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Is Baby Driver good or is all the critic adoration flame?

Havent watched a movie in theaters this calendar year
odious orchestra pit boistinker
  07/06/17
i thought it was ok - 3/5 on my subjective scale. has a lot...
wonderful amber boltzmann
  07/06/17
hamm and spacey were sps imo. foxx was incredible as was the...
Cruel-hearted diverse cruise ship
  07/06/17
Probably great reviews cause everything else is shit. And th...
Orange anal brethren base
  07/06/17
Cr Basically any movie that isn't some sparse dialogue ca...
mint painfully honest keepsake machete scourge upon the earth
  07/06/17
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Chartreuse fortuitous meteor parlour
  07/06/17
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exciting demanding ticket booth
  07/06/17
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sapphire public bath clown
  07/07/17
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odious orchestra pit boistinker
  07/06/17
Great soundtrack a la pulp fiction, reasonably good action s...
Blue 180 Senate Jewess
  07/06/17
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passionate hateful quadroon
  07/06/17
Flame. It's mediocre.
obsidian glittery box office
  07/06/17
Boss Baby didn't need a sequel so fast
avocado hunting ground
  07/06/17
its legit innovative and interesting and has a solid story. ...
Cruel-hearted diverse cruise ship
  07/06/17
How is it not being called a Drive rip-off? Basically looks...
sepia affirmative action
  07/06/17
drive bored me to tears and i turned it off after 10 minutes
Cruel-hearted diverse cruise ship
  07/06/17
you quotemos don't have to explicitly inform us that you're ...
sepia affirmative action
  07/07/17
im the good quotemo though :(
Cruel-hearted diverse cruise ship
  07/07/17
drive was a completely empty movie, only good thing was the ...
Dun multi-colored digit ratio pit
  07/12/17
The main character actually has a gf and isn't some friendzo...
mint painfully honest keepsake machete scourge upon the earth
  07/07/17
"best wheelman around" falls for waitress th...
sepia affirmative action
  07/07/17
yeah it seems the same just one is serious and autistic the ...
mint painfully honest keepsake machete scourge upon the earth
  07/07/17
that doesn't sound like a "key difference," that s...
sepia affirmative action
  07/07/17
dude autism is central to drive's plot
mint painfully honest keepsake machete scourge upon the earth
  07/07/17
If you loved Drive, you're gonna be disappointed in Baby Dri...
talented brass party of the first part
  07/07/17
the guy in baby driver is brutally autistic. literally utter...
concupiscible deep really tough guy garrison
  07/12/17
Mud monkey. Need to use that
odious orchestra pit boistinker
  07/07/17
Please do. We're bringing it back.
mint painfully honest keepsake machete scourge upon the earth
  07/07/17
MAGA
odious orchestra pit boistinker
  07/07/17
sps
Maroon Lodge Hominid
  07/07/17
6/10 and that's being generous. The first half was probably...
talented brass party of the first part
  07/07/17
Why bother getting Spacey, Foxx and Hamm when all the charac...
slippery dopamine
  07/07/17
A genre ride with a rebuilt engine and a sweet paint job, &l...
Vibrant topaz point
  01/05/26


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Date: July 6th, 2017 7:01 PM
Author: odious orchestra pit boistinker

Havent watched a movie in theaters this calendar year

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3667736&forum_id=2.#33717907)



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Date: July 6th, 2017 7:08 PM
Author: wonderful amber boltzmann

i thought it was ok - 3/5 on my subjective scale. has a lot of shit that critics eat up but spacey, jamie foxx, jon hamm and a couple of the other villains are pretty great in it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3667736&forum_id=2.#33717955)



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Date: July 6th, 2017 11:48 PM
Author: Cruel-hearted diverse cruise ship

hamm and spacey were sps imo. foxx was incredible as was the spicey latina ungh

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Date: July 6th, 2017 7:13 PM
Author: Orange anal brethren base

Probably great reviews cause everything else is shit. And the soundtrack is catnip to pop culture dorks.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3667736&forum_id=2.#33717988)



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Date: July 6th, 2017 8:01 PM
Author: mint painfully honest keepsake machete scourge upon the earth

Cr

Basically any movie that isn't some sparse dialogue capeshit chinkfest is a beautiful and innovative work of art now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3667736&forum_id=2.#33718321)



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Date: July 6th, 2017 8:16 PM
Author: Chartreuse fortuitous meteor parlour



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Date: July 6th, 2017 8:32 PM
Author: exciting demanding ticket booth



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Date: July 7th, 2017 12:07 AM
Author: sapphire public bath clown



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Date: July 6th, 2017 8:00 PM
Author: odious orchestra pit boistinker



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Date: July 6th, 2017 8:09 PM
Author: Blue 180 Senate Jewess

Great soundtrack a la pulp fiction, reasonably good action scenes and some funny moments. Nothing groundbreaking about the story or the film, but it is enjoyable.

