How Do We Feel About Matt Damon?

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

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.

― would like a calmer set (Eazy), Tuesday, December 28, 2010 10:59 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah, well, plus Affleck just isn't very talented as an actor. selectiveness aside I think his looks and talent carried him about as far as they could.

my fav Damon-in-a-smith movie moment is him ad-libbing the lyrics to "Run's House" in Dogma

i have no idea what that pic is

afflect directed gone baby gone so pretty much wins that

i am sort of proud of affleck for realizing he is a mediocre actor and deciding to become a better-than-mediocre director

i'm not sure that was his rationale but assuming it was, has anyone else taken that route?

mindy kaling and brenda withers wrote a play called "matt and ben"

it's basically how mindy broke thru

/insider ish

i'm not sure that was his rationale but assuming it was, has anyone else taken that route?

Clint Eastwood.

yeah i mean, I'm sure he gave himself the lead in The Town because he thought it'd be good for his career as an actor, plus he's in the next Malick movie so I bet he thinks he can rehabilitate himself as an actor by being in more interesting shit

thanks for filling me in gbx!

Clint Eastwood.

― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 04:24 (8 seconds ago)

alright actor to often dreadful director is probably a more common trajectory

u got to stop with the challops son, as ilx wunderkind it's a phase you'd be best served skipping imo

While watching Affleck do pull-ups in The Town I realized I still have a weird crush on him.

Anyway, ENBB: the Run's House scene is my hands-down favorite moment from Dogma, and that's saying alot bc I LOVE that movie. His little stutter dance step at the end is LOL and awesome.

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

ooh wait extended clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhb8wC4Kqxw

i love matt damon

wait does mindy have six fingers???

― kanellos (gbx), Tuesday, December 28, 2010 11:10 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
you of all people would know

― max, Tuesday, December 28, 2010 11:12 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
she always wore mittens

― kanellos (gbx), Tuesday, December 28, 2010 11:15 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wait can we have a thread derail where evan tells us mindy factoids? or is that too creepy/

it's a source of great sadness to me that i never got to see "matt and ben"

and introduce myself to mindy kaling afterwards and become her bff

kind of off-topic i guess.

matt damon also got cuter over time imo.

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