Posts Tagged ‘Drive’

Soundtracks of Significance: Drive

18, Jun 2012

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I was sitting in the middle of a film marketing class last year when my professor started class with his weekly catch-up: What did movies did you guys see this week? The girl sitting behind me boasted that she’d gotten an advanced screening to Drive and that it was her favorite film of the year so far. A friend of mine turned around and gushed about how desperate he was to see it. She replied that it was mandatory to see in theaters, even going as far to suggest which theaters within a ten-mile radius were the best. Her criteria for such fastidiousness was not the picture, but the sound. To be frank, I’m not an audio expert and I’ve deliberately stayed away from sound design classes because the technicalities terrify me. I took her enthusiasm to mean that she was just an enthusiast of all things auditory and found this film to be exemplary in that arena. Still, I took her words into account thinking that there were gonna be some amazing sound effects… or something.

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Flickchart Daily: Movies Expiring from Netflix this Week

5, Mar 2012

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Flickchart Matchup of the Day

Drive VS Raiders of the Lost Ark

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Drive has moved up to #9 all-time on Flickchart, passing Raiders of the Lost Ark. Which do you prefer?

Expiring from Netflix Instant This Week

Expiring From Netflix on March 7th:

Expiring From Netflix on March 9th:

Whoa, this could end up being a week where Netflix Instant gains more than it loses!

Weekend Box Office

Movie
Weekend $
Total $
Add to Flickchart
$70.7 Mil
$71 Mil
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$20.8 Mil
$21 Mil
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$13.7 Mil
$45 Mil
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$7.2 Mil
$108 Mil
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$7.0 Mil
$26 Mil
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Over 50 Million Rankings Decide Flickchart’s Top 20 of 2011

29, Dec 2011

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Over 115,000 film fans worldwide have been adding all the movies they’ve seen from the year onto their Flickcharts and pitting them head-to-head against the best movies of all time. The following list is the product of those rankings – generating a combined list of the best movies of 2011 that are ranked the highest by each and every Flickchart user.

Don’t forget too that once you’re there, you can further filter the list to get the best of 2011 combined with any of your favorite actors, directors, genres, and franchises. If they seem in need of rearrangement, you can also rank any of these combinations and make sure the 2011 films you’ve seen are in just the right order on your list. Remember, if you watched and ranked these movies on your Flickchart, you helped to create this list! The higher your favorites of 2011 are on your list, the more you’ll be influencing their positions. If you haven’t yet, be sure to rank your favorites of 2011 to make changes to this list for the future! 

You can expect some major new features to arrive early in 2012, so keep your eyes peeled for some amazing things yet to come for Flickchart!

Without further adieu – out of 807 total movies released this year – here is your Top 20 of 2011:

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Drive: A Flickcharter’s Movie Review

29, Sep 2011

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I meant to write up my review for Drive last week when I had the film fresh on my mind, but I needed some time to mull it over and decide how I felt about it. You see, I’m a little fickle when it comes to car chase movies or movies in which automotive mastery is an integral part of the story. Films like The Fast and The Furious and its sequels don’t really do much for me, nor do films like Gone in 60 Seconds or Torque. They rely primarily on “high octane” action, which is not much more than fast, chaotic editing coupled with loud music to generate excitement. Drive, the latest film from Nicolas Winding Refn (Pusher, Valhala Rising), eschews that and in turn ranks as my number two film for 2011 on Flickchart.  Read the rest of this entry »