Drive (2011)

[Weequay]

Hi,

can't you make up your own mind? Why do you need a reviewer to tell you what movie to watch?

But with that logic we would each have to see every film we had the slightest interest in.

That could be very expensive!

Reading reviews allows you to at least get an inkling as to whether a film may be worth spending hard earned money on.

When I first saw the trailer fro drive I thought it looked mindless. I had no intention of seeing it. Now with the help oif reviews, I have changed my mind. It now interests me enough to warrant me spending my dough.

Weequay

 

[CessnaDriver]

Reviews today are not like the old days.
Before you got to read maybe one or two in the papers.
Maybe a little on TV on "Sneak Previews"

Today with Rotten Tomatoes I can tell really fast if a film is something
I might enjoy or not. There are two dozen reviews now days and you can
note which reviewers share your tastes after a while.
It's not cheap anymore to go to the movies so
I'd rather stack the cards in my favor that it's going to be enjoyable.

I'm not a kid in the movie going demographic anymore, I used to see just
about everything and learned what sucked or not the hard way.
It doesn't help to be a more demanding viewer either, when flashing
lights and flashing boobs aren't enough to make you come out thinking
greatest movie ever.

These are products to consume ultimately and just like buying an electronic device,
I look at reviews first.

 

[terryr]

Blanche [Christina Hendricks] and the scene in the strip club certainly got my attention.

The pawn shop chase seemed taken from Bullitt, with weird bits added. Why flip around and drive backwards?

 

[Russ257]

i REALLY liked this movie. It was dark and different than the usual hollywood fare.

 

[EvilRocketeer]

Drive soundtrack on amazon is only $5

http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Origina...dtrack/dp/B005GSY23M/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

 

[JD]

Hi,

can't you make up your own mind? Why do you need a reviewer to tell you what movie to watch?

What a great first post! I can't wait to see what else you add to this community! :rolleyes

Sure I can make up my own mind and sure I'm going to use reviews and other bits of information to help me make an informed decision on when or if I see a movie. A 2-minute movie trailer can tell us all or nothing about a movie - a review and other word of mouth information is much more telling. The trailer for Drive can make it look like a fast paced action movie whereas a review saying it should've been called 'Stare' is a much more telling piece of information.

I'm not going to buy a car or just about anything without doing some research to find out if it will work or appeal to me.

 

[Donnie Darko]

Among the very best films of the year.

 

[Hiccups]

I have a question about the movie. I'll put it in spoiler tags just in case.

Spoiler

Why does Bernie say that if "anybody finds out anything, they're both dead", and why does Nino say that that's why the driver has to go? This is in the pizza parlor.

 

[terryr]

They ripped off the Mob and don't want witnesses.

 

[robstyle]

Ive already panned this movie but im a little disturbed about the amount of people that believe it was something new and original and not the standard film fodder. There is nothing new or exciting about the story but it is a prime example of whats wrong with pop movies of today. When something as bland, boring and predictable as Drive is looked at as original and different, it serves to be a prime example of whats wrong with films today.

 

[CessnaDriver]

I don't think it was original and new, simply it wasn't insulting like the usual action crap and well crafted together. It had an atmosphere and was immersive.
It didn't need to explain everything why this guy is the way he is, where he came from, or where he may end up.

It was arthouse action and it reviewed extremely well.

Is arthouse action new? no. But it's rather rare when it comes together so well and can crossover into the mainstream.

 

[MFP 2020]

The Driver meets Into the Night.

I was hoping for something cool. At first I liked it. Then that glaringly inaccurate police radio chatter made me despise it. Was it written by a teenager who'd never seen a cop movie? I tried to write it off as a self-referential movie gag. I started to enjoy it again. Then came the annoying fake 80s songs. (The only music I liked in the movie was from another movie--The Social Network.) Then came all these story elements that went nowhere, or didn't pay off, or didn't make sense. (If you're just going to take it off and kill everybody, why bother wearing a mask?)

In the end, my assessment is: "Eh." I think I understand what they were trying to do: make an arty homage to the 80s. They failed miserably, if artfully. But that's just, like, my opinion, man.

 

[robstyle]

It wasnt an art film in any way shape or form. In reality it wasnt even low budget. If anyone thinks $13 million is low budget for a movie like this you need to back away from the gawd awful blockbuster big bang boom movies for a minute.

MFP 2020, it wasnt even an homage to 80's film, it was a transfer of the GTA video game series more than anything. Exactly what you described is exactly what GTA video games are and do. You get incomplete story lines due to not taking some missions with other things added in, just like the silly full head mask that is taken right out of GTA and other films as well, that are only there to try and be cool and different but dont bring anything to the story.

If they would have done a few simple changes, dropped some unnecessary go nowhere plot points and add in some car jacking, a robbery or two and a decent police chase, you have the GTA movie. Hell, the movie even has the continuing return to the apartment "save game" points!

 

[terryr]

That explains the mask thing. I was wondering why he bothered, when they knew who he was.

 

[Hiccups]

That explains the mask thing. I was wondering why he bothered, when they knew who he was.

He wore the mask in the pizza parlor scene because it was something different?

 

[robstyle]

Hiccups, he walks up to the exterior door and stops then thats it for the mask. The mask doesnt do anything but add another unused plot point to further the list of unused or not needed plot points. Its nothing new, seen in video games and more recently that I can recall in the movie Smoking Aces and MI3. Except in those the premise was utilized.

 

[Edel3er]

the best Movie since this young Century,


I think, I will certainly watch this film over 50 times or much more


from a German enthusiastic BMW Driver

(BMW 323(E46) Coupe Video - Edel3er - MyVideo)


sincerly

Chris

 

[benhs1898]

It wasnt an art film in any way shape or form. In reality it wasnt even low budget. If anyone thinks $13 million is low budget for a movie like this you need to back away from the gawd awful blockbuster big bang boom movies for a minute.

MFP 2020, it wasnt even an homage to 80's film, it was a transfer of the GTA video game series more than anything. Exactly what you described is exactly what GTA video games are and do. You get incomplete story lines due to not taking some missions with other things added in, just like the silly full head mask that is taken right out of GTA and other films as well, that are only there to try and be cool and different but dont bring anything to the story.

If they would have done a few simple changes, dropped some unnecessary go nowhere plot points and add in some car jacking, a robbery or two and a decent police chase, you have the GTA movie. Hell, the movie even has the continuing return to the apartment "save game" points!

You are throwing around the word "plot point" like you know what it means. You don't. Not even close.

 

[benhs1898]

Ive already panned this movie but im a little disturbed about the amount of people that believe it was something new and original and not the standard film fodder. There is nothing new or exciting about the story but it is a prime example of whats wrong with pop movies of today. When something as bland, boring and predictable as Drive is looked at as original and different, it serves to be a prime example of whats wrong with films today.

It is laudable because it is a prime example of strong writing. BTW. Saying something sucks or made you want to projectile vomit all over yourself is not a real analysis or even criticism.

The problem with critics is that they have more responsibility to advertise and promote than anything else. You have to read film essays to get real objective analysis.

 

[Sundowner]

I really enjoyed it. I like the tone kind of 80's feel to it and the soundtrack was really good. The music sounded like it came straight from the 80's despite being fairly new. Some liked it, some didn't and you can argue YOUR opinion all you want but I seriously doubt you will change anyone's mind.