Episode 73 - Baby Driver

The 2017 film "Baby Driver" takes place in a world of vivid
colors and nonstop music, but all of the feebly-depicted
characters are black and white and the chords the film attempts
to hit end up sounding dissonant. Its director, Edgar Wright,
seems to have lost his knack for comedy and instead resorts to a
bunch of stale criminal lingo that sounds like he learned it by
watching old episodes of "Starsky & Hutch."


Ansel Elgort plays Baby, a car thief with superhuman tinnitus
powers who, as a teenager, inadvertently stole a vehicle loaded
with thousands of dollars in drugs that was owned by an Atlanta
kingpin. As a result, he's forced to become an indentured servant
getaway driver for several years in order to pay for the cost of
the stolen merchandise.


Lily James plays Debora, a singing waitress who works at a diner
that Baby habitually frequents because his dead mother, a former
singing waitress, used to work there. She instantly falls for
Baby upon meeting him while he’s looking at the kids menu. Then,
things continue to get real Oedipal real fast as she takes on a
romantic role in his life as well as a quasi-maternal role.


Kevin Spacey plays Doc, an underworld boss who carefully
organizes major heists in the Atlanta area out of his secret
warehouse lair that’s smack dab in the middle of downtown and is
frequented by so many criminals that there is no way that it
wouldn’t be exposed. He also makes a big point of claiming that
he assembles a different crew for each and every job, but then we
see him recycle the same people almost immediately.


Jon Hamm and Eiza González play Buddy and Darling, a
murderous and passionate pair who engage in high-stakes robbery
to fuel their cocaine habits. It’s hard to determine what’s less
believable, Jon Hamm as a hardened criminal or Eiza González
casually firing two automatic weapons at the same time.


Jamie Foxx plays Bats, a trigger-happy buffoon who kills almost
everyone he meets and is incapable of completing a sentence
without inserting some sort of failed pun or nonsensical remark.


Join us as we discuss Jon Hamm's shady college past, how this
movie instantly aged given Kevin Spacey's creepy dialogue, and
how we blame J.J. Abrams for this overrated film getting
made.  


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