If any of you reading here recommended it you should die. Just kidding, the film was recommended to me by a pretty wide swath of people and general reviews, so I’m not blaming anyone. I should have just trusted my instincts, but y’know, sometimes you lose faith in yourself in a little bit and you waver. This was a nice reminder that I know what I like and I can spot what I’m probably not gonna like with fairly good accuracy. It didn’t help of course that by the time we watched it, Adam and I were both pretty convinced it was going to be great. Raised expectations can ruin even a good movie. Not this one since it’s not a good film, but it didn’t help matters.
As for Gone Baby Gone, that was a good movie. I really liked Casey Affleck. I’ve liked him ever since I saw him in Gerry, a film that made many people – including my roommate Kyle that I dragged with me to see it on Valentine’s day years and years ago- want to kill themselves – but I liked it – and I particularly liked Casey Affleck and Matt Damon’s performances in it. Affleck has a nice very real quality about him that appeals to me and even when he’s doing accents the performance is nice and subtle. Gone Baby Gone was a pretty tight film and the direction was surprisingly well handed by Ben Affleck. He’s less distracting behind the camera I have to say, than in front of it. I had a couple minor problems with the end, but overall it was good. I gave it three netflix stars, but I wanted to give it three and a half. Damn you Netflix and your inability to let me use half stars…!
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I *think* I saw that. I remember
it being good, but I can’t remember
a thing about it except that Casey
Aflack was in it. I’m not kidding! -
I’ve never heard of this Casey Aflack. Please tell me more.
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Don’t be a jerk. I’ll ban you from this blog, brother or no.
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This film didn’t look interesting to me. Revenge and vigilantes sound like a cry for help, like “See, it is okay to shoot people that shot other people!” Meh.
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I’ve liked Casey since I saw him in Good Will Hunting (“I had a double burrrgeeeeer”). His somewhat annoying performances in the Oceans trilogy aside, I have enjoyed his career.
I’m looking forward to seeing Gone Baby Gone as well as Jesse James.
Unlike most I am also a HUGE fan of Ben Affleck’s career. Like Hillary Clinton, he is just the victim of the media taking ahold of something and beating it to death until the public is forced to capitulate and agree with them. He is a quality actor and will prove himself again before everything is said and done.
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Paul: yeah, it sucked.
Scott: Casey is good. He has never even bothered me in the Oceans stuff, I think he’s kind of funny in those.
I have Jesse James at home from netflix. Will let you know – it looks good.
Ben Affleck. *Sigh* He is really distracting to me…in a bad way. I think he did a good job (not brilliant but good) behind the camera here, and I think the only thing I’ve really liked him in as an actor is the bit part he played in Shakespeare in Love. He was great in that and it gives me hope that he has something in him still as an actor, but he sure does love to prove me wrong…
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