I think the Rock is the “it” guy right now. Every chick is creaming her pants over him. Im cool with Dwayne Johnson though.
[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]Cortes wrote:
[quote]ukrainian wrote:
[quote]carbiduis wrote:
I want every MALE to do me a favor…
Everytime you find yourself talking about channing tatum (hopefully this isn’t often), please refer to him as Chafing Scrotum
CHANNING TATUM = CHAFING SCROTUM
…ok, carry on. [/quote]
Why do people hate on Channing Tatum so much? I never understood that.[/quote]
Probably has something to do with his soap opera character name. [/quote]
That, and also he looks like a frat boy kind of jerk. Like Paul Walker…so I guess it’s their voices too.
I mean there are actors that when your woman likes them you are OK with that, and even proud of them. I mean your woman likes Sean Connery, Steve McQueen, and more recent ones too…I guess I like my womn to like man’s men.[/quote]
Bingo.
My chick loves Channing Tatum and Ryan Gosling. I dont get it. They reek of tool to me. It creates quite a bit of resentment.
If she had a die-hard crush on Daniel Craig though…Shit if he asked me to bang her i’d tell him “any time Dan!”[/quote]
Ryan Gosling has gotten a bad rap. He and Channing Tatum are not even in the same solar system. No joke, he is one of the most capable, talented actors working today. I’m not sure what movies happened to give him this boy-band reputation, but it is wholly undeserved.
Don’t believe me? Well then watch Drive. Or Blue Valentine. Or The Place Beyond the Pines.
I have a full on man-crush on Ryan Gosling. He is awesome.
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]Cortes wrote:
[quote]ukrainian wrote:
[quote]carbiduis wrote:
I want every MALE to do me a favor…
Everytime you find yourself talking about channing tatum (hopefully this isn’t often), please refer to him as Chafing Scrotum
CHANNING TATUM = CHAFING SCROTUM
…ok, carry on. [/quote]
Why do people hate on Channing Tatum so much? I never understood that.[/quote]
Probably has something to do with his soap opera character name. [/quote]
That, and also he looks like a frat boy kind of jerk. Like Paul Walker…so I guess it’s their voices too.
I mean there are actors that when your woman likes them you are OK with that, and even proud of them. I mean your woman likes Sean Connery, Steve McQueen, and more recent ones too…I guess I like my womn to like man’s men.[/quote]
Bingo.
My chick loves Channing Tatum and Ryan Gosling. I dont get it. They reek of tool to me. It creates quite a bit of resentment.
If she had a die-hard crush on Daniel Craig though…Shit if he asked me to bang her i’d tell him “any time Dan!”[/quote]
Yeah, Daniel Craig’s a good example too. I had a coworker say he was ugly, I asked who was more handsome, me or him…she shut up pretty quick. Hey…I’d rather be right than handsome.
My lady likes Mel Gibson still but I didn’t mention that one. I still lke him too, but not because he went nuts.[/quote]
I won’t join that mob, either. Mel Gibson is a great actor and a great director. And he is nothing if not an iconic man’s and lady’s man, as far as his characters go, anyway.
[quote]Cortes wrote:
Ryan Gosling has gotten a bad rap. He and Channing Tatum are not even in the same solar system. No joke, he is one of the most capable, talented actors working today. I’m not sure what movies happened to give him this boy-band reputation, but it is wholly undeserved.
[/quote]
I know, right? Where in the world would did the boy band impression come from?
[quote]super saiyan wrote:
[quote]Cortes wrote:
Ryan Gosling has gotten a bad rap. He and Channing Tatum are not even in the same solar system. No joke, he is one of the most capable, talented actors working today. I’m not sure what movies happened to give him this boy-band reputation, but it is wholly undeserved.
[/quote]
I know, right? Where in the world would did the boy band impression come from?
;)[/quote]
HAWT!
See, he has great vocal range on top of everything else. He a real Renaissance Man. (^_~)
[quote]Cortes wrote:
Don’t believe me? Well then watch Drive. Or Blue Valentine. Or The Place Beyond the Pines.
