DualReaver
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Looks cool but ugh they could not have picked a more lame car.
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Baby Driver (August, Directed by Edgar Wright)
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starchild excalibur
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I'm not even a car guy, but I'm assuming you're in the minority when it comes to this particular opinion.
I think people confused on the "musical aspect" need to watch this scene again. That's the concept. Hitting to the beat, when the song says "reload" Ed goes for the gun, the lights flipping, the "woah woah explode" with the fire extinguisher.
Like how in Scott Pilgrim he uses editing and transitions as a weapon for comedy. Editing as an overt action that everyone can see and that punctuates every character action from scene to scene. I imagine he's going to do that, but this time with music.
Vanillalite
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I actually think I liked the regular trailer better than the international.
*Shrugs*
*Shrugs*
Discotheque
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The scene showing all the heist goons was very slick in the US trailer and I love the Michael Meyers/Mike Meyers joke. I think both are good but the international one has much more energy to it. Sells the editing and the way the action scenes are gonna be too.
GARlockSpiral
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Can someone tell me if Brad Allan is working on this? He's the stunt coordinator behind Scott Pilgrim and The World's End, and an action focused movie like this really begs for him to be back on this movie.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Jon Hamm's haircut and stubble in this make him look like such a dirtbag.
wesleyshark
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This looks like a proper blast
Boosh is a show that definitely did not need another season. They barely had enough ideas for season 2. Season 3 was awful. I adore season 1 and the radio show, even the live show, but I don't think we need more of it.
Glass Shark
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hey remember when Marvel wouldn't let Edgar Wright direct a movie for them
dumb fucks
dumb fucks
Nappuccino
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I'm guessing they were happy his finger prints were still there, but man does Ant-man lack Wright's nuance and finesse.
badcrumble
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the peyton reed defense force in threads about it was basically the saddest thing
George Oscar Bluth II
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I can't imagine how people who were following that film from its early stages must've felt when he left.
Ant-Man is fine, but it's missing something without Wright's distinctive visual style and a singular story.
It's a shame it didn't work out. I was saddened because Wright and Ant-Man seemed like the perfect match.
It's been four years since The World's End and the wait until Baby Driver's August release is going to be rough.
I love Wright's work and felt Reed did an admirable job given the constraints he had to work within and the negative reaction after Wright's departure.
It's ultimately Marvel who had the final call on Ant-Man. Reed came in after the two had parted ways and had the thankless job of reworking the project.
I don't blame him.
blame space
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I'd watch that. is there a tracklist floating around
Hey remember when Edgar Wright was working on it for ten years and couldn't even get it to the starting line?
Marvel was more than lenient considering every other low budget movie director has had no problem getting a movie finished in their system on time.
I'm looking forward to Baby Driver, but cautiously. Scott Pilgrim and The World's End weren't great (If we have to bring up Marvel, I think Ant-Man was better than either.) and the absence of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost aren't helping things.
Nappuccino
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He had a ton of fight-scenes choreographed and in pre-vis. Ant-man was about to happen, but Marvel wanted him to change things, be more integrated with the MCU, in ways that were detrimental to the movie.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Reed did a great job in the time he had after the whole catastrophe with Wright and Marvel.
i hope u hate baby driver
I know two of the songs based on Twitter reactions, which I'll put behind a spoiler tag:
"Bellbottoms" by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
"Radar Love" by Golden Earring
"Radar Love" by Golden Earring
This is only a fraction of the songs, though. I believe the final soundtrack will have
over 30 songs on it
He cobbled together a watchable flick. Make of that what you will.
Discotheque
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Yeah I suppose you're right. Just listening to those radio shows again on my commutes recently and fuck they were hilarious
Also putting any mcu movie over a wright film is hella wrong imo, let alone one of the mediocre ones like ant man
Admiral Woofington
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As an owner of a subaru, oh baby I'm in
It's better than Thor 2: The Dark World, GAF's favorite barometer for measuring a film's mediocrity.
fallengorn
Bitches love smiley faces
When Baby steps on those tables in time to Radar Love...
Definitely hyped for this one.
Definitely hyped for this one.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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I bet this movie will make me trade in my Crosstrek for Impreza.
It's clear Edgar Wright's 2003 music video for "Blue Song" by Mint Royale was the "prototype" for Baby Driver.
Give it a watch.
Give it a watch.
Discotheque
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When Baby steps on those tables in time to Radar Love...
Definitely hyped for this one.
In the Q&A after the film one of the actresses said that even dialogue during some scenes was timed to the music, he spent a long time planning it all out to fit.
SolidChamp
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Yep. That throwaway scene with Falcon was painful due to how out of place it felt.
phazedplasma
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Lol yep
supernormal
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What bothers me the most is the color grading. It has a very low budget look/ indie look. Idk, just not a fan.
Bobby Roberts
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How do you know it's even color graded?
I'm not saying it's not, but if they're going so far as to maintain the "purity" of the car chases by refusing to use CGI, is it really so out of bounds that the imagery was specifically lit to look like that?
Wew..totally in,that's why i love edgar wright his directing and editing to a movie is sublime.
Also a great video How to do visual comedy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FOzD4Sfgag
supernormal
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It's graded..and the look is by all means intentional. It's just very different from other typical Hollywood films which would probably be a bit less saturated, have more black crush, and bit more contrast. This instead has more in common with what you'd see in a music video.
Either way it's just a matter of preference.
Bobby Roberts
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i flew to london to see the world's end like one month before the US release
Messofanego
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I don't think he is, but his talents aren't called for here as much since this isn't about melee fights.
Baby Driver got the same stunt coordinator of Drive John Wick, though. Darrin Prescott.
peanutbutterlatte
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He could have directed Spider-Man
I mean Homecoming looks decent, but imagine a Spider-Man with the humour of Hot Fuzz and the choreography of Scott Pilgrim
(SuperStiltzkin
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God, Ant Man was so boring and formulaic. I don't really get what they were so afraid of after Guardians of the Galaxy was a huge hit for them. Let the man stray from formula dammit.
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