How Do We Feel About Matt Damon?

it's ok -- I can imagine his Hollywood smile and him turning tricks for me.

I can see why he did Green Zone, even though the script was a giant misfire in every way - he wanted to do another movie w/Greengrass that had some of that bourne juice w/o doing another sequel, was a chance to tackle ~important issues of the day~

xp I was gonna say earlier that it would've been great to see him do a FUN Ripley movie.

yeah he's wonderful in TG, tho in retrospect I think he was doing his McConaughey impression the whole time

― ೋ*¨*ೋALWAYz A F4RT3R ♥ 24/7/365ೋ*¨*ೋ (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, December 28, 2010 9:36 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha totally.

xp I was gonna say earlier that it would've been great to see him do a FUN Ripley movie.

like Malkovich

He was perfectly cast in True Grit, his comedy skills showed off pretty well (LOVE that scene where he flashes Mattie his US Marshall badge with that look like UH HUH GET A LOAD OF THIS, so tongue in cheek but playing it totally straight.)

Loved all of the Bourne movies, Good Will Hunting, Mr Ripley, Good Shepherd...really love him in 30 Rock, and his stuff on Entourage was hilarious. I think he's hottest when he's being funny.

Hereafter looked so dire not even Damon could get me to watch that one.

i think this dude is great btw. probably the most consistent hwood star of the 00s in terms of quality of projects. way more staying power than affleck though i admire how both of them have carved out semi-weird little niches for themselves

re ben affleck, i hadn't seen him in anything until the town, and was tryna remember what he looked like the next day but kept thinking of adam sandler

damon i guess is more identifiable than that

like Malkovich

― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, December 28, 2010 9:51 PM (43 seconds ago) Bookmark

haha thats exactly what i was thinking of - Ripley's Game is CRAZY underrated

LOVE that scene where he flashes Mattie his US Marshall badge with that look like UH HUH GET A LOAD OF THIS, so tongue in cheek but playing it totally straight.)

yeah -- I loved this. It's so hard to play a prig without mugging.

the 2000s: most consistent actor/actor with the best choice in projects

nommed damon in this thread

I'm hoping he becomes like Paul Newman in the seventies and eighties: less to prove, so he walks into any old project and blows everyone off screen.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WyfBJte-Jds/S9wQ0Af_qiI/AAAAAAAAAU8/77VDzNL7acM/s1600/invictus.jpg

he was the only good thing about invictus tbh

did n e one watch that

yeah i saw it, not enough rugby

he got an Oscar nod for that one!

http://mimg.ugo.com/201003/39166/cuts/matt-damon-will-smith-bagger-vance_288x288.jpg

the clint eastwood movie looked horrifying

i saw it, rugby was really really bad. damon was better than freeman.

His acting improved when he cut the locks imo

yea i love him but i dont think ill ever see invictus, green zone or hereafter

also the best part of that movie was the black and white security guards becoming friends

one of the white guys looked like fat south african pleasant plains

Of course there's:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd4o_hUXbfs

hes a great talk show guest too. letterman has a huge crush on him.

simmons actually made a good point about Invictus - mandela spent too much time in the foreground, it wasn't the rugby team's story so you couldn't get involved in the actual drama of the game, plus the whole thing was just lame and crappy

sure he's a nice person and all but this thread is just o_O to me

He's not quite as consistent as advertised (he added nothing to Hereafter), but I'll take his acting over Affleck's directing.

There was absolutely no call for him to get that nod for Invictus unless they just wanted to award him for having the biggest pecs he's ever had in his career, but he should definitely get one for True Grit.

simmons actually made a good point about Invictus - mandela spent too much time in the foreground, it wasn't the rugby team's story so you couldn't get involved in the actual drama of the game, plus the whole thing was just lame and crappy

― ೋ*¨*ೋALWAYz A F4RT3R ♥ 24/7/365ೋ*¨*ೋ (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, December 28, 2010 10:04 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah i wanted a sweet inspirational sports movie but it ended up just being morgan freeman showing off

He's not quite as consistent as advertised (he added nothing to Hereafter)

Yeah, this was my point upthread. It's so easy for him to slip into stolid mode.

think he's great and i used to really not. he grew on me. that first bourne was the turning point.

i love when he burns the proof in GWH and hes like LOL THIS IS EASY FOR ME and stellan skarsgard looks like hes gonna cry... always lol at that scene

yeah love that scene. also "how do ya like them apples" was always lol for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuYD2cwMbpw&feature=related

lol

think he's great and i used to really not. he grew on me. that first bourne was the turning point.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, December 28, 2010 9:08 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark

ditto.

