E.H. Ruddock wrote:This line has me intrigued enough to see it:
When the film reaches its logical end point, Refn just keeps pushing, and eventually lands on a sequence so jaw-dropping – almost certainly a sly, glossy-magazine refashioning of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali’s groundbreaking surrealist short Un Chien Andalou – that all you can do is howl or cheer.
durdencommatyler wrote:I love divisive directors. And I'm still really excited to see this one. Even if I haven't necessarily loved his stuff in the past. This one looks like it's really going to speak to me.
I still think it looks amazing, but the one review I mentioned made it sound very stylized without any heart. I hope it's not like The Canyons of The Bling Ring or something. Hoping for more "Drive + American Psycho + Devil Wears Prada," but that's an oversimplification of what I know this guy can do.
People say this about every movie he's ever made. I wouldn't worry about it if you've liked any of his other stuff.
I can understand that criticism for Only God Forgives, maybe. But certainly not Drive. It's stylized but it has a ton of heart. Mostly thanks to the geniuses Gosling and Mulligan.
durdencommatyler wrote:I love divisive directors. And I'm still really excited to see this one. Even if I haven't necessarily loved his stuff in the past. This one looks like it's really going to speak to me.
I still think it looks amazing, but the one review I mentioned made it sound very stylized without any heart. I hope it's not like The Canyons of The Bling Ring or something. Hoping for more "Drive + American Psycho + Devil Wears Prada," but that's an oversimplification of what I know this guy can do.
People say this about every movie he's ever made. I wouldn't worry about it if you've liked any of his other stuff.
I can understand that criticism for Only God Forgives, maybe. But certainly not Drive. It's stylized but it has a ton of heart. Mostly thanks to the geniuses Gosling and Mulligan.
I've only seen Drive and Only God Forgives. Didn't love either of them. Drive has some things going for it (again, mainly cast) but it has a lot of problems, too. Only God Forgives is ... not good.
I try to be open minded and generous about Drive because there are things I do like about it. But it's a tough watch. And not just because of the unnecessary hyper-violence.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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It's a pretty poorly paced movie with flat, uninspired visuals and a terrible pace. And then there's the aforementioned hyper-violence. The soundtrack gets way more credit than it deserves, though it's not terrible, and the film all but totally wastes the talents it employs. Ryan Gosling fights like a brave fight but without his performance it's more of a good idea than a successful movie.
