Did this deserve the praise?

Did this deserve the praise?
Outside the music being in sync with shit it was pretty generic.

All style, no substance.

All reddit, no substance

There wasn't really anything else to watch when it came out, and it didn't suck

The music being in sync was why the movie was made in the first place. It set out to be a feature length music video, and did it well.
Experimental comes to mind. I'd like to see it done again with a more compelling story.

Also people will say they didn't really like it to avoid admitting they liked Spacey in it

it was great
not the best but great

All memes, no sustenance :DDD

First third of it was really good. I thought it was gonna be a 9/10 but I struggled to even pay attention by the end.

The third act was an absolute shitshow in every way possible

elaborate

It was good, not great. Protagonist was a plank of wood. Motivations on some characters were all over the place and the ending was stupid but I can forgive it I guess on some happy ending bullshit.

Is it bad I actually ended up rooting for Buddy’s character to kill Baby at end?

I like my drivers to be more autistic

This. It's abpve aversge but nothing more.

I got tinnitus after watching it that lasted 2 weeks. It was awful.

It came out like a week before all the Spacey shit dropped. Lucky for Wright, I guess.

All the cliches started slipping out and the faults of the overwritten script.
Jon Hamm has a "finale" fight with Baby literally THREE times, absolutely absurd and ridiculous. The diner girl seeing people being murdered left and right and she's still with the guy who she met a week ago. Kevin Spacey doing an 180 on his entire character just because he sees the girl and suddenly giving his life for Baby and his girl, even though he was ready to kill him and his family seconds ago just to get some more money. Constant cheesy lines left and right. Absolutely cliche ending scene.
And this is all just in the last 30 minutes, still baffled by the critical praise

>The music being in sync was why the movie was made in the first place.

That doesn't mean everything else that makes up a movie being, you know, a movie, gets a free pass.

Good acting and interesting characters
Nice gimmick
Direction aside the gimmick is pretty good too

It was pretty cool and enjoyable desu. I didn't and don't generally care about writing much so I found it fine

We all know who would win in a fight, but who would win in a getaway heist race?

ok

Movies have become so shit in general that this well made, decent one stands out. That's literally it. It has plenty of plot holes and weak moments but you really can't critisize it for them or you'd have to shit on EVERY modern movie for the same reasons. There are certain core flaws that over the decades have just become acceptable for movies. It has those, but not much else, therefore according to the mainstream it's a masterpiece.

Not the same user but...

>Bats kills the undercover Cops, Doc wants to cancel the job. Baby has been shown to already be shown to be reluctant towards the job... but he doesn’t tell the truth and instead wants to go forward.
>Doc was being shown to be a professional, to the point of getting someone killed cause they dropped a gun. Now he doesn’t just kill Bats for getting a bunch of cops kill and all the heat that would give him?
>After the tapes reveal, Doc wants to cancel the job yet again. Baby still says fucking yes, for what purpose? He could have said no and I’m sure Doc would have been fine.
>Kills Bats, gets Darling killed and somehow we aren’t suppose to root for Buddy?
>Doc does a 180 out of the fucking blue and doesn’t just shoot Baby and her waitress on the spot?
>Buddy becoming Terminator
>Waitress is completely fine with Baby shooting, carjacking, and seeing people get killed
>After all this and the countless shit he did before in the movie and before the movie takes place. He gets out in 5 years with parole. After causing untold thousands in public property damages, reckless endangerment, being complicit in murder, bank robbery and all the other collateral he was involve with.
>But no, he a good boy he dindu nothing. All the witnesses that are some random lady, my stepdad and my stockholm syndrome girlfriend can vouch that I’m a good boy.

The third act was complete shit. Its like Wright wanted to show Baby didn’t want to do it and he wanted out but he still wanted his last heist and action sequence.

we all know
t. someone who hasn't seen either movie

Started off well but the gimmick couldn't carry the movie.

When I saw it in cinema and Kevin Spacey's character did a 180 I involuntarily said "fuck off!" out loud and got a couple laughs. Start of the movie he's threatening him and his loved ones...then Baby comes to him and says "I'm in love", so Kevin Spacey decides he'll die for him. Fucking retarded.

I'm not sad that I saw it but will never have urge to watch it again

Maybe if you only watch capeshit

Nothing about it makes it above average.

First act was really good and sharp, but then it devolved into a very generic, even sub-par flick. I quite disliked it after it was all finished. Bit long, too. I probably wouldn't have minded as much if the drop in quality throughout the movie wasn't so steep.

I feel that's been the case for all of Wright's movies other than SotD though. Quite the overrated director.

This just really made me think and I've formed a hypothesis:

Hollywood has gotten better and better at setups because setups are what works in a trailer, which in turn sells the important day1/week1 tickets.

I've been thinking for a long time that endings are the most typical weakness of movies these days but I brushed it off, thinking that maybe I just care more about endings than other viewers. But what if I don't? What if movie endings really have turned to shit? It would make perfect sense if you consider that movies are greenlit based on the parts that go in a trailer (not the ending).

I thought it was mostly because critics can't stop jerking off Wright.

Went to see it in theaters with friends and it was... a movie. Nothing really popped out.

It was utter garbage, and I usually like movies like this. Gimmicky and hollow

Felt really meh.