I have a full on man-crush on Ryan Gosling. He is awesome.
[/quote]
What is with people recommending that movie Drive? It even won some awards but that movie sucked. It was boring and predictable. If great acting is sitting quietly (read: awkwardly) staring at some girl you want to bang but are too incapable to say something, like they did about 3-4x in the movie, then I’m pretty sure every damn high school is loaded with talented actors
[quote]coolnatedawg wrote:
[quote]Cortes wrote:
Don’t believe me? Well then watch Drive. Or Blue Valentine. Or The Place Beyond the Pines.
I have a full on man-crush on Ryan Gosling. He is awesome.
[/quote]
What is with people recommending that movie Drive? It even won some awards but that movie sucked. It was boring and predictable. If great acting is sitting quietly staring at some girl you want to bang but are too incapable to say something, like they did about 3-4x in the movie, then I’m pretty sure every damn high school is loaded with talented actors[/quote]
Sick, I can maybe win some Oscars!
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
The wife loves Vin Diesel and the Rock…
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Mine is the same, well at least Johnson, not sure abotu Vin though.
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
The wife loves Vin Diesel and the Rock…
[/quote]
Mine is the same, well at least Johnson, not sure abotu Vin though.[/quote]
I have been told more than I can possibly account for that I look like a taller Vin Diesel. I have used that to my advantage in the past. My girlfriend hates when someone says it to me b/c she thinks it makes my head bigger.
[quote]coolnatedawg wrote:
[quote]Cortes wrote:
Don’t believe me? Well then watch Drive. Or Blue Valentine. Or The Place Beyond the Pines.
I have a full on man-crush on Ryan Gosling. He is awesome.
[/quote]
What is with people recommending that movie Drive? It even won some awards but that movie sucked. It was boring and predictable. If great acting is sitting quietly (read: awkwardly) staring at some girl you want to bang but are too incapable to say something, like they did about 3-4x in the movie, then I’m pretty sure every damn high school is loaded with talented actors[/quote]
Dude, that’s what I said when I saw this movie. My roommate and his gf were hyping it up saying it was supposed to be awesome, and it was ‘meh’ the entire time. It reminded me of the show Mad Men; not really that interesting, but not all boring either.
[quote]Cortes wrote:
[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]Cortes wrote:
[quote]ukrainian wrote:
[quote]carbiduis wrote:
I want every MALE to do me a favor…
Everytime you find yourself talking about channing tatum (hopefully this isn’t often), please refer to him as Chafing Scrotum
CHANNING TATUM = CHAFING SCROTUM
…ok, carry on. [/quote]
Why do people hate on Channing Tatum so much? I never understood that.[/quote]
Probably has something to do with his soap opera character name. [/quote]
That, and also he looks like a frat boy kind of jerk. Like Paul Walker…so I guess it’s their voices too.
I mean there are actors that when your woman likes them you are OK with that, and even proud of them. I mean your woman likes Sean Connery, Steve McQueen, and more recent ones too…I guess I like my womn to like man’s men.[/quote]
Bingo.
My chick loves Channing Tatum and Ryan Gosling. I dont get it. They reek of tool to me. It creates quite a bit of resentment.
If she had a die-hard crush on Daniel Craig though…Shit if he asked me to bang her i’d tell him “any time Dan!”[/quote]
Ryan Gosling has gotten a bad rap. He and Channing Tatum are not even in the same solar system. No joke, he is one of the most capable, talented actors working today. I’m not sure what movies happened to give him this boy-band reputation, but it is wholly undeserved.
Don’t believe me? Well then watch Drive. Or Blue Valentine. Or The Place Beyond the Pines.
I have a full on man-crush on Ryan Gosling. He is awesome.
[/quote]
Drive sucked. The pacing was awful, and the acting was terrible. Gosling tried way too hard to come off as “cool” and just ended up being annoyingly quiet, short-spoken and downright awkward at times. Like in real life that chick wouldve asked herself on multiple occasions “what the fuck is wrong with this creep?” It also tried to overcome how boring it was with over-the-top violence that just seemed out of place and unrealistic.
