How Do We Feel About Matt Damon?

The dude works so often that I've taken him for granted, but he's quietly built an impressive body of work: nothing spectacular -- he still seems like a supporting actor experimenting with leading man status -- but worth citing.

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he still seems like a supporting actor experimenting with leading man status

really? have you seen any of the "bourne"s?

yeah that description fits johnny depp more to me - character actor w/leading man looks

Maybe the most consistent H'wood male actor of the 00s.

really? have you seen any of the "bourne"s?

― BIG SANTA aka the sleighdriver (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, December 28, 2010 8:22 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i was gonna say. those were really successful too

really? have you seen any of the "bourne"s?

I love the second one. Depp is more obviously leading man material: he reaches out to the audience like Nicholson or the Harrison Ford of the Indy movies (not an endorsement of Deep's acting btw).

Damon is recessive and furtive; that's partly what makes him ideal casting in the Bourne movies (and why it's easy to imagine him turning into a zombie by the time The Bourne Inferno is released in 2017).

to me Damon's secret weapon is how funny he can be -- i've been thinking about doing a poll thread of his best comedic roles (The Informant, 30 Rock, Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back, even the Ocean's movies really, etc.)

the 'supporting actor' cliché has as an element of truth in that he has the sort of generic appearance that police sketch artists must dread

he is like an avatar of civilized american values, even more colourless than clooney

Damon is recessive and furtive; that's partly what makes him ideal casting in the Bourne movies (and why it's easy to imagine him turning into a zombie by the time The Bourne Inferno is released in 2017).

― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, December 28, 2010 9:28 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

those qualities combined with his larger than life charm means he plays GREAT sociopaths imo

otm

idk about larger than life

do matt damon and ben affleck still hang out?

Thread inspired, btw, by how terrific he is in True Grit; he's become canny about choosing parts which exploit his aging-frat-guy looks.

damon is lifesize charm tbrr

he said he took the true grit part w/o knowing even what the project was, just 2 work w/ coens

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

also hadnt read the book or seen the earlier movie xp

he shd have seen the first versh

i trust he has made amends?

A local weekly singled him out for his work this year:

Most Valuable Player

Matt Damon distinguished himself in just about every way possible in 2010 – charging righteously through Paul Greengrass’s Green Zone, playing a soulful seer in Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter, narrating Charles Ferguson’s Inside Job, turning in one of the savviest performances of his career as a puffed-up Texas Ranger in True Grit...and just crushing it as Liz Lemon’s boyfriend Carol Burnett on 30 Rock.

Rounders is my favorite performance of his.

green zone kinda gives lie to 'well chosen roles'

he did ok but script was pish

On the one hand, I'm glad he chooses things like The Talented Mr Ripley and The Good Shepard, and up for the challenge; on the other, the Hollywood tricks let him down.

*and is up for the challenge

he was pretty well chosen for 'the good shepherd', like he may be frat but he went to harvard so

Green Zone and Hereafter are both horrible but Damon is fine in both.

what do you mean hollywood tricks

http://www.newwavefilm.com/images/jean-luc-godard.jpg

that gleam-in-his-eye hollywood smile

http://www.thecinemasource.com/moviesdb/images/Matt%20Damon%20-%201%20-%20300%20-%20Syriana.jpg
be wary of his hollywood tricks

http://www.thecinemasource.com/moviesdb/images/Matt%20Damon%20-%201%20-%20300%20-%20Syriana.jpg

The Talented Mr Ripley is a serious bowdlerization of the novel: sentimental and soft even if, like I did, you enjoyed the Italian settings and the delicious supporting cast. Damon could easily have handled the sociopathic ambisexual that Patricia Highsmith created; instead he has to look doe-eyed and recite speeches about wanting to be an attractive nobody or whatever.

oops, image didn't work the first time xp

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

every nation is fucked in the long run; where would you draw the line matt damon?

w/ a ridiculous and almost much impossible to change constitution

when did bieber corner the market on emo hair

honestly hopin more dudes rock balhead Damon steez now

never question estela's doings

america is hopeless that's why I'm focusing on africa

good luck with that

feeling pretty confident that we will be imprisoned in cages by robots no later than 2030 so im not too worried

estela's only reading this thread because she's the real jason bourne

god has forsaken this earth, what up moon and mars colinization

m bison btw if i am ever in your part of tx i will buy you a drink and make you bitch with me about school stuff

i thought estela was doing some esl teaching iirc?

haha my wife and I are nothing if not indefatigable sources of school bitchness

xp

estela is having books published in languages iirc

does your wife teach too?

*rain abruptly stops, solitary shaft of light emerges from clouds to shine down on ilx*

yeah guys... i think things are gonna be okay

*gets murdered by private law enforcement for stealing sunlight*

and then calling the publisher and saying 'you look tired today'

my wife is a school psychologist, she on that other level

*gets murdered by private law enforcement for stealing sunlight*

― Magic (Lamp), Wednesday, August 3, 2011 10:45 PM (49 seconds ago) Bookmark

okay lol

y'all laugh but lamp is actually from the future

Philip K. Lamp

how did he get out of his cage

lol

he's not trying to save us, merely get us acclimated to our future of suburbs with armed guards and razor wire fences and really excellent charter schools

he's a bit late then

<3 all u in this thread

and matt damon

I <3ed Matt Damon long before this thread, but now I like him more for even being vaguely associated w this ongoing conversation.

xxxp max, last year i signed up to get tesol certification and the next thing i knew i was selected to go to korea on an all expenses paid study trip. one day we were driven around on a bus and the bus company was called bs tours.

HI Y'ALL I'LL JES CHILL ON THIS ROCK

http://barefoot.provocateuse.com/images/photos/matt_damon_04.jpg

proud of u estela *tips hat*

why are you wearing a hat.

is it a thinking cap.

pfft no it is a top hat

a bosthoon's hat.

http://listsoplenty.com/pix/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Mr-Peanut.jpg

me irl

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