DAMON v WAHLBERG

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vs.

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OMG Jho you suck this is a very difficult question for me. I don't want to have to choose!

Well I'm not sure who Mark's bff is except that it's not Ben Affleck.

"are you a cwawp?!" cracks me up every time

I saw a friend the other night who was recently working on the Wahlberg/Bale movie "The Fighter" which just wrapped filming and he said that MW is v short but also exceptionally nice and awesome. :D

damon is better and has been in better movies but it doesn't matter

whew I have six days to think this one over - good

its tough i know im grappling w/it myself

this poll is mindlowwing

blowing

"damon is better and has been in better movies but it doesn't matter"

No way on one and probably not true on two either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w-XPMoPuRg

basically comes down to Boogie Nights vs. The Incredible Mr. Ripley, the rest of each actor's ouevre either being mildly enjoyable trash or distinctly unenjoyable trash.

Kinda wanna go with Wahlberg

Boogie Nights was distinctly unenjoyable trash imo

Hey, goat. It's good to see you. I like your beard. I had a beard like that in The Perfect Storm. Did you see that movie? [goat stares ahead oblivious] Did ya, did ya see The Perfect Storm, goat? [goat still stares ahead blankly] Say hi to your mother for me, okay?

See I haven't even started thinking about thier actual talent or whatever. I was focusing on who I'd rather hang out with.

ok lets break this down moviewise

DAMON
bournes
departed
talented mr ripley
informant
syriana
gerry

WAHLBERG
boogie nights
departed
i heart huckabees
three kings

I wouldn't want to hang out with either of these guys, actors are jerks

lol incredible mr ripely - settle down buddy

say hello to your mother for me

School Ties vs. Basketball Diaries

Wahlberg's the better actor, still hasn't shown us his limitations, and is still kinda hot. Damon's a limited actor who's made a few good action pictures and whose face is starting to resemble poached salmon.

Marky wins.

Well I'm not sure who Mark's bff is except that it's not Ben Affleck.

― Percy Slight (wanko ergo sum), Thursday, 24 September 2009 21:42 (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

Some form of

http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2006/sioncampus/07/20/turtle/t1_turtle.jpg

Surely? (not him but some sort of shelled animal.)

italian job, don't forget that one

The Big Hit!

gotta respect wahlberg for rising like a phoenix from the ashes of marky mark.

such a unrealistic career path, and yet...

magic third nipple

The Big Hit!

lolz thought I was the only person that saw this

oh man this is tough

xp no way every HK action fan was way into it.

While I'm leaning towards Wahlberg I feel like I'm going to wind up voting Damon if only to try to balance out some of the hate!

I'm actually pretty neutral about Damon. I just happen to really like Wahlberg.

tempted to vote Wahlberg solely for this line:

I'm the guy who does his job. You must be the other guy.

in general i think damon has made better movies and i gotta applaud the guy for choosing good roles and escaping the celebrity trap that affleck fell into

otoh wahlberg is also great and should sit on my faaaaace

I'm the guy who does his job. You must be the other guy.

yesssssssssssss

from wahlberg imdb:

# The Other Guys (2010) (filming)

"in general i think damon has made better movies"

But he's usually not the best thing about these movies (and often he's either actually detrimental to their success or completely unremarkable.)

^^ yep.

I can't decide if I should give him credit for basically non-acting in the Bourne movies or not.

http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Entertainment/images-2/marky-mark.jpg

feel it feel it

haaaaah

Soundtrack:

* 2000s
* 1990s

1. "30 Rock" (1 episode, 2008)
- Do-Over (2008) TV episode (performer: "Good Vibrations")
2. Blades of Glory (2007) (writer: "Good Vibrations") (performer: "Good Vibrations")
3. Rock Star (2001) (writer: "Good Vibrations")

4. Analyze This (1999) (writer: "Good Vibrations") (performer: "Good Vibrations")
5. Southie (1998) (writer: "Super Cool Mack Daddy") (performer: "Super Cool Mack Daddy")
6. The Big Hit (1998) (writer: "Don't Sleep") (performer: "Don't Sleep")
7. Boogie Nights (1997) (performer: "The Touch" (1986), "Feel the Heat" (1997))
8. Fear (1996) (writer: "The Illist", "Irie Vibe") (performer: "The Illist")
... aka No Fear
9. Renaissance Man (1994) (performer: "LIFE IN THE STREETS", "IN LOVE", "UNITED")
... aka Army Intelligence
... aka By the Book
10. The Mighty Ducks (1992) (writer: "GOOD VIBRATIONS") (performer: "GOOD VIBRATIONS")
... aka Champions (Australia) (UK)
... aka The Mighty Ducks Are the Champions (UK: video box title)

I mean if you can imagine Laurence Harvey doing a great job in a role then it's clearly not an acting challenge.

i'm just wondering in the spirit of Bay Arean unity, whether there's any topic me, Alex, and Shakey can agree on.

fuk u damon owns as bourne completely

Sure, but he owns by basically not DOING much. I mean he's not exactly channelling Brando or anything.

its called SUBTLETY

^^^

Mark's cocky, street-wise persona contributed to his fame. During concert performances, he was known for stripping to a pair of white briefs, gyrating his hips and rubbing his crotch.[10] In the dedication of his 1992 book Marky Mark, co-authored with photographer Lynn Goldsmith, Wahlberg says in the preface that "I wanna dedicate this book to my cock".[5]

I was all set to vote Damon, but I'm being swayed.

this poll is mindlowwing

― Mr. Que, Thursday, September 24, 2009 3:47 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

watching the Bourne movies was like watching someone else play a video game - they made Die Hard 4 look great in comparison

What? That is crazy talk.

