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Dan Kanes

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If you like gritty 70's and 80's films with no shortage of violence, then you will like this film.

As a native Angeleno - I loved the film's treatment of areas I've lived in during my lifespan:

Downtown
Echo Park
Saugus (Santa Clarita)
San Fernando Valley

I could recognize almost every single location - in a good way.

Loved all of the casting.

I liked the look overall - sometimes the smoothing was a bit much for me. It didn't look very "natural" but it did have a cool look that told the story. I'm guessing either a Sony system or Panavision genesis. Maybe aided by Technicolor DPLights or Truelight on set.

a good portion of the film was MOS. Sound design and Music was superb - might get on some people's nerves - but I liked it.

Overall I enjoyed this film greatly - Ryan Gosling is awesome.
 
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Really loved this film. Impressive how the silent moments really allowed me to immerse myself in the movie.

Kegan
 
This is probably my favorite movie of the year. Dear god, it was so good.

The ending, without giving anything away, is just perfect.

The whole movie reminded me of Taxi Driver meets Grand Theft Auto Vice City. Weird, I know, but man, I can't stop loving this movie. Also the soundtrack is amazing.
 
Eric Ulbrich said:
Shot on Alexa with Arri RAW

one of the most thrilling movies Ive seen in years

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780504/technical
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Actually, it was not recorded with ARRIRAW; they used an external HDCAM SR recorder with the Alexa. Interview below with Newton Thomas Sigel talks a little bit about the workflow.

http://www.arri.com/camera/digital_cameras/news.html?article=719&cHash=097d245472

Regardless, it's gorgeously shot, and a great film. Great performances all around, but I'd single out Gosling and Brooks as particular highlights. Killer score, too.
 
My favorite shot comes just after he asks if they "want to see something?" and the sense of euphoria emphasized by the shot of the dash panel where they may have used a "star filter" for the reflections. Such a cool old-school thing to do.
 
Very good film, but I HATED the soundtrack. I thought the repeated use of songs with totally on-the-nose lyrics was just embarrassing. Talk about a director not trusting his audience...
IMO the choice of songs undermined the otherwise effective original score - and the lyrics knocked me out of the story and reminded of the fact I was watching a movie.

Other than those segments ruined by song choices, I really enjoyed it. Loved the story - although I got the feeling there was a lot more of it that we never got to see.
 
Finally got around to seeing this on Blu-Ray. Excellent movie. I love the pacing. I'm a bit old school. I don't like some of the modern editing trends. I also am not a fan of over the top cinematography that makes me very aware that I'm watching a movie. When cinematography distracts me from the story or the performances, it's usually a deal breaker for me.

I wasn't a huge fan of the font they used for credits. I couldn't read any of the names, and I like watching credits to see if any of my friends worked on it. :)

Great action scenes. The style/look was right on. Acting was good. Enjoyable movie.

Never really thought about it as an "Alexa" movie. Always the first test for me to know if a movie is good. i forget what it was shot on.
 
Such a great movie. I know the one of the designers (she made that jacket, which means she is more of a badass than any of us, lol) so I will ask her about the end credit font. I love everything about the movie, including the music that some people weren't able to intelectualize and the nail polish font for much of the P&A. A very good movie.
 
Jeffrey T. Morgan said:
Such a great movie. I know the one of the designers (she made that jacket, which means she is more of a badass than any of us, lol) so I will ask her about the end credit font. I love everything about the movie, including the music that some people weren't able to intelectualize and the nail polish font for much of the P&A. A very good movie.
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The jacket is badass (my wife wants me to get one. Don't know if I should take that to mean I'm currently not a badass and need the jacket to be one. But she liked the jacket.) As for the font, mostly only bothered me in end credits. At the beginning it was okay. Different look than normal, so that was fine. I just like nice clean fonts in end credits. :)

Overall, I liked the soundtrack.
 
Thor Melsted said:
Very good film, but I HATED the soundtrack. I thought the repeated use of songs with totally on-the-nose lyrics was just embarrassing. Talk about a director not trusting his audience...
IMO the choice of songs undermined the otherwise effective original score - and the lyrics knocked me out of the story and reminded of the fact I was watching a movie.

Other than those segments ruined by song choices, I really enjoyed it. Loved the story - although I got the feeling there was a lot more of it that we never got to see.
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That last songs lyrics were horrible and made me like the movie less. Great Movie but the lyrics made me almost not like it.
 
I really enjoyed this movie. I'm glad I caught it at the cinema and looking forward to watching it again on blu-ray. I didn't even clock the lyrics (shows how much attention I was paying to that ;) but overall I thought that the music really added to the mood of the film. Just great to see a movie where the pictures tell the story more than words and where the director / dop had the confidence to lock the camera off and let the composition and action in the frame do the work. AND it looked great too.
 
Was a wonderful film. Completely fell in love with it.

A few points of trivia I picked up along the way: Neither the director, screenwriter or novelist hold a drivers license. The film was shot sequentially (as with most if not all of Nicolas Winding Refn's films), and was 10mil below the line/15mil above the line. It featured 'Hand Covers Bruise' from The Social Network in the score. The post work was mostly done at drive Nicolas Winding Refn's house, where pretty much everyone hung out during pre-prod, and into production. He called up up Gaspar Noe to ask advice on the face smashing.
 
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