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stu
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on: September 18, 2011, 09:49:23 PM


A criminal aims to protect a pair of innocents from other criminals. Using cars. To a synth beat. It's a slow neon burn with Cali plates font. And brutal violence.

Drive is a modern action film lit by the 80's. I went in to this cold (not even a trailer viewing) and was blown away but there were others in the audience who didn't fair as well. As soon as I heard the Chromatics, I was sold. Really, I think the less said about this the better. For a simple plot, it has a lot of attentive touches and oozes style.

I'm just gonna post a clip from the first half of the movie that does nothing to hint at how viscous things get, but displays the character bonds and the soundtrack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJcZBOMM0og

NSFW trailer [but it really gives a lot away - like, the entire movie, just about]:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INvBQpub1iQ&feature=related
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Reply #1 on: September 21, 2011, 09:14:41 PM


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Reply #2 on: September 21, 2011, 09:32:34 PM

 I left the theater feeling like I'd seen a modernization of Shane.
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Reply #3 on: September 26, 2011, 04:18:41 PM

I didn't like it much. I left thinking I must have missed something.
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Reply #4 on: September 26, 2011, 05:27:07 PM

Is it based on the game? i remember enjoying the shit out of it.

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Reply #5 on: September 26, 2011, 06:03:55 PM

Nah, it's loosely based on a neo-noir book by a guy named James Sallis.


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Reply #6 on: September 27, 2011, 07:18:58 AM

I really liked it, but it is a little pretentious in places.

The violence shocked me a little with how gruesome it was, I wasn't expecting that. It's been a very long time since any sort of violence in a movie made me flinch.

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Reply #7 on: September 27, 2011, 10:33:19 AM

Is it based on the game? i remember enjoying the shit out of it.

You're thinking of Driver, which imo is the best action-driving game ever made.  And yah, they should've just done a movie about that particular game instead of this artsy thing.

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Reply #8 on: October 03, 2011, 06:43:59 AM

Good movie...a little slow at times. 
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Reply #9 on: October 03, 2011, 07:52:21 AM

Few details and lots of guestion left unanswered make for a good story.

Enjoyed the movie.
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Reply #10 on: October 09, 2011, 09:30:24 PM

Saw it tonight, thought it was really good. Slow at times yes but I thought that just added to the brutality of the action.

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Reply #11 on: October 10, 2011, 10:02:57 AM

There's a lady in Michigan who's suing the movie's distributor for misleading her into thinking she was paying to see a Fast & Furious ripoff.  awesome, for real

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Reply #12 on: October 10, 2011, 12:58:50 PM

There's a lady in Michigan who's suing the movie's distributor for misleading her into thinking she was paying to see a Fast & Furious ripoff.  awesome, for real

I... how... what the fuck is WRONG WITH PEOPLE?

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Reply #13 on: October 10, 2011, 01:35:45 PM

Yah make no mistake, this is NOT an action movie. Thriller/Crime drama is much more accurate.

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Reply #14 on: October 10, 2011, 02:07:35 PM

thought it was really good. Slow at times yes but I thought that just added to the brutality of the action.

Thats how I felt. I did realize that  
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Reply #15 on: January 21, 2012, 09:45:53 AM

Saw this last night.  Loved it.
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Reply #16 on: August 08, 2012, 10:37:59 PM

Necroing cause I just watched this. May have been the most incorrectly marketed movie of all time. The lady from Michigan was right - it was marketed as a F&F ripoff. Everything about the trailers that I saw for this was completely opposite of what you got.

That said, thought it was great. I hate Albert Brooks with a burning passion. I think "the Scout" was the worst non Uwe movie ever made. I loved Albert Brooks in this.

Really solid, moody crime drama. Definitely slow moving other than the car sequences, but really well done. See it if you haven't.

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Reply #17 on: August 09, 2012, 05:49:42 AM

This movie actually made me wonder what could have been if Albert Brooks had gone a different direction earlier in life.

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Reply #18 on: August 13, 2012, 11:31:30 AM

I really liked it, but it is a little pretentious in places.


A little?

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