I don't mind farting and I may be crazy.

damon is a better human being but... god, this is agonizing.

Better human being? eh? Like dumping your girlfriend in front of the camera?

I was wondering why you called him an asshole. Eh, I'd forgotten about that whole thing. Whatever - who knows the whole story. I still <3 him.

http://www.falloutcentral.com/news/2007/10/24/never-forget-mark-wahlberg-the-asian-hate-criminal/

I want more and more Bourne movies, until he's grizzled and covered with scars.

― Beth Parker, Saturday, September 26, 2009 6:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it should be a law: minimum one bourne a year

As long as they kept being as good - would support this legislation.

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There was this interview with a woman playing a m->f transsexual (transamerica?) and her trick to approximating this was to make awkward exaggerations of how a woman behaves, and this is also the trick Andy Samberg uses to play Wahlberg (in the sense that he is an awkward exaggeration of how nice and sincere people behave). Wahlberg is a transniceual.

What kind of reductive tricks could you apply to Matt Damon? It seems like he might have OCD or an eating disorder but it's well hidden if he does.

This is kinda hard, I guess Mark Wahlberg's more charismatic and a better movie star, but on the other hand Damon is a better actor. Still, even though Wahlberg's been in some great movies, I can't remember a movie that would've been great mostly because of him (not that he's ruined any movie either, let's just say that he's smart enough to choose the sort of roles that play to his strengths), whereas I can't imagine The Talented Mr. Ripley being half as good without Damon's performance. That's like one of the top 10 ten performances of the last 10 years. So I gotta go for Damon.

like more Damon movies (bourne rules) but wahlberg is hilarious and I think I like him better

This is kinda hard, I guess Mark Wahlberg's more charismatic and a better movie star, but on the other hand Damon is a better actor. Still, even though Wahlberg's been in some great movies, I can't remember a movie that would've been great mostly because of him (not that he's ruined any movie either, let's just say that he's smart enough to choose the sort of roles that play to his strengths), whereas I can't imagine The Talented Mr. Ripley being half as good without Damon's performance.

Different strokes and so on, but I have the opposite view; and Huckabees is inconceivable without Wahlberg. As for TMR, he played what the director required, but it's such a grotesque misreading of the novel and character that I can't give him full credit (and there's scenes in that movie I like very much); he turned Ripley into River Phoenix in My Own Private Idaho.

I've never read the novel, so I didn't care about any misreadings, I thought his performance was perfect as such, and the movie was so much better because of it. I love Alain Delon in general, but compared to Damon his performance in the same role felt kinda empty.

"Huckabees is inconceivable without Wahlberg."

Except for one crucial part that is tailor-made for Wahlberg (and I agree he is awesome in delivering that one phrase and no one else can do it), Patton Oswalt could have done the rest of his scenes more credibly.

Mark Wahlberg acting with the plant in the Happening shoulda got the plant an oscar.

apart from the dinner table scene, I don't remember anything about Wahlberg in Huckabees at all. isn't he only in it for like 15 minutes?

15 minutes + 45

apart from the dinner table scene, I don't remember anything about Wahlberg in Huckabees at all. isn't he only in it for like 15 minutes?

― man, motherfuck a paddington bear (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, September 28, 2009 3:42 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

UH

wahlberg is by a long shot the best and most memorable thing about huckabees

hey I saw that movie once when it came out and was mostly only interested in Lily Tomlin so I don't remember a whole lot of it

All I can remember from Huckabees is Tomlin and Dustin Hoffman, and that they were ontological agents or something. I can't even remember who was the protagonist in that movie (it wasn't Wahlberg, was it?).

the protagonist in that movie was ~~lyfe~~

I think Wahlberg's part is getting overestimated here - he was billed like 5th or 6th and reading the plot synopsis it seems like his main role in the film was to a) introduce the villain and b) put out the fire at the end.

but again, I haven't seen it since it came out

i just watched it like two months ago

and he was the best and most memorable thing about it

his main role in the film was to be hilarious

word

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uOUHmbTIyY&feature=related

love how every scene ends w/him pushing someone over

<3 <3 <3

That clip is awesome.

wahlberg is by a long shot the best and most memorable thing about huckabees

seriously. so freaking hilarious in that movie.

riding his bike to fires

maam, poems are amazing, ok

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Matt Damon is down w/Boise so I am down w/Matt Damon.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

voted wahlberg

Woah so close!

A squeaker.

poll results correct, though, I think

what the hell is this ted shit

― un® (dayo), Tuesday, June 12, 2012 9:52 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark

A couple summers ago I kept running into crews filming around town thought maybe I'd feel obligated to see it because of that but no, it looks dreadful. Why Mark, why?

but it's by the creator of the universe's smuggest stoner cartoon show!

never saw this thread, surprised by the poll results, thought damon would win purely off ilx's love of bourne

I thought he'd have won by a mile - reading back there seems to be a deep pool of love for I Hear tHuckabees?

I Hear Thuckabees was by far the worst live action Dr. Seuss adaptation