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

Thought this was okay, the dialogue between the Driver and Irene should be redone on XtraNormal.

I totally noticed the chase scene after the pawn shop was filmed on the Santa Susana Pass not far from where the Manson Family lived.

the dialogue between the Driver and Irene should be redone on XtraNormal.

omg yes this needs to happen

Loved this and the soundtrack

I want the soundtrack

http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack/dp/B005GSY23M/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1318273454&sr=8-1

Not sure if it was mentioned up thread but Johnny Jewel (Glass Candy, Chromatics, almost everything IDIB) and one of the Chromatics composed a full score for the film but got rejected. That score will now be used as a soundtrack to another film yet to be released.

i've been playing this soundtrack a lot recently.

cliff martinez's work on contagion was also pretty dope, i thought

Not sure if it was mentioned up thread but Johnny Jewel (Glass Candy, Chromatics, almost everything IDIB) and one of the Chromatics composed a full score for the film but got rejected. That score will now be used as a soundtrack to another film yet to be released.

Last I heard it was going to be put out on IDIB as the first volume of an instrumental series called Symmetry, for what it's worth

This interview was linked to up thread
http://www.boxofficemagazine.com/articles/2011-09-johnny-jewel-on-developing-the-unique-soundtrack-for-drive

Taxi Driver elements become more pronounced.

Drive inspired man to throw hot dog at Tiger Woods

Not sure if it was mentioned up thread but Johnny Jewel (Glass Candy, Chromatics, almost everything IDIB) and one of the Chromatics composed a full score for the film but got rejected. That score will now be used as a soundtrack to another film yet to be released.

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lol all i was thinking during this is that it's the movie the chromatics always wanted to do a soundtrack for.

anyway this was interesting i guess but all the self-conscious attempts to be "different" got really tedious; no case was ever made for what the differences were supposed to be accomplishing. you know how some music videos have like dialog scenes where the music turns down for 30 seconds in the middle of the song and then there's some kind of coda after the song ends? i think the director would have been just as happy making one of those.

anyway this was interesting i guess but all the self-conscious attempts to be "different" got really tedious; no case was ever made for what the differences were supposed to be accomplishing.

lol this is pretty much what happens when a european director makes first film in hollywood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fuzc07fBbNA

http://tylercoates.tumblr.com/tagged/drive

You haven't seen this so you're giving a thumbs-up to the snark because it's snarky to Morbs standards, right?

wow, someone who writes for The Awl, BlackBook, The Hairpin, Idolator, Popdust, Thirteen.org, This Recording, and Yahoo, among others is a dumbass

That's a ridiculously shit take-down of the film. There are much, much better ones, Morbs. Look harder.

Instagram: The Movie

everyone otm about this movie.

Hey, this interview with Elvis Mitchell is fun. Refn talks a good amount about his love for Pretty Woman.

http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/tt/tt110921nicholas_winding_ref

for Gukbe:

Fake toughness, fake sentimentality, fake style infected by Michael Mann. Brooding existential stuntman and petty criminal Ryan Gosling is so laconic and cool, he’s inadvertently comic. This second-rate actor occasionally drops his Steve McQueen impersonation and lets slip Mickey Rourke’s old smile.

I was thinking yesterday, Rourke would have been the one to play this role in the early 80s.

second-rate actor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEyDJpE00pM

fake style infected by Michael Mann

haven't seen Drive but gtf this is mean, Refn's better than Mann already

Mega challops

i have never and will never forgive Mann for Heat, the dude is a fucking stillborn academic hack

Haven't seen this either, basing most of my disdain off of Bronson, but that quote's basically true, right? Drive looks like a Mann pastiche.

awww Bronson is cute and alive, far from perfect but

why the disdain?

tryin to think of things that are not to love about 'heat'

it crams 20 minutes of banal story into 3 hours, it centres around a confrontation that doesn't really happen between 2 actors 10 years past their best, it hates women, it has that fucking hilarious line about closure

Felt like a well-made student film. All those Kubrick nods. Like it was trying just REALLY hard to be this cool, arty violent cult film. Just found it obnoxious.

xp

i watched it in the cinema with friends and didn't have the heart to walk out halfway thru

Xpost about about Bronson.

yeah i guessed :)

dunno if i cd argue with most of those criticisms but as i say i thought its chutzpah and Tom Hardy carried it well past its deficiencies, plus a lot of its world felt real to me, i was sympathetic

'nother discussion about whether a movie can 'hate' anything tbh, cf wilde on a book being either well written or badly written, nothing more

the women thing was a snide minor niggle about Mann aside tbh, most of my objections are purely writerly

i enjoy stuff that isn't "about" anything, i enjoy epic mode, i like shiny bright cinematography, i just think Mann takes the deadest bits of all these things and then deadens them some more.

he's not as bad as Christopher Nolan tbf

yeah nolan should make christmas tree baubles tbh

this was p boring eh.

someone's already made the point somewhere in this thread but it really should've been kill rather than drive. i liked the killings though, so there's that.

ryan gosling is never actually going to act again is he? just going to be dreamy in stuff.

nv on the mark ^ i haven't seen this b/c i hate movies that don't talk

xxp

Nolan and Mann cd maybe be cool directors of other people's scripts, Refn's might be trying to do studied cool but ends up feeling more irreverent, sillier and funner imo

refn doesn't hold 20 mins of bad plot together as well as mann, tbh

well i "need" to see Drive i guess. somebody in the pub last night told me that somebody's trying to bring a hilarious law suit against the studio for failing to meet the trade description or something, is that right?

oh i've just found the link upthread

always thought Escape to Victory was most open to being sued on the misleading titles front

Ryan Gosling >>> Mickey Rourke

and not because Gosling is "cute."

rourke was cuter, back in the day

i have never and will never forgive Mann for Heat

haha, you can't forgive him for maybe his best film

btw the Steve McQueenish quote was from Armond, I figured most of you wd know

morbs: whiter than white