If Ryan Gosling was in this, it would be a 7.6 on IMDB
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bkralb — 12 years ago(December 27, 2013 12:16 PM)
Ryan Gosling can't shine JCVD's shoes. Few actors can. All Gosling has ever done is make a third rate attempt at pretending to be George Clooney. JCVD made this movie the "classic" that it is. Why he didn't receive an Oscar nomination for this is anybody's guess. And don't forget, having an expert critique the size of your manhood let's you know exactly where you rate. How cool would it be to have JCVD and Emma Stone do a remake of "An Affair to Remember"?
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SpankyMagooEsq — 14 years ago(November 22, 2011 10:59 PM)
The title of this post got a chuckle out of me because it's so true.
It's funny how Gosling has so many highly rated movies, but NOBODY goes to see them at the theater. I'm surprised he's still working with all of the box-office-bombs that he's had. The only reason that
Drive
did well is because a bunch of people thought it would be a
Fast and Furious
style action movie.
Anyways,
Nowhere to Run
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Kolobos51 — 13 years ago(May 04, 2012 10:29 AM)
Drive was not a great movie and it didn't do well at the box office. It only grossed 35 mil.
Hell, Nowhere to Run grossed 22 mil and that was in 1993 dollars.
Drive was a relatively small movie with relatively low expectations and the movie had a weird, artsy quality to it that made it distinctive and made it seem smarter than it actually was which has won the flick a cult following.
As for Gosling, he was great back when he was doing movies like The Believer, The United States of Leland, and Half Nelson but his whole sleepy eyed underacting thing is really getting old and he's starting to look like a one trick pony.
A one trick pony that's incapable of selling a movie to a wide audience, hence the weak box office of basically everything he's ever been in.
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pcremeans6291 — 13 years ago(May 20, 2012 03:55 PM)
A low grossing film doesn't mean it was weak at the box office. The gross doesn't matter, the gross compared to investment is what matters.
Drive wasn't supposed to make more than $35 million, as you just said it was an art film. It did very well at the box office.
Gosling doesn't star in cookie-cutter mainstream movies hence he doesn't have a huge box office track record. And when he does do a mainstream film they do well, i.e. Crazy, Stupid, Love and The Notebook. Quality is irrelevant, art films are only going to make so much as wide audiences can't handle them, they're too busy spending $13 on the latest mindless Michael Bay trash. -
insanerequest — 12 years ago(July 02, 2013 04:02 PM)
yeah i was about to say the same thing, i just say a picture of the movie unleashed with jet li that movie gota 7.0 rating . and that movie was boring as hell.
and this movie was better and got a 5.2 wtf guys
van damme cant act ?
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CptHowdy87 — 10 years ago(October 25, 2015 06:51 AM)
i just saw a picture of the movie unleashed with jet li that movie gota 7.0 rating . and that movie was boring as hell.
How much action can you possibly want out of a movie? It's all action from the get go until about half an hour in when Morgan Freeman and the girl take him into their home where the movie get's sentimental for a short while until Lee is captured and imprisoned again and all hell breaks loose for about the last half hour. Why do some people want wall to wall action and no story?