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Ep 0.5 - Happy July 4th: Baby Driver and the Most American Movies of All Time

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4.4942 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2017

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to /Film Daily for July 4th 2017. On today’s show: Peter talks briefly about seeing Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver. In Our Feature Presentation, the /Film staff shares their most American movies of all time. Included in the round-up is Ethan Anderton, Hoai-Tran Bui, David Chen, Jack Giroux, Jacob Hall, Ben Pearson and Peter Sciretta.  You can find all that and more at slashfilm.com. You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes, Google Play, Overcast and all the popular podcast apps (rss). /Film Daily is published every weekday and includes the analysis of the most interesting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm.com. We’re still very much experimenting with this podcast, please feel free to send your feedback to us at peter@slashfilm.com. Thanks to Sam Hume for our logo. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Welcome to Slash Film Daily for July 4th, 2017. I'm Peter Sorata.

0:05.0

Every day we bring you the most interesting news from the world of movies and television wrap it up with a deeper dive into one of the great features on slash film.

0:12.0

And today it is the nation's birthday.

0:16.6

So it's going to be a shorter episode.

0:18.6

Every week on the site, we do a thing called slash answers,

0:21.4

where the slash film staff gets together and we answer one cinematic

0:24.8

question this week in honor of the nation's birthday.

0:29.0

We are entering the most American movie and we'll get to that on the podcast for the first time in just a bit

0:36.8

but before we get to that I just want to share my quick thoughts on a movie I just saw I got to see

0:41.8

Edgar Wright's baby driver in the theater. It was actually on

0:45.0

Sunday night and it was packed for an LA crowd at the Grove. It was good to

0:50.8

see so many people showing up for a movie that isn't a big blockbuster.

0:56.1

I really liked the movie.

0:57.5

I'm not sure where it falls for me in a great filmography.

1:01.0

I really love the choreography of the cinematography in the music align itself

1:08.4

especially in those first two sequences masterful ending was intense.

1:13.0

The movie feels like Edgar Wright saw the opening sequence of drive and, you know, got inspired to make a whole movie that could top that and he does.

1:22.0

Seeing the movie and seeing Ansel L. Lert in the lead role makes me wish he was cast as Han Solo.

1:29.0

So I highly recommend if you haven't seen the film yet to go to the theater buy a ticket

1:33.2

to Edgar Wright's baby driver you will not be disappointed. So let's get into

1:37.5

this week's slash answer which is what is the most American movie of all time.

1:43.1

There is some political answers.

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