Listened to Life Aquatic soundtrack yesterday and love this one song, but can't search for it to link because my Chrome is becoming unstable. (It's the big action scene on the island.)
Baby Driver - Well well well, looks like ole' BJ isn't quite the grumpy old man we all thought I was just yet. First Wes Anderson and now Edgar Wright, who I also assumed I didn't like (didn't think much of Shaun of the Dead).
It took a while to get me and I was annoyed af with the style in the beginning, but once the story got rolling I was all-in, despite how familiar it all is. Strong tension and "narrative propulsion" as I think Film Crit Hulk would say.
Not gonna lie, I put a little bit of Baby into my step.
The Driver (1978, Walter Hill) - Was about to call this "typical" of its era, but it isn't. There's no good guy.
Bruce Dern is
almost there but doesn't quite pull it off for me in this role, something just slightly off (some may argue that works perfectly). Something about Dern that I don't quite like in general I think. Maybe it's my history with him, having "met" him at a cocktail reception/book signing after Hitchcock's Family Plot like 10 years ago, and his crappy dialogue in Hateful Eight that I have to listen to when I listen to the soundtrack.
Worth a watch? Eh. Want pretty good '70s car chases, sometimes along the lines of the much newer
Drive? Like 48 Hrs. or The Warriors and want to see what else the director has done? Then go for it.
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Originally Posted by Phat Mack
Napping Princess
Every single person has to follow the rules: check.
Two worlds: magic and industrial.
Heh.
Quote:
Motorcycle with sidecar: cool.
Motorcycle with sidecar: Transformer.
Motorcycle with sidecar: Tesla on auto.
Furries, tablets and smartphones: of course.
Bento boxes on bullet trains: check.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: always showing up in anime.
Macy's Parade: saves the day.
Purely: Shoujo.
Great story; great flick. Channel your inner high school girl and...
check it out.
Ok. Unfortunately have a conflict with some rare 35mm horror film the one night it's scheduled on a good screen so far, but we'll see.