Secret Ninja Movie Club (aka what have you watched lately)

[Laszlo]

tldr

[wolf89]

tldr

That sort of attitude is probably why you didn't enjoy the film.

[Laszlo]

tldr

That sort of attitude is probably why you didn't enjoy the film.

too easy.

Everything seems incredibly deliberate in the film and honestly the only way it could seem hollow is if you're not thinking about it enough or expecting some huge action movie or something heavy on plot rather than a more subtle portrayal of characters and style based exploration of subjects rather than being dependent on script.

I'm glad you enjoyed it but everything it achieved (or tried too) has been done before and better. For this reason, to me, it felt (almost offensively) spoon-fed and somewhat lacking. I very much enjoy subtle portrayal of characters without the need for heavy scripts, the top of page 474 is an excellent example, but Drive just failed to impress me.

[wolf89]

See that just confuses me all the more. I mean you clearly like movies like that if you enjoy Kitano's films like Hana-Bi

[Liam92]

Enjoyed this one!

[Laszlo]

10/10 film. I don't give perfect scores out willy nilly either.
I watched Drive the best part of two years ago so my memory is not really fresh, I just seem to remember Gosling coming across as a bit retarded rather than a 'strong, silent' type. So yeah, my argument is kinda exhausted but i'll just say that i'm a fan of 'man with no name films', noir/neo noir AND love stories. From memory, Drive takes aspects of them and spits it out. The spit does look good, but it's still spit.

[wolf89]

I dunno, maybe it's because it had a lot of hints to genres of film I watch a lot outside of those (like I mentioned with Exterminator). I understand that with Gosling to be honest, it wasn't until a bit into the film that I got used to him in it but I think a lot of that was from my previous dislike for him as an actor.

Don't want to start this debate again but the reviews for Only God Forgives basically are what you said about drive but instead actually referencing drive as the good film and Only... as the pleasant looking missing the point crap

[Laszlo]

I dunno, maybe it's because it had a lot of hints to genres of film I watch a lot outside of those (like I mentioned with Exterminator).

Ah ok. I can understand that aspect of it - sort of why I enjoy the Kill Bill films more than most, because I get the nods and winks to certain Kung Fu/samurai films.
I'm definitely going to watch Drive again at some point. Hopefully i'll get more from it a second time around.

Don't want to start this debate again but the reviews for Only God Forgives basically are what you said about drive but instead actually referencing drive as the good film and Only... as the pleasant looking missing the point crap

Will avoid

[aspect-dubz]

Was laughing throughout just about every other minute. highly recommend it.

[wolf89]

I dunno, maybe it's because it had a lot of hints to genres of film I watch a lot outside of those (like I mentioned with Exterminator).

Ah ok. I can understand that aspect of it - sort of why I enjoy the Kill Bill films more than most, because I get the nods and winks to certain Kung Fu/samurai films.
I'm definitely going to watch Drive again at some point. Hopefully i'll get more from it a second time around.

Don't want to start this debate again but the reviews for Only God Forgives basically are what you said about drive but instead actually referencing drive as the good film and Only... as the pleasant looking missing the point crap

Will avoid

I hated Kill Bill because it's just cut and paste scenes from other films I have on DVD done in a corny way.

[finji]

about to watch Blue Velvet, will report back.

[Laszlo]

I dunno, maybe it's because it had a lot of hints to genres of film I watch a lot outside of those (like I mentioned with Exterminator).

Ah ok. I can understand that aspect of it - sort of why I enjoy the Kill Bill films more than most, because I get the nods and winks to certain Kung Fu/samurai films.
I'm definitely going to watch Drive again at some point. Hopefully i'll get more from it a second time around.

Don't want to start this debate again but the reviews for Only God Forgives basically are what you said about drive but instead actually referencing drive as the good film and Only... as the pleasant looking missing the point crap

Will avoid

I hated Kill Bill because it's just cut and paste scenes from other films I have on DVD done in a corny way.

Meh, like I say, swap 'Kill Bill' for Drive and 'scenes' for concepts.

[Liam92]

Was laughing throughout just about every other minute. highly recommend it.

Hoping this is good too, unsure how it would work over like a full feature length!

[Pedro Sánchez]

Was laughing throughout just about every other minute. highly recommend it.

Wanna see this so bad, gonna have to be a solo mission as all my mates just don't get Alan.

[wolf89]

I dunno, maybe it's because it had a lot of hints to genres of film I watch a lot outside of those (like I mentioned with Exterminator).

Ah ok. I can understand that aspect of it - sort of why I enjoy the Kill Bill films more than most, because I get the nods and winks to certain Kung Fu/samurai films.
I'm definitely going to watch Drive again at some point. Hopefully i'll get more from it a second time around.

Don't want to start this debate again but the reviews for Only God Forgives basically are what you said about drive but instead actually referencing drive as the good film and Only... as the pleasant looking missing the point crap

Will avoid

I hated Kill Bill because it's just cut and paste scenes from other films I have on DVD done in a corny way.

Meh, like I say, swap 'Kill Bill' for Drive and 'scenes' for concepts.

Nah because Kill Bill literally lifts scenes and bits of music and some lines of dialogue from other movies.It's one of the least original movies I think that's ever been made. It also happens to rip off a lot of Asian movies which when done by an American nerd comes off as super cheesy and lame.

I fucking hate most Tarantino if I'm honest.

[Laszlo]

Nah because Drive literally lifts concepts and stylistic overtones and lack of dialogue from other movies. It's one of the least original movies I think that's ever been made. It also happens to rip off a lot of Western movies which when shown to a Western audience comes off as lazy, unimaginative and a little offensive.

At least Tarantino was introducing Asian cinema to a Western audience unable/unwilling to read subtitles.

[Brewce]

so real 9/10

also saw We're The Millers today which was pretty dumb except for a couple good laughs here and there 5/10
as well as Win Win which is a tite movie about some rebellious troubled teenage wrestler 9/10

[hubb]

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[volcanogeorge]

i watched waynes world 2

not as good as 1, but still a great film

[Jizz]

Moonrise kingdom, not bad at all. Best bruce willis performance ive ever seen

Na this aint some die hard shit before you judge that comment lol