I Went to See the Movie 'Drive'

LOVED this movie. The artistic direction was incredible. The awkward pauses between the characters is a little more slice of life than what people are used to experiencing in the theaters. Dialogue in real life can be a little awkward. I like that the main character is shy, bold, yet impressionable all at the same time.

This and Ides of March make me like where Gosling’s career is going. You have to appreciate the art of filmaking and storytelling to truly appreciate this film. IT kinda has an independent Euro feel to it, something mainstream movie watchers aren’t used to, hence why the critics and educated film goers appreciate it more than the mainstream crowd.

[quote]dannyrat wrote:
Really good. Arty, not too much talking, but it’s very good. It feels timeless and classic, like Scarface, or Blade Runner (if you know what I mean) probably in part due to its 80s-evoking soundtrack, like this song, which is quite haunting after a while

I think this film is destined to be a real cult classic. Watch it if you get the chance

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OP,you have some nice taste in music. Ive been raping the replay button for days.

[quote]QuadasarusFlex wrote:

[quote]dannyrat wrote:
Really good. Arty, not too much talking, but it’s very good. It feels timeless and classic, like Scarface, or Blade Runner (if you know what I mean) probably in part due to its 80s-evoking soundtrack, like this song, which is quite haunting after a while

I think this film is destined to be a real cult classic. Watch it if you get the chance

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OP,you have some nice taste in music. Ive been raping the replay button for days.[/quote]

Yeah same. I usually like Wu-tang clan and stuff like that, but getting more eclectic as I grow. That song owns you once it gets in, doesn’t it? Nice avatar btw

This was the only movie I saw in the last 2 years that got stuck in my mind hours after I walked out of the theater. A little bit of art-house existentialism and a little bit of Hollywood action…the paradoxical mixture makes the film quite surreal.

I wasn’t sure if I liked it right after I saw it, it’s like it couldn’t sink in in time, and that my emotional brain was processing all the information, and that the rest of my cognition couldn’t quite catch up. Kind of like the feeling that I get after I jack off…I want to go pee, but I can’t because my penis hasn’t done the switching over from the ejeculating mode to the urinating mode.

Lots to say about this movie. First of all, I love the mask scenes. Ryan gosling’s character - having no name, no clear motivations, no past, no future, little dialogue, and the way he put on a faceless mask in critical moments while roaming around the city in the dark, the way he was referred to in the beginning of the movie as a zombie, how he got stabbed at the end, yet seemed to be unharmed as he simply drove off into the horizon, how he walked away without the money because he had have no practical purposes or uses for it, and his god-like driving ability to get around and avoid physical obstacles seemed to indicate that he was some sort of non-being who existed in a different metaphysical plane as most mortals.

He avoided human contacts unless absolutely necessary (hesitate to shake hands, drives people around but want nothing more to do with them other than JUST DRIVE), yet had the power to exert forces and influence causes and effects if for greater cause.

I think what the movie is trying to portray is that real ‘heroes’ are nameless and faceless and do not seek after glory and fame, and unlike a lot of of cliche heros in action movies that take up a lot of space and grab a lot of unnecessary attention to get the job done, he quietly ‘flows’ around in the night like a ghost or a disembodied spirit, yet he was extremely effective and lethal.

His job as a stunt driver symbolizes this. When we watch movies, the heroic moments were often times the work of nameless stuntmen who take the hit for the big-time actors?but they get no credit for their work, yet they are the real heroes who work behind the scenes. Their jobs are stunt doubles are deadly, fast, loud, and full of explosions and danger, yet they quietly, while hiding behind masks, makeup, wigs, and etc, get the job done discretely, jumping from scene to scene, job to job without leaving traces of who they really are.

(Also, you can’t help but wonder if his masked apperances, expressionless moments, and lack of speech were deliberately put in to miminc the test-drive dummies that take hit for real people, and to potentially save lives).

Ryan gosling was the stuntman for Irene and her family. He took hits for them, taking the baggage that was going to be on Irene’s shoulder and put it on his back. He never revealed more about himself than what was necessary, and after the family was relieved, he just drove away, leaving nothing physical behind.

This movie reminds me of how sometimes, the people who have the most affects on our lives are people like him?you don’t know who they are, where they are from, and where they are going, their physical presence could be minimum?they may appear in your life for only a moment or two, yet their influences, spiritually and mentally, are immense and life-changing.

[quote]digitalairair wrote:
This was the only movie I saw in the last 2 years that got stuck in my mind hours after I walked out of the theater. A little bit of art-house existentialism and a little bit of Hollywood action…the paradoxical mixture makes the film quite surreal.