Honestly, most of those just gave me the impression Wright was making a sort of unique film and at the same time mixing up some of the stuff he likes in films, cliches.
Spacey's character wasn't a 180 turn. He is a businessman; though he cares about Baby, he doesn't want to let him go because he is a big profit for him. When he is acting kindly to him in the first two acts, he is not just being manipulative.
He is only helping him, when he has nothing to get out of him anymore.
>After the tapes reveal, Doc wants to cancel the job yet again. Baby still says fucking yes, for what purpose? He could have said no and I’m sure Doc would have been fine.
The rest of the group needs the job and if he said no, he might've had trouble from them.

I was talking about movies of a fairly large budget, Baby Driver or larger. If you remove capeshit you're not left with much. You've got Star Wars, you've got some reboots of 80s action movies (kinda redundant), so yeah, capeshit is representative of the kind of movies I'm talking about.

Wow, I'm kinda glad that I stopped watching this movie right before the third act.
I was on a plane so I had to stop right as the plane landed. I guess they sorta saved me from the bullshit.

The hollywood version of Drive, baby wish it was 1/10th the quality of Drive

The music syncing with the scenes got extremely grating after the opening scene to the point that I ended up hating everything from about 20 mins onward. What a shitty, shitty gimmick.

I had totally forgotten this existed, Jon Hamm as a semi-villain was ok, Lily James cute/hot as always, the main character had the most punchable face since Miles Teller, I could not stand him.

As for the movie, stole the mix-tape from Guardians of the Galaxy and everything else from Drive, it was like an ok Netflix movie, totally forgettable.

>The rest of the group needs the job and if he said no, he might've had trouble from them.

Only Bats had a problem. Buddy and Darling were annoyed at best, when Bats asked Buddy if he knew a guy to help with the blank checks he took a moment to answer, showing be wasn’t really that enthusiastic about the job anymore.

Buddy only had a serious problem after Baby botched the job and got Darling killed. He was shown fond of Baby before that throughout the whole movie.

Also, Baby has no problem with Bats killing a security guard but he had a conversation with a clerk and now he does? There is also hard to feel bad about Baby when he disposes of a car with a human being in it and is only shown to be a bit bothered by it.

This tbqh

Drive for normies

Crossover buddy getaway adventures when?

>Sup Forums is turning on baby driver
About time, I'm surprised it took this long. Everything from the casting to the dialogue to the editing was pure reddit.

>Spacey's character wasn't a 180 turn.
How?
He wrecked his entire apartment, fucked up his blind grandpa and threaten to kill everyone and everything he has if he doesn't go risk his life for some money time and time again.

And then he sees Baby with the girl. says the absolutely retarded cliche "I was in love once" and suddenly he's ready to sacrifice his life for the kid and the girl? What?
A money hungry criminal who did everything he could just to get more money suddenly gives the keys to his benz to this kid and sacrifices his life for him just so he can buy some time for the couple to get away. Literally seconds ago he was ready to kill Baby and all of his loved ones without blinking just to get more money, but suddenly he's a completely changed man just because the girl is with him. Absolutely ridiculous

>he's ready to sacrifice his life for the kid and the girl?
>sacrifice
Why do people keep saying this?
The only thing that changed was that he chose not to kill Baby, which is an understandable change in character given the circumstances. He died trying to kill some goon that was sent to kill him, not as some heroic sacrifice. He knew he was probably a dead man by the time Bats fucked up his relation with the crooked cops.

>Literally seconds ago he was ready to kill Baby and all of his loved ones without blinking just to get more money
You keep saying this, but it doesn't make sense.
How would he get money from killing Baby and the girl and old black dad?
Baby was too hot to kill, entire city of Atlanta was after him, killing him would immediately involve a third party and the police would continue investigating.

When Baby called he acted like he didn't know him, when he showed up he did his best to ignore him like he didn't exist on his way out the door. I agree his shift was cheesy after he saw the girl, but I don't think there was any more pragmatic of an approach like you're representing.

I’ll tell you what. Ansel Egort didn’t deserve a nomination for anything. Would have been nice to see hamm or Foxx get a nomination

>He died trying to kill some goon that was sent to kill him, not as some heroic sacrifice.
He literally gives the keys to Baby and the girl and chooses to go alone for the goons knowing that he's going to die. Why didn't he just run to his benz while shooting at the goons, why would he choose to die all of a sudden, why care about the girl at all?

No, it sucked.

>autistic faggot protagonist
>complete mess of a script, particularly towards the end
>the most unlikable cast in the history of film
>hamfisted love story
>driving scenes became boring

>Why didn't he just run to his benz while shooting at the goons
Because that doesn't close an arc, and i don't think the lack of a vehicle was the problem.
>why would he choose to die all of a sudden
He didn't.
>why care about the girl at all?
He didn't.
It was clear he had a soft spot for Baby from the beginning of the film.

>Because that doesn't close an arc
That's the fucking problem right there, Wright forgot about character development for his character entirely so he stayed the same for 99% of the film and then he had to do a dumb rushed "character arc" closing off of the character, it's just terrible writing.

He means the restaurant scene. Where Doc threatens more or less the waitress, implying if he doesn’t do another job for him he could hurt her.

Also, Doc was ready to kill Baby when he thought he was a Cop.

Motivations and actions took a fucking dive on the third act. It was a shitshow.

>Protagonist was a plank of wood
This desu.

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