(August 30, 2020 at 7:43 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Did Pacino at least have a scene that could be read as a meta-critique of the film itself? I ask because I’ve seen him in two Deep Hurting Project films and in both of them, he does that.
In Gigli, where he’s excoriating his protege Ben Affleck and explaining, in no uncertain terms, why the whole plan the movie hinges on, the plan to extort a federal prosecutor by kidnapping his mentally disabled son was absurdly stupid (and, frankly, it took a lot of willpower to not just use the R-word, if only because it’s so fitting In this circumstance.) The detail about not fucking around could also apply to the dozens of plot threads that come in just to be dropped in less than a minute (at least a few of which actually went somewhere in an earlier cut) or how the romance becomes the center of the movie and not the kidnapping.
And then, in Jack and Jill, he gave this scathing assessment of the entire film.
(August 30, 2020 at 7:26 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Yeah.
There hasn't been a good Affleck movie since Dogma.
There’ve been a couple, actually. They probably just got buried under the crap, except for movies like Argo and Gone Girl. Movies like Changing Lanes, Hollywoodland, State of Play, and The Town.
Correction: none that I've seen.
Whoever chose him for Batman needs shooting.
Dying to live, living to die.