any /o/tists here? What did you think of baby driver? I saw

>>85160700

BELL BOTTOMS
BELL BOTTOMS
BELL BOTTOMS

You can tell that Simon Pegg is the writer in their duo who gives the characters any personality or humanity. He didn't work on Baby Driver.

I really enjoyed the film though. 8/10.

>>85160700
I liked it a lot. From a technical standpoint, it was just about flawless. Really great action choreography and especially sound design, an often overlooked element of filmmaking. I was also surprised at how well Ansel Elgort actually held his own and came out of the film as the most memorable character.

Cons:
Lily James' character wasn't too well developed. The scene with Baby and the gang visiting the diner and him pretending not to know/like her was good and tense, but would have worked better with a more well-developed relationship. Even with the editing in their first scene together, it feels cut together hastily, like a bunch of lines were taken out.

The finale of the film was kind of odd. Jon Hamm as the final villain was cool in a way, and his whole burnt-out unshaven undercut look while bathed in red light was really cool, but as a character it just didn't feel properly set up. I think Wright definitely wanted to sort of subvert audience expectations by setting up Jamie Foxx and Kevin Spacey as potential final villains then making it Hamm instead, but there just doesn't seem to be much substance to that decision outside of "audiences won't expect it!" There was an element of Hamm as a foil to Baby as a leftover half of a lovestruck Bonnie and Clyde duo, but that just didn't compensate for the lack of setup to make Hamm the insane Rasputinian villain he became. Also, there were some great scenes between him and Foxx setting up conflict that just never got resolved.

>>85160833
Scott Pilgrim was pretty good character wise. But I agree with OP, the characters in this were incredibly shallow given the standard wright has set

>>85160833
this
>>85160892
also on point

my favorite part of edgar wrights films is the editing.

>>85161015
It's what I love about Wright. You can tell the guy really storyboards the shit out of everything before he shoots it, which is always a tonic in modern action films where most movies just get coverage from a bunch of arbitrary angles and smash it together to hide the pulled punches and continuity errors. But especially in Baby Driver, he kind of does the same thing with the sound design. The action and music are synced up perfectly, of course, and it even extends to the way he will include the interruptions in those songs. As much as I complain about the climax of the movie, the way they incorporated Brighton Rock was terrific and added to how great it was as an isolated set piece, if not necessarily a culmination of character conflicts. Also love the way they sort of used Baby's tinnitus as a "score" by laying dissonant strings over slightly muffled music during particularly tense scenes.