How Do We Feel About Matt Damon?

you guys should read highsmith she rules!

i don't really like talented mr. ripley but maybe it's good as a movie apart from its failure to capture the novel

at the time i thought damon was pretty bad in it

yeah horseshoe otm those books are great and creepy, there are not enough novels about sociopaths these days imo

Not really: Ripley doesn't make sense as a character. But I liked the supporting cast though.

xp to horseshoe

i liked tmr, i will say this about gwenyth too, she is a babe

i remember gwyneth and jude law a lot more than i remember damon's performance from that movie

cate blanchett is a babe

gwyn, she's ok

i will say, blanchett and law in that movie make paltrow and damon look very normal persony. paltrow is so pretty in general though; she looks kind of whatever in that movie, maybe that's part of why i didn't like it.

On the other hand TMR was pretty bold about its homosexual subject matter, and I remember the audience uncomfortably rustling when Damon asks Law if he can join him in the tub.

but these days jude law looks like ass and matt damon is v cuet, so

looks a bit beefy to me but im not the target market i guess

poor jude and his hairline

Jude Law went through that period when he made Gattaca, Wilde, and TNR that made him look dangerous and sexy; then he fucked his kid's nanny and became human.

TNR = TMR

Jude Law went through that period when he made Gattaca, Wilde, and TNR that made him look dangerous and sexy; then he fucked his kid's nanny and became human.

― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, December 29, 2010 12:54 PM (14 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha i was afraid of sounding predictably self-righteous but i do kind of feel jude law's soul caught up to his face or something

TMR is a good movie and one of damon's best roles. not read highsmith but it's in the same class as the other highsmith adaptations i've seen, wenders's and hitchcock's.

― moholy-nagl (history mayne), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 17:43 (21 minutes ago)

amerikanische freund is nice but strangers on a train does unseemly things to it

not seen tmr but tbrr don't imagine i'd share yr <3

i do kind of feel jude law's soul caught up to his face

goddammit, what a hit

that's some reverse Dorian Grey shit.

gonna write a character for jude law valled yerg nairod and see if he spots it

I am not averse to Matt Damon, although I suspect that, like so many movie stars, his success is as much based on an intangible charisma as on acting ability. That's ok by me, since I am just as much smitten by charisma as the next guy, and this has been true of movie stars since the silent era.

I must say I am a bit surprised at all the love shown here, after reading so many ilxors slag off on Good Will Hunting, consistently and in multiple threads, as if it were one of the greatest abominations ever foisted on an innocent public. Clearly, he has redeemed himself.

so many years, so many floppy bangs ago.

fell like affleck is prob ahead of him on both banging and flops tbh

feel like damon is some sort of avatar for millennial wholesomeness, i like him btw

talented mr ripley is p great in its own way too

maybe i should watch it again

its kinda boring tho

tmr and gwh are both movies that i think i rate more highly in retrospect b/c damon has emerged as a bro to be reckoned w/

a bro to be reckoned w/

^^^ his authorized biography title.

its kinda boring tho

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, December 29, 2010 1:31 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

that's how i remember it

good will hunting is terrible sorry but it's true

feel like damon is some sort of avatar for millennial wholesomeness, i like him btw

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, December 29, 2010 6:29 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

'also for blankness: in both 'mr ripley' and 'the bourne supremacy' he plays a man without a fixed identity' - an entry-level journalist in 2002

and The Good Shepard

good will hunting is terrible sorry but it's true

― horseshoe, Wednesday, December 29, 2010 1:34 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i hate to say this b/c i admire ur integrity but you have too high standards for movies, remember when you were hating on definitely maybe

i am just a crank on ilx lately; i'm like shakey mo on novels, but with movies. sorry guys.

sorry, max, but horseshoe has plenty more competition in our ILX Film Snob crew.

we'll always have the devil wears prada, max

xp i know i am in some middlebrow purgatory

we still <3 u, horseshoe, you adorable curmudgeon

ive given up on the ilx film snob crew al, a long time ago, i still had hope for horseshoe, but now its just me, standing athwart history, sticking up for underdogs like definitely maybe and good will hunting

sometime during college i stopped having standards, i think 'relativism' happened to me, now i just consume and try not examine my pleasure responses, i recommend it for everyone

you liberal

goodwill hunting is terrible except the part w/HOW U LIKE THEM APPLES and MY FRIEND IS WICKED SMAHT

also casey affleck is pretty hilar

and remember max, no films you have to read.

TMR is classic 'well-intentioned' liberal homophobia, and Jude Law is great in it, but I'm sure this is on an Untalented Mr Minghella thread somewhere.

yes, "my friend is wicked smaht" makes me laugh

sometime during college i stopped having standards, i think 'relativism' happened to me, now i just consume and try not examine my pleasure responses, i recommend it for everyone

― max, Wednesday, December 29, 2010 12:43 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

haha. i do this but just bend over backwards to create excuses / justifications

casey is secretly better than either damon or affleck

probably!

how can i feel matt damon?

and will age the best

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