Baby Driver (Edgar Wright, 2017) Movie • Page 25

Hot Fuzz is probably my favorite as well. World's End is underrated and maybe my #2. This and Shaun of the Dead battle out for three, Scott Pilgrim, which I enjoy, falls considerably short of the rest.

 

I love 'em all equally.

 

Hippie.

 

With a fifth straight home run, I think Edgar has proven himself as one of the best mainstream writer-directors in the business by now. I mean, his filmography thus far is pretty unassailable. I loved this thing front-to-back, as I knew I would, and I cannot wait to see it again. The craftsmanship on display alone was worth the price of admission. I know everyone always says this about movies and TV shows but I legitimately did sit in the theater with a giant grin on my face pretty much the entire time. I don't know how he keeps doing it, but seriously bravo.

 

The Worlds End is my def #1. Fucking in love with that movie.

 

i really really enjoyed this. not my favorite Wright film, but it is excellently made. only a few character bits didn't make sense to me, but it didn't pull me out of the film or anything.
The Mike Myers mask bit was funny, but i honestly laughed more at earlier on when Jon Berthenal keeps taking Baby's shades, and he just keeps pulling out new ones. i'm STILL chuckling thinking about that.

 

Can't stop playing the soundtrack to this, I thought Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 was going to be the film that had the best soundtrack of the year and as much as I love the soundtrack to that film it just can't compete.

 

Scott Pilgrim is easily my favorite of his. This is a wonderful second place.

 

In the theater. Just ordered a dope looking quesadilla let's do it

 

Hot Fuzz is so good.


Did you ever fire your gun in the air, and go "ahhh"!?

 

What'll be, Point Break or Bad Boys 2?

 

I love when Baby was casing the bank with Doc's nephew and the lady asked how old the nephew was and Baby guesses 4 years old haha

 

There are some very funny parts, particularly the tagging along of the nephew and the line about Monsters, Inc. More than most action films, the car chases were shot coherently and were genuinely exciting because of how close it always seemed between success and failure.

The decision to make Don Draper into the final boss is a weird one and inconsistent with what the movie has told us. Throughout the movie, Don was the most sympathetic of Baby's co-workers; the guy from Wolf of Wall Street makes fun of him before never appearing again, Jamie Foxx is a menacing lunatic, and Kevin Spacey threatens Baby through implied violence early on. By contrast, Don is always telling people to leave Baby alone, and when he catches Baby trying to leave in the middle of the night, he expresses an ability to let Baby leave without saying anything. He tries to be neutral in the diner and in the argument between Foxx and Spacey. However, we are supposed to believe that he loses all sense of self-preservation when his girlfriend dies, which both makes him more sympathetic as a supposed villain and makes us question his long-term goal.

The origin story of the mother and the hearing problem is underdeveloped; we see him having flashbacks to the pain of that day, and that is supposed to make us believe that led him to drive professionally? It is a weird decision, and other than some exposition about him robbing Spacey, we are not given clear details about how he developed these superhero traits or why he chose to use them.

People have already mentioned the lack of real female characters, but it is also perplexing why Wright chose to set the film in a city that is more than half black but set the film around mostly white people. The foster father is sympathetic and welcome, but the most unhinged robber, and the one who helps to blow the whole thing up, is the black character. It seemed like it was from another era.

People have praised the soundtrack, and Wright does a great job of avoiding a lot of the staples of the genre while finding music that really adds to the scenes. The quirk of Baby pausing music or restarting music actually ends up working despite it threatening to fall into too much of a wink at the audience about the artifice of the film, something Wright has always been so good at doing.

While it does not quite reach the heights of the Cornetto films, it is certainly better than Scott Pilgrim.

 

I'm excited about your quesadilla. That sounds bomb right now.

 

I also didn't love Hamm as the main antagonist at the end (specifically because he turned into the Terminator), but I don't know why him being previously friendly to Baby makes it less believable that he'll try to get revenge on Baby for single handedly botching the heist and getting his wife killed.
(edit) spoiler tagging so quesadilla friend doesn't get it spoiled

 

I had a couple beers during mine. This new theater right down the street has a full bar in the lobby haha.

 

World's End is easily my favorite Wright film. Need to see this a few more times but I think it'll end up being pretty close

 

I'm so worried about how distracting drunk people would be during a movie, not saying you would be just in general

 

Yeah I can definitely see that.

 

I'm not the type of person who watches a film and goes "I wanna see that one again" normally, but this film has been on my mind all week and man, I really want to see it again haha

 

Drinking during a film at a theater is so weird to me, I'd be worried about having to go pee during the movie.

 

Finally had the chance to go see this. Absolutely loved it!

Baby is way super relatable to me. Using music to escape childhood pain/trauma? Me too, Baby, me too. Haha

Really enjoyed pretty much everything. I saw someone say they thought there should have been another chase/driving scene in the middle, but I disagree. I liked that it kind wound down and then just kept ramping up all the way through the third act.

 

I bartend at a movie theater (it's just beer and wine, fortunately) and I'm constantly surprised by people wanting to get trashed before seeing a movie. If it's a parent seeing a kids movie (and has a spouse who isn't drinking and can drive) I get it, but never understood being excited for a movie and then pounding beers the entire time.

 

I also have mixed feelings about eating during a movie, I get that it can be tough to eat beforehand or afterwards and make it work,and it's convenient, but I feel like there's limited food you can eat without it interrupting the movie

 

Adult diaper, my friend.