I wasn’t sure if I liked it right after I saw it, it’s like it couldn’t sink in in time, and that my emotional brain was processing all the information, and that the rest of my cognition couldn’t quite catch up. Kind of like the feeling that I get after I jack off…I want to go pee, but I can’t because my penis hasn’t done the switching over from the ejeculating mode to the urinating mode.

Lots to say about this movie. First of all, I love the mask scenes. Ryan gosling’s character - having no name, no clear motivations, no past, no future, little dialogue, and the way he put on a faceless mask in critical moments while roaming around the city in the dark, the way he was referred to in the beginning of the movie as a zombie, how he got stabbed at the end, yet seemed to be unharmed as he simply drove off into the horizon, how he walked away without the money because he had have no practical purposes or uses for it, and his god-like driving ability to get around and avoid physical obstacles seemed to indicate that he was some sort of non-being who existed in a different metaphysical plane as most mortals.

He avoided human contacts unless absolutely necessary (hesitate to shake hands, drives people around but want nothing more to do with them other than JUST DRIVE), yet had the power to exert forces and influence causes and effects if for greater cause.

I think what the movie is trying to portray is that real ‘heroes’ are nameless and faceless and do not seek after glory and fame, and unlike a lot of of cliche heros in action movies that take up a lot of space and grab a lot of unnecessary attention to get the job done, he quietly ‘flows’ around in the night like a ghost or a disembodied spirit, yet he was extremely effective and lethal.

His job as a stunt driver symbolizes this. When we watch movies, the heroic moments were often times the work of nameless stuntmen who take the hit for the big-time actors?but they get no credit for their work, yet they are the real heroes who work behind the scenes. Their jobs are stunt doubles are deadly, fast, loud, and full of explosions and danger, yet they quietly, while hiding behind masks, makeup, wigs, and etc, get the job done discretely, jumping from scene to scene, job to job without leaving traces of who they really are.

(Also, you can’t help but wonder if his masked apperances, expressionless moments, and lack of speech were deliberately put in to miminc the test-drive dummies that take hit for real people, and to potentially save lives).

Ryan gosling was the stuntman for Irene and her family. He took hits for them, taking the baggage that was going to be on Irene’s shoulder and put it on his back. He never revealed more about himself than what was necessary, and after the family was relieved, he just drove away, leaving nothing physical behind.

This movie reminds me of how sometimes, the people who have the most affects on our lives are people like him?you don’t know who they are, where they are from, and where they are going, their physical presence could be minimum?they may appear in your life for only a moment or two, yet their influences, spiritually and mentally, are immense and life-changing.[/quote]

Epic fucking post.

And a great analysis. You sir, know how to read your movies.

[quote]phil armitage wrote:

[quote]digitalairair wrote:
This was the only movie I saw in the last 2 years that got stuck in my mind hours after I walked out of the theater. A little bit of art-house existentialism and a little bit of Hollywood action…the paradoxical mixture makes the film quite surreal.

I wasn’t sure if I liked it right after I saw it, it’s like it couldn’t sink in in time, and that my emotional brain was processing all the information, and that the rest of my cognition couldn’t quite catch up. Kind of like the feeling that I get after I jack off…I want to go pee, but I can’t because my penis hasn’t done the switching over from the ejeculating mode to the urinating mode.

Lots to say about this movie. First of all, I love the mask scenes. Ryan gosling’s character - having no name, no clear motivations, no past, no future, little dialogue, and the way he put on a faceless mask in critical moments while roaming around the city in the dark, the way he was referred to in the beginning of the movie as a zombie, how he got stabbed at the end, yet seemed to be unharmed as he simply drove off into the horizon, how he walked away without the money because he had have no practical purposes or uses for it, and his god-like driving ability to get around and avoid physical obstacles seemed to indicate that he was some sort of non-being who existed in a different metaphysical plane as most mortals.

He avoided human contacts unless absolutely necessary (hesitate to shake hands, drives people around but want nothing more to do with them other than JUST DRIVE), yet had the power to exert forces and influence causes and effects if for greater cause.

I think what the movie is trying to portray is that real ‘heroes’ are nameless and faceless and do not seek after glory and fame, and unlike a lot of of cliche heros in action movies that take up a lot of space and grab a lot of unnecessary attention to get the job done, he quietly ‘flows’ around in the night like a ghost or a disembodied spirit, yet he was extremely effective and lethal.

His job as a stunt driver symbolizes this. When we watch movies, the heroic moments were often times the work of nameless stuntmen who take the hit for the big-time actors?but they get no credit for their work, yet they are the real heroes who work behind the scenes. Their jobs are stunt doubles are deadly, fast, loud, and full of explosions and danger, yet they quietly, while hiding behind masks, makeup, wigs, and etc, get the job done discretely, jumping from scene to scene, job to job without leaving traces of who they really are.

