Released last: September 2011
Why I watched it: I chanced upon its trailer as I was randomly checking out movie trailers on YouTube. And it had Ryan Gosling. Haha!
I asked my officemate if he has seen the movie. He said, “Okay naman, pero hindi naman kasi nag-tanggal ng shirt si Ryan Gosling eh.” Haha! But Ryan didn’t really have to do so to appreciate the movie and his performance.
It was definitely not your usual crime action flick. For someone like me who is accustomed to formulaic Hollywood action movies, it was definitely a strange viewing experience. I had to read its wiki before I fully understood why the movie was made that way. But even before I read up on it, I was sure that I was enjoying the “strange viewing experience” nonetheless. For starters, Ryan Gosling character barely said anything. And this flirting thing he had with Carey Mulligan was really “weird”, but somehow very, very effective and endearing. Haha!
As a casual movie fan, my ultimate criteria in judging a movie is whether I enjoyed the viewing experience or not. In the case of Drive, in all its strange and unusual execution and cinematic details (which I probably still don’t understand fully at this point), I totally enjoyed it.
Critical Reception: 92% on Rotten Tomatoes
I’d rate it around: 82%. I want to say “Hell yeah! It was 92% good!”, but I’m not going to pretend I’m soaking in its artful glory. Haha!
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As I did in 2011, I am listing down the movies I watch for 2012, along with my comment about each viewing experience. These movie pseudo-review/commentaries are hardly scientific. There might be days that I might be more tolerant of crappy movies and so I might find myself going easy on the critique. More so, my "critiques" are hardly theoretical because I admit I have not taken any proper film critiquing classes, haha! I most usually lash out "in the moment". I try to be as objective as possible, but know that we all have our own different tastes when it comes to films.
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