This has to be one of the most nonsensical stupid post I've ever seen. What the hell does Ryan Gosling have to do with this movies IMDB rating?
People had no clue who Ryan Gosling was when this movie came out. Unless you can prove that people who watch Ryan Gosling films today suddenly have the feeling to come here and vote down a JCVD movie that came out in 1993. Then I'll agree.
If you want to blame someone. Go blame Harrison Ford since he was the most popular male actor around this time.
My feeling is the OP must have one massive hard on for Ryan Gosling. Along with the rest of the idiots who agree with him.

This is really one of his best movies, it had a decent budget and was well shot great music good pacing and solid action. It deserves a much higher score, I give it 7/10!

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And he would deliver a much worse performance than Van Damme. Because let's face it as much as the ladies love Ryan Gosling he couldn't deliver a decent performance with a gun held to his head. Even Keanu Reeves is a better actor than Ryan Gosling. I truly hate Ryan Gosling. A man with two facial expressions. Smiling and looking like a moron. Looking serious and looking like a moron. And I hate his stupid beard.

Right. Rumor has it both Gosling and DiCaprio have called JCVD looking for advice on the finer points of acting but JCVD isn't returning those calls.

I didn't read but saw the title of the Post.
So if Ryan Gosling hooked up with 1 "real woman" like Eva Mendes, he's considered "straight or masculine.oh no better yet manly" ???
Yeah the sarcasm of the OP does make perfect sense. I just don't see any talent in Ryan. At least Van Damme had to pay some dues to become a "global name".
BTW when I saw Gosling's name in that gangster movie, I wanted to tap out. I knew the world was really going down the drain.

Damn right. To me, Gosling is like DiCaprio. Gosling has been an underacting bore for years, whereas DiCaprio has been an over-acting bore for years. They've given some good performances in their careers alright (never been that impress with Gosling), but "lately" their acting has become self-conscious and yet it's always getting praise beyond belief. Now when it comes to an action star like Van Damme, all I can say is his acting is indeed underrated. Granted he's been in some generic flicks that require little to no acting, but nevertheless, the guy has always had the capacity to convincingly express emotions. In a word, I find his acting in movies such as Lionheart, Double Impact, Timecop, Maximum Risk, In Hell, and of course JCVD, to be quite effective. Ultimately, I know the "real" actors previously mentioned are two of the most beloved thespians of our time shudder so mentioning Van Damme in the same breathe as them is laughable to many. At any event, while Van Damme made a name for himself in action flicks, he could have been great in more dramatic stuff (Nowhere to Run was a good example).
Hey there, Johnny Boy, I hope you fry!

Hahaha your praise of Van Damme is hilarious! Thank you sir, I needed the laughs today

Wrong. Gosling can't act his way out of a paper bag. Van Damme brings out real emotion. He's charming yet sensitive. Smooth with a sharp edge. Simple yet witty. And like you, gauche yet tactful.

Gosling may not be a fantastic actor, but he's a helluva lot better than Van Damme.

Ryan gosling ?? seriously ?? i suppose you think morgan freeman would be perfect for terminator reboot ?
I dont know what ppl (women mostly) see in ryan, hes nothing too special saw a few of his films, he doesnt seem that impressive
I think van damme was perfect for nowhere to run

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?

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This film actually made 55 million dollars.

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 ?
have you ever seen jcvd ?

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The stench was overwhelming. More offensive than B-S !

Yeah, I enjoyed it.

You need to fumigate your upper lip with all that bulls**t spouting out of your mouth.

Drive stunk so bad I had to fumigate my brand new TV.

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.

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.
S.F.W.

You're kidding right? Drive was a great movie.

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
is one of JCVD's better movies, although that's not saying much.