How Do We Feel About Matt Damon?

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.

Where's the wit and wisdom of Armond White?

i was talking to friends abt True Grit and then about how much i like matt damon and apparently this was news to them! like i was all out of character for me! or maybe just out of character for me to actually care abt a celeb. but dudes this guy was freakin Jason Bourne AND is also hilarious. i think he has the best smile in hollywood.

ok now i will read this thread

rrrobyn otm. Matt Damon, best smile in Hollywood. More than a smile. It's like a drop-your-pants-high-beam-of-awesome.

Sorry. The Krush Groove thing got me all carried away.

i was lying about the mittens

but i did see matt and ben. my friend and i threw roses. no one else did.

aw! also jealous

I don't see Damon playing great sociopaths, as he was a black hole at the center of the utterly misguided Talented Mr Ripley.

Anyway, True Grit is the first time I've liked him in eons, tho I tend to skip anything where he's the lead (Bournes, Green Zone etc).

his best comedic roles (The Informant, 30 Rock, Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back, even the Ocean's movies really, etc.)

You left out the only one I like, Stuck on You.

morbs and i agree

not about the only part, but that it's a funny movie

probably the most consistent hwood star of the 00s in terms of quality of projects

jeezus, like what? I think it was the combo of Good Shepherd and Informant that resolved me never to see a 'Matt Damon picture' again.

tho I saw Inside Job today, so I guess I paid to see a Matt Damon souped-up PowerPoint presentation.

thought you saw movies for free

You Left Out The Only One I Like

Potential collected-works title.

they didnt send me that one, nor did I get to an awards screening. xp

but to answer the thread question, I'd fuck him.

oh i forgot abt Inside Job! also lol porn title.
tho tbh he's not so much a WS to me as a would hang out and talk abt the world with (and bask in the sunlight of his smile obv)

I admire him for taking the narrating job for a film that points out what a phony our prez is, which means the sucking-Obama's-dick limo lib crowd might be pissed at him for awhile.

even his dick has a limo

I think I've established my position on the WS Matt Damon question pretty clearly ITT but in case there's any doubt: I'm definitely for it.

Oh and Stuck On You is great. I forgot that one.

lol suck on u