Synopsis
All you need is one killer track.
After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.
Baby Driver
2017 Directed by Edgar Wright
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Ansel Elgort Lily James Kevin Spacey Jamie Foxx Jon Hamm Eiza González CJ Jones Jon Bernthal Flea Lanny Joon Paul Williams R. Marcos Taylor Sky Ferreira Lance Palmer Hudson Meek Brogan Hall Big Boi Mike "Killer Mike" Render Jon Spencer Jeff Chase Wilbur Fitzgerald Brigitte Kali Canales Andy McDermott Patrick R. Walker Ben VanderMey Shellita Boxie Allison King Morse Diggs Keith Hudson Show All…
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straight up the most fun i've had in a movie theater since MAGIC MIKE XXL. like an 113-minute version of those year-end video things i make, but, ya know… actually art, and not just legwork. can't *quite* shake the feeling that this was $20 million short of being a masterpiece (just as i'm having a little trouble making sense of how this movie doesn't end with a car chase), but this is still exactly the kind of shot in the arm that mid-budget studio filmmaking needs.
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Baby Driver is the best mixtape ever assembled.
I don't think a movie has got my adrenaline pumping as much as this movie just did. To say this film was exhilarating would be the understatement of the century.
Car chases has now reach magnum opus. There's no reason to have another car chase in a movie because it will never come close to the car chases in Baby Driver. There's also some epic shootout sequences. A LOT of blood is shed.
Ansel Elgort plays one of the best skewed heroes ever put on screen. I haven't rooted this hard for a criminal ever.
Jamie Foxx absolutely KILLS it! He plays the slimiest fucker ever and I hated him with every ounce of my being.
Lily James stole my heart.
On my drive home from the theater I had one of the jam sessions of my life. Threw on the tunes and just drove baby!
B A B Y motherfuckers!!
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Edgar Wright would have never fit the 70s New Wave: he belongs at Warners in the 30s. Baby Driver colors inside the lines, but this is a stark contrast from other recent Hollywood films praised being "different enough." He wants the image on screen to matter more than the cultural conversation that occurs afterwards. He's rather cast a David Byrne than a emotive performance (perhaps to a slight detriment when the gears change). He wants to create tone and rhythm and pace - a movie with individual parts instead of a smoothed out surface. Car chases move more like Bollywood dance numbers than action scenes - with each car composed like an individual sari. He's a genuine dork, showing off…
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I haven't had fond memories of my birthday since I was ten, at the very least. Sure, some in between the period of then and now were fun (with only the last two years being something I don't want to think about but still do ((if you're close to me, you'll know why)) ), but I can't remember the last time I remembered having a birthday I was not only looking forward to, but enjoyed on the same level as I did when I was a child......
That all changed when Edgar Wright, for bringing that joy back at full force.
"Baby Driver" is one part "Grand Theft Auto" style action, one part "Blues Brothers" style Juice Box musical, "Thief"…
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THE POSITIVES
+ the synchronized soundtrack to the actions (obviously! this is a very lukewarm take but i still gotta mention it because it's THAT GOOD of a technique)
+ love that deaf representation!!
+ sky ferreira
+ made me forget i hate ansel elgortTHE NEGATIVES
- if only the characters' decisions were synchronized with their motivations 👀
- uncomfy gender/racial politics (just ONCE i'd like to see a heist movie where women are more than just love interests. can't wait for Oceans Eight!)
- not enough sky ferreira
- made me forget i hate ansel elgortBONUS
+++ THE 3 SECOND CLIP OF BRAD PITT IN FIGHT CLUBVERDICT
for 2 full hours this movie made me forget…
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no mortal can have a gun fight in time with music so i solidly believe edgar wright is a demigod
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Only revelation upon the rewatch is how stunningly inept the Scotiabank Theatre is at quality control in regards to their film projection, which definitely mangled the sound output. As a result this plays better as a technical exercise than I previously thought. But as it plays better technically, narratively it falls apart even further as Wright is just OK with chickening out on the thematic arc he sets up for Baby throughout the entire film by fucking up the dismount so hard that it ruins the whole damn thing.
I dunno, I guess that opening scene and the "Hocus Pocus" foot chase are both great so I guess I'll bump this up to 3 stars. But fuck, what a wasted opportunity.
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