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Couldn't find a thread on this, if this is a duplicate please delete. Anyone excited for this?
What...the show with Nathan Fillion from 3 or 4 years ago?
Couldn't find a thread on this, if this is a duplicate please delete. Anyone excited for this?
this film is getting absurdly high critical praise...I'm in for opening night!
As the camera scuds between twinkling skyscrapers in downtown LA, credits of the hottest pink light up a widescreen sky of the blackest velvet and a Euro-electro score pulses, pulses, pulses. This, immediately, is the world of 80's Michael Mann movies.
Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn has here made an explosive action movie that got Cannes critics whooping in the aisles.
Dressed in aviator shades, driving gloves and a satin racing jacket emblazoned, tellingly, with a scorpion, his Driver may be blank-faced cut-out deprived of the barest hint of backstory, but he is an intriguing, mesmerising blank-faced cut-out - the kind of amoral, dysfunctional anti-hero that so often becomes a poster boy. Might he register as this generation's Man With No Name, their Travis Bickle?
Excellent movie! I see a new auteur in the making along the lines of Tarantino with Winding Refn.
Just as Tarantino does Refn takes movie tropes from the past and spins them, using them in new and exciting ways. It's very reminiscent of 80s action movies such as Thief and To Live and Die in LA, but I also thought of Risky Business while watching it.
I've enjoyed most action movies, but something like this really shows how weak something like the recent Mechanic remake or The Transporter series really are.
There's barely any dialogue in the film from the 2 stars, but Gosling and Mulligan say so much with their body language and faces that it's like they give oscar worthy performances without saying anything. Albert Brooks, Ron Perlman and the Breaking Bad guy are also fantastic. Can't recommend this film highly enough.
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