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July 4, 2017 9:42 PM Subscribe
I would have thought that this was the catchy song.
posted by Zedcaster at 10:44 PM on July 4, 2017 [7 favorites]
posted by Zedcaster at 10:44 PM on July 4, 2017 [7 favorites]
I remember when I first heard of Baby Driver, I thought, so is this really the year we get two movies about babies doing adult stuff? In addition to a baby being a boss, we get a baby driving a car throughout the whole movie? And then I heard Edgar Wright was directing this and thought, WHY would YOU do this?! I'm really glad to have been proven wrong. The title, man, it's not ... let's say, perfect.
posted by sapagan at 12:08 AM on July 5, 2017 [14 favorites]
posted by sapagan at 12:08 AM on July 5, 2017 [14 favorites]
Perfect Timing
posted by mannequito at 12:10 AM on July 5, 2017
posted by mannequito at 12:10 AM on July 5, 2017
It's shown in the movie for a split second as Baby is flipping through TV channels. Always gives me the warm fuzzies to see someone's pet project finally come to life.
posted by mcfighty at 12:20 AM on July 5, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by mcfighty at 12:20 AM on July 5, 2017 [2 favorites]
So good!
The Soundtracking podcast also has a couple of great interviews with Edgar Wright
First - discussing the music in Spaced & the Cornetto Trilogy
Second - discussing the music in Baby Driver
posted by DanCall at 1:30 AM on July 5, 2017 [2 favorites]
The Soundtracking podcast also has a couple of great interviews with Edgar Wright
First - discussing the music in Spaced & the Cornetto Trilogy
Second - discussing the music in Baby Driver
posted by DanCall at 1:30 AM on July 5, 2017 [2 favorites]
I remember when I first heard of Baby Driver, I thought, so is this really the year we get two movies about babies doing adult stuff? In addition to a baby being a boss, we get a baby driving a car throughout the whole movie?
Right there with you, man. I even assumed that Alec Baldwin did the baby driver's voice.
posted by thelonius at 1:50 AM on July 5, 2017 [8 favorites]
Right there with you, man. I even assumed that Alec Baldwin did the baby driver's voice.
posted by thelonius at 1:50 AM on July 5, 2017 [8 favorites]
Ha, I guessed what the music video would be before I clicked, even though I'd totally forgotten it was by Edgar Wright.
posted by EndsOfInvention at 2:57 AM on July 5, 2017
posted by EndsOfInvention at 2:57 AM on July 5, 2017
That was fun. Damn, the first 30 minutes of Baby Driver are so promising - those long tracking shots, the integration of the music and plot; I really thought this might be a pointer or hint of a new direction mainstream movies could go.
Which made the last 45 minutes so disappointing.
I like Edgar Wright, love that he's getting to do what he wants, and mostly enjoy his fun, stylish, slight movies, but the back end of Baby Driver is a slog that drops most of the cool stylistic moves that make the first half hour so wonderful and gets dumber and dumberer as it limps to a predictable conclusion. Such a disappointment given the inexplicably gushing reviews.
posted by mediareport at 3:43 AM on July 5, 2017 [16 favorites]
Which made the last 45 minutes so disappointing.
I like Edgar Wright, love that he's getting to do what he wants, and mostly enjoy his fun, stylish, slight movies, but the back end of Baby Driver is a slog that drops most of the cool stylistic moves that make the first half hour so wonderful and gets dumber and dumberer as it limps to a predictable conclusion. Such a disappointment given the inexplicably gushing reviews.
posted by mediareport at 3:43 AM on July 5, 2017 [16 favorites]
The title, man, it's not ... let's say, perfect.
The Paul Simon song has been a favorite of mine for ever so the movie is pretty much what I expected.
The Paul Simon song has been a favorite of mine for ever so the movie is pretty much what I expected.