Blue valentine had better acting but nothing superb. He gets too much credit for it simply for going outside his usual roles.
I would rather watch Dear John with Channing Tatum than the Note Book with Ryan Gosling. There i said it.
[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:
I would rather watch Dear John with Channing Tatum than the Note Book with Ryan Gosling. There i said it.
[/quote]
I take it you’ve got a Nicolas Sparks fan on your hands also?
[quote]bpick86 wrote:
[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:
I would rather watch Dear John with Channing Tatum than the Note Book with Ryan Gosling. There i said it.
[/quote]
I take it you’ve got a Nicolas Sparks fan on your hands also?[/quote]
Is that the guy that keeps writing all these shitty books that are all the same shitty story and keep getting made into these shitty movies? Cause if so, then yes.
[quote]bpick86 wrote:
My wife has a thing for Joe Manganiello. Not really sure what that deal is. She likes Tatum and Garrett Hedlund too so her tastes are kind of all over the place. She thinks I look alright so we are all good.[/quote]
Joe Manganiello and Manu Bennett FTW. Both tied for number 1!
Has this thread progressed into man crushes? Finally something I can feel good about contributing to!
Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt and the Rock. I’d bang all of them.
George Clooney is good, too.
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
Has this thread progressed into man crushes? Finally something I can feel good about contributing to!
Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt and the Rock. I’d bang all of them.
George Clooney is good, too. [/quote]
The Rock? All I can think of is family guy when Peter says, “Last night louis was the MAN…WAHAHAHAHAHAH,” to Brian. I’m pretty sure The Rock would leave me shaking in the fetal position for about a week…
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
Has this thread progressed into man crushes? Finally something I can feel good about contributing to!
Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt and the Rock. I’d bang all of them.
George Clooney is good, too. [/quote]
The Rock? All I can think of is family guy when Peter says, “Last night louis was the MAN…WAHAHAHAHAHAH,” to Brian. I’m pretty sure The Rock would leave me shaking in the fetal position for about a week…[/quote]
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:
[quote]Cortes wrote:
Ryan Gosling has gotten a bad rap. He and Channing Tatum are not even in the same solar system. No joke, he is one of the most capable, talented actors working today. I’m not sure what movies happened to give him this boy-band reputation, but it is wholly undeserved.
Don’t believe me? Well then watch Drive. Or Blue Valentine. Or The Place Beyond the Pines.
I have a full on man-crush on Ryan Gosling. He is awesome.
[/quote]
Drive sucked. The pacing was awful, and the acting was terrible. Gosling tried way too hard to come off as “cool” and just ended up being annoyingly quiet, short-spoken and downright awkward at times. Like in real life that chick wouldve asked herself on multiple occasions “what the fuck is wrong with this creep?” It also tried to overcome how boring it was with over-the-top violence that just seemed out of place and unrealistic.
Blue valentine had better acting but nothing superb. He gets too much credit for it simply for going outside his usual roles.
I would rather watch Dear John with Channing Tatum than the Note Book with Ryan Gosling. There i said it.
[/quote]
Drive is a masterful adaptation of an 80’s themed noir, arthouse action film. Depending entirely on how you look at it, the flair of the film is not in it’s grander perspective but the subtlety on the side, like a Jigsaw that looks stale to some when finished, but has a brilliant micro-art hidden in each of the pieces.
It’s the way the film revels in it’s contrast of scenes to me, the way violence is laced intermittently into scenes of overwhelming poetry and visual artistry from the actors expressions and movements. It’s an action movie, a visual poem, and a love story that flows back and forth between each while still retaining the air of tranquility and it’s artistic roots. Sometimes I feel people focus on it too much for the car chases and the shooting, and the need for dialogue to play a large role, from the offset it’s cool and calculating and plays up to the audience to interpret the film for themselves, instead of taking a singular idea and shoving it down their throats. It’s an Avant-Garde Fast And Furious, as calmly philosophical as it is roaringly active.
