Movie Bears -- "Drive"
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kybearfuzzOn Saturday, the Cincinnati Movie Bears went to see Drive. Granted, I didn't vote for this movie, but it had gotten good ratings on RottenTomatoes.com and the previews looked like it could be a cool action/thriller type movie.
... but it wasn't...
Ryan Gosling stars as a guy who "drives." He drives for the movie studio, doing stunts when necessary, and is a mechanic. He also is a getaway driver for hire, meaning he'll drive the vehicle after a robbery. He meets the pretty mom next door whose husband is in jail. He bonds with the little boy. When the boy's dad gets out of prison but needs to pay off some protection money, the driver agrees to help pull a job to get him out of the jam.
I think my expectations were way off, because the previews for this movie are incredibly misleading. While there are some actions scenes in it, they are few and far between. The first half hour has almost no dialogue from Gosling as he spends the time with the mom doing some dramatic staring amidst some awkward silence. After the first half hour, when the job is done, the movie starts to get interesting, but again it is peppered with these awkward and painful moments of odd pauses when I'm sure the scene is meant to be dramatic, but just seems dull. Don't get me wrong, when it's violent, it's VIOLENT and gory! It's the wait for anything to happen that drags.
Include this with multiple 80's-esque music montages and pink cursive credits and the movie comes across as the arthouse, bastard love-child of John Hughes and Quentin Tarantino.
The critics are loving it, but I felt like I'd been duped by selective editing in the promo. After the movie, we went to dinner and I can't say any of us were talking about how great the film was.
I wont say I hated it, but I certainly wouldn't watch it again and I admit that I'd have pushed to see something else had I known.
... but it wasn't...
Ryan Gosling stars as a guy who "drives." He drives for the movie studio, doing stunts when necessary, and is a mechanic. He also is a getaway driver for hire, meaning he'll drive the vehicle after a robbery. He meets the pretty mom next door whose husband is in jail. He bonds with the little boy. When the boy's dad gets out of prison but needs to pay off some protection money, the driver agrees to help pull a job to get him out of the jam.
I think my expectations were way off, because the previews for this movie are incredibly misleading. While there are some actions scenes in it, they are few and far between. The first half hour has almost no dialogue from Gosling as he spends the time with the mom doing some dramatic staring amidst some awkward silence. After the first half hour, when the job is done, the movie starts to get interesting, but again it is peppered with these awkward and painful moments of odd pauses when I'm sure the scene is meant to be dramatic, but just seems dull. Don't get me wrong, when it's violent, it's VIOLENT and gory! It's the wait for anything to happen that drags.
Include this with multiple 80's-esque music montages and pink cursive credits and the movie comes across as the arthouse, bastard love-child of John Hughes and Quentin Tarantino.
The critics are loving it, but I felt like I'd been duped by selective editing in the promo. After the movie, we went to dinner and I can't say any of us were talking about how great the film was.
I wont say I hated it, but I certainly wouldn't watch it again and I admit that I'd have pushed to see something else had I known.
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Date: 2011-09-26 11:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-26 11:45 am (UTC)HUGS!
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Date: 2011-09-26 10:56 pm (UTC)Just one more vote or two and you could have seen lion king 3d!
personally I was pulling for contagion.
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Date: 2011-09-26 11:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-27 03:19 am (UTC)