dan8073
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I truly don't understand the praise surrounding Baby Driver. While it may look stylish on the surface, a closer look reveals just how flimsy this film really is. The acting is flat across the board-characters come off more like caricatures than actual people, delivering lines with little emotion or believability. Even with a solid cast on paper, no one feels genuinely invested in their roles.
The story is where things really fall apart. It's riddled with massive plot holes that the writers try to patch with forced dialogue and unrealistic leaps in logic. Characters make sudden decisions that no rational person would make, simply to keep the plot moving. It's lazy storytelling disguised as cleverness.
The main character's backstory is weak and unconvincing. We're expected to buy into his motivations with minimal explanation, and his relationships-especially the romantic one-feel rushed and unearned. By the time the film reaches its ending, you're left wondering why any of it happened the way it did. The finale tries to be poignant, but instead feels hollow and nonsensical.
I honestly don't know why this movie has such a strong following. In my opinion, it's one of the worst films I've sat through in years. Style without substance, logic without reason, and characters without depth-Baby Driver is all flash, no soul.
The story is where things really fall apart. It's riddled with massive plot holes that the writers try to patch with forced dialogue and unrealistic leaps in logic. Characters make sudden decisions that no rational person would make, simply to keep the plot moving. It's lazy storytelling disguised as cleverness.
The main character's backstory is weak and unconvincing. We're expected to buy into his motivations with minimal explanation, and his relationships-especially the romantic one-feel rushed and unearned. By the time the film reaches its ending, you're left wondering why any of it happened the way it did. The finale tries to be poignant, but instead feels hollow and nonsensical.
I honestly don't know why this movie has such a strong following. In my opinion, it's one of the worst films I've sat through in years. Style without substance, logic without reason, and characters without depth-Baby Driver is all flash, no soul.
I was hoping this documentary would have been a little more in depth to the actual story instead of the biased journalism that we're all used to these days. This documentary leaves out a LOT of important details about the final outcome/verdict. This documentary leads you to believe that it was an open and shut case. Good guy vs bad guy and the good guy wins. It also leads you to believe the "good guys" are the cops, Fbi, & the bad guy being Ross & Silk Road!
In my opinion they should've had Martin Scorsese direct this. Then this sick excuse for a documentary would have had the proper ending, where it completely ends in the opposite direction that the movie lead you to believe. Like the important details that make the story protagonist and antagonist switch. First off there was def more than just Ross playing the Roll of dread pirate Roberts, there were several people typing under that alias on the site. Secondly how the government obtained the IP address illegally from Iceland... it also leaves out the point that the defense team never got a fair trial and all of their evidence (which if our court system wasn't so corrupt and dirty would have been enough to by law over turn the conviction) was dismissed and they were unable to have a proper closing argument. They try to paint an image in your head that the reason the Silk Road was bad was because "drugs are bad mmkkayy". Buuuuuuut we all know the truth. The silk road was intended for a good cause... But that good cause would negatively impact our government. Think about it... The silk road was a way for drug dealers to sell their product without conducting meetings at night in dark alleys, or face-to-face interactions. It would simply be delivered in broad daylight by a mail carrier. All while the buyer is in the safety of his/her own home. It would cut back on murders From drug deals going wrong. The dealer would want to sell only the best product because there would be reviews and competition. Just like anything else if they had bad reviews they wouldn't be able to sell anything. If they were only selling top of the line clean drugs then there wouldn't be as many overdoses because of all the crap that gets mixed in. Let's be honest... drugs have had and always have found their way... the Silk Road was just a safer, more private way of doing it. So why not make it legal?!?! Well that question is why the COPS, Fbi, and gov't are really the bad guys... because if it was legal, our government would be broke. Think about it... The DEA, the FBI, most of the police force, the judges, the magistrate, the public defenders, the jail system, prison, prison guards none of that would be needed. Think about all the money involved.
In my opinion they should've had Martin Scorsese direct this. Then this sick excuse for a documentary would have had the proper ending, where it completely ends in the opposite direction that the movie lead you to believe. Like the important details that make the story protagonist and antagonist switch. First off there was def more than just Ross playing the Roll of dread pirate Roberts, there were several people typing under that alias on the site. Secondly how the government obtained the IP address illegally from Iceland... it also leaves out the point that the defense team never got a fair trial and all of their evidence (which if our court system wasn't so corrupt and dirty would have been enough to by law over turn the conviction) was dismissed and they were unable to have a proper closing argument. They try to paint an image in your head that the reason the Silk Road was bad was because "drugs are bad mmkkayy". Buuuuuuut we all know the truth. The silk road was intended for a good cause... But that good cause would negatively impact our government. Think about it... The silk road was a way for drug dealers to sell their product without conducting meetings at night in dark alleys, or face-to-face interactions. It would simply be delivered in broad daylight by a mail carrier. All while the buyer is in the safety of his/her own home. It would cut back on murders From drug deals going wrong. The dealer would want to sell only the best product because there would be reviews and competition. Just like anything else if they had bad reviews they wouldn't be able to sell anything. If they were only selling top of the line clean drugs then there wouldn't be as many overdoses because of all the crap that gets mixed in. Let's be honest... drugs have had and always have found their way... the Silk Road was just a safer, more private way of doing it. So why not make it legal?!?! Well that question is why the COPS, Fbi, and gov't are really the bad guys... because if it was legal, our government would be broke. Think about it... The DEA, the FBI, most of the police force, the judges, the magistrate, the public defenders, the jail system, prison, prison guards none of that would be needed. Think about all the money involved.
The review that I am currently posting is about the "reviews" not the actual movie.
Somehow this movie came across my computer screen and caught my eye. Before I went and wasted 2 1/2 hours of my life, I decided to check out IMDB to see what the movie was even about. As always I take a min to read a review or 2. Since there are a total of only 4 or 5 I went ahead and read them all. I just want the dudes that made this movie to know.... you aren't fooling anyone. The real reviews are obviously the low rated ones and the 2 that received 10/10 are obviously the film creators. I just hope you didn't actually think people believed they were from anyone other than someone involved in the project.
I am leaving a neutral rating because I don't want to rate it high and trick someone into wasting 2.5 hours of their life. At the same time I think it's unfair to leave you with a 1 Star because I didn't actually watch the film. The second reason leaving a negative review is not an option is because I want you to know I appreciate you taking your free time, and money and putting it into a project that you thought would bring other people joy. Selfless and you deserve credit for trying!!! Thanks!
Somehow this movie came across my computer screen and caught my eye. Before I went and wasted 2 1/2 hours of my life, I decided to check out IMDB to see what the movie was even about. As always I take a min to read a review or 2. Since there are a total of only 4 or 5 I went ahead and read them all. I just want the dudes that made this movie to know.... you aren't fooling anyone. The real reviews are obviously the low rated ones and the 2 that received 10/10 are obviously the film creators. I just hope you didn't actually think people believed they were from anyone other than someone involved in the project.
I am leaving a neutral rating because I don't want to rate it high and trick someone into wasting 2.5 hours of their life. At the same time I think it's unfair to leave you with a 1 Star because I didn't actually watch the film. The second reason leaving a negative review is not an option is because I want you to know I appreciate you taking your free time, and money and putting it into a project that you thought would bring other people joy. Selfless and you deserve credit for trying!!! Thanks!