I think we all remember hearing about Ryan Gosling right after 'The Notebook' came out. If you’ve seen Drive, you will forever remember the elevator scene. Was this review helpful? Was this review helpful? 'Drive' is a captivating mix of contemporary and retro aesthetics. Did I miss something here?
It stars Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks, Oscar Isaac, Christina Hendricks and Ron Perlman. When I started to get interested into film, I somehow started watching movie reviews on YouTube, and my favorite YouTube movie critic was and still is, Chris Stuckmann. This movie represents what I love in movies. I expected to see little more stunts than just unrealistic and unnecessary handbrake spinning in only one scene. Ryan Gosling plays a Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as an escape car artist for local thugs. Many people did not like this movie upon its release, and I think it is because of its misleading marketing. With a budget Michael Bay might have allocated for a single effects sequence in Transformers 3, Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn made one of the best movies of the year. Was this review helpful? It's not a good reason to not really appreciate an actor. The trailers for Drive make it seems like the movie is a straight up action film with the utterly handsome Ryan Gosling in the leading role. Sure you can. Beware, I spoil the entire movie in this review. If not, can you still trespass easily?
Can you actually drive in the LA River?
It is a picture perfect reflection of the films from the late 60's, 70's and 80's. Plus the movie is called "drive." A terrific original screenplay defies Hollywood conventions of over-the-top plot convolutions and unrealistic twists.
Well crafted story, great writing and great direction. One reviewer here suggested that instead of seeing Drive you should see what Drive was aspiring to be Layer Cake. First the good: Drive is cast with excellent actors. He also likes to wear that scorpion jacket even when it's been bloodied. As if everything mentioned wasn't bad enough the violence is just downright ridiculous and again unnecessary. With Lewis MacAdams. The Elevator. Very rarely will a film transcend these boundaries and offer a mix of Hollywood-style action and art-house flair, which is what makes Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive so unique and something to be celebrated. You might hear one comparing this to a Tarantino film, but leave all worries at the door, this is an absorbing and tremendously unique piece of cinema from Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn. 32 out of 47 found this helpful. Drive is directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and adapted to screenplay by Hossein Amini from the novel of the same name written by James Sallis. Ryan Gosling and Director Nicholas Winding Refn are in for a career best piece of masterwork in "Drive!"
The pink credits beginning the movie and the music throughout are pure eighties and set an offbeat tone against the contemporary LA streets and skyline. Was this review helpful? Wow!!
Now it's about time to see what kind of chops this man has when it comes to an action film. The public can not drive through it. Was this review helpful? After binge watching many of his videos, I found out that one of his favorite films is Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive. Drive is nothing like Layer Cake nor even tries to be. This 27-minute documentary film about the LA River weaves together citizens' voices, river imagery, historical documents, and visuals from the city's proposed Master Plan. The reason it works so exquisitely well is because the film grabs hold of you and takes you inside this often dark and dream-like LA setting. Was this review helpful? 455 out of 762 found this helpful. Tell me I'm not the coolest cat on freaking Quora! Was this review helpful? Sure, there are a couple coincidences, but there are many rewards for keeping the story simplified and enhance the characters' arcs. I don't know why, I just did, but watching it the 2nd time was a very mesmerizing experience. I don't understand what the hype is and why people are going crazy about it. The film elevates itself above any other similar film in it's drama, perhaps better than the character rich film "The Town" from 2010. It is a far far better film though.
Starting near MacArthur Park and ending on Sherman Way in the San Fernando Valley — and cruising in-between through colorful locations downtown and along the concrete banks of the L.A. River — “Drive” finds beauty in unlikely places. Part of the year it is dry, part of the year water flows through it. They have nothing in common, and the comment is just absurd. It seems like a piece of infrastructure like this near bridges would be pretty secure due to security threats, not to mention the potential self harm you could inflict if there was a storm surge or something. 27 out of 43 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Great character studies punctuated by violent action scenes keep the audience immersed in this blood bath of a movie. Following Bronson and Valhalla Rising, Refn crafts his most polished, commercial work yet, while retaining all the ambiguity and unbridled aggression of his tough-as-nails art house pictures. He gets involved in the life of his next door neighbor, her kid and the husband who owes money to the mafia boss Gosling's character happens to works for. Was this review helpful? Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist.Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. I feel a little dumb asking this. 283 out of 305 found this helpful. Freshen up your watchlist with Prime Video’s latest roster of movies and TV shows, featuring Looking for some great streaming picks? Was this review helpful? Based on this picture you would not know that most of the cast could act at all. 299 out of 537 found this helpful. “There’s a scene … Perhaps all the more so because there were the ever-so-slight hints that it might have been good. Not even the music was catchy. 101 out of 178 found this helpful. It seems to be the case nowadays that film audiences, particularly at this time of year as the summer winds down, are left with a choice of seeing the latest broad appeal movies filling the multiplexes, or venturing to the local independent cinema in search of more intellectual fare.
If you want the drive in experience, but prefer your movies new and arty, rather than the nostalgic fare that fills most series, opt for passes to this.