Teppy is a Bat-pedant.

Has anyone seen Drive, with Ryan Gosling? I'm debating movies to watch, and I lurves the Gosling, and it's got Carey Mulligan (Sally Sparrow!) and Christina Hendricks.

yes, we saw in back in October. What is your other movie choice?

I enjoyed Drive more than my better half did. He was kind of bored. I just went with it and I felt like the movie flowed.

I do kind of think the movie was trying too hard, but I think it is entertaining.

Note: there is a fair bit of violence in the film - especially the latter third or so. And the violence (in one scene) made me gasp out loud. You may not have needed that warning, but I like to err on the side of warning for graphic violence.

I'm tired and not stating myself clearly. Right now my choice is one movie, and I'm debating on whether to watch it or not. Wish I had a second choice right now. I watched Puncture over the weekend because it had a shirtless Chris Evans in it. I'm grateful for the edification on the bullshit of Big Business (yet again) and Chris was great (and tragic, and not timely for dealing with my own brothers drug problems), but not terribly well directed or edited. But the trailer had made it seem like John Grishamly goodness (underdog lawyers! Evil corporations! Suspense and threats of violence! And then sucky reality intervened in all it's jaded bitter glory). I'm glad I watched it, but it wasn't a Good Movie.

Yeah, I got from the trailer and Ryan's Hammer of Brain Spattering that there might be some harh violence. I'm okay with that in theory.

then go for it! watch it.

the music in the film was running through my head for weeks.

I loved Drive. It's one of the most stylish movies I saw in theater the last year, and Ryan Gosling is fantastic in it. Yes, there are moments of shocking violence, although I wouldn't say they are that much worse than violence in your usual action thriller. It's in the way the violence is presented, I think, in brief but very effective bursts. It's pointed.

The director was... Dutch, I think? The movie felt very non-American to me.

Most of my friends who saw Drive say it was the best film they saw last year. I totally failed to see it in the theater but, thank you for reminding me! I just added to our netflix queue.

Yay! Am watching it now!

I just added to our netflix queue.

Short wait! Booo. I'm watching Moneyball tonight, and that was supposed to be next.

I'm looking forward to hearing your views on Moneyball. I know I'm so totally biased, that I'm curious about the reactions from people who have more distance from the subject.