(Also, you can’t help but wonder if his masked apperances, expressionless moments, and lack of speech were deliberately put in to miminc the test-drive dummies that take hit for real people, and to potentially save lives).

Ryan gosling was the stuntman for Irene and her family. He took hits for them, taking the baggage that was going to be on Irene’s shoulder and put it on his back. He never revealed more about himself than what was necessary, and after the family was relieved, he just drove away, leaving nothing physical behind.

This movie reminds me of how sometimes, the people who have the most affects on our lives are people like him?you don’t know who they are, where they are from, and where they are going, their physical presence could be minimum?they may appear in your life for only a moment or two, yet their influences, spiritually and mentally, are immense and life-changing.[/quote]

Epic fucking post.

And a great analysis. You sir, know how to read your movies.[/quote]

Agreed, better than many of movie blogs I have read.

I love the movie. I thought the acting was amazing and the characters all very real.

I especially loved how brutal and thorough the antagonist was.

Just saw this movie an Hour ago. Im blown away. This movie had it all and it lived to my expectations. It was amazing!

[quote]QuadasarusFlex wrote:
Just saw this movie an Hour ago. Im blown away. This movie had it all and it lived to my expectations. It was amazing![/quote]

Nice Token please for the love all that is great will you please change your Avi.

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]QuadasarusFlex wrote:
Just saw this movie an Hour ago. Im blown away. This movie had it all and it lived to my expectations. It was amazing![/quote]

Nice Token please for the love all that is great will you please change your Avi.

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Only after you see the movie tell us what you think of it.

[quote]Bellmar wrote:

[quote]phil armitage wrote:

[quote]digitalairair wrote:
This was the only movie I saw in the last 2 years that got stuck in my mind hours after I walked out of the theater. A little bit of art-house existentialism and a little bit of Hollywood action…the paradoxical mixture makes the film quite surreal.

I wasn’t sure if I liked it right after I saw it, it’s like it couldn’t sink in in time, and that my emotional brain was processing all the information, and that the rest of my cognition couldn’t quite catch up. Kind of like the feeling that I get after I jack off…I want to go pee, but I can’t because my penis hasn’t done the switching over from the ejeculating mode to the urinating mode.

Lots to say about this movie. First of all, I love the mask scenes. Ryan gosling’s character - having no name, no clear motivations, no past, no future, little dialogue, and the way he put on a faceless mask in critical moments while roaming around the city in the dark, the way he was referred to in the beginning of the movie as a zombie, how he got stabbed at the end, yet seemed to be unharmed as he simply drove off into the horizon, how he walked away without the money because he had have no practical purposes or uses for it, and his god-like driving ability to get around and avoid physical obstacles seemed to indicate that he was some sort of non-being who existed in a different metaphysical plane as most mortals.

He avoided human contacts unless absolutely necessary (hesitate to shake hands, drives people around but want nothing more to do with them other than JUST DRIVE), yet had the power to exert forces and influence causes and effects if for greater cause.

I think what the movie is trying to portray is that real ‘heroes’ are nameless and faceless and do not seek after glory and fame, and unlike a lot of of cliche heros in action movies that take up a lot of space and grab a lot of unnecessary attention to get the job done, he quietly ‘flows’ around in the night like a ghost or a disembodied spirit, yet he was extremely effective and lethal.

His job as a stunt driver symbolizes this. When we watch movies, the heroic moments were often times the work of nameless stuntmen who take the hit for the big-time actors?but they get no credit for their work, yet they are the real heroes who work behind the scenes. Their jobs are stunt doubles are deadly, fast, loud, and full of explosions and danger, yet they quietly, while hiding behind masks, makeup, wigs, and etc, get the job done discretely, jumping from scene to scene, job to job without leaving traces of who they really are.

(Also, you can’t help but wonder if his masked apperances, expressionless moments, and lack of speech were deliberately put in to miminc the test-drive dummies that take hit for real people, and to potentially save lives).

Ryan gosling was the stuntman for Irene and her family. He took hits for them, taking the baggage that was going to be on Irene’s shoulder and put it on his back. He never revealed more about himself than what was necessary, and after the family was relieved, he just drove away, leaving nothing physical behind.

This movie reminds me of how sometimes, the people who have the most affects on our lives are people like him?you don’t know who they are, where they are from, and where they are going, their physical presence could be minimum?they may appear in your life for only a moment or two, yet their influences, spiritually and mentally, are immense and life-changing.[/quote]

Epic fucking post.

And a great analysis. You sir, know how to read your movies.[/quote]

Agreed, better than many of movie blogs I have read.

