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Seconded.
He really hasn't done anything mindblowing or brilliant. HEAVY I think's been his best so far, with Copland coming in at a close second. They were very well-made films with solid storytelling. Both 8/10 for me. Girl Interrupted, Walk The Line & 3:10 to Yuma were good. Not great. I think the actors shined, but the films as a whole didn't match the performances. Kate & Leopold was a decent rom-com, nothing more. A fun movie. Identity & Knight & Day were both an absolute waste of my time. |
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Yeah 3:10 was awesome.
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Well 3:10 didn't feature 45 minutes of Ryan Gosling doing nothing but furrowing his brow and staring off into the distance so clearly it can't be anything but average.
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I loved 3:10 to Yuma and Walk the Line.
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Right, because DRIVE was terrible.
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The fact that the Academy snubbed it created an outrage in the Hollywood circle. Also, DRIVE has tons of substance. |
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Style over substance is pretty apt. It's one of those overrated pseudo art films that no one will remember in a few years.
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^exactly it's best attributes is it's style
atmosphere, cinematography, soundtrack are the best thing about drive the characters and story is very under developed and thin you can tell the writer of snow white and the huntsman wrote the script ![]() |
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The script was re-written by Refn and Gosling.
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Not impressed with anything on the guys resume so not surprising.
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The short amount of dialogue in Drive attributed to what made it so good imo. You knew what was going on with the characters without them spelling it out through dialogue. It was a huge part of the films style and tone. Didnt think that those choices made it light on plot. Theres def enough going on with the characters and story imo. Thought both 3:10 and Drive kicked ass and had excellent Directors. Ive ran into a few arguments on both films lately so I guess they do have a split audience.
Mangold has a good track record with actors, I really think Hugh will own this one. Hope to see more rage. If they cant get Wolverine on try 5 then it will kinda suck that X2 was really the peak moment for him. Last edited by def28; 09-25-2012 at 02:39 AM. |
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Drive is a fantastic movie. It's not substance over style but much of it's substance comes from it's style.
With that said I think Mangold can be great too and I'm an avid lover of Walk the Line. As a huge Johnny Cash fan, I think it's fantastic, very emotional. Copland is really great too and underrated. |
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Honestly I've liked everything I've seen of Mangold's except for Knight & Day
I even thought Identity was a fun little thriller, though not exactly a masterpiece of cinema And Drive...well, that movie I still don't know how I feel about it. It was good, but in a very disturbing, "I-feel-dirty-now" kinda way When people have asked if i recommend it, my answer is usually: "well, it's goooood, but I can't say I'd recommend it unless you have a night alone to watch it" I have to know my friends are into weird movies to rec it
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Whiskey aimed his DRIVE critique at me so I responded.
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Drive lays bare the nature of heroism of the sort of love stricken protagonists you would see in Hollywood movies. Drive presents the hero to be as sociopathic in his brutality and lack of mercy as the bad guys. Enemies who are only his enemies because of his attachment to a woman. Were this woman a heiress of a mob empire he could be swinging his club of brutality to the same people his enemies did.
Drive is quite a thoughtful film that expresses its ideas in audiovisual terms than through exposition and dialogue.
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Respond to each other nicely. Both of you. Since we have a Drive thread, continue it there, since this isn't the forum for that movie.
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He directed the series premiere of CBS' Vegas that aired last night. So if you watched it, you saw another example of his work. Also you might've seen me in the background :P
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Pilot episode of VEGAS Directed by James Mangold for CBS http://www.cbs.com/shows/fall-premie...cvHETmFV9o8ccy |
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I loved it except for that ending. but overall a great film.
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just want to give props to mangold he was always a very good director especially with girl interrupted,walk the line,and 310 to yuma
but wolverine was expertly directed he let the scenes breathe especially the character moments aswell as the mariko/logan scenes he lets the audience soak in what was happening and didn't rush it and everything just flowed so well also i must say he really is an actors director got jolie and witherspoon oscars,got phoenix an oscar nom got jackman's best performance as the wolverine and got 2 great performances out of 2 first time actors in this film |
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