<3 <3 <3

it's like the line in The 40 Year Old Virgin ("Y'know, I always thought that Matt Damon was like a Streisand, but he's rocking the shit in this one") was speaking everyone's mind

nobody mentioned The Departed yet cos i mean

he is obv great in that

still prob the fourth best tho, which is why that movie is so amazing

Beyond the roles he picks, he's been very good at balancing being a star and being anonymous, and it benefits his work. See Affleck and Damon as opposites of how to manage an emerging career.

beyond the departed, i like him a lot. good comedy chops, great in bourne action roles, can do likeable or not,

xp choice of roles also important.

up there as one of the top 5 males in 00's i guess

Ben Affleck: Hey look, I'm sorry I dragged you away from whatever-gay-serial-killers-who-ride-horses-and-like-to-play-golf-touchy-feely-picture you're supposed to be doing this week.
Matt Damon: I take it you haven't seen Forces of Nature?
Ben Affleck: You're like a child. What've I been telling you? You gotta do the safe picture. Then you can do the art picture. But then sometimes you gotta do the payback picture because your friend says you owe him.
[They both take a beat and look at the camera]
Ben Affleck: And sometimes, you have to go back to the well.
Matt Damon: And sometimes, you do Reindeer Games.
Ben Affleck: See, that's just mean.

hahaha

lemon face lion face is where the lols are at in that scene imo

which i watched last night tbrr

can i just

http://www.playbill.com/images/photo/m/b/mb.jpg

wait does mindy have six fingers???

you of all people would know

she always wore mittens

guys dont get smittens
for gals who wear mittens

how did you end up in the trailer for return of the planet of the apes.

i mean rise of.

late to the party but that clip is great and that article about him and water made me love him forever maybe?

thats a photo of me dashing off to be in the trailer for rise of the planet of the apes

you certainly look dashing.

http://confederatearticles.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/dandy.jpg

apes, indeed *raises one eyebrow*

like I am a fucking masochist who reads the local education news stories and every comment is like WELL IF THESE PARENTS WOULD JUST DO THEIR JOB or IF THESE LAZY TEACHERS blah blah it's like, is there an area of policy which so many ppl believe there is only one easily identified problem and it's out of sheer malicious negligence that it doesn't get fixed?
― davon cuul II (m bison), Wednesday, August 3, 2011 8:48 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

i thought tea party folks and libertarians take this approach to EVERY issue

btw hawaii doesn't link school funding to local property taxes IIRC.

pretty boy HAS to play Whitey Bulger

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2011/10/ben-affleck-matt-damon-bring-whitey-bulger-to-the-big-screen/

Both look great in that photo, I must say.

Matt Damon likes Boise and teachers so of course I have to like him!

Watched Ford v. Ferrari - his face now looks like it was carved out of ham.

This is worse than the fucking car commercials pic.twitter.com/u53fjVPbw7

— Edward Ongweso Jr (@bigblackjacobin) January 3, 2022

Isn’t Damon supposed to be an environmentalist?

Matt wisely chose to receive his compensation in non-crypto currency, therefore minimizing the environmental impact of his making that ad.

pic.twitter.com/kuYvznq0AK

— Poorly Aged Things (@PoorlyAgedStuff) January 19, 2022

Crypto.com, which froze withdrawals yesterday, announced that someone hacked the platform for $15 million in ether (4,600 ETH).

This money is now being laundered through Ethereum mixer Tornado Cash in batches of 1,000 ETH

lol!

He was very good in “Air”.

I re-watched Elysium two nights ago having not seen it since it was new. Angry, ripped working-class goon Damon in a really gritty (like, you can almost smell it) sci-fi story of class warfare. The ending falls apart, but he's good throughout and Jodie Foster is a very good villain.

https://imgur.com/gallery/dVFsroE