HAMM AFFLECK RENNER THE TOWN

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http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=nHh3lE8fuys&vq=medium

whoops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eECq3J7L4gw

psyched

str8 up jizzing

looks pretty good!

Gone Baby Gone is v. good

rebecca hall is all-time

kinda wish they didn't give away what looks like an (easily guessable but still) major plot point

par for the course with previews these days

it was kinda obvious from frame one there but yeah it's still stupid. anyway, just saw gone baby gone and am now officially interested in this

this looks doope - gone baby gone wouldve been utterly ridic if itd just stuck to ganster shit and left the crying abt feelings part on the final cut floor - was pretty great anyway tbh

I find myself rooting for Affleck these days, somewhat strangely.

yea this looks fukkin phenomenal

GBG was better than any film Scorsese or T*r*ntino has made since '97.

Is the book this film is based on good?

How does this not look like a billion other movies? Also I HATE films that are all BOSTON

it is gonna make ppl from charlestown think they'er badazzes

<3 that INTENSE chinup

Affleck's Boston accent always makes me lol, so the trailer was amusing.

this looks great, albeit that you wouldn't swap pacino, deniro and kilmer for the three leads in this.

i agree the casting is prob important that it seems good

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I'm so excited! There are so many this I love about this movie. I used to live in Charlestown and am sort of obsessed with its history and people. Also, at my last job I worked with a dude from Charlestown who spent 15 years in prison for bank robberies. Man, I would love to see this with him or know what he thinks of it.

Also, Also I HATELOVE films that are all BOSTON.

ben affleck is whatever whatever but it's cool to be given a reason to like him

hamm & renner are straight bad asses and those two casting choices alone put this over the top imo

Gone Baby Gone had such an incredibly stupid second half.

hello, Dennis Lehane

Gone Baby Gone had such an incredibly stupid second half.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Saturday, July 17, 2010 12:22 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

^^this -- pretty unforgivable second half. but the first half was so good that i'm willing to let it slide. also the final scene is great

cool trailer (too spoilery though), great cast. GBG was real good.

I like that it shows you Ben Affleck, and says "from the award winning director of Gone Baby Gone," but never mentions that it's him. clever!

Reminds me of Friends of Eddie Coyle for some reason.

I HATE films that are all BOSTON

― is breads of india still tite (admrl), Friday, July 16, 2010 10:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

most that try get it so wrong, but when its right its sweet, so frickin sweet

I love Hamm, but slightly worried that I'll be unable to ever think of him as anyone other than Draper.

I like that it shows you Ben Affleck, and says "from the award winning director of Gone Baby Gone," but never mentions that it's him. clever!

This also made me laugh.

I didn't even know about this Gone Baby Gone film before reading the thread so I guess the trailer accomplished its mission!

enjoyed Gone Baby Gone. trailer was pretty awesome for The Town but I've been burned several timse this year, so I'll mute my excitedness.

I accidentally had 3 versions of the trailer playing and it sounded like the craziest fucking trailer i've ever watched and made me way more pumped for this film than just the normal trailer would have. Also I love Hamm and Hall and want to have her babies.

"I love Hamm, but slightly worried that I'll be unable to ever think of him as anyone other than Draper."

I had this problem just hearing his voice in A Single Man. I was like wow Don Draper was his boyfriend's cousin!

haha same

im sure people were all lol er when clooney started blowing up too

kinda wish this was a hamm affleck renner remake of "on the town"

Or "Our Town"

which is actually how I read the thread title initially

or copland

anyway shame on j0rdan for not putting HALL up there too

still excited for this, despite that trailer

How does this not look like a billion other movies? Also I HATE films that are all BOSTON

― is breads of india still tite (admrl), Friday, July 16, 2010 10:31 PM (Yesterday)

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affleck is a bank robber from a family of bank robbers, but he falls for one of his hostages who doesn't recognize him cuz he robbed her while the mask from scream, and somehow john hamm works for the FBI and cottons on to affleck through something the girl said and affleck has to choose LIFE OF CRIME AND NO GIRL or LIFE OF NO CRIME AND GIRL and he chooses LIFE OF CRIME AND GIRL and everything goes haywire because somehow she figures everything out and rejects him -- is that it?

this film looks dope. those bank robber masks are pretty excellent imo. and gone baby gone was really pretty great.

so much teal and orange

this will be sooooooooooooo fucking awesome i will watch it 37 times

this is up, like, all of my alleys

When is this coming out? I should go watch in in Charlestown but I don't think there are actually any movie theaters there. I am so excited for this.

there used to be one but it got stolen iirc

Wouldn't be surprised tbh.

