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

I do like it when Cooper stabs Fredric March in the eye with a fork (Oscarworthy)

I'd like that irl

really dark, too gory 4 sure but like bronson there'er some great scenes & refn is v skilled @ building tension. sound design & soundtrack are a+

he does appear to like his monotonous sequencers doesn't he

this will be my first time seeing a refn film (also never watched carey mulligan or gosling in anything)

also really want to see brooks be scary

On the phone from his home in Copenhagen, Drive director Refn says he "always wanted" Brooks for the role, but he still asked that the actor make his case for the part in person.

"There are certain things that I've wanted to do," Brooks says. "And one of them is to play a guy that's that guy — I don't like to call him a bad guy. I went to see Nicolas. [I said], 'You can go with the six people that are the bad guys in every movie ever made' — and I knew he wanted to hear this, because he asked me to come to his house — 'But, to me, it's more exciting when I don't know that I know everything that's going to happen when a guy comes on-screen.'

"So Nicolas liked that, and he said, 'You know, when I was a young man, I watched that movie Lost in America and I saw you yelling at your wife, and it scared the hell out of me.' And I said, 'OK, that's good.'"

"Albert was like a volcano of emotions," Refn remembers, laughing. "There was something really unique — and threatening. I felt that this guy, eventually, he will kill somebody — so let's make it in a movie."

^^^good idea for dark sequel to lost in america

Projecting a #3 for the weekend at 11m. I think a midnight screening will be empty enough for me to see it tonight, after roadworks held me up in traffic and I missed an earlier screening.

yeah i was thinking abt just going to see this tonight since im feeling to sick to go out properly

I like the thought of Morbs trying to find reasons not to see a movie and scrolling through the RT "Top Critics" section and finding the 2 Splats as enough justification to skip.

Nicolas Winding Refn sought advice from Gaspar Noé on how to make brutal and realistic facial damage.

wtg Nick

that a movie is made for nerds who fetishize 'hypermasculine' slick violence is usu reason enough, Guk

ie THAT'S A BINGO

what about people who like thrillers?

...or cars?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046268/

or, y'know, The Driver.

guess people should stop making movies

just empty ones

so is the problem that it's empty or that it's gory?

htfdik

btw RT Top Critics are mostly syphilitic dumbshits.

then why are their reviews enough to convince you to skip it?

you are annoying me; ta

we really need an opens-umbrella-spins-on-heel-walks-away.gif for these moments

Films that are likely to be unmorbs are obvious and he can tell immediately.

TA!

some people find it hard to admit that they just don't like a certain type of thing.

What does this movie make you think and feel about Los Angeles?

that the clippers are relevant

hmmm

Sometimes I don't know for sure I really truly liked a movie until morbs starts slamming it unseen.

let's face it, he's a maniac

He'll kill us all.

Har, I went and saw Shoeshine in rep tonight instead of this. Morbs would've been proud.

i doubt drive is less "empty" than the driver. i love a film that is 100% style/technique

ha i think i meant more but w/e this is going to very stylized and the noir-by-numbers plot won't really get in the way of enjoying the visuals i reckon. and i def don't care for gratuitous violence but i'll wait to see the flick before commenting on that.

Sometimes I don't know for sure I really truly liked a movie until morbs starts slamming it unseen

You told me I didn't like it, sweet stuff! (also, this is the sight-unseen-I'm Not-There guy)

Saw this tonight. There was this obnoxious fat idiot behind me commenting on how "ugly" Carey Mulligan was, and he said it in the most disgusting popcorn-eating fat slob voice: "GAH, (nom) SHEESH (nom) UGLEE!" I wanted to kill him.

Anyway, it was alright. Gorgeous to look at, great score and some awesome moments of tension, but still pretty hollow.

Worth seeing, though.

that was me

lol

this is a pretty good character study about a man whose clippers fandom turned him into a rageful monster

this is pretty good, but like you said its hollow. the stylishness, tension, perfs carry it a long way. gosling's been promoting it as pretty in pink with violence, which made me afraid that it'd be some lame character study instead of a head-smashing good time. but the violence in it exceeded all expectations, reminded me of old school verhoeven like how total recall would have these explosions of comic brutality out of nowhere. i could see it again just for the gore money shots.

but in my opinion it fails at being a john hughes movie because gosling and mulligan are both from the wrong side of the tracks. hughes would never have stood for a same side of the tracks romance. nice try, you danish punk.

it would've been a lot closer to a great movie if they hacked out the carey mulligan character. nothing against her, but the character's a big nothing and has no place in a lean-n-mean walter hill ripoff. plus, gosling is already the movie's blank slate (he reminded me a little of leon from the professional - they're both unsettlingly childlike) - you cant bounce two blanks off each other like that

the multiplex audience was very uncomfortable with the movie's rhythms. lots of walkouts, even before the violent bits kicked in.

its no The Driver, but worth seeing if you dig that kind of movie

but in my opinion it fails at being a john hughes movie

first plausibly good thing I've read about it

i wanted to see this before i heard about all the ultra-violence (don't enjoy that kind of thing usually). but ill see it anyway, since Valhalla Rising was kinda vacant but really gorgeous.

This was a completely senseless good time. And aside from one or two decent pieces the actors were completely wasted throughout (why even both getting good people if you aren't good to even use them well). I did like that it moves at such a languorous pace for the first hour before the violence explodes (audible gasp in my movie theater during the first such sequence--there seem to be a high percentage of folks who thought this was a "date movie", I guess.) Anyway I wasn't bored and the movie (and LA) looked great.

The Driver might be a better movie than Drive (have to rescreen it) and Thief might be better too (which I also kept thinking of) but I'd rather watch Gosling than either O'Neal or Caan.

The Driver is pretty good, but when did it become one of the unassailable '70s classics?

yea i dont hold the driver or thief for that matter in v high regard & ive seen both fairly recently

When Drive came out apparently. Walter Hill really is underrated though.

I don't view it as such -- only saw it for the first time this spring -- just that it seems to be the most efficient ancestor of this film. I'm guessing Alex doesn't consider Drive the equal of Le Samourai, which some of the more wild-eyed supporters of this movie seem to be writing.

xxp

Yeah, but c'mon. The Warriors > The Driver and everyone knows it.

the wapo review of this described it as "very european" which i read as code for le samourai tbh