January 26th, 2012 / 8:27 pm
 Film

Drive & Taxi Driver

 

13 Comments

  1. January 26th, 2012 / 9:17 pm Helen—

      I do not know if this is a comparison that works, having never seen Drive (Is albino Tom Cruise a prominent character, for example?), but it is a wonderful form of critique, especially to these weary, 1.16am eyes. 

  2. January 26th, 2012 / 10:24 pm Flavors—

      The comparison doesn’t really work, other than in a purely visual sense.

  3. January 26th, 2012 / 10:42 pm Anonymous—

      no

  4. January 27th, 2012 / 12:43 am A D Jameson—

      The last connection is totally valid. The rest—IDK. Pretty weak tea.

  5. January 27th, 2012 / 1:09 am deadgod—

      Similarity:  Knight of Infinite Misprision.

      Difference:  magical competence vs. survival of the luckiest.

  6. January 27th, 2012 / 5:10 am theGrimPuritan—

      that last frame of drive is the best.

  7. January 27th, 2012 / 8:17 am Winkhorst Altmann—

      I find Drive to be visually hypnotic and cinematically captivating, but also would go as far a to say that it delivers a rather patchy story, which is probably the reason why I like it, apart from Gosling’s performance.

      I think the music and Gosling acting give away the liminal core of the movie: The unnamed protagonist is a robot, a terminator (at least in an ontological sense) roaming the pre-everything streets of L.A.’s future-present. So Drive is basically a closet masterpiece of mundane SF.

  8. January 27th, 2012 / 1:09 pm Brian M—

      Cyball Shepard in Taxi Driver is a goddess! Foo realz

  9. January 27th, 2012 / 1:29 pm Anonymous—

      DID YOU JUST REALIZED THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN “TAXI DRIVER”, AND “DRIVE”, OR JUST DECIDED TO MAKE THOSE IMAGES NOW?

  10. January 27th, 2012 / 2:20 pm Jimmy Chen—

      ..

  11. January 27th, 2012 / 2:26 pm Brennen Wysong—
  12. January 27th, 2012 / 4:49 pm Jimmy Chen—

      I REALIZED ~2WKS AGO AND PROCRASTINATED UNTIL NOW, SRRY GRRL

  13. January 28th, 2012 / 1:08 pm A D Jameson—

      That’s totally correct.

      Incidentally, Franz Kline’s from the same hometown as me.