i suppose it depends on who is doing the word of mouthing. i certainly encouraged people to go. maybe they opened it too wide?
i guess i don't have my finger on the pulse of america, since i thought this movie would be an audience-pleaser.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 25 September 2011 02:48 (twelve years ago) link
what if america was like dick cheney and had no pulse, i wonder.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 25 September 2011 02:49 (twelve years ago) link
i can't imagine this movie had a budget much over $30-40 mil, so i don't know why everybody was expecting blockbuster numbers to justify its existence.
― buzza, Sunday, 25 September 2011 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
i think maybe it was more like $15 million. and yeah--i think it'll do just fine.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 25 September 2011 03:36 (twelve years ago) link
I havent seen this yet (and now uncertain if i will because of the violence) but i wonder if critics don't misunderstand what audiences want. it's not so much tons of coolness and action, but gobs and gobs of obvious sentimental cliches. even in the "action" movies.
― ryan, Sunday, 25 September 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
i was quite surprised they were able to open it as wide as they did. i dont really understand distribution, etc enough to know how it happened but id be interested to read something on it. late summer seems to be a really good time to put a movie like this out imo
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 25 September 2011 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
The weekend estimates are out.
Drive falls to #7, with $5,771,000, which is also about a million or so more than it did between the weekends. The current gross estimate thus far is $21,425,000, and the budget has been released at the tune of 15 million.
Things to Chew On:
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 25 September 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
Drive really hasn't done bad at all. Compared to this week's Killer Elite or Straw Dogs and I Don't Know How She Does It, it's done very, very well.
― Gukbe, Sunday, 25 September 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, it's actually turned a profit. I just noticed that Contagion still has a week or so before you can say the same.
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 25 September 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
minus 49% at the box office this weekend. I guess mh's word of mouth sample is slightly off.
EG's condescension comes on a far more unpredictable timetable. Wd call you and him a draw on precision, tho.
That is absolutely deliciously phrased nondiplomacy!
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 September 2011 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
I'm just one guy, and I told just one guy after one young lady told me.
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Monday, 26 September 2011 04:09 (twelve years ago) link
http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls66bzpbWR1qegdapo1_500.gif
― The sham nation of Israel should be destroyed. (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
I just saw this last night.
The first ten minutes were great. I was so stoked for the film during the initial getaway car chase/manuevering/parking at the Basketball game/credits with synth pop/Miami Vice-esque font.
The montage of kid and mom and driver kinda made me start to get sad. And then it was just not very good from then on out. I wanted more car chases, actually. I don't find Gosling hot, either, if you can believe it!
Interesting use of hardly any guns, though. Also really gross.
― homosexual II, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
i can believe it!!
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, he really does not seem h2 material
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
That mask was so silly. I still have no idea why he wears it.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
Because it's CREEPY!
I thought the movie had great style and mood, though. The story just kinda didn't go the way I'd have liked it to--I guess I like your typical Hollywood crap when it comes to car movies.
― homosexual II, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
no, i hear you. my ideal movie would've been a lot more like that (killer) opening sequence, though i still liked it for what it was. and you're otm about that kid/mom montage being exactly where it started to lose me
― The sham nation of Israel should be destroyed. (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
I think it was supposed to be neato that they went to some little woodsy oasis by the LA river, but it was pretty cheesy and kinda even borderline embarassing
― homosexual II, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
I thought they avoided embarrassment through ritualized undercharacterization and a lack of pursuing anything really novel. Chilling at a park? Most generic human experience.
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
i'm with homo on this one, i kinda cringed at that part
― wasabi pea-sized masculinity (latebloomer), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 02:12 (twelve years ago) link
I really liked this.
I think the mom/kid stuff served the exact purpose it was supposed to: give a searching and aimless person something to find a purpose in. I agree with whoever said it was like a comic book hero origin story.
it was very similar to Valhalla Rising i thought, just more successful, or at least the religious overtones seemed a little more moving this time.
