BABY DRIVER (2017) aka, the Edgar Wright/Ansel Elgort/Kevin Spacey/Jamie Foxx pop-song-and-car-chase Walter Hill homage(?)

also did I miss it, but why did Spacey talk about how he never uses the same crew twice other than Baby and then he re-uses Hamm and Gonzalez again 30 minutes later?

― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal)

would you ever work with Flea again?

can I just

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or did he just mean "exact configuration" i.e. Batts was subbed in for Griff so that = "new crew" even tho it was only 25% diff

this is how I took it.

First half great

Second half shit

Scott Pilgrim is a perfect, incredible movie.

I really wish the MIchael Myers mask thing hadn't been in the trailer cos it woulda been a lot funnier just showing up cold mid-movie

I feel like blind foster dad shoulda been like "dude I am already not ok with u robbin shit but at least if yr gonna do i can I like benefit from it and live somewhere decent"

Every character in this is a cipher fyi

I kind of expected that going in tho

this wasn't too horribly different from Driver other than I feel like this was a better movie and Gosling's character liked to use stealth rather than do doughnuts on the highway

It was transporter more than driver but it isn't as subtle or as adult in its themes or relationships as transporter

Wished the movie kept up the energy of the first half hour but whatcanyado. It was still a fun watch

Is it named after the Simon & Garfunkel song?

yes it plays over the credits

Lily Collins is more of a MPDG than anyone in Scott Pilgrim was

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 3 July 2017 18:43

Lily James.

I enjoyed this, it moved along well but I do wish it had something a little bit more to it.

Only complaint is Hamm doing the "you can't hide from me" thing later on.

I do wish it had something a little bit more to it.

yeah, i don't want a ticket purchase for this to result in more films like it being made.

you chuckleheads should be discussing Walter Hill's The Driver rather than that ludicrous POS Drive, get yr titles right.

that kid's legs are too thin, Alfred.

yeah, i don't want a ticket purchase for this to result in more films like it being made.

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius),

What, decent Hollywood froth for once?

that kid's legs are too thin, Alfred.

So were McCrea's.

Wright's a big Hill fan, but I see Streets of Fire in this more than The Driver.

i need to watch Streets of Fire, thx

sacrilege to compare a boy to Joel McCrea

You're in luck: SOF recently got a Blu-ray reissue, I believe.

And you can dream about it.

If I can hold it just right!

i didn't like this at all really. clever-clever w/o being clever. careless about violence. terrible dancing. cutesy and shallow instead of 'archetypical' or w/e. 90s in a bad way. jamie foxx was great though.

i did like how it was really in atlanta instead of an anono-city, but that only highlights some unappealing racial attitudes in the thing.

no you're a terrible dancer

Anyone see Triple 9, the John Hillcoat Atlanta set Heist Thriller with Casey Affleck and Gal Gadot?

Jamie foxx was as bad as everyone else

in the Michael Jackson sense

I was hoping for more from this, but the first hour was fun. It didn't stay as funny as I'd have liked.

spoiler alert - obv all the non white ppl die in this. which is very 80s just like most of the movie. good to know edgar wright absorbed the decade well. i thought foxx was actually very good, though obv his character is an arsehole. jon hamm proved he can only really act as don draper, even when playing a bank robber. i liked the film overall, the car park battle was a bit too cartoon tarantino, and excessive in a way the rest of the film wasnt, and something i thought edgar wright was above, but hey, its hollywood. i like that he got to make this in the structure he wanted, it was a lot of fun to watch, and kind of sweet, but the film was also a little culturally/emotionally empty in a way his british films havent been. the other odd thing i found was that apart from the bank job in the red car, many of the car sequences werent actually that amazing to watch. this might be as i find very few race/car action sequences as amazing as many seem to think (unless its the delorean in back to the future), but i thought wright would pull something more kinetic and inventive out the bag. tarantino did it better in death proof IIRC. the sequence of baby just walking around listening to music on the street when he goes to order coffee was more memorable than any of the car scenes.

(spoiler) Hamm and Spacey die and the black foster dad doesn't, so I don't think that first point really holds up.

jon hamm proved he can only really act as don draper, even when playing a bank robber.

