the Gosling-Brooks denouement was particularly badly edited/ridiculous. yes, you are going to turn yr back on a gangster w/ a big knife collection.
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 January 2012 07:35 (twelve years ago) link
I finally watched this today on a flight while I was in a weird dreamy cold medicine and travelling induced haze and I really freaking loved it. Thought that Mulligan/her character were the weakest part - there was just nothing there. I loved the feel of the whole thing though it sort of peaked in the very beginning with the great opening scene. I LOVED the music even though it seemed weird and misplaced at times. Going to go look up soundtrack info now because I've had one song stuck in my head all day. I also really liked the end scene after he fought with Brooks and rewound that part about three times. Anyway I thought it was great and now I maybe even like Gosling a lot? He was pretty good in this at least.
― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
I finally watched this today on a flight while I was in a weird dreamy cold medicine and travelling induced haze and I really freaking loved it.
This really would be the perfect movie for a weird dreamy cold medicine and traveling induced haze.
― Nicole, Thursday, 5 January 2012 01:03 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I think it was a good choice.
― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Thursday, 5 January 2012 01:05 (twelve years ago) link
I liked the film but I recoil now from its unnecessary grisliness. It was so good at suggesting a mood that the violence was redundant.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 January 2012 01:08 (twelve years ago) link
sure wish i'd had some sort of chemical enhancement while i had to sit through this tbh
― carpy deems (darraghmac), Thursday, 5 January 2012 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
xp yeah i think that's right.
i look back on this more fondly than i felt while i was actually watching it.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 5 January 2012 01:34 (twelve years ago) link
^^ how I felt about Meek's Cutoff
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 January 2012 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
The US DVD release is one of the ugliest last-minute Photoshop rush jobs I've ever seen:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/91kjzaYRb0L._AA1500_.jpg
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Thursday, 5 January 2012 01:38 (twelve years ago) link
I just watched this the same way and didn't really like any of it, kind of seemed like shoot the piano player without all the jokes
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 5 January 2012 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
fork in the eye was a decent joke
really needed to kill Gosling
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 January 2012 02:48 (twelve years ago) link
i gotta say, this movie grew on me big time
― latebloomer, Thursday, 5 January 2012 03:37 (twelve years ago) link
this really needs to be a MAD movie parody
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 January 2012 03:41 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/a2cc23e5de/drive-thru-official-movie-trailer
― latebloomer, Thursday, 5 January 2012 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
"what do you do?"*grin*"i drive... for movies"*grin**looks away bashfully**silence**shit-eating grin*
― am0n
^^^ i think about this every time someone mentions the movie
― buzza, Thursday, 5 January 2012 03:52 (twelve years ago) link
gosling plays it kinda "special" throughout the whole movie
― latebloomer, Thursday, 5 January 2012 03:55 (twelve years ago) link
OK, so this film was "stylish"< with all the good and bad that labels contains. I have also been struck down by the lurgee, so the slow-prettiness of it worked rather well. Nice enough as a story, but Gosling's blank canvass act was irritating. Like, there was a big hole at the centre of the film which is usually filled with character? Nice soundtrack - not just the the tunes (where the electro noises meshed well with the cityscape) but the whole SOUND of driving.
And props once again for that tense opening sequence.
― get ready for the banter (NotEnough), Thursday, 5 January 2012 12:40 (twelve years ago) link
i ended up seeing the theatrical cut w/ the correct music and liked it just as much.
same dude did the music for Contagion btw.
also: http://www.shop-steady.com/Drive-Mens-Replica-Racer-Jacket-p/drive004.htm
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 5 January 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
― latebloomer, Wednesday, January 4, 2012 9:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
ha i thought the same thing when i saw it:
thought it was interesting that they exaggerated the stereotypical heroic stoicness/silence/singlemindedness to the point where the main character seemed borderline retarded. like he exhibited literally no signs of intelligent thought/planning, his only asset is being able to drive.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, September 23, 2011 10:26 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 5 January 2012 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
I don't see how RG can be labeled so "cool" when he was lis'nin to the Clippers
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 January 2012 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
he could tell they were going to sign chris paul this season
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 5 January 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
The more I think about this the more I like it. I wish I could watch it again right now.
― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Thursday, 5 January 2012 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
clippers have been the la hipster team of choice for at least a couple of years now
― Best-Penis (buzza), Thursday, 5 January 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
so has anyone encountered the novel author's work before? He's written criticism/bios of crime writers too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Sallis
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 January 2012 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
I haven't but I read this earlier which I thought was sort of interesting wrt people citing RG as playing the driver sort of special:
The novel Drive by James Sallis was published in 2005.[3] Producers Marc E. Platt and Adam Siegel of Marc Platt Productions optioned the novel after Siegel read a review of it in Publisher's Weekly.[4] The Driver intrigued Siegel because he was "the kind of character you rarely see anymore - he was a man with a purpose; he was very good at one thing and made no apologies for it." The character interested Platt because he reminded him of movie heroes he looked up to as a child, characters typically portrayed by Steve McQueen or Clint Eastwood.[4]
― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Thursday, 5 January 2012 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
both of whom are borderline retarded....?
― carpy deems (darraghmac), Thursday, 5 January 2012 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
Well, "Shame" was pretty bad.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 5 January 2012 23:35 (twelve years ago) link
No I just think that whatever impression people got that he was playing it "special" (whatever that means really) might be down to the fact that his whole character really just has one purpose and that's it. There's no fleshing it out or need to really because that's his sole role and purpose and perhaps that's why he gave the impression that he did to some. Listen, I don't know much about movies I just thought it was interesting, that's all.
― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Thursday, 5 January 2012 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
:)
― carpy deems (darraghmac), Thursday, 5 January 2012 23:53 (twelve years ago) link
fwiw some of the standout tracks were by the Chromatics/Glass Candy guy who (as I'm sure we went over upthread) had most of a soundtrack written for this that was shelved for Cliff Martinez's score
Martinez has done some excellent scores, including a few Soderbergh films -- his score for that version of Solaris is pretty freaking awesome
― mh, Friday, 6 January 2012 01:39 (twelve years ago) link
This may or may not have something to do with thathttp://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/symmetrys-themes-for-an-imaginary-film-evokes-cinematic-soundtrack-of-life/2011/12/30/gIQAN4KwWP_story.html
― Number None, Friday, 6 January 2012 01:41 (twelve years ago) link
the only Johnny Jewel song in this is the one that plays during the opening scene along w/ the Clippers broadcast.
also wtf @ you ppl: "special"?
have any of you ever watched a movie ever?
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 6 January 2012 07:15 (twelve years ago) link
― willem, Friday, 6 January 2012 09:02 (twelve years ago) link
Nah, not that one. There were a few articles on a handful of music sites that referenced it.
― mh, Friday, 6 January 2012 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, it was kind of weird for Pitchfork to hint in their Symmetry review that these songs were the ones meant for Drive, even though, from what I can tell, he's pretty much flat out said these aren't those scrapped songs.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 6 January 2012 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
In the Refn interview with Elvis Mitchell, he breaks down, in pretty specific detail, how the movie is a fairy tale, and the driver is a knight.
― Cheap desert locations (Eazy), Friday, 6 January 2012 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
Refn says it here, too:
I read Grimm fairytales to my daughter a few years ago, and the idea with Drive was similar. You have the driver [Ryan Gosling] who's like a knight, the innocent maiden [Carey Mulligan], the evil king [Albert Brooks] and the dragon [Ron Perlman]. They're all archetypes.It takes place in a city of millions but you never really see anyone. That isolates them, makes it very specific.
It takes place in a city of millions but you never really see anyone. That isolates them, makes it very specific.
