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

"Logan's Run"

No, seriously: Gosling and Refn can't get enough of each other. They're planning on a remake of this 1976 sci-fi classic, with Gosling playing the starring role of a guy living in a dystopian world where no one is allowed to live past the age of 30. The project has long been in development, with directors like Bryan Singer coming and going. Fingers crossed that Gosling and Refn can succeed where others have fallen short.

Last I'd heard an LR remake was going to lower the age to 21 for greater appeal to the core audience.

The age in the book is 21!

"eyes crossed"

why would anyone cross their fingers that a Logan's Run remake will happen?

bcz really, remaking '70s garbage is the summit of cinematic aspiration

can't wait 4 remakes of remakes

..(wait for it)... of remakes.

The Award for Best Movie Musical based on a Musical based on a Movie...

"can't wait 4 remakes of remakes"

The Thing is coming out in October.

I'm going to remake The Maltese Falcon.

they remade Casablanca as Barb Wire, so y not

Alan Cumming in Peter Lorre's role

Meryl Streep as Gutman.

they remade Casablanca as Barb Wire, so y not

I... did not know this

what the hell

Rufus Wainwright as the gunsel

OK, I just got on a mental tangent of imagining what films would be like with different casts.

Drive starring Seann William Scott as the driver

Drive starring Seann William Scott as the driver

Dude, Where's My Million Dollars?

Yeah this isn't Tarantino-style geek violence.

i totally fucking enjoyed this.

also dr morbius i know this probably won't and shouldn't prompt any public self-reflection but your whole highbrow tsk-tsk schtick is embarrassing and too revealing -- it demonstrates exactly the opposite of what i expect you want it to demonstrate (that you're a cynical sophisticate).

anyway this film is by no means perfect. but i'm deeply skeptical of the usual "style over substance" complaint. style _is_ substance. and this had a lot of style. i didn't like the use of slo-mo, though paradoxically (?) i wish that refn pushed the boundaries of taste (not in terms of violence but in terms of film language) a bit more. on that score i liked the brooding superimpositions.

anyway on the level of "would you recommend that other people see this" i'd say HELL YES.

also LOL at people who have well-formed opinions on MOVIES THAT THEY HAVEN'T SEEN.

also some reviews seem to complain about gosling + mulligan being "unconvincing." what wold convince them? that they have INTERESTS IN COMMON? or A DEEP INTELLECTUAL CONNECTION? i mean, it's not that kind of movie. their characters are axioms. there's one brief but spellbinding sequence where gosling is about to leave her apartment and there are a few silent close-ups where they lock eyes and it's like THIS IS ON. that's all we need, really.

also nice that the italo revival now has a feature film to its credit. :)

i mean this movie could have been smarter, more intricate. it could have been better. but taken at face value it was super-entertaining to watch.

haha refn is so plastered here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/video/2011/may/22/cannes-film-festival-ryan-gosling

if i was hanging out in cannes with an expense account i'd be sloshed too

also danish accents are fascinating because they basically learn better english than we americans do.

I wasn't looking for "intellectual connections," whateever that means -- I wanted Mulligan convincing as a person, and she wasn't.

alfred otm

dont get me wrong, i liked the movie, but

one guy i really liked in this was oscar isaac. he was literally the only good thing about ridley scott's Robin Hood too

Haven't seen this yet, but I'm rather personally offended that Mulligan's character was Latina in the book. Refn cast Mulligan because apparently he none of the actually Latina actresses who tried out clicked with him and Mulligan was the first actress he felt "protective" towards. Kind of gross, tbh. Par for the course though, I guess. I still want to see it, but it's kind of put me off seeing it in the theatre.

Like I wrote on Saturday, the movie's racial politics are weird.

Gosling as a goy Galahad.

For what it's worth, I also read that they were attempting to cast someone who actually had been in adult films for the part Christina Hendricks played, but they didn't get the results they wanted by going that direction, either. I thought that both seemed authentic to the film, in that the film does not really seem authentic to reality.

Amateurist all kinds of OTM

I thought that by keeping most things simple, the film succeeded by doing the few things it did reasonably well. Fleshing out anything would have been a risk. The most expository dialogue we get is from Brooks/Perlman and even then, it's still pretty general. I thought that was an interesting reflection of the lyrics of the songs used somewhat thematically -- in a more complex film, they'd have seemed trite but there was a simplicity to the plot depth that made it work.

My highbrow tsk-tsk schtick extends to being a Jackass and Spielberg fan, you may notice now n' then when I am flayed about the latter. (The former is fine bcz, u know, body fluids & sublimated homoism)

I have no well-formed opinions on this film; call them deep and well-grounded suspicions.

What I "wish to project" on this board is nothing, cuz I really don't give a fuck.

so gtfotm

I loved the polite, smarmy way in which Brooks dispatches a certain character.

style _is_ substance

never heard that before, soooooooo deep

Mulligan underwritten - and she couldn't bring anything more to it through her skills, sadly - but I think that works for that creepy, "protective" comment reason.

havent seen this yet, want to but wont have the cash til its on netflix prolly, but 3D characters in a movie about a face-stompin super-driver strike me as something that might be a bonus, not the draw.

sure - but the problem is when you spend an excessive amount of time with those cardboard characters

sometimes blank flatness can be really engrossing (can't think of an example tho, heh). sometimes you have to take it as a given that the people you are watching are true in their non-3d-ness.

speaking a little too generally i guess, and no i haven't seen this movie either.

imo stock characters are sometimes best utilized when not fleshed-out too heavily

carey mulligan is awful and I do not understand her appeal. What a dud.

In this film or in general? I thought she did a decent enough job of awkwardly smiling.

she was v pretty in this yeah

Just in general, she seems kind of BLAND

Mulligan was great on Doctor Who as Sally Sparrow

most people are bland, but most actors are all about effusing PERSONALITY

thank you carey mulligan for seeming real