three of the car chases are good and the opening titles are fun iirc
― bae (sic), Sunday, 19 May 2024 03:46 (one month ago) link
Elgort, Spacey, HMMMMMMMMMM
― Bitchin Doutai (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 19 May 2024 04:56 (one month ago) link
tbf Spacey's character has an inappropriate interest in a young twink whose employment conditions he controls and whom he manipulates
― bae (sic), Sunday, 19 May 2024 06:50 (one month ago) link
milo is 100%
this was dreadful after the first scene, which is an all time classic
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Sunday, 19 May 2024 06:57 (one month ago) link
absolutely one of the most insufferable films ever made
― devvvine, Sunday, 19 May 2024 10:26 (one month ago) link
I thought this was really bad, but it kind of made me appreciate how good/charismatic Kevin Spacey and Jamie Foxx are in that it's still just about watchable when they're on screen. Jon Hamm is pretty good, but not good enough to ever momentarily fool you into thinking you're watching a movie that isn't bad.
Sometimes I feel I can only really calibrate how good an actor is when they're in something terrible, I thought the same thing about Tom Hanks in Turner & Hooch.
― Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Sunday, 19 May 2024 11:14 (one month ago) link
you are dead wrong about hamm and merely 98% wrong about spacey tbh
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Sunday, 19 May 2024 12:14 (one month ago) link
Kevin Spacey is not charismatic unless you are super into Kevin Spacey.
He is the actor equivalent of turning over a log in the woods and realizing there is some sort of horrible growth underneath.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Sunday, 19 May 2024 12:19 (one month ago) link
Spacey was perfect in Glengarry Glen Ross, bitchy in The Ref, outstanding in L.A. Confidential, and perfectly cast here. His last Oscar win kicked off one of the most doleful run of films I've ever seen.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 19 May 2024 12:24 (one month ago) link
Jon Spencer did the heavy lifting
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 19 May 2024 13:31 (one month ago) link
I’m not mad that I saw it, but will never see it again, and am not psyched about the director.
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 19 May 2024 13:51 (one month ago) link
Edgar Wright is very good at moving the camera. But I always come away from his movies thinking that "I figured out a cool way to move the camera" was the sum total of his emotional investment in the project.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Sunday, 19 May 2024 16:34 (one month ago) link
Baby and the Waitress were zeroes but Hamm and Foxx were shockingly bad.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 19 May 2024 18:14 (one month ago) link
Pretty bad movie
― omar little, Sunday, 19 May 2024 18:16 (one month ago) link
I’ll probably never see it again but the Barry White diner sequence was pretty masterful
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Sunday, 19 May 2024 20:11 (one month ago) link
I'm a sucker for the goofy tape editing scene ("was he slow..sl-sl-slow?")
― nashwan, Sunday, 19 May 2024 20:13 (one month ago) link
I realise now that I've been mentally conflating this film and Drive into one not very good movie, maybe because I saw them both on planes. Also because they're both shite.
― suicide is painful (Matt #2), Sunday, 19 May 2024 21:19 (one month ago) link
Baby Driver was a fine holiday weekend watch seven years ago, had no need to watch it again except for the opening scene, which I teach as an example of modern sound design + editing. Nothing loathsome about it except for the chicken hawk + twink subtext.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 19 May 2024 22:03 (one month ago) link
I liked Baby Driver fine. It was fun.
Drive suuuuucked.
― Cow_Art, Sunday, 19 May 2024 22:24 (one month ago) link
This and Hell Or High Water are shining examples of the new subgenre of "Post-Concealed Carry Heist Films"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 19 May 2024 22:27 (one month ago) link
Concealed carrying a $40k MP5 in the passenger seat of your work truck
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 19 May 2024 22:48 (one month ago) link
A marginally less shitty version of this movie is where that guy was working for another criminal organization who were laundering money at that bank and Spacey & Crew have to survive pissing off Los Zetas or something.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 19 May 2024 22:50 (one month ago) link
why is it called “baby driver”
― brimstead, Sunday, 19 May 2024 22:57 (one month ago) link
Boss Baby got fired and had to take up driving UberEats to pay the bills.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 19 May 2024 22:59 (one month ago) link
hell or high water is a great movie tho, especially if you go in with the correct attitude "this is a real potluck vhs rental type movie"
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Sunday, 19 May 2024 23:00 (one month ago) link
This entire film was predicated on Wright having heard that one cool drum break in "Bellbottoms" and wanting to make a movie with a car chase scene with that in it. And it has about as much content as that premise allows.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 19 May 2024 23:05 (one month ago) link
The Future Republicans Want!
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 20 May 2024 00:01 (one month ago) link
I loved Baby Driver & it made me cry!
The premise that as fast as you run, you can never run away from yourself & wherever you go, there you are was meaningful to me, hit me pretty hard for a high adrenaline popcorn movie
John Waters loved it too
The one thing I didn't like - some of the "good" song choices are a little heavy handed
Remember thinking, based on some of the song choices, 'I'll bet the director is a huge Sparks fan' whadda ya know
I have not enjoyed any of his other movies oh well.
― Deflatormouse, Monday, 20 May 2024 01:21 (one month ago) link