Hey! Ben's got his best project yet--Violet. The husband/father downtime has rehabbed him dramatically.
Jayne (Husband): Oh, I think you might wanna reconsider that last part. See, I married me a powerful ugly creature. Mal (Wife): How can you say that? How can you shame me in front of new people? Jayne (Husband): If I could make you purtier, I would. Mal (Wife): You are not the man I met a year ago.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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§ ita § - Aug 06, 2007 11:48:55 am PDT #692 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sparky1 - Aug 06, 2007 11:49:57 am PDT #693 of 10000
Librarian Warlord
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.
Jesse - Aug 06, 2007 11:50:27 am PDT #694 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
And Ben's been directing, so if that movie's any good, he could be all the way back, in a totally different format.
Nutty - Aug 06, 2007 11:54:05 am PDT #695 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
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.
bon bon - Aug 06, 2007 12:05:03 pm PDT #696 of 10000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
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.
beekaytee - Aug 06, 2007 12:08:48 pm PDT #697 of 10000
Compassionately intolerant
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.
Polter-Cow - Aug 06, 2007 12:10:43 pm PDT #698 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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.
bon bon - Aug 06, 2007 12:14:14 pm PDT #699 of 10000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
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.
Sean K - Aug 06, 2007 12:36:47 pm PDT #700 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Sum of All Fears was terrible.
Sum of All Fears is best watched on DVD with the commentary track where the director (a big lefty) and his good friend Tom Clancy (raging whackaloon) talk about the movie as it's happening. It's much more entertaining that way.
Scrappy - Aug 06, 2007 1:43:06 pm PDT #701 of 10000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I LIKED Stuck on You. Mind, I'm not saying it's a good movie.