Drive

[huntergrayson]

I want the Official Scorpion Jacket so much.

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Oct 11, 2011 11:08:18 GMT -4 Ladybug said:

I enjoyed this illustrated review of the movie (contains spoilers).

Too funny, I love this! My favourite is the one making him look even cooler by adding more accessories

[mariposalabrown]

Oct 14, 2011 10:29:54 GMT -4 @huntergrayson said:

I want the Official Scorpion Jacket so much.

I think they would have sold quite a few of these if they shipped before Halloween.

[huntergrayson]

I think it MAY be eventually coming to Criterion, you guys. Relatively barebones Sony edition at the end of January.

Also, haven't seen Beginners yet but I am totally cool with Brooks winning Best Supporting Actor for this.

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Albert Brooks was the bomb in this movie. I hope he wins all the awards.

[huntergrayson]

A publicist for the film sent out the greatest Awards FYC Email Ever after he was snubbed for the SAGs. In full:

Good Afternoon Friends,

We appreciate all of your continued support of DRIVE and coverage of the film, especially following this morning’s SAG noms. Thank you for all of your shout-outs to Albert Brooks on Twitter and in your analyses of the SAG nominations in regards to his not being recognized today, but we remain confident that the Supporting Actor race still boils down to a two-man showdown between Albert and Christopher Plummer.

If you will recall, Marcia Gay Harden was not nominated for the SAG in 2000 after her win for Best Supporting Actress at the NYFCC, and went on to win the Oscar for her critically-lauded performance. Albert Brooks has been the critical favorite and consensus pick for Best Supporting Actor so far in 2011 for DRIVE, so let’s take today in stride, especially following the onslaught of his multiple critics wins for Best Supporting Actor this week. Brooks has scored wins and nominations everywhere from the New York Film Critics Circle to Las Vegas to San Diego to Boston, yet inexplicably missed out at SAG. We expect that tomorrow the Hollywood Foreign Press will show Albert some love and that eventually the Academy voters will follow the lead of critics across the country and nominate Albert as Best Supporting Actor.

For a little more perspective on the SAG race, please note the list below of the 19 men nominated in the Best Supporting Actor category since the awards’ inception in 1994 who have NOT gone on to be nominated for the Oscar:

Kevin Bacon - Murder in the First (95)
Don Cheadle - Devil in a Blue Dress (95)
Hank Azaria - Birdcage (96)
Nathan Lane - Birdcage (96)
Billy Connolly - Mrs. Brown (97)
Ned Kelly - Waking Ned Devine (98)
Chris Cooper - American Beauty (99)
Gary Oldman - Contender (00)
Hayden Christiansen - Life as a House (01)
Alfred Molina - Frida (02)
Dennis Quaid - Far from Heaven (02)
Chris Cooper - Seabiscuit (03)
James Garner - Notebook (04)
Freddie highmore - Finding Neverland (04)
Don Cheadle - Crash (05)
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Departed (06)
Tommy Lee Jones - No Country for Old Men (07)
Dev Patel - Slumdog Millionaire (08)

Thank you all for your continued support of DRIVE and Albert Brooks!

I want to seriously marry whoever this publicist was.

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I just watched this. I thought it was an excellent movie, and the acting was absolutely top-notch. Didn't know Gosling could be so scary, or that Albert Brooks could be scarier that Ron Perlman! And yes yes YES to whoever said that Carey Mulligan and Ryan Gosling did a lot with so little dialogue. Loved that. I also didn't really mind the "shift" in the mood that occurred midway through the movie. Maybe because I thought that the driver seemed off, and kind of creepy right from the start. Yes, he was definitely a sympathetic character, but the way Gosling played it, I wasn't 100% surprised when he turned out to be a scary mo-fo.

I loved that elevator scene. Yea, it had a strange, "dreamy" vibe to it, but it worked for me since it was like the last moment when he can be with her and she still won't really know what he actually is. The moment after, when he looks at her, it's like he let the beast out and knows that she can't un-see it.

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Brooks was fantastic in this! The movie itself was not my cup of tea, but I definitely appreciated it -- the acting, the mood, the cinematography were all fantastic.

I know Drive references a lot of other films, but it reminded me of Melville's Le Samourai. Anyone else notice this?

[bitca]

Guys, Albert Brooks made you scurred? I kept giggling at him.

I thought this movie was an effing disaster. Ooh, it's about driving for burglaries. No, he's a stunt man. Wait, he's going to be a race car driver. Another burglary. Shit, mob! etc, etc. But you know I watched until the bitter end because of Gos. Siiiigh. Even though Cary was rockin' the Michelle Williams look, I thought she looked so, so much prettier than Michelle's ever looked. (I used to think Cary was kind of bland, too.)

[MrsCatHead]

Yeah. I thought it was a mess. Not many driving sequences for a film, you know, called Drive. Loved the opening bit it went downhill fast for me. I did like Albert Brooks though.

Ad for the much touted violence? I am jaded I guess cuz it was nothing. It was quick and unexpected in one scene but that was it.

Yep, Lena. Reminded me of a couple of French cop/gangster films.

Eta: I didn't want his jacket, though. I wanted his steering wheel.