I love the movie. I thought the acting was amazing and the characters all very real.

I especially loved how brutal and thorough the antagonist was.[/quote]

Thanks. I’m attempting to do a similar reading to Shark Night 3D, the jaw of a shark always fasinate me. I think they keep going back to that theme because it somehow mimics or symbolizes the mother(nature’s)womb. A place that thrown you out into this world without your consent, and that leaves you only 2 choices : to die (suicide) or to live. The people that chose the latter are just too scared to do the first, so they suck it up and LIVE. Jaws sort of reverted that metaphor by throwing things BACK at the womb to indicate that jaws, ultimately, is a space where one should ideally return to die. I’ve always dreamt of climbing back to my mother’s womb as an old man (or an old baby) to die in there. And maybe get reborn again. Who knows?

Anyway back to drive…I think it’s gonna be one of those movies that whoever saw it will never forget it. but they might not want to talk about it with others who have seen it and probably also feel the same way about it. It’s just a film that is best described when one is silent. … whatever that means.

Did the driver has Aspergers?

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

Roy if I wait and watch it at the house, will it take away from the film? [/quote]

No. It only needs to be watched on the big screen to send a message that we don’t need or want the the same tired formula.

[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

Roy if I wait and watch it at the house, will it take away from the film? [/quote]

No. It only needs to be watched on the big screen to send a message that we don’t need or want the the same tired formula.[/quote]

I understand, but the way my life has been the past few months I dont have time to Buffalo Wild wings to watch a football game and get some chicken wings, much less go watch a movie.

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

Roy if I wait and watch it at the house, will it take away from the film? [/quote]

No. It only needs to be watched on the big screen to send a message that we don’t need or want the the same tired formula.[/quote]

I understand, but the way my life has been the past few months I dont have time to Buffalo Wild wings to watch a football game and get some chicken wings, much less go watch a movie. [/quote]

Cool. It’s not one of those movies you absolutely have to watch in the theater. That’s the point. I don’t think it was built that way; it doesn’t really belong there - which is why I think it should be watched in the theater ;)…

Gosling, Winding-Refn & co have already accomplished what they set out to do whether you watch it on DVD or not.

[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

Roy if I wait and watch it at the house, will it take away from the film? [/quote]

No. It only needs to be watched on the big screen to send a message that we don’t need or want the the same tired formula.[/quote]

I understand, but the way my life has been the past few months I dont have time to Buffalo Wild wings to watch a football game and get some chicken wings, much less go watch a movie. [/quote]

Cool. It’s not one of those movies you absolutely have to watch in the theater. That’s the point. I don’t think it was built that way; it doesn’t really belong there - which is why I think it should be watched in the theater ;)…

Gosling, Winding-Refn & co have already accomplished what they set out to do whether you watch it on DVD or not.
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I agree. A statement needs to be made here, with the movie-going dollar.

If this film is allowed to be a “cult” film with a strong DVD market it’s not going to change the modern cinema landscape. If we pay to see this type of movie in the theater, and films like it, maybe they won’t try to force shit movies down our throat. Occupy Edwards/Regal/AMC!!!

[quote]BradTGIF wrote:

[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

Roy if I wait and watch it at the house, will it take away from the film? [/quote]

No. It only needs to be watched on the big screen to send a message that we don’t need or want the the same tired formula.[/quote]

I understand, but the way my life has been the past few months I dont have time to Buffalo Wild wings to watch a football game and get some chicken wings, much less go watch a movie. [/quote]

Cool. It’s not one of those movies you absolutely have to watch in the theater. That’s the point. I don’t think it was built that way; it doesn’t really belong there - which is why I think it should be watched in the theater ;)…

Gosling, Winding-Refn & co have already accomplished what they set out to do whether you watch it on DVD or not.
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I agree. A statement needs to be made here, with the movie-going dollar.

If this film is allowed to be a “cult” film with a strong DVD market it’s not going to change the modern cinema landscape. If we pay to see this type of movie in the theater, and films like it, maybe they won’t try to force shit movies down our throat. Occupy Edwards/Regal/AMC!!!

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Exactly. We live in a world where Drive is sued for not being an action movie, but no legal action is taken against Twilight for totally taking the piss out of the horror genre.

And someone somewhere green-lit a prequel to “The Thing”

Some how have to figure out a way to go see The thing and Drive

This is the type of movie that sticks with you.

[quote]QuadasarusFlex wrote:
Did the driver has Aspergers?[/quote]

Maybe. He definitely had a kind of aloof/driven (pardon pun) personality.

BUT my cousin has diagnosed aspergers and is not at all as Alpha Male/hardman/cool as this guy. He is just obese and anti-social, basically lol