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Post by Popeye Doyle on Jun 25, 2021 4:01:25 GMT
Haven’t seen this in a while so was eager to check it out again. Its slate of characters and story is very much film noir. You got the nameless lead, the down on his luck mechanic, the vicious gangsters, the unhappy ending, etc… Director Nicolas Winding Refn certainly has style to burn and Albert Brooks is especially good. Lovely soundtrack as well.
3.5 out of 4
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Post by sdrew13163 on Jun 25, 2021 5:45:40 GMT
I like it; used to love it. It tends to oscillate for me between those two distinctions.
I don’t really buy the central romance and some of the music choices are kind of lame. Other than that, it’s a really cool and stylish crime thriller.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Jun 25, 2021 13:05:37 GMT
I agree, it's definitely like film noir. More specifically, much like those neo-noirs they used to make in the 90s. It also reminds me of the Walter Hill movie The Driver.
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Post by politicidal on Jun 25, 2021 13:31:24 GMT
8/10.
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Post by mstreepsucks on Jun 25, 2021 15:25:52 GMT
It was alright, but , story didn't make total sense.
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Jun 25, 2021 17:36:40 GMT
It was alright, but , story didn't make total sense. What didn't make sense?
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Post by Vits on Jun 25, 2021 17:36:48 GMT
8/10
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Post by mstreepsucks on Jun 25, 2021 20:28:25 GMT
It was alright, but , story didn't make total sense. What didn't make sense? Well because the main character knows who Nino is, through the bryan cranston character. But also his neighbor has a boyfriend, who also knows Nino in some way. It's too much of a coinsidence.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jun 26, 2021 0:16:37 GMT
6/10 Liked it but didnt see it as a great film.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Jun 26, 2021 3:05:55 GMT
8/10
Highly stylised, (as others have pointed out) neo-noir-ish thriller with a brilliantly stoic performance from Gosling and a great pulsating, neon drenched soundtrack.
As much as I like it though, I like Refn's more opaque work (Valhalla Rising, Only God Forgives, The Neon Demon, Too Old to Die Young) even more.
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Post by Mulder and Scully on Jun 28, 2021 17:59:50 GMT
Easily Refn's best work. I can't believe his self-indulgent, pretentious ass was capable was making an entertaining movie. Nicely shot.
Gosling is great as the lead and he pretty much carries the movie. Brooks was terrific as the villain. One thing I liked about the movie how unexpected the violence was. It went from zero to ten in an instant.
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Post by Downey on Jun 28, 2021 18:20:02 GMT
I remember Ryan Gosling looking bored as fuck and then deciding that wasn't enough and that he had to bore me to fuck with his performance too.
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Post by vegalyra on Jun 29, 2021 0:17:43 GMT
 Great movie, I like Gosling's '73 Malibu. I thought this little tid bit about the car was interesting: "According to the movie’s director, Nicholas Winding Refn, he gave Gosling permission to pick his character’s car. Gosling apparently combined his personal automotive taste, with what he thought a man such as the one he was portraying would own. After several choices were weighed for pros and cons, Gosling made his final decision, and one day took his director to a local Los Angeles junkyard. There he pointed at a beat up 1973 Malibu, which was promptly purchased by the production team. But the actor’s relationship with the Malibu only began there. It was towed to a warehouse where Gosling tore the Malibu completely down to the frame and rebuilt the entire car himself, save for the transmission, which was handled by professional mechanics. Gosling felt the exercise gave him insight into the type of patience and skill his character would have to exude in the multiple scenes where he was seen working on cars, and further gave him a “personal connection” to the car." |
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