Agreed. The real highlight was hearing the comedians tell OTHER jokes.

It was just nice to see a film featuring comedians talking about comedy.

Clovis, I have the same reaction to most of Tarrantino's work. Pulp Fiction is just fine and I like the others, but I don't think any of them are "great." Of course, that value judgment doesn't say much, simply that I'd pick a good hundred movies as better than anything by Tarrantino.

Just wondering. Has anybody seen Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle?

just saw Drive... jfc that must have been the most awful soundtrack ever; all the noises and cheesy electronic music quickly got on my nerves. the story is too predictable. you can anticipate what will happen to every character and when... the story is also hard to take seriously. the guy is supposed to be a stunt driver, get away driver, race car driver, mechanic, proficient in hand to hand combat, close quarters firefights... etc.. cmon ryan gosling simply doesnt have the stature to stand there, gazing at people and looking like a badass while doing it. way too many slow motion scenes.. other scenes trying to be fancy and devoid of life. just the entire style of the movie tries to compensate for the lack of interesting characters, story or dynamics. it fails to built up any sort of conflict, tension and interesting relationships.


still mostly enjoyable and carey mulligan is really hot... something like b-


but the soundtrack was really aids

I liked the soundtrack more than the movie lol

i liked it at first, but there was just too much of it. would have been nicer if it was like 50% less of it.

This thread is making me sad today.

Most of us think Drive is pretty good, just not that good.

My favorite movies this year are The Tree of Life and Fast Five (hehe).

IMDB itt.

Re the score to Drive...I usually really like Cliff Martinez' work, but yeah, the cheesy synth-laden 80s stuff for this movie just plain sucked.

never saw true romance before, thought it was girly chick flick lol didnt know tarantino made it, it is fantastic, thanks everyone in this thread that reviews films after they have seen them, i have watched a lot of good films because of this thread

Just saw a preview of the new Morgan Spurlock film. Looks like a really interesting idea. He's doing a film about product placement in movies, funded entirely by product placement. Not surprisingly he struggled to get them interested.

I've seen it. It's ok nothing great.

Yeah me too. The soundtrack was great and created exactly the mood that makes drive so different.

I don't think it will stand the test of time, but it owns 2011.

I thought when Drive started, I was watching PM Entertainment's Final Impact II. The font and the music wreaked of mid 90's cheese.

It made me miss Lorenzo Lamas

Hope he mentions Dr. Pepper in Mission To Mars. And for some strange reason, I don't mind the movie at all.

Earlier in the thread I said Drive would have been better with another $10m spent on it. That view was not well received, but I stand by it. It needed that extra cash to properly pull off the ultra shiny Grand Theft Auto aesthetic it was striving for.

Speaking of GTA, I thought Drive was one of the clearest examples I've yet seen of video game influence on a movie (at least, a movie not adapted from the video game directly). Drive reminded me of GTA more than it did, say, the Driver or QT movies or whatnot.

Yeah, it had that vice city vibe.

I love this movie. Just love it. I've seen it at least twenty times. I wonder what it's like for the latest generation to watch the film. Do they even understand what the dialup beep boop beep boop beep sounds mean? Can they look at the opening CGI credit sequence and understand that those graphics were CUTTING EDGE at the time?

For anyone unfamiliar with the film (wtf?), it's a remake of a 1949 film called The Shop Around the Corner, which was in turn a remake of a play, and was also remade into a musical. The central conceit is that two characters who are essentially each other's worst enemy are unknowingly each other's favorite pen pals. You've Got Mail updates the original plot and turns the co-workers into rival business owners. Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan when she was still dare I say cute), owns The Shop Around the Corner, a small, independent bookstore, and Joe Fox (Tom Hanks) owns Fox Books, a not so subtle stand-in for Barnes and Noble, the threat to all independent bookstores. As the two plot each other's downfall, they continue their correspondence (letters, they were called letters), developing affection for the person they hate more than anyone else.

I always knew Marry Poppins was a horror movie!

Haha! That's great. Have you also seen the one that recuts The Shining as a romantic comedy?

The hate/under-appreciation of Drive is killing my soul. Not only are the comments ITT confusing to me, but Drive got huge reviews so it's not just a few of us over-hyping a great film. I see more films than most, but probably fewer than the hardcore fans ITT (On a slow weekend 1 or 2, busy weekend 3-4).

Drive is among my 3 favorite of 2011 thus far (Midnight in Paris and The Tree of Life). The music/score are outstanding and one of the major hilites of the film. Everything fits so well. I suspect others may have viewed the "online version" which has bits missing from the movie and a different score (some of the score from The Social Network).

Some say style over substance and I'm alright with that. The look and feel of Drive is fantastic, I've seen it three times and it holds it's own each viewing.

oh yeah...that's a classic

It's confusing me, as well...I'm a bit perplexed at how much love it is getting from the reviewers and people here. Like I said before, I guess I need to see it again.