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

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.

Also they said "he didn't even look attractive!" which makes no sense because Gosling looks exactly like does in every other film, but with tattoos and a smaller selection of shirts

his look was fantastic

otm

he kinda just looks like griffin pyn aka Sewn Leather

the new nicolas winding refn looks promising:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEFCN4qaYt4

So I haven't seen this movie but i have played a lot of "Hotline Miami". My friends tell me I would really like this movie if I like that game so much but frankly, i really wouldn't want to see a HM movie though.

his look was fantastic

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man nobody in 1995 looked like that

well he was basically a carny

i thought everything w/ the kids in modern day was better than goz's plotline

yeah ive been hearing people say gosling's part of the film was the best but i didnt think so. felt like same old, same old to me. and it didnt seem appropriate to recycle his Drive mannerisms for luke. i dug the modern day part of it because of how nicely observed the interactions between the two kids was - felt p true to how teenage boys talk to each other

coop section wasnt anything fresh either but it was funny seeing all these swinging dick character actors suddenly popping up in what felt like such a sparse story. appreciated his starter jacket and dad jeans look more than gosling's celeb trying to be photographed at coachella in 2013 thing. get your damn zubaz and artfully unlaced combat boots out of here

heres a story that cracked me up

You gave Dane DeHaan his first Metallica CD to get into character.
DEREK CIANFRANCE: Really? Can I tell you something that's crazy? Lars Ulrich, he was my hero growing up. I wanted to be like him. I played the drums. So I make Blue Valentine, I'm up in Schenectady, and I get a text message, "Hey, Derek, it's Lars Ulrich. I just saw your movie, and it blew me away!" He says, "I'm going to go to every rooftop I can in San Francisco and tell people about it." And I was like, "You don't know this, but man, I'm only ... I stopped playing the drums because I knew I would never be as good as you. I thought maybe I could make movies the same way you play the drums, with integrity and aggression and passion and fire." So he became a friend! He had a movie tent at a music festival in Atlantic City, and he showed Blue Valentine to a bunch of sweaty kids with their shirts off at a Metallica concert! It was a really strange manifested dream come true.