This is a plus! Also, he's way more handsome when elegantly wasted than in the suits.

yes, also very much reminiscent of 80s racial tropes. the non white character gets to live... but only if hes sufficiently harmless and non threatening to warrant being saved/spared. got to have One Good Minority character. good in this case meaning perfect by way of being adorably deaf.

SPOILERS

the point is not that 'oh hey! white ppl die too! all lives matter! okay?!' but that no non white characters live except the one no one could ever dislike. because there is no way he could every harm anyone. thats how perfect the non white good guy has to be.

*ever

Spoilers

Most ppl die in this movie

just realised, my comment should have read 'obv all the non white ppl die FIRST'

Yes it's now an excellent review of this bad movie

jon hamm proved he can only really act as don draper, even when playing a bank robber.

― StillAdvance, Monday, 10 July 2017 15:30

That's unfair, I thought they were very different. Similarities were just Jon Hamm playing a bastard.

And Lily James wasn't manic or unattainable or teaching Baby much at all, she was just really cute.

Last point to Simon H

main thought i had watching this was edgar wright is directing like this like someone who just saw MTV for the first time in the early 80s and thought 'what if someone did this in a movie?!'

other recurring thought: i need to get my old ipod repaired. i liked that dial much better than the replacement.

i loved that the 56 second intro to Geogaddi - Boards of Canada was in this. AND maybe a mid/late period Stereolab track?? there was s song playing when he went record shopping that sounded just like something from Dots and Loops or Cobra and Phases.

Ok, so now I guess I'll have to watch this movie

this movie was great, probably gonna be my favorite of the summer. as good as any of Wright's other films, imo. a better musical than La La Land. don't miss it.

Car chase to "bellbottoms" at the start was exhilarating. I enjoyed it although I do think by the end it swallowed a lot of action movie cliches.

Regurgitated them in some interesting new flavours though.

Anyone see Triple 9, the John Hillcoat Atlanta set Heist Thriller with Casey Affleck and Gal Gadot?

I did; it was OK. Not great. The robbery sequences were well done. Kate Winslet's really good in it.

Was quite pleased they gave Focus - "Hocus Pocus" a good spot.

Ok, so now I guess I'll have to watch this movie

― Moodles, Wednesday, July 19, 2017 1:24 AM (eleven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha to be fair it could've easily been a piece of exotica/lounge music that Stereolab referenced or absorbed.... BUT it really sounded like the first part of Refractions in the Plastic Pulse, or Velvet Water.

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I rewatched Last Night In Soho a week ago and definitely didn't like it as much as I did the first time.

Never loved it, but I thought it was competently written/directed with some a good visual sense. Watching it again all of the plot holes opened up and it was dopey and stupid with a good visual sense. Which is how I remember Baby Driver.

The World's End has become my favorite movie of his. It's the only one that was better upon a rewatch and it has the more meat on its bones than the others. It really seems to be about something and Wright seems to care about the subject (aging with adolescent fuckup tendencies).

I need to rewatch that, feel like it reaches for State of the Nation stuff towards the end there that muddles the more well realised personal story.

dopey and stupid with a good visual sense

tbf that's pretty much the giallo brief!

i don't think giallos are dopey or stupid. incoherent, sure

the ghost men cgi in last night in soho is so disgustingly ugly that i can't remember anything about the visual sense beyond that. a few good mirror tricks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ0aFq1ve0M

i don't think giallos are dopey or stupid. incoherent, sure

I guess. Incoherent sounds a bit harsh, dopey and stupid are good things.

World's End would have been better if it hadn't insisted on being a film about aliens. Fun fact: Much of it was filmed in and around my home town

And apparently his!

The quickest public transport from Wright’s home town to the main locations for The World’s End involves 90 minutes on a coach to a train station, 90 minutes on a train to London, a train across London, and nearly an hour on another train out of London. You’re probably thinking of David Leitch.

Glen Powell is not good-looking enough or charismatic enough to be a romantic lead, and he's not tough enough to be an action movie star. He does not move like a real person — he passes through scenes like an actor, acting. I am impatiently waiting for his moment to pass.

crazy talk

Irl lols @ deems joke