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.

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.

I LIKED Stuck on You. Mind, I'm not saying it's a good movie.

Sum of All Fears was pretty bad, but they were definitely looking to reset the Jack Ryan series like they did later on for Bond. The studio picked up the rights for Red Rabbit, the Ryan prequel book, but SoAF did so poorly that they apparently decided not to stick with the Affleck.

Damon in Eurotrip was awesome. Worth watching the movie for, as was seeing that, shockingly KK has potential as an actress.

I LIKED Stuck on You. Mind, I'm not saying it's a good movie.

Yeah! What TAFKAS said!

I'm finally watching Matt on the Daily Show, and the clip reminded me of just how awesome the beginning with the reporter was.

In short, awesome.