'Out Of Gas'
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In Bourne-related news, Matty D movies apparently make the most per dollar of his salary
In a little less than a year, Damon has done the Ocean's movie, Bourne, The Departed, and the Good Shepherd. That is quite a run-- he seems good at selecting good projects, unlike a certain Ben Affleck I could name.
It made me miss a lot of places--many of them to which I've never been. But that's the most of what stayed with me.
Hey! Ben's got his best project yet--Violet. The husband/father downtime has rehabbed him dramatically.
It made me miss a lot of places--many of them to which I've never been.
Before the movie started I told my DH to keep an eye out for places we might like to vacation.
And Ben's been directing, so if that movie's any good, he could be all the way back, in a totally different format.
he seems good at selecting good projects
This is to make up for his karma at selecting some gargantuan number of financial failures (of otherwise-promising projects) in the past. Dude did Ripley, All the Pretty Horses, and The Magical Negro Golfing Movie right in a row, and I think none of them made much money. During that period, Affleck was making shitty but profitable action pictures.
And that's not even counting the period when Affleck was making shoestring indie successes, while Damon kept having his big break in major movies that nobody ever saw.
This is all seven years ago, though, and choosing projects by Minghella, Robert Redford and Bill Bob Thornton were not bad choices. In the last ten years I'm hard-pressed to see more than 4 good movies that Affleck has participated in. Damon had 4 that have been released in the last ten months.
I'm with bon about the lacking in Ultimatum. I have the Bourne Identity in the player as we speak...it has so much more heart...so many more engaging characters...not to mention roughly 8 times as much dialog.
Clive Owen just spoke a line that Matt speaks in Ultimatum: Look at what they make us give . Which actually just elevated the latter a couple of points in mind...but just.
Shakespeare in Love, Dogma...
Okay, it starts getting iffy. We could put in The Sum of All Fears. I liked that. And wasn't he supposed to be good in Hollywoodland ?
Matt Damon has a higher percentage of good movies on his list, though he also has Eurotrip and Stuck on You.
Shakespeare in Love, Dogma, Boiler Room, Good Will Hunting OR Chasing Amy, but not both. Those are the four. Sum of All Fears was terrible.
Eurotrip counts as a good movie actually, because Damon's cameo in it is great.