Live By Night (Ben Affleck, January 13, 2017) Movie • Page 2

I thought The Town and Argo were just alright, though each film did have some spectacular scenes.

Gone Baby Gone definitely his best. I love the part in the bar where Casey pistol whips that guy and tells the bartender to make him a martini.

 

I think this is going to be entertaining but it wont be a critically acclaimed movie.

 

It was fairly mediocre. Pretty scattershot storytelling that never takes time to makes its characters engaging. Also, Affleck has to stop casting himself as the star, especially if he's going to surround himself with talent that is way better than him.

 

Even if this movie is a miss, I don't get the Affleck comment. He's a great actor and was a great fit in his other movies.

 

This is pretty much what the NYT said and is my concern about seeing this movie. I'll probably just catch it when it comes to video.

 

yeah idk if i would call chris messina and brendan gleeson much better than him, and i like the both of them

 

This was so disappointing. It started off pretty well actually and until he took that beating from the police I was really into it but then his dad visits him in hospital after letting all the cops beat him to a pulp and dad's all like "hey son, how's it going" like shit's totally cool and I'm like "this is dumb and makes no sense". Also I thought he had good chemistry with the first girl who sells him out and none at all with Zoe Saldana. Love Ben the director but as an actor he is dull as shit. No range, so dull. He typified that here, especially as he was the lone screenwriter and some of the dialogue was truly lousy. It's telling that he had co-writers for Gone Baby Gone, The Town and he didn't write Argo. All the sentimentality at the end felt totally unjustified. So cliche and cheesy.

 

Going to try and cram this and Silence in one day.

Disappointed reviews are mixed but I'm all in since it's Affleck.

 

Same here and man, that sounds like quite a day. I should do the same.

 

I got a three-day weekend but we are awaiting a huge ice storm so it's going to be tight.

 

Watching a Ben Affleck movie and a Martin Scorsese movie on the same day is a lot like drinking Natural Light and a craft beer on the same day. One definitely informs the other.

 

Affleck isn't the NL of beers! Even if he's not a craft, at least give him a Bud Select or something..... Save the NL and pabst blue ribbon titles for M. Night or Uwe Boll

 

Ben Affleck in 'Live by Night' Is Actually Lou Bega

 

M. Night Shyamalan is top-shelf stuff that needs to be mixed well with something. He is similar to a Long Island Iced Tea.

 

This may be the craziest thing you've ever said, but I admire you commitment to M. Night being good in your opinion :-D

 

The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Village, Lady in the Water, and The Happening all have incredible moments. It is not hard to defend.

 

Fixed. I really have never ran into anyone who defended the other films you listed. Surprised no Unbreakable on your list.

 

Nothing fixed about it. The Village is close to a masterpiece, and the best film about 9/11. Lady in The Water and The Happening are more flawed, but they are still very good genre films. Unbreakable is too silly.

 

But…..you just used the term silly to describe a film in a negative way but defend a movie where the plot is grass monkeys keep everyone in check and the grass wolf has to sneak around and try to eat a lady who came out of a pool before she can be returned by an giant eagle and another movie where our hero talks to fake ferns and tries to out run the wind.

Like I said, I like your commitment to this argument but that logic is a little…..well, silly. I’ll give a little and let M. Night be Miller Lite though just for you

 

Affleck wishes he could be Shyamalan

 

Wut is wrong with this thread. It's poisoning people's minds!

 

The twist in every Ben Affleck movie is someone yelling go Sox Boston

 

The Happening is a play on old b-movies; it is supposed to be that way. Similarly, Lady in the Water is Shyamalan's attempt at telling a fairy tale. I use the term silly because Unbreakable tries to exist within the real world, which is the entire conceit (superheroes but real).

 

If that's the case I see your point. I don't believe at all though that The Happening was suppose to be made as a b-style movie or was meant to be so bad it was funny. And I know about the fairy tale thing with Lady, he said he tells it to his kids at night and I feel so bad for them.

 

I will never understand how you can watch a movie with lines like "We only ate tiramisu; it meant nothing!" and a guy lays down to get run over by a lawnmower and think that it was not meant to be funny.