Drive (New Film)
Discussion
DJRC said:
How does anybody think this is a good film? Its one of the sttest I have ever seen.
Agreed - never thought it would be my type of thing (so maybe it's unfair for me to pick on it) but my mates convinced me and I've never seen anything with Carey Mulligan in before that wasn't of merit! daddy cool said:
Drive: My Score: 9/10. Gosling staring: 6/10
Only God Forgives: My Score: 1/10. Gosling staring: 10/10
+1 Only God Forgives: My Score: 1/10. Gosling staring: 10/10
I watched only God Forgives and thought it wasn't very good at all. A forgettable affair. I thought, Drive, while similarly slow paced, was much more enjoyable, better action and story line. Gosling is excellent in both. He was good in The Place Beyond The pines too.
Straight into my 'seen it, won't bother again' file.
A rather nasty, violent film with pretentious of an art film.
Rubbish car chases... Why did he reverse for instance when being pursued by the 300C?
The back story in the book explaining how he could deal with murderous thugs is laughable. Stunt men train to make fights look convincing without injury...
I stuck with it to the end, but I'm not sure why I bothered...
M
A rather nasty, violent film with pretentious of an art film.
Rubbish car chases... Why did he reverse for instance when being pursued by the 300C?
The back story in the book explaining how he could deal with murderous thugs is laughable. Stunt men train to make fights look convincing without injury...
I stuck with it to the end, but I'm not sure why I bothered...
M
Edited by marcosgt on Saturday 4th January 11:34
Watched for the first time last night and enjoyed it.
Ryan Gosling script mustn't have filled a side of A4 but I thought he played it very well with all that violent fury living just under the surface.
One of the few films that had me thinking after it had finished.
One question that has me puzzled is why did he bother with the latex mask when he was going to kill him anyway?
Good film 9/10
Ryan Gosling script mustn't have filled a side of A4 but I thought he played it very well with all that violent fury living just under the surface.
One of the few films that had me thinking after it had finished.
One question that has me puzzled is why did he bother with the latex mask when he was going to kill him anyway?
Good film 9/10
valiant said:
One question that has me puzzled is why did he bother with the latex mask when he was going to kill him anyway?
Im not sure, though the whole point of the film is the Driver trying to escape from the life he used to lead, and getting a brief chance of something better, and then those hopes being dashed when Standard comes out of prison and subsequently gets him involved back in his old business. I wonder if the mask is a way of him trying to keep the "old him" as a separate identity so that he thinks his real face still has a chance of redemption at some point in the future... either that or just the mask is much more intimidating, as he appears like an unstoppable blank-faced robot that you couldn't/wouldn't even try to reason with... I dunno.The music that plays during that whole scene is now one of my favourite songs of all time - and covers the same themes - the chance of a new beginning and redemption, vs "those men still lost in old black shadow" that are living an evil life.... its epic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPJmaizKdeQ
Oh man, I need to go and watch Predator after spewing all that stuff. Sorry.
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