definitely made me wish that i had a huge t.v. and big speakers and a blu-ray player. feel like i live in the stone age sometimes.

People talked about Joan! Somebody even quoted an article: "...how they gonna fit them tittays into five minutes?!?!"

This is playing here as a midnight movie next weekend. Looking forward to seeing it on the big screen again.

that crunchy kinda-see-it-kinda-don't violent thing is so effective, isn't it? and gruesome. and jarring. cronenberg has been working it pretty good too. david lynch was always good at it. the elevator scene in drive though...in some sort of league of its own.

cronenberg loves to show off the effects work. he would have closed the elevator scene with a few second of the ruined head leaking into the carpet.

It seems like he's kind of moved away from that with the Viggo films, though? It's been a while since I saw A History of Violence or Eastern Promises but I don't remember the camera lingering on anything for too long.

hmmmm. Nice flick, but needed more car sequences with a title "Drive"

surely about 50% of the film is car sequences as it is

cronenberg loves to show off the effects work. he would have closed the elevator scene with a few second of the ruined head leaking into the carpet.

― contenderizer, Saturday, June 30, 2012 5:00 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

apparently they cut down some head squashin' to avoid NC-17

this is a pretty good movie. The scene where Gosling threatens that dude in the diner showed a promise that the rest of the movie didn't deliver.

I just saw this and I'm sure all angles have been covered in this thread, so I'll just say I liked the style fine, thought Ryan Gosling was distractingly bland, Albert Brooks was fun, and it didn't all amount to much.

agreedo

The scene w/the Gos rebuilding a carb showed a promise of more mechanic scenes the film failed to deliver.

I think Gos was going for the flat affect that lots of sociopaths have but I wish we saw more of him being terrifying/spooky.

Thought Gosling being friendly, smiling for a second at a time, blinking repeatedly was plenty spooky thru the whole movie.

i didn't believe for a minute that he was a mechanical genius killing machine, but i still liked the movie. i mean i didn't need a ton of back story, but there was nothing about him that suggested that he could do what he did. i didn't even believe that he was an expert getaway driver let alone the world's greatest stunt diver or world's greatest race car driver. unless he was actually a cyborg. i would have believed it if it was jason statham in the part. there is make believe and there is make believe. watching that trailer for the new tom cruise movie makes me feel the same way. like, dude, really? not that the Gos is 4 feet tall, but he's such a Gos.

but i still enjoyed it. i mean i can enjoy matt damon as the world's most deadly spy too even if its a really silly idea.

I think it's less that he's a mechanical genius killing machine, more that his maybe-sociopathy-whatever gives him a lack of empathy enough that he can pull that off when the story goes to that place, for a very small chunk of time

yeah, i didn't think we had to believe that he was really the best in the world at anything. just a good driver who happened also to be a remorseless killer when called upon. didn't have much trouble buying gosling in the role, tbh. he's creepy.

really good style (<3 chromatics) which is so hard to find! so I liked it, though had to look away at times.

I thought it was interesting how they left out all backstory and context about the driver. a person with that kind of flat affect and capacity for violence - you would imagine they got to be that way somehow, or there would be some cultural context to explain it (eg takeshi kitano does the flat-affect thing but it's not weird that someone in yakuza world would be violent). here you have absolutely nothing to explain why he is that way, it's as if that's how he's always been. so I found it super creepy that they've got this very attractive actor who is the hero (in the sense of being the focus of the story) and yet as the level of violence goes up - the way it's shot, the icy music, the way it's carried out, that it's not with guns, the relentlessness of it, and the lack of expression (the scenes where he's wearing the mask underscore it) - this kind of character in other movies is the monster/serial killer right? maybe gaspar noë does this kind of thing in some of his recent films, I can't watch them so I don't know. but overall I had the impression that we are looking at one part of a continuum in which the driver brutally kills a lot of people. it has happened before and will happen again wherever he goes next. i got a horror movie vibe from it more than anything else

I had the impression that we are looking at one part of a continuum in which the driver brutally kills a lot of people. it has happened before and will happen again wherever he goes next. i got a horror movie vibe from it more than anything else

yeah, that's exactly how i read it. the romantic lead/action hero as scary monster.

yeah. I like that it doesn't explain much. realizing that what I dislike in movies far more than excessive graphic violence is the overexplaining of it - the characters that just talk and talk and talk and talk and talk (kill bill, no country, seule contre tous, etc)