― Cheap desert locations (Eazy), Friday, 6 January 2012 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
It took me about an hour to figure out what you ppl meant by "special." GTFO
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 January 2012 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
gosling plays it kinda "fancy" throughout the whole movie
― dor Dumbeddownball (Eric H.), Friday, 6 January 2012 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
Reminds me of when a friend's wife took him to see the movie "Radio" in the theater. About five minutes in, he turned to her and angrily whispered, "You didn't tell me this was a movie about SPECIAL PEOPLE!"
― mh, Friday, 6 January 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
Nah, not that one. There were a few articles on a handful of music sites that referenced it.― mh, Friday, January 6, 2012 3:19 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban PermalinkYeah, it was kind of weird for Pitchfork to hint in their Symmetry review that these songs were the ones meant for Drive, even though, from what I can tell, he's pretty much flat out said these aren't those scrapped songs.― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, January 6, 2012 3:24 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― mh, Friday, January 6, 2012 3:19 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, January 6, 2012 3:24 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
From this entry from the comments of that IDIB blog entry I linked to upthread it's clear that indeed a) there was a soundtrack that Jewel & Walker made and b) this was not the stuff that is now released under the Symmetry banner and c) Angelo Badalamenti was originally hired for the job?!
Italians Do It Better said...HEY JESSICA, YOU SAID IT NOT US : ) BUT WE AGREE...IT'S PRETTY COMMON KNOWLEDGE NOW THAT THEY WERE REALLY INSPIRED BY THE IMAGERY OF "NIGHT DRIVE". WE HEARD THE STUFF JOHNNY & NAT DID FOR DRIVE.IT'S SICK...BUT IT'S MORE AMBIENT THAN SYMMETRY. CLIFF & JOHNNY WERE GIVEN THE SAME TEMP CUES. MOSTLY BRIAN ENO'S APOLLO & MUSIC FOR FILM, WITH A LITTLE BIT OF ANGELO BADALEMENTI IN THERE WHO WAS APPARENTLY THE ORIGINAL COMPOSER HIRED FOR THE JOB. XO
― willem, Friday, 6 January 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, electronic badalamenti would have been all over this flick
So, wait, have their original tracks for the movie actually been released, or not really?
― Put another Juggle in, in the Juggalodeon (kingfish), Friday, 6 January 2012 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
apparently not, but JJ has said they'll probably release it in some form
― Number None, Friday, 6 January 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
1) this interview (already linked a few times upthread) will answer every question you could possibly have about Johnny Jewel's involvement with this movie (without actually hearing anything he recorded): http://www.boxofficemagazine.com/articles/2011-09-johnny-jewel-on-developing-the-unique-soundtrack-for-drive
2) the screener i downloaded had Eno, Badalamenti's Mullholland Drive theme, as well as Trent Reznor's theme from The Social Network, if you wanna see it: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6700250/Drive_2011_SCR_XviD-playXD
3) Angelo Badalamenti was never a part of this project, his name was just used as a "place-holder" in the opening credits of that screener: http://welcometotwinpeaks.com/movies/drive-david-lynch-angelo-badalamenti/
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 6 January 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
Thank you x 3. First clicked to this thread yesterday, should have spend some more time reading through it before posting.
― willem, Friday, 6 January 2012 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
no, when it comes to 500+ post ILE movie threads, you really shouldn't waste time reading the whole thing
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 6 January 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
excellent detective work, all
― mh, Friday, 6 January 2012 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
Would Morbs approve?
http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles24/832885/projects/2783319/85d53eb378ac684fcb30d58970501fc3.png
From: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Movies-From-An-Alternate-Universe/2783319
― Lady Writer, Male Seether (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
This is the real tester:
http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles24/832885/projects/2783319/cd8e7625a989ba2386e664300c08cf85.png
― dor Dumbeddownball (Eric H.), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
John Ford would point out that there's "no story."
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link