Drive (New Film)

[Billyray911]

Quite surprised that this is premiering on the terrestrial channels,but this is on bbc2 now.Ive not seen it yet,but got to be worth a look...

[y2blade]

We are watching it too.

[Ultuous]

Bloody typical - was overjoyed to have finally bought it on DVD yesterday having waited for ages to see it going cheap (I'm behind the times and a massive cheapskate when it comes to seeing films!).. That's 3 quid I didn't need to spend that I'll never see again!

[marcosgt]

Why does he wear a mask that makes him look like mr potato head?

M

[DJRC]

How does anybody think this is a good film? Its one of the sttest I have ever seen.

[CrowCrow00]

I absolutely loved it.

[Ultuous]

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!

[poing]

Well that wasn't what I expected.....

I still can't decide if I liked it or not. I'm not sure I was in the mood for an arty film that I actually had to watch, I was more in the mood for an action film with no brain required. I'm going to give it 3/10 for now.

[Mo D]

daddy cool said:

Drive: My Score: 9/10. Gosling staring: 6/10
Only God Forgives: My Score: 1/10. Gosling staring: 10/10

+1

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.

[Yazza54]

I like drive, second time of seeing it. I don't really understand why he couldn't just bugger off to another country with the girl though.

Also he rams that car full force twice yet all his lights still work.

Edited by Yazza54 on Friday 3rd January 23:41

[GTIR]

fking hell people.

It had tits in it. Lots of pairs of perfectly pert boobs.

And some nice cars. (Apart from that Chrysler 300C piece of st)

[fttm]

GTIR said:

fking hell people.

It had tits in it. Lots of pairs of perfectly pert boobs.

And some nice cars. (Apart from that Chrysler 300C piece of st)

Your posts don't count until you decipher the alcohol fueled drivel you posted on the NYE thread

[Billyray911]

For what it's worth,I enjoyed it.Plenty of "what did he do that for?"moments,but all in all,quite enjoyable.Had a very 80's feel to it-reminded me of watching early Michael Mann stuff.The soundtrack matched it nicely.

[amare32]

The Driver should have done a better job stomping on that guy's head. Bloody amateur.

Good film though

[marcosgt]

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

Edited by marcosgt on Saturday 4th January 11:34

[Keep it stiff]

marcosgt said:

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?

I stuck with it to the end, but I'm not sure why I bothered...

M

Agree.

[Alapeno]

This is one of the only films I've seen lately that divides opinion this much. I personally loved it but friends of mine hated it but not sure why the polar opposite. Only God Forgives on the other hand, is unanimously terrible.

[valiant]

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

[GTIR]

fttm said:

GTIR said:

fking hell people.

It had tits in it. Lots of pairs of perfectly pert boobs.

And some nice cars. (Apart from that Chrysler 300C piece of st)

Your posts don't count until you decipher the alcohol fueled drivel you posted on the NYE thread

Er, did I?

[daddy cool]

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.