Anyway, one of the movies was Ben Affleck's The Town. Everyone has been all about it, so I decided to give it a shot. Gone Baby Gone was surprisingly decent and I figured that it isn't like Ben Affleck is stretching much for this movie. Boston? Check. Crime? Check. Underrated brunette to play the female lead? Done.
Casey Affleck? Ok, well that's missing, but totally understandable. I mean I'm all for nepotism, but having your kid brother consecutively star in two of your movies is a little much. Part of the awesomeness of GBG was the solid star power and excellent character acting. Ed Harris as the crooked cop? Morgan Freeman as the wizened, old, head of police who fell from grace? There's not much room for failure in there.
Ben Affleck threw everything he had at his directorial debut to ensure that it wasn't Pearl Harbor: Part Deux. And he succeeded. It's obvious that with The Town, he was trying to prove that he could, you know, actually "direct". So he takes away the blue chip actors and throws together some raw, underrated, gritty talent. Like Jeremy Renner. And Blake Lively. Wait what?
Yeah, I know. Turns out she also has something to prove. To which I say to her: We all saw the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Blake. It's going to take more than one legit movie to come back from a shitty weave (shweave) and your inexplicably awkward running style.
The conclusion? I'm really glad Ben Affleck didn't marry JLo. Because instead of directing decent movies, he would be too busy devoting all his time to looking ridiculous. And evading his taxes.
2 comments:
okay, so lets talk about some things that have been on my mind about your post:
1. THERE'S TACO BELL IN JAPAN?!? EFFING AWESOME!
2. i have not seen the town because it seemed like gbg (diff cast, diff storyline, but still...the same...), but it sounds dec after you described it.
3. freaking blake lively, or as gfy calls her, "boobs legsly" cus for serious that's all she's good for. and WHY did she run so weird in sotp?
sidenote--how did that pair of pants fit all those girls? there is no pair of pants that can fit both america fierra and boobs legsly. anywhere.
1. Taco Bell was on base so not technically in Japan.
2. You're right. It is a little like GBG part 2. Still good though.
3. Boobs Legsly. Loves it. I adore GFY.
4. On the pants: they were MAGICAL, obvs.
<3 you
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