They call me Baby Driverposted by octothorpe at 4:25 AM on July 5, 2017 [1 favorite]
And once upon a pair of wheels
I hit the road and I'm gone
What's my number
I wonder how your engines feel
Come around to FanFare for some more discussion about Baby Driver.
posted by Stark at 5:01 AM on July 5, 2017
posted by Stark at 5:01 AM on July 5, 2017
Agree with mediareport on the generic heist movie trope smoothie it turns into in the second half (and Ansel Elgort did absolutely nothing for me) but given that I've loved nearly everything else Wright has ever made, I'm happy to give him a pass on this one. And I'm definitely still here for analyses and behind the scenes of Baby Driver's best bits, because those were still very good
posted by soren_lorensen at 5:37 AM on July 5, 2017
posted by soren_lorensen at 5:37 AM on July 5, 2017
That video's main gag is stolen from Hudson Hawk (1991)
posted by chavenet at 8:49 AM on July 5, 2017 [5 favorites]
posted by chavenet at 8:49 AM on July 5, 2017 [5 favorites]
Was just coming to mention the benighted Hudson Hawk. Weird movie, but the music was fun.
posted by nubs at 10:12 AM on July 5, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by nubs at 10:12 AM on July 5, 2017 [1 favorite]
Ah, Hudson Hawk. "I'll torture you so slowly, you'll think it's a career".
I have not yet seen Baby Driver. I intend to do so very soon.
posted by hanov3r at 12:24 PM on July 5, 2017
I have not yet seen Baby Driver. I intend to do so very soon.
posted by hanov3r at 12:24 PM on July 5, 2017
Baby Driver just cemented for me how boys club all of Edgar Wright's movies are. Women exist almost solely as objects of affection while boys get up to boy things. Even this video is guys, a guy then another guy. Boys boys boys boys boys.
I've loved Edgar's movies, including (parts of) Baby Driver. But once I noticed that he does not know what to do or even how to include women except as love interests I couldn't stop seeing it. Even his Ant-Man, which would have been the greatest movie ever according to a certain circle of filmfans, didn't do anything with Hope van Dyne - Evangaline Lilly was quoted as saying her character didn't have anything to do and wasn't really part of the plot until the rewrite which caused Edgar to walk away.
Edgar's said he spent 22 years working on Baby Driver in his head. And that's what it feels like in the end - a very technically adept and well put together teenage boy's fantasy. I keep on waiting for him to grow up, or get woke, or actually interact with enough women to know how to write one, but at this point the best I can hope for is him using his obvious talent to direct someone else's script.
posted by thecjm at 3:44 PM on July 5, 2017 [4 favorites]
I've loved Edgar's movies, including (parts of) Baby Driver. But once I noticed that he does not know what to do or even how to include women except as love interests I couldn't stop seeing it. Even his Ant-Man, which would have been the greatest movie ever according to a certain circle of filmfans, didn't do anything with Hope van Dyne - Evangaline Lilly was quoted as saying her character didn't have anything to do and wasn't really part of the plot until the rewrite which caused Edgar to walk away.
Edgar's said he spent 22 years working on Baby Driver in his head. And that's what it feels like in the end - a very technically adept and well put together teenage boy's fantasy. I keep on waiting for him to grow up, or get woke, or actually interact with enough women to know how to write one, but at this point the best I can hope for is him using his obvious talent to direct someone else's script.
posted by thecjm at 3:44 PM on July 5, 2017 [4 favorites]
Baby Driver just cemented for me how boys club all of Edgar Wright's movies are.
They are also chock full of white people. Baby Driver seems to be an improvement diversity wise, but I am struggling to think of a single POC character in the entire Cornetto Trilogy, and from memory Scott Pilgrim has maybe one(?)
I think Edgar Wright is a huge talent but his films are not unproblematic.
posted by jonnyploy at 12:55 AM on July 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
They are also chock full of white people. Baby Driver seems to be an improvement diversity wise, but I am struggling to think of a single POC character in the entire Cornetto Trilogy, and from memory Scott Pilgrim has maybe one(?)
I think Edgar Wright is a huge talent but his films are not unproblematic.
posted by jonnyploy at 12:55 AM on July 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
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