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Date: July 6th, 2017 8:17 PM
Author: passionate hateful quadroon



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Date: July 6th, 2017 8:15 PM
Author: obsidian glittery box office

Flame. It's mediocre.

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Date: July 6th, 2017 8:34 PM
Author: avocado hunting ground

Boss Baby didn't need a sequel so fast

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Date: July 6th, 2017 11:49 PM
Author: Cruel-hearted diverse cruise ship

its legit innovative and interesting and has a solid story. 100x better than the dreck that gets put out these days. go see it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3667736&forum_id=2.#33719798)



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Date: July 6th, 2017 11:58 PM
Author: sepia affirmative action

How is it not being called a Drive rip-off? Basically looks like someone took Drive and then made it into more of a popcorn movie.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3667736&forum_id=2.#33719851)



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Date: July 6th, 2017 11:59 PM
Author: Cruel-hearted diverse cruise ship

drive bored me to tears and i turned it off after 10 minutes

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Date: July 7th, 2017 12:02 AM
Author: sepia affirmative action

you quotemos don't have to explicitly inform us that you're soulless. you've given it away already.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3667736&forum_id=2.#33719894)



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Date: July 7th, 2017 12:07 AM
Author: Cruel-hearted diverse cruise ship

im the good quotemo though :(

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3667736&forum_id=2.#33719947)



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Date: July 12th, 2017 5:57 PM
Author: Dun multi-colored digit ratio pit

drive was a completely empty movie, only good thing was the soundtrack

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3667736&forum_id=2.#33759693)



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Date: July 7th, 2017 12:00 AM
Author: mint painfully honest keepsake machete scourge upon the earth

The main character actually has a gf and isn't some friendzone beta provider for some mud monkey's gf. Also, one seems normal but has the ear buzzing thing whereas the other is brutally autistic.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3667736&forum_id=2.#33719871)



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Date: July 7th, 2017 12:04 AM
Author: sepia affirmative action

"best wheelman around"

falls for waitress

this will be cool set to music

give him shades and a detached look

bad guy demands driver's compliance, threatens to hurt waitress girlfriend

"I want to quit this life and just drive away with you, but first..."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3667736&forum_id=2.#33719911)



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Date: July 7th, 2017 12:06 AM
Author: mint painfully honest keepsake machete scourge upon the earth

yeah it seems the same just one is serious and autistic the other is goofy

im just pointing out the key differences here

i havent seen baby driver but drive is 180 as fuck

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3667736&forum_id=2.#33719925)



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Date: July 7th, 2017 12:06 AM
Author: sepia affirmative action

that doesn't sound like a "key difference," that sounds exactly like the superficial difference I pointed out in my first post.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3667736&forum_id=2.#33719936)



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Date: July 7th, 2017 12:09 AM
Author: mint painfully honest keepsake machete scourge upon the earth

dude autism is central to drive's plot

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3667736&forum_id=2.#33719958)



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Date: July 7th, 2017 12:34 AM
Author: talented brass party of the first part

If you loved Drive, you're gonna be disappointed in Baby Driver

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3667736&forum_id=2.#33720132)



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Date: July 12th, 2017 5:55 PM
Author: concupiscible deep really tough guy garrison

the guy in baby driver is brutally autistic. literally utters like four original words in the entire movie. the rest is stuff he hears on tv or hears other people say.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3667736&forum_id=2.#33759675)



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Date: July 7th, 2017 12:08 AM
Author: odious orchestra pit boistinker

Mud monkey. Need to use that

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Date: July 7th, 2017 12:09 AM
Author: mint painfully honest keepsake machete scourge upon the earth

Please do. We're bringing it back.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3667736&forum_id=2.#33719960)



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Date: July 7th, 2017 12:17 AM
Author: odious orchestra pit boistinker

MAGA

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Date: July 7th, 2017 12:11 AM
Author: Maroon Lodge Hominid

sps

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Date: July 7th, 2017 12:20 AM
Author: talented brass party of the first part

6/10 and that's being generous. The first half was probably a 7/10.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3667736&forum_id=2.#33720048)



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Date: July 7th, 2017 2:34 AM
Author: slippery dopamine

Why bother getting Spacey, Foxx and Hamm when all the characters are autistic comic book sketches with no backstory (other than the lead dude, who is an autistic comic book sketch with a lame and nonsensical backstory).