― ryan, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
the mask was really interesting! also tons of visual stuff going on with light/shadow--kind of in the Western mode of the hero exiling himself from the Eden he helps create.
― ryan, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
did he really wear the mask just because it was creepy
― conrad, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
its p creppy
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
I don't really need any more justification than that, tbh. its a fascinating image! I loved the slo-mo shot of Perlman grinding on some random blonde.
― The sham nation of Israel should be destroyed. (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
each to their own
― conrad, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/108867adc4/drive-to-shitty-music-trailer
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
Watching this movie made me want to rewatch The Driver, which uh I did at work today because the entire movie is on YouTube.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 23:35 (twelve years ago) link
^^I rescreened it on dvd the other day. Forgot how much Adjani's part consisted of looking alternately cool & scared in the cab of pickup.
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 29 September 2011 00:11 (twelve years ago) link
i love that the descrip on the youtube vid is "the full movie of the driver enjoy"
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 29 September 2011 00:26 (twelve years ago) link
the font was fucking awesome
― owenf, Thursday, 29 September 2011 09:06 (twelve years ago) link
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, September 28, 2011 7:11 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
yeah adjani is just there to look pretty, but then again so is ryan o'neal (who has always struck me as a ridiculous actor). the romantic stuff in the film is completely superfluous.
i like the driver but i feel like it doesn't go all the way in the minimalist direction that is it's raison d'etre, and if it doesn't go all the way it's sort of a problem since going all the way is the point.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 29 September 2011 10:17 (twelve years ago) link
it's = its
I cannot comprehend ron perlman really
― homosexual II, Thursday, 29 September 2011 10:26 (twelve years ago) link
I've only seen o'neal in Barry Lyndon, so i probably have a very distorted view of his effectiveness.
one other thing i liked about this movie was how it was very self-referentially about Refn himself "going hollywood."
― ryan, Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
"what do you do?"*grin*"i drive... for movies"*grin**looks away bashfully**silence**shit-eating grin*― am0n, Sunday, September 18, 2011 12:29 AM (1 week ago)
― am0n, Sunday, September 18, 2011 12:29 AM (1 week ago)
This is hilariously otm. Loved it though
― Number None, Friday, 30 September 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
yeah adjani is just there to look pretty, but then again so is ryan o'neal (who has always struck me as a ridiculous actor). the romantic stuff in the film is completely superfluous.i like the driver but i feel like it doesn't go all the way in the minimalist direction that is it's raison d'etre, and if it doesn't go all the way it's sort of a problem since going all the way is the point.
The romantic subplot is ridiculously vague. Of course, it's roughly xeroxed from the Delon/Rossier plotline in Le samourai, minus Melville's symbolism.
Having looked at both of those films after catching Drive, it reinforced one of things I found most refreshing about the new film: No cops. (Aside from the opening chase & Mulligan's interview after the blown heist). It's all about these underworld types slowly self-destructing.
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 30 September 2011 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
that makes me think of ghost dog
― conrad, Friday, 30 September 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
you know: the way of the samurai
― conrad, Friday, 30 September 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
oh THAT ghost dog
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 30 September 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
congratulations congratulations that was the joke
― conrad, Friday, 30 September 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
oh THAT was the joke
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 30 September 2011 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
congratulation
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 30 September 2011 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
hey guys i think we can all agree the prequel, GHOST DOG: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD, is best forgotten
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 1 October 2011 03:48 (twelve years ago) link
No love for Strongo Hulkington's Ghost Dog Part Deaux?
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 1 October 2011 03:51 (twelve years ago) link
this was BOSS
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Friday, 7 October 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
but yeah this is otm
q about the opening sequence: did he just ditch those dudes in the parking garage? like was he bailing or was that a job done?
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Friday, 7 October 2011 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
I think that was the end of the job?
― ( ) (mh), Friday, 7 October 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link