Registered: May 2006
Location: Eisenstein's laboratory
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Originally posted by WittyHandle
My one major complaint was their serious overuse of dramatic pauses. Sounds picky, I know, but by the fifth time of just sitting there waiting, it just felt like the director was screaming "GET IT? DO YOU FEEL WHAT THEY'RE FEELING HERE? DO YOU FEEEEL IT?!?!".
The pauses aren't there to give you more information on what's going on, they are a part of the overall melancholic feeling of the film where you linger on these moments to give them more weight.
This is why Drive is different from Faster and other similar car chasing crime flicks. Refn chose to keep a straightforward narration, but then took this mysterious archetypal figure of Driver and adjusted the tempo of the film to his personality. So just like the Driver is mostly silent, boyish-looking, but deep down capable of brutal violence, the movie has little dialogue, slow pace and is both sentimental and violent.
Sep-19-2011 09:51
Dj Nacht
Steve French
Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Montreal
Watched 2 movies in the last week.
Enter the Void
This movie was mind blowing! I felt as high as the people in the movie while watching it.
Tree Of Life
Absolutely boring as hell. Maybe this movie made sense in the directors mind but it makes no sense on the screen. I was really looking forward to watching it
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Sep-19-2011 15:29
WittyHandle
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Jun 2008
Location:
quote:
Originally posted by GoSpeedGo!
The pauses aren't there to give you more information on what's going on, they are a part of the overall melancholic feeling of the film where you linger on these moments to give them more weight.
This is why Drive is different from Faster and other similar car chasing crime flicks. Refn chose to keep a straightforward narration, but then took this mysterious archetypal figure of Driver and adjusted the tempo of the film to his personality. So just like the Driver is mostly silent, boyish-looking, but deep down capable of brutal violence, the movie has little dialogue, slow pace and is both sentimental and violent.
Yeah, I get that. I liked the character overall, I just thought the pauses were way overdone.
Also, I think people should know before going that it is rather graphically violent at times.
Sep-19-2011 17:25
chimera66
PARTOUZE
Registered: Jun 2006
Location: Left Coast
quote:
Originally posted by WittyHandle
Drive was good, I enjoyed it. Ryan Gosling was excellent (as usual). My one major complaint was their serious overuse of dramatic pauses. Sounds picky, I know, but by the fifth time of just sitting there waiting, it just felt like the director was screaming "GET IT? DO YOU FEEL WHAT THEY'RE FEELING HERE? DO YOU FEEEEL IT?!?!".
The last one was the worst. I literally said "oh come on" out loud.
Still a darned good flick, and I recommend others to see it.
Really? I think the dramatic pauses were done well, excellent usage of music during some of those moments too. I can see why this won best director at Cannes. My only complaint was that it ended when it did, although I guess it was fitting.
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Originally posted by Ygrene
I once saw Swamper peel off 4 or 5 $100 bills from a fat roll and say this to Donald Trump: "Go clean yourself up; you look like a bum.". And then he threw the bills right in Trump's face/hair! Then Swamper and his entourage of 30, who were all wearing TA monogramed Rolexes, left the room and flew to Hawaii for a few hours because Del wanted fresh coconut.
To his defense, Trump didn't even really look like a bum.
Sep-19-2011 20:10
Greeny1210
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: Feb 2011
Location: Sheffield
Not really seen any new films for ages but a truly great and underrated film from a few years ago is Memento
can't recommend this highly enough and the music score is also out of .this world
Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Levels is...decent...damn better than a lot of the shite dominating the charts at the moment. It sounds absolutely nothing like...a billion and one similar tracks in this big-room style. I always had a soft spot.
Sep-24-2011 23:03
malek
drinks your milkshake!
Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Montréal
quote:
Originally posted by WittyHandle
Yeah, I get that. I liked the character overall, I just thought the pauses were way overdone.
Also, I think people should know before going that it is rather graphically violent at times.
exactly... 20 secs in the pause is just too long.
Loved the movie, needed more car chases at night though, i'm a sucker for night time hi def video.
Also, not enough meat around the characters, too shallow.
Seems like no one wrote anything about Warrior... favorite movie of 2011 so far. Really got into it, even if I'm no fan of ultimate fightinng nor boxing.
