Drive

Am I on a Ryan Gosling spree?
Er, yeah? Yes? Obviously? Duh?

So this one. Well. Okay, so before we start, the first movie that I saw which had R Gosling in it was Only God Forgives and honestly, only God would have forgiven that what-the-eff of a movie, like what even WAS that? I'm not an art student or a film student, and the entire movie was just symbolism. I didn't even have the energy to think about what those things could have meant. I'm just a consumer, a commercial movie-go-er if that makes any sense, and to have watched THAT movie and to have actually paid to have watched it... I mean, I don't know if I'm ashamed I watched it or if I'm ashamed that I didn't understand what was going on. I would NEVER recommend that movie to anyone, not even as a ploy to stall them from dominating the world. Ugh.
But then I watched Crazy, Stupid, Love and then I began trusting Ryan Gosling's script choices again.
The one thing that I don't do, is read about the movie's directors and script-writers before watching the movie itself; I read the synopsis of the movie itself, obviously (well, sometimes) but I don't pay attention to who directed/produced/wrote it. Just putting it out there.

God Bless you

So I watched this move along with my friend, Nabeela because we were supposed to have had a Ryan Gosling Movies date which didn't work out.
First off, Ryan G looks dapper in this, again. He looks cool. Okay, so now that we have that already out of the way...

THE MOVIE WAS SO COOL LIKE WTF OMG OKAY I DON'T THINK ANYONE WOULD HAVE EXPECTED THAT GOING IN LIKE WHOA OMG

So Ryan Gosling is a part-time stuntman, part-time theif-aid (if that's a word). His biggest deal is that he can drive really well, so he makes money on the side as someone who helps thieves get away after they rob a place. Besides this, he's also a mechanic, who helps his mentor and friend, played by Bryan Cranston (Walter White from Breaking Bad, Hal from Malcolm in the Middle lol) around in his car garage where he makes cars for movie stunts. It all starts off slow and nice, with Driver (that's Ryan G's name in this movie. Don't ask) meeting a woman and her son, and liking them, and with then the father of that family coming back, so it gets a little sad and stuff.

 

Bryan C as the mechanic

Ryan G aka Driver and the family he meets/befriends

And then the shit hits the fan because it's basically like someone switched off (or is it 'on'?) a button and the entire setting changes into something STRAIGHT out of The Walking Dead because people are DYING EVERYWHERE and the Daryl Dixon of this whole show is DRIVER HIMSELF and dayyummnn as someone who enjoys stuff like this, it was AMAZING. So, yes, this is a warning for people who don't like gore and blood and, well, graphic violence in general.

Is he holding a hammer? Yes. Is he helping to nail some furniture together? Well, is a person's skull equivalent to furniture? Then yes, he's helping someone nail a piece of furniture to the floor.

The slow pace of the movie, even if it might have bored and annoyed some people, was a perfect compliment to the scenes where shit goes down.
The ending was quite sad actually, and it gave us (both my friend and I) no closure at all in terms of what happens to Driver afterward. It was a good representation of how it is when you meet someone, I guess--like we got to 'meet' Driver just when all this happened, and we get no back-story about this strange guy who knows how to kick ass without batting an eyelid and who knows how to drive so skillfully, and we don't get to know what happens later either, because you get to meet this person only for that moment in their present. Does that make sense?
The slow pace reminded me of Only God Forgives a LOT, and it was literally only a week or two later that I realized that it was the same director for both (Nicolas Winding Refn).

Since we've already established that I can be a critic, I would have given OGF a 'no rating' status (because like wtf was even going on?), but I'd give Drive a 3.5 on 5.