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

It's Jon Hamm's best screen perf to date.

it was certainly Hammy

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I'm basically repeating myself, but I thought the writing and direction pushed him towards absurdity, notably in the final act.

Lily James is probably why I ended up seeing this.

Boy Baby Driver has some pretty creepy subtext now.

— Drac Budryk 🦇 (@PraxisKenzie) October 30, 2017

Hardly subtext tbh. Spacey's character clearly had a thing for Baby.

it would've been weird if he hadn't

i was horny for baby the entire movie

great film btw

Eric h otm, although it was wasted like every other setup

nah it didn't need to get stressed or require more than the parking garage scene

(which already stretched plausibility)

It is thematically consistent with the hints of an abusive childhood that we get throughout the film, though I don't think that the film, as written, can really bear the weight of any of this.

I was prepared to dislike this immensely based on some of the comments here but it was a blast. Ansel Elgort didn't grow on me until the second act, and it ended too many times, but it reminded me why I really like Edgar Wright even when he's working with what I would normally consider very shallow material. I can't believe I didn't recognize Rose from Downton Abbey.

My greatest complaint, besides the rather milquetoast goodness of our murder-abetting car thief hero, is that most of the songs they picked aren't deep enough cuts to be associated specifically with anything in the movie - if you played the soundtrack and gave me a multiple-choice test on what was happening during song X, I have very low confidence I'd do better than a die roll, as opposed to Tarantino or James Gunn where I now have intense associations between certain scenes and tracks, for better and worse.

Genre filmmakers need to stop believing they're DJs. (You Know Who has a lot to answer for.)

I much prefer the "appalling" Scott Pilgrim and Hot Fuzz to this, but it was mildly amusing trash. Spacey's virtuous exit was a little nauseating, but I enjoyed Jamie Foxx's performance.

Walter Hill hommage? He made gritty crime films about adults.

In fairness to, uh, me, I titled the thread (based on reviews, which were heavy on the Hill comparisons) months before I actually saw the film. But yes, this film is neither gritty nor for adults.

You Know Who has a lot to answer for.

Puccini, the cunt

Anyway morbs otm besides

They had some completely inane twat on the R4 movie show talking about the outright importance of the soundtrack to this movie and how *deeply* it was considered to go with the pictures. If he was someone working in advertising or Childrens tv he would have still sounded like a completely myopic former hireling on the Tarantino plantation. Fucking foetuses making movies for children, and doing it ver badly.

I just saw this on the plane. It was so much fun (even though Ansel, Spacey (ugh) and I thought Hamm was actually bad in this). I wanted to rewatch it right away.

Scott Pilgrim is a Great Film btw

Hamm is just miscast. Plus, as always in these crime fantasies, couldn't his character get work as a model?

Elgort looks like an unfinished pod person from a Body Snatchers.

Yes! Hence his hotness.

ewwww

Adam Driver >>>>>> Baby Driver

Ann Hornaday nails Wright's Achilles heel: "self satisfaction." A master craftsman like Spielberg is never in showoff mode like this.

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Would u stop

Smugberg

don't make me accelerate and impale you!

‘baby driver: it’s no hook, raves ilx’s spielgeirbot’

or Road House, bengazzara

He jabs, he dances away, jabs again

itt: morbs reveals his belief that ilxor poster bizarro gazzara is, in fact, deceased cassavetes favourite ben gazzara irl

he’s got me bang to rights guys

who's Peter Falk on ILX

sorry guys, i fell asleep in the middle of bizzie's last post

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guys this is tearing us apart, can't we get back to talking about how this film that the populace loved is secretly undeserving of its praise

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reminds me of Cynthia Nixon's seizures in A Quiet Passion

After I saw this and liked it so much, I asked my spouse if I would enjoy Fast and Furious movies. He said no.

fast five is a masterpiece tbh

has B G has been on't mushrooms again?

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The Furious movies are fun

yeah try Fast Five yerac. It's not the same sort of thing at all (for one, it knows how silly it is, but plays deadpan rather than Baby Driver's po-faced), but if one of them's going to work for you, it'll be that one

He said Baby Driver was cheekier and I probably liked it because there was sparse dialogue and music that was more my jam. Supposedly Tokyo Drift is the best? (assuming I don't need to start at the beginning for back story).

how about other films about tinnitus?

scott pilgrim rules, so does this movie (kevin spacey's last)

Tokyo Drift is standalone

tokyo drift features one of the worst lead performances i’ve ever seen in a motion picture, and the best character from it shows up in a major role in fast five, so go for fast five imo

One thing about Kevin Spacey is that at least I discovered Difficult People because of the reel of all the Spacey insults.