The P'shawshank Reduction

this was enjoyable, but kinda forgettable maybe? like i wouldn't tell anyone omg you have to see the town its just so frikkin sweet

renner was great, though. also having never seen an episode of mad men i feel pretty insulated from the omg its don draper thing

i am not suggesting that renner plays don draper on mad men, btw

Haha. I was underwhelmed by this. Competent,predictable,no great performances etc. I like Boston vowel sounds tho.

And yeah, Hamm's line after reading the note was the best bit

Rebecca Hall is v. v. pretty.

someone was hating on her on another thread plus a friend of mine said she was "not attractive enough to be the love interest in a film" but aye, to me she's very attractive. would walk over hot coals for a sight of her in the scud.

Very forgettable overall. Hamm and Renner were solid, but nothing else really clicked.

this was like point break for bostonians. All its missing is meatball sandwiches and busey.

ikr

it was good til near the end

Rebecca Hall looks like a taller, slightly cuter version of my vv cute hairdresser.

Oh, and I liked this movie.

nice victor garber cameo.

― ('_') (omar little), Monday, September 20, 2010 2:10 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark

otm

micmacs was a better heist movie than this

thought this movie might end with affleck screaming, "I AM QUEEN'S BOULEVARD!"

this was like point break for bostonians. All its missing is meatball sandwiches and busey.

All it's missing is Kathryn Bigelow, and the Affleck gang all wearing masks from the cast of Good Will Hunting.

This was very boring. I expected "solid" but not dull.

yeah i have to admit i didnt dig this too much. i really wanted to like it, i think im predisposed to give a lot of slack to any movie that wants to be Heat as badly as this one did, but i just didnt find it very stirring. heckuva cast, Postlethwait and Hall did the best jobs i thought - renner was great but his character didn't really ~loom~ over things as much as i would've liked. hamm was good enough and i saw what they were going for with his character but tone-wise everything involving him felt off - would've liked for him to be either more of a monster or more of a professional, he just feld underdeveloped idk. lively was great at portraying a certain kind of townie bar skank. found myself wishing Titus Welliver had a meatier role, he was one of my fav dudes in Gone Baby Gone. affleck doesnt bring a lot to the table as an actor but i cant really hate on the guy either.

idk it was well done enough overall, but it was just missing the right ~movie magic~ to bring it all together.

this was p dope but kind of hard to watch, in the technical sense for me - so many meaningless closeups and cuts and camera motions. affleck needs to chill behind the camera

i saw this a couple nights ago! i liked it well enough. i didn't have particularly high expectations going in.

saw this a few weeks ago and thought it was pretty solid and entertaining. fuck if i can remember anything about it other than Hamm being uncomfortably cast though. i really struggle to see him outside of Draper in a dramatic role.

And can't believe Rebecca Hall's sudden investment of $$$$$ in skating rink wouldn't get some police attention

Finally watched this tonight. It was good but not great although I can't really put my finger on why. I thought Blake Lively was pretty great - first time I've seen her in anything. I liked seeing all the Charlestown stuff - the bar they filmed a bunch of scenes in was down the street from my old apartment so that was sorta neat. Overall though I thought it was kind of disappointing.

Met a 50 something year old who grew up in the Charlestown projects recently and wound up talking about this movie which he thought was great. I remember his saying that in his crew you either robbed banks or played hockey. "And some of us did both". Also would still love to know what the old co-worker I mentioned upthread thought of this.

Oh and I really liked Renner.

