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I fell asleep during district 9, so I'll have to rewatch it.
I really liked elysium though.
I really liked elysium though.
Oh I'm sorry, Did I Break Your Conversation........Well Allow Me A Movie Thread by S&T
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Whenever I tell people District 9 is one of my favorite movies people look at me like I'm crazy.
Myself, the Oscar committee and random people on the internet are the only people I know of that like the movie.
Never met anyone in real life.
Myself, the Oscar committee and random people on the internet are the only people I know of that like the movie.
Never met anyone in real life.
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District 9 was awesome. One of the best moments I remember in a theater was that final fight scene. You could hear a pindrop. And the writing and direction were so clever. I was naive enough to think okay...it only cost $30M to make...NWO, sci-fi is gonna be this good from now on. 
But that 1-2 punch of D9 and Inglourious coming out back to back weeks.
And I think I've listened to the Drive soundtrack like 50 times. Beautiful, poetic movie. Raised my opinion of everyone involved.
Still gotta watch Only God Forgives, though.
But that 1-2 punch of D9 and Inglourious coming out back to back weeks.
And I think I've listened to the Drive soundtrack like 50 times.
Beautiful, poetic movie. Raised my opinion of everyone involved.Still gotta watch Only God Forgives, though.
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I watched a youtube explanation on Only God Forgives that has made me reconsider watching it again.
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Still gotta watch OGF as well.. after all the bashing it received on here it was put on the back burner by me.
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Could you post that , please? I'd love to hear
@flightman, I'd really like to know what you thought was cliche about Drive.
Or are you just being a contrarian?
I always loved Frank Yang's review of Drive, but, then again, I love his thoughts on everything
Anyway, what he said about the movie:
Drive movie “review” starring Ryan Gosling.
Aesthetic as ****.
Just saw the movie Drive again, on DVD. It’s still one of the best movies I’ve seen in theater in the last decade.
The more I think about it, the more I realize that this movie is actually about an autistic savant.
Someone whose mind operates in a completely different wavelength than the rest of us and fails to connect with other human beings and worldly matters. Except he isn’t amazing at math or memorizing phonebooks or music, but a genius in DRIVING.
And that idea in and of itself makes this movie a genius of its own right.
Anyway here was what I wrote when the movie first came out. Might have changed my mind about some of it but here it is…
“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. See it, and tell me what you think.
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.
One of the many themes of the movie 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 like a ghost, 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.
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. 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”.
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Just watched the preview for drive. Yea, I always wanted to watch that.
Is it on netflix or anything by chance?
Is it on netflix or anything by chance?
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^It's on amazon instant for $13.
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I'm really liking Six Feet Under so far.
The mom is lulz.
The mom is lulz.
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Just watched the preview for drive. Yea, I always wanted to watch that.
Is it on netflix or anything by chance?
Ugh. It used to be.
But you can still check out a couple other Gosling movies on Netflix like Lars and the Real Girl and Blue Valentine.
Both are really good. Lars is a quirky funny indie movie. Not a side of him you see much.
Blue
...less funny. It's a slowburn. And it's all about the characters and their relationship. An anti-romance. Depending on how much you let the movie in...when you finish it, for a while it'll be your favorite movie you never want to watch again. Like a Requeim for a Relationship.
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the notebook 
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Blue Valentine.....
Probably in my top 10 tbh |I
Probably in my top 10 tbh |I
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Blue Valentine was really good, depressing at times.. but a good flick.
Whoever shouted out SFU
Whoever shouted out SFU
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Blue Valentine.....
Probably in my top 10 tbh
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I don't if this has been discussed already but what do guys think of a Mike Tyson movie?
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^^A television movie about Tyson was released in the mid 90's, Michael Jai White played him and it wasn't too bad. Also a documentary came out a couple years ago and that was fantastic
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i wrote an eight page paper on this scene for my directing class.
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i love that song they used in Drive, "A Real Hero."
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Here's our first official look at Christian Grey in Fifty Shades of Grey which hits theaters next Valentines Day - http://wp.me/p2CCWq-3FI
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It's so damn bad don't waste your time.
Just watched the preview for drive. Yea, I always wanted to watch that.
Is it on netflix or anything by chance?
One of the best movies you'll see
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in my top 3 favorite movies ever
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Frankly I'm surprised a major film hasn't been made yet. But then again he is still alive and very present.
He has a fascinating story and one that is GOLD for a movie
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the music hit me so hard in the entire film.
perfectly used
it accented every scene.
i remember watching the first scene and as "Nightcall" played I got serious chills. It was a beautiful scene
