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I've seen it twice now and man it's easily my favorite movie of the summer so far. There's a reason why this movie has a 100% Rotten Tomatoes Score after 32 reviews.
Simple premise and story. Baby, who is a wheelman, is working to get out from under his boss to whom he owes a debt. Meets a girl and falls in love and now really wants to leave the life. But of course, complications arise. Very straightforward. But it's the execution of all of these familiar elements that puts this one way above other movies of its type.
At times very high octaine and other times a suspenseful slow burn this movie makes use of music and action in a way that you seldom see these days. This movie wasn't made, it was CRAFTED. And it's all heart.
Directed by Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World's End, Scott Pilgrim vs The World) starring Ansel Elgort, Lily James, Kevin Spacey, Jon Hamm, Jamie Foxx, Jon Bernthal, Flea.
Possibly Good: 70s Car chase/getaway driver movies are my absolute favorites (Vanishing Point, The Driver, (The Original, 1974) Gone In 60 Seconds, The Seven-Ups, et al). If this is like those, I WANT!
Almost Certain to be Good: Jon Hamm.
Almost Certain to be Bad: Kevin Spacey, playing the exact same villain he's played in everything he's been in since, say, American Beauty.
Possibly Very, Very Bad: If the high-speed car scenes are CGI, I want nothing to do with this movie and would advocate its immediate boycott. No one cares if a programmer can make cartoon pixels look like they're going real fast across a screen. People do care if actual cars with actual drivers in them can go real fast on actual roads.
I didn't much care for The French Connection but it has a bad ass car/light rail chase scene to add to the 70's goodness.
Loved the movie, and LOVED that chase, man. According to rumor, they couldn't get permission to close off that street for filming, so they went and filmed it anyway -- the innocent bystanders are actual innocent bystanders!
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Possibly Very, Very Bad: If the high-speed car scenes are CGI, I want nothing to do with this movie and would advocate its immediate boycott. No one cares if a programmer can make cartoon pixels look like they're going real fast across a screen. People do care if actual cars with actual drivers in them can go real fast on actual roads.
As I've stated above I've voluntarily seen it TWICE. As far as I could tell they shot it with actual stunt drivers and actual cars on actual streets and highways in and around Atlanta. None of it looks fake or CGI.
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It's a movie that is neither a remake or a sequel or a superhero movie. And it's actually really well done. There really are no more original stories to tell, so at this point, it's HOW the story is crafted and told.
If it's just not people's thing then yeah I get it. But if you're staying away because you've seen it done similarly in older movies? Those movies are not THIS movie. Yes, you can see the influences from Walter Hill's THE DRIVER and Jean-Pierre Melville's LE SAMOURAI. But I saw the influences of LE SAMOURAI even more blatantly in John Woo's THE KILLER but that didn't stop it from being an utterly fantastic and enjoyable movie.
As is BABY DRIVER.
I still think someone should put DIO's Holy Diver to this trailer just to see if it confuses people.
As far as I could tell they shot it with actual stunt drivers and actual cars on actual streets and highways in and around Atlanta. None of it looks fake or CGI.
CONFIRMED. This is now top of my list of things to see in the theatre.
I saw this Sunday and just want also add it is a really good movie...it is almost a musical(though not quite).
Also the way a couple characters action while made sense kinda surprised me as it went different than what I predicted.
Definitely one of the best movies this Summer.
Saw it last night. Fantastic first half with some really excellent driving sequences -- was really excited. Then the second half descends into lame cliches, and no real full-on car chases, and I left feeling like I'd seen the first half of a really good movie and the second half of a pretty bad one.
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Almost Certain to be Bad: Kevin Spacey, playing the exact same villain he's played in everything he's been in since, say, American Beauty.
He doesn't. He lampshades it, a lot, but ultimately his character goes in a different direction, which I appreciated.
Possibly Very, Very Bad: If the high-speed car scenes are CGI, I want nothing to do with this movie and would advocate its immediate boycott. No one cares if a programmer can make cartoon pixels look like they're going real fast across a screen. People do care if actual cars with actual drivers in them can go real fast on actual roads.
All of the car stuff is done with real cars in-camera. The problem is that this is being sold as a car chase movie but there aren't any car chases at the end of the film.
All of the car stuff is done with real cars in-camera. The problem is that this is being sold as a car chase movie but there aren't any car chases at the end of the film.
YES, THIS!!!
Almost Certain to be Bad: Kevin Spacey, playing the exact same villain he's played in everything he's been in since, say, American Beauty.He doesn't. He lampshades it, a lot, but ultimately his character goes in a different direction, which I appreciated.
Possibly Very, Very Bad: If the high-speed car scenes are CGI, I want nothing to do with this movie and would advocate its immediate boycott. No one cares if a programmer can make cartoon pixels look like they're going real fast across a screen. People do care if actual cars with actual drivers in them can go real fast on actual roads.All of the car stuff is done with real cars in-camera. The problem is that this is being sold as a car chase movie but there aren't any car chases at the end of the film.
Gotta agree, the movie has some cool car chases, but its hardly "about" car chases. Its much more a character drama and/or slightly surreal thriller. Actually, scratch that, the movie is very surreal, and the closer you get to the end the more it feels like a dream sequence or maybe a fairy tale.
Really enjoyed the movie though. Particular props to Edgar Wright for Baby's relationship with his guardian, the way music gets tied into literally everything, and the relentless tension throughout the middle of the movie.
Like I said, the beginning and middle were great; I loved them! I disagree about the last third, thought, which was a huge downer for me, and not just because of the lack of a terminal car chase -- I'm also really, really sick of movies in which
That's an incredibly overdone thriller movie trope, to the point where it almost seems like a caricature, in which case you should film it as such, instead of pretending it's still dramatic.