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

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)

this movie did have japanese flavor to it. for some reason japanese zen killers work better. or are more believable somehow. i mean the director said he wanted it to be a fantasy fairy tale so i should just look at it like that and stop being a party pooper. maybe he should have made it even more mythical though. i did like the use of silence. that was nice. and the look was perfect. except for that jacket maybe...that was a totally mythical mickey rourke jacket.

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.

yeah I really liked this aspect of the movie. kinda taxi driver-ish.

i like how blondie went looking for him at his apartment after she had seen him smoosh someone's head in. if i were her i would have been in canada by then. but it is hard to find a guy who is good with children i suppose.

So judgemental to hold one head-smooshing against a person! Shame on you.

last night a head-smoosh saved my life

You know what I really liked about this movie?

Wait for it

The DRIVING!

Me too! would've watched a whole movie of gosling driving tbh

The opening chase-that's-not-actually-a-chase was cool as fuck. Such a great idea for an action scene -- stop and start, non-linear evasion, sort of like a car ninja.

Man, that sounded even stupider than I thought it would.

reminded me of the semi-chase in Way of the Gun.

Possibly the worst female character in cinema history. I'm sure this has all been addressed above but w/e.

Need to watch Way of the Gun again. I can never remember what happens after the first 25 minutes.

How did he find a parking space so quick inside Staples Arena? Didn't he need to get a ticket at the entrance first?

soundtrack back on sale: http://www.invada.co.uk/drive

The soundtrack is so good. I want the pink one. OOOHHHH!

i liked the overall vibe of the soundtrack but couldn't take that recurring theme song about how he's human or w/e.

Go to the ~Drive Tour~ (with a couple of the soundtrack bands and a random other) and see Hurting's fave song performed live.

Finally got around to seeing this. Something very LOL 90s indie film about it all. They're not saying anything! Must be some really deep thoughts going on! Except with fantastic driving bits and great soundtrack. Brooks and Cranston were rad.

"What do you do"

"Me make car go fast"

ha I love that song.

It's really weird to me that Drive Tour is an actual thing.

Eh, just a good way for a few artists who happened to be on the soundtrack to publicize their tour, afaict

Yeah. Still weird.

Could someone confirm if the actual cut of the film had the hacky Eno music cues? Its just been brought to my attention that i may have watched an early cut that was ripped off and having been using that as a basis for some epic cussing

Do you mean actual Eno stuff cut in, or the Cliff Martinez soundtrack?

you might be looking for the "did I torrent the release version or prerelease cut of this film" thread

yeah that's over on the board People Who Give a Shit

there was a pretty widely distributed version with an unfinished score floating about

that version used a lot of The Social Network score.

btw I hate to ruin it but that wolverine movie didn't have any green walls behind him in the theater

You know what I just realized the opening chase reminds me of? The scene in (is it Empire Strikes Back?) where the milennium falcon cuts the engines and hides under the star destroyer

the place beyond the pines, i saw it, and i liked it

it was cool

http://content.hollywire.com/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_teaser/public/2013/03/08/the-place-beyond-the-pines-ryan-gosling1-600x421.jpg

dont get face tattoos kids

unless you want to know how to ride motocycles really good and be sexy

I saw it, too. It was a multigenerational crime drama, which really confused the women behind me who didn't read a plot synopsis and exclaimed "I thought it was going to be a chick flick!" when the credits rolled. They were traumatized.