Gosling’s intent was to appear exactly that. Annoyingly quiet, short spoken, and boldly awkward. His character is a lonely man that has sent his whole life growing up socially devoid and left to his own devices, a strict and controlling father and a more compassionate mother. The introversion and meticulous nature of Gosling’s character is shown multiple times throughout the film. He’s a very quiet, very intelligent, unimposing man that wants to keep to himself and is fearful of being close to or around others. He sees the way the chess pieces are going to move before they do, and he reacts accordingly, the elevator scene is a strong example of that, but a second viewing will unearth many more once you know what to look for.
The character himself has an obsessive compulsive personality, and maybe even a hint of Asperger’s, he’s been driving most of his life, and he focuses relentlessly on it. Doing the same thing over and over again to perfection, Gosling’s character makes up for his social ineptitude through his true calling, driving. He’s a man with a stunted emotional perspective, who sees the world around him as a physical and operational piece of machinery, clicking and tinkering along, he can see the cogs whirl, but he’s not a man that can see much farther than that. His principles are rigid and he makes an effort to stick to them unwaveringly, he does not go by the impulsiveness of emotion, but the stoic, ever-present moral law he’s deemed for himself. He’s not a titular hero by a desire to be that, but becomes that accidentally through the inability to let go of what he’s set in stone mentally as a path to follow. He has no desire to be the center of attention, and he’s incredibly reclusive around others, hence the lack of dialogue in his character. He has no base emotional personality that other, normal people have. He’s constantly shocked and taken aback by emotional exposure, because he simply cannot understand it. Reverting tirelessly to his repetitive, all important obsessive protocol.
The increasing violence is a direct representation of Gosling’s lack of emotion and thoroughness, the entire film is a story based around the profile of his character, and the actions and events of the movie, from start to finish, represent the expression of his mental abnormalities. It’s the basal story of an imperfect man evolving and becoming something he would never have expected himself to be, nor wanted to be, the violence is to serve the audience somewhat, but is more to be an insight to the Driver himself.
If you can get past the need for the usual cinema tropes and look for the beauty hidden under the skin of it, Drive will take your thoughts, opinions, emotions and tear them asunder, forcing you to rebuild them, but slowly, and meticulously.
Half the reason I see the film this way is because I didn’t at first. I thought it was good, but I didn’t believe the hype. I read the full final script, and watched it five times since that, just in an effort to understand what others saw that I didn’t. Reading the script will give you a much better insight than my posts about it ever will, if you have the patience and interest to wade through it, it’s a goldmine of poetic art.
Won’t get into Blue Valentine, because I will take up an entire page moaning and groaning about how I saw it.
(Also to Cortes, I assume you’ve seen Pines since we last spoke of it, I’d love if you could tell me what you thought of it.)
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
Has this thread progressed into man crushes? Finally something I can feel good about contributing to!
Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt and the Rock. I’d bang all of them.
George Clooney is good, too. [/quote]
I have a ginger cousin that worked in Spearmint Rhino in Vegas that fucked Clooney a few times.
Here’s an article with a photo. Says she’s British but she’s lived in the US most of her life, my second cousin, (her son) Devon got given night-vision goggles, or at least he told me he did. I wish I could have flown over and got to talk to Clooney, so I could have told him how much worse the Ocean’s Eleven sequels were and how mind-numbingly shit Leatherheads was.
[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
Has this thread progressed into man crushes? Finally something I can feel good about contributing to!
Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt and the Rock. I’d bang all of them.
George Clooney is good, too. [/quote]
I have a ginger cousin that worked in Spearmint Rhino in Vegas that fucked Clooney a few times.
Here’s an article with a photo. Says she’s British but she’s lived in the US most of her life, my second cousin, (her son) Devon got given night-vision goggles, or at least he told me he did. I wish I could have flown over and got to talk to Clooney, so I could have told him how much worse the Ocean’s Eleven sequels were and how mind-numbingly shit Leatherheads was.[/quote]
Agreed on Leatherheads. The sequals to Ocean’s 11 were nowhere near as good as the first, but weren’t all that bad.
Everyone, given enough time, makes some crap movies.
I’d still bang him.