its like if guy ritchie and john cameron mitchell made a movie together but it was awesome
― ⚓ (gr8080), Sunday, 18 March 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
such an unpleasant movie
― Number None, Sunday, 18 March 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
Sooo not like a Guy Ritchie film.
― mh, Sunday, 18 March 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
k, that's what i wanted to hear. if i judged movies solely based on their previews i doubt i'd see any movies. ever.
― akadarbarijava (psychgawsple), Sunday, 18 March 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
Except for ones where the directors cut the trailers! David Fincher and Ridley Scott seem to do ok.
― mh, Sunday, 18 March 2012 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
and jean-luc godard.
and kitano takeshi -- check out the trailer for boiling point on the youtubes.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 18 March 2012 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
http://realhero.ytmnd.com/
― shur fine (am0n), Friday, 23 March 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
moving tumblr
― caek, Monday, January 30, 2012 11:42 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark
― dayo, Friday, 30 March 2012 01:20 (twelve years ago) link
x-post - I LOVE that song. The whole soundtrack is pretty great.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 30 March 2012 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
I'm really into the apartment bathroom tile in the movie but surprisingly there's no tumblr for it ;_;
― I DIED, Friday, 30 March 2012 04:35 (twelve years ago) link
a re-al-human-being and a re-al-hero. who else has had this song going through their head for 10 straight hours?
― kid steel (cajunsunday), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 11:23 (twelve years ago) link
[raises hand]
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
well, for at least 10 hours after seeing the film. but that was a while back.
Yup.
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
I love that song. It does get stuck in my head a lot but I also listen to it a lot on purpose.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
I don't really like that song. but the Kavinsky one was cool.
― dmr, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
sometimes it comes up on my ipod when i'm driving at night and it's awesome /cliche
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
it is a great song. never minded having it stuck in my head.
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
i get the chromatics song stuck in my head when i'm driving at night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWD7k6TrJ-g
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
imo just make a cd that is that track repeated until the cd stops and then glue it into your car's cd player
― mh, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
Hot Seats, Cool Beats
― jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
Loved Bronson though...
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― give me back my 200 dollars (NotEnough), Friday, 4 May 2012 09:51 (twelve years ago) link
so much Teal! so much Orange!
― piscesx, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 03:59 (twelve years ago) link
that is now officially the least interesting thing you can say about a movie on ilx fyi
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
or anywhere
― Hungry4Ass, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
It would make a good Wiz Khalifa parody video though
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― pplains, Friday, 29 June 2012 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
Cranston has a hell of a range!
― mh, Friday, 29 June 2012 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
I heart him. He is way dreamier than Gosling.
― I found him in a Bon Ton ad (Nicole), Friday, 29 June 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
I think I have a sugar high from this mountain dew, please ignore that last statement.
― I found him in a Bon Ton ad (Nicole), Friday, 29 June 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
i'm sure mountain dew has caused stranger things to happen
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 29 June 2012 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
enjoyed this last night. made me tense! the violence was very crunchy.
― scott seward, Saturday, 30 June 2012 13:40 (eleven years ago) link
can't believe nobody mentioned the mad men lady on this thread. at least in passing. thought people loved her.
― scott seward, Saturday, 30 June 2012 13:41 (eleven years ago) link
she was in the movie for five minutes!
― pplains, Saturday, 30 June 2012 13:43 (eleven years ago) link
true. but it was memorable!
― scott seward, Saturday, 30 June 2012 13:44 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Saturday, 30 June 2012 13:45 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Electro-Shock Rory (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 30 June 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Saturday, 30 June 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
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, 30 June 2012 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Saturday, 30 June 2012 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
hmmmm. Nice flick, but needed more car sequences with a title "Drive"
― PSOD (Ste), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 23:38 (eleven years ago) link
surely about 50% of the film is car sequences as it is
― ¥╡*ٍ*╞¥ (sic), Thursday, 5 July 2012 00:13 (eleven years ago) link
― 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
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 5 July 2012 00:14 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 5 July 2012 00:15 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 5 July 2012 00:27 (eleven years ago) link
agreedo
― Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 5 July 2012 00:31 (eleven years ago) link