Drive

[MadMan]

Exactly. Aside from the scenes with Carry Mulligan and Ryan Gosling, which were slow because, well, duh that was the whole point, the rest of the movie goes by really quickly. Plenty happens. [

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After Oscar Issac's character bites it, the whole entire rest of the film features violence, plenty of driving, and some rather gory bits.

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I think that people can attribute others being bored by this movie to those people expecting "Fast and the Furious."

[Henry Gale]

Zane Lowe got BBC 3 to facilitate and air something pretty cool, with Refn's blessing and participation, he corralled a bunch of UK artists to re-score the entire film with brand new music. They released the very good CHVRCHES contribution "Get Away" along with the announcement, so having had that in heavy personal rotation and in my head for the last week or so, I did look forward to it for some of the other artists, while remaining trepidatious about others.

Kermode's piece about it:

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I managed to catch the second half or so of it all on an online stream (from the scene where Gosling's character finds Oscar Isaac beat up in the parking lot onwards), and, expectedly, but not entirely worthlessly, it's pretty hit and miss.

A major factor is definitely my love for it in its original form, having seen it more than a few times and listened to the soundtrack (even all the way past the tunes through all the niche-ier, gorgeous Martinez score pieces) even more than that. If anything, it's a nice experiment that ended up proving to me just how perfectly assembled the movie was to begin with. What I experienced of the new soundtrack just didn't play to the emotional and visceral beats of the backbone of the film nearly as well. A cool song would come on, but it would intrude on the timing of a moment best left silent originally. Or a completely out of place song would stomp over a scene made so transcendent by its pre-existing score that I just wanted to go back and watch it that way. Apparently the SAP button did give you the option to jump between the new and the real music, which is again, pretty cool but I couldn't do it.

It's definitely something I'd like to see again done with other films as a continuing series, and maybe curaters by people other than Lowe (who I do like). Even better if it's a film without such a beloved and already iconic set of music attached to it, which is basically 99% percent of stuff released in the past decade.

[megladon8]

Oh man, in the Halloween episode of "Bob's Burgers", Louise dressed up as Driver.

Made me love the show even more