The chases and the tracking shots of walking were good. The soundtrack was good. Would have been more fun if it was an hour long music video instead of an hour long musical video occasionally interrupted by sub-Tarantino nonsense plot. Oh noes, our hero has to do one more job! Oh noes, I'm so worried he will lose his relationship with the first cute girl to smile at him!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3667736&forum_id=2.#33720619)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 11:15 PM
Author: Vibrant topaz point

A genre ride with a rebuilt engine and a sweet paint job, “Baby Driver” is all about movement and sometimes stillness and how a beautiful man looks (feels, seems, is) even better when he’s in glorious, syncopated, restless motion. The first time you see Baby — that’s his handle, which suits Mr. Elgort, with his angelic face and young man’s lissomeness — he’s in the driver’s seat, where he belongs. The car doesn’t look like much, just a cherry-red box with doors and a spoiler. Like us, Baby is waiting for the action to start, seemingly sealed off from the outside world with his dark sunglasses and earbuds.

This is how Baby rolls, with shifting gears, pumping feet and thumping tunes, and how Mr. Wright rolls here as well. There’s a story, sure, about Baby getting in and out of trouble while finding love and money. He doesn’t have much of an inner life, but he has skills, a heavy back story and a kindly foster father, Joe (CJ Jones, who helps give the movie its faint heartbeat), a deaf invalid with whom he signs. Baby also has tinnitus, which he quells with music; mostly, he has killer timing and gracefully elastic, reactive physicality that suggests Mr. Wright has put in time with the films of Jacques Tati.

That’s wonderful company to keep and to learn from, especially when you’re as cleverly attentive a student as Mr. Wright. Baby drives hard, fast, tight and seemingly oh so effortlessly, spinning wheels across pavement like a Russian Olympian on ice. In the eye-tickling opener — a wham, bam, we’ll-take-the-cash-ma’am heist — Baby peels out in that red box (a souped-up Subaru) and motors into one of those warped Road Runner chases that builds momentum with near escapes, not-even-close winking and the twangy throbbing of “Bellbottoms,” from the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, a group once unforgettably described by the critic Robert Christgau as “avant-travestying da blooze.”

“Baby Driver” isn’t avant-travestying; it’s a pop pastiche par excellence, crammed with cubistic action; glowering and golly-gee types (played by the seductive likes of Jamie Foxx, Jon Hamm, Eiza González and Lily James); and an encyclopedia of cinematic allusions, all basted in wall-to-wall tuneage. At times, the whole thing spins like a tribute album, a collection of covers of varying quality: diner yaks à la Quentin Tarantino, Godardian splashes of color. When it works, the allusions give you a contact high, like when a friend turns you on to a favorite movie. At other times, Mr. Wright’s pleasure veers into the self-satisfied, and all that love feels smothering, near-bullying, like bro-cinephilia in extremis.

In the main, it’s easy to go with Mr. Wright’s flow, partly because he rarely steps off the gas. It’s just go go go with an occasional stop for coffee or an amusingly testy sit-down with Baby’s shadowy boss, Doc, one of those all-seeing, all-knowing criminal mystics whom Kevin Spacey gives ominous ooze and a daddy’s mad (maybe nuts) indoor voice. Doc has something on Baby, who’s been forced into a life of bad behavior and company. That Baby has had no choice but to drive along plays as knowingly implausible as it sounds. But heroic fatalism and unwilling villainy remain enduring cinematic tropes, including in gangster movies, even if it means holding convention over complexity.

There’s much to enjoy in “Baby Driver,” including the satisfactions of genuine cinematic craft and technique, qualities that moviegoers can no longer take for granted. The edits snap, the colors pop and the cinematography serves the performances and the story rather than embalming them in an emptily showy, self-regarding directorial conceit. The emotions are mostly rote and cold, but the car chases are hot — at once fluid, geometric and rhythmic, with a beat Baby carries with him out of the car whether he’s on the stroll or the run. (The director of photography is Bill Pope; the editors are Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos; and the stunt coordinator is Darrin Prescott, leading an army.)

“Baby Driver” is so good that you want it to be better and go deeper, for it to put down its guns (or at least hold them differently) and transcend its clichés and cine-quotes so it can rocket out of the genre safe box into the cosmic beyond where craft and technique transform into art. That’s admittedly somewhat of a greedy complaint, particularly given how much Mr. Wright does right and that he clearly wants you levitating out of your seat. It’s difficult to carp about a director who wants to please the audience this much (instead of, say, the franchise suits). At the same time, you have to wonder where Mr. Wright might go if he cut loose from his influences and let a little feeling muss up his form.



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