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

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.

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.

Jon Spencer did the heavy lifting

I’m not mad that I saw it, but will never see it again, and am not psyched about the director.

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.

Baby and the Waitress were zeroes but Hamm and Foxx were shockingly bad.

Pretty bad movie

I’ll probably never see it again but the Barry White diner sequence was pretty masterful

I'm a sucker for the goofy tape editing scene ("was he slow..sl-sl-slow?")

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.

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.

I liked Baby Driver fine. It was fun.

Drive suuuuucked.

This and Hell Or High Water are shining examples of the new subgenre of "Post-Concealed Carry Heist Films"

Concealed carrying a $40k MP5 in the passenger seat of your work truck

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.

why is it called “baby driver”

Boss Baby got fired and had to take up driving UberEats to pay the bills.

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"

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.

Concealed carrying a $40k MP5 in the passenger seat of your work truck

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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.