Him and Pete Postlethwaite were my favorite things..so great

Yeah but then seeing Postlethwaite I got sad that he died. ;_;

thought this sucked, pretty much

renner and double-p were good, hall was... lovely, lively was p good

hamm had a nothing-y role i guess, but he wasn't much good (except for the bit where he did the accent)

didn't believe anything about ben affleck's character or the main story

shootouts like i'd have staged aged 17

needed 20 mins cut out just to be tolerable, but even then, "not oscar material" (not that i give a shit, but really)

the ben affleck sensitive beardbro ending reminded me of the ep of king of the hill where boomhauer moves to canada, grows a beard and falls in love with a francophone woman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unla3bgOcHg AFFLECK RENNER THE TOWN

I saw this when it came out; pretty enjoyable B-level movie with some good scenes...like everyone said Renner was great. The scene where he finds out that Affleck is with the girl from the robbery is pretty fantastic. I just wish the movie was a little more clever. It seemed to play everything pretty straight but then the heist scenes were just over-the-top ridiculous. I really doubt the police would use that much excessive force to bring down a couple of bank robbers, and if they had Affleck and Renner both would have been toast right away. The whole thing is just bullets missing them while they find really fortunate ways to escape death over and over again.

this movie is so terrible
it's like a good will hunting reboot in which actors acquire the haircuts of people poorer than them & stoically jut their jaws while detailing their rootsy hard times
so gross

This is slightly better than The Departed.

crazy talk

Yeah this is really bad. So is Argo. Affleck has a sort of gift for making movies that seem competent enough and slick enough that it takes a while to notice how vacuous they are.

Feel it coming in the air
Hear the screams from everywhere
I’m addicted to the thrill
It's a dangerous love affair
Can’t be scared when it goes down
Got a problem tell me now
Only thing that's on my mind is ham affleck renner the town tonight

ryan otm. like it makes me think of affleck's acting background to watch it, because the direction is a specific, vapid kind of autopilot; aerial shots pan, orchestral swells punctuate walks across chilly prison yards. the trading on the weird sorta integrity/pathos combo of people in some socioeconomically deprived area comes across as really disgusting to me, this cast of like "trashy", or small-horizoned stock characters with just zero personality or spark or life. idk what this film did that just a crude crayon drawing of pete postlethwaite glowering doesn't already achieve.

damm

Gone baby gone tho

this was trash. Argo is boring and lacks anything special except for maybe beard design but it's not bad, in the 90's it would have been very good, prob.

...how?

'gone baby gone' really goes beyond the other two because of the quality of the performances, esp amy ryan and casey affleck imo. the local color in the film is a lot better, too. the plot's more ridiculous but it kinda works despite that. titus welliver and ed harris make that plot twist work better than it should.

xp idk it seems to meet a v specifically 90s setpiece type of aesthetic/ideal, i know affleck's followed ford into jack ryan's boots and imo argo is v v comfortably nestled in that reassuringly expensive zzzzz military soundtracked diplomacy thriller space that was v much the rage in idk 93 say

al leong p much otm re: GBG, in that Harris & Ryan are both excellent, as good as they've been in anything I've seen them in, here. but I think the final judgment on it should still be Irredeemable Trash, just on account of the weird & unbelievable denouement in which popular support for some kind of progressive "finders keepers" rule for child abduction is played like it's nbd. also alfred otm upthread in this being a worthwhile watch just for a totally misjudged Freeman performance.

affleck's Boston ethnography is mainly pretty gross imo. some credit for representation is arguable but the full-screen close ups of thick-lensed guys cleaning their tracheotomy wounds at the bar are mainly too craven to be given credit for.

in the 90's it would have been very good

but not in this golden age of H'wood filmmaking huh

More a comment on its v specific feel rly.

imo argo's better than the town in that it's a much more capable crowdpleaser with a better feel for tension. i wonder how these movies will age, because they feel very 'of the moment' in their filmmaking approach

i just found out the other day that victor garber is gay... i dont know where else to post this

i dont actually remember Freeman in GBG. maybe its time to 'rescreen'

Turns out it was p much a cameo, as himself

but I think the final judgment on it should still be Irredeemable Trash, just on account of the weird & unbelievable denouement in which popular support for some kind of progressive "finders keepers" rule for child abduction is played like it's nbd.

i think your Irredeemable Trash gauge might be stuck in the red dude, its making you dismiss this decent-to-good movie for an arbitrary reason

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was just thinking about "the town" and how little i remember about it. did it have a good car chase sequence in it - or for that matter, is there a movie that has a car chase sequence that does justice to boston?

I just finished The Tender Bar. Mostly bullshit, but Affleck has become pretty good at playing ironic, mildly smart barflies. No relation to his personal life, of course.