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Post by kateln on Oct 5, 2014 7:36:45 GMT -4
Uh, seeing him get all bent out of shape politically is the hottest I've found him in years, and I've a little disturbed by it. I know, right? He was really attractive in that clip!
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Post by Spinderella on Oct 5, 2014 8:16:31 GMT -4
I don't think Ben is trying to achieve or head to a political career (at least I hope not!), but he and Matt Damon have always been vocal about politics. They've expressed their political views in interviews for years. He's touched on U.S. politics and globally, as well as religion. I think him growing up in such a political-influenced household had a lot to do with it, especially with Ben's grandfather being educated from Harvard and Radcliff and was extremely political, being both a Mississippi Freedom Rider and a political science major. (shit. I know too much about Affleck)
It doesn't surprise me that he'd get really heated on Bill's show given the passionate concerns over the latest ISIS news and overall discussion of Middle Eastern culture and religion. But he did look like he was going to go medieval on those guys! He was doing everything he could to hold in what he really wanted to say. LOL
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Post by Mutagen on Oct 5, 2014 8:23:39 GMT -4
+10 points to Gryffindor! So pleased that somebody called Bill Maher on his shit.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2014 10:47:55 GMT -4
Seriously. Bill Maher's ridiculous and simplified "I'm smarter than you are" version of atheism has morphed into straight up discrimination. His doc Religulous spent a lot more time focusing on Islam than Christianity, which was surprising to me. His work on that film might have been where his negative feelings towards Islam started to take hold.
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Post by scarlet on Oct 5, 2014 11:11:50 GMT -4
I didn't notice big/little/average/etc. Ben in Gone Girl. Must have been a blink and you'll miss it sort of thing. Not that I was dying to peek at it, anyway. I knew exactly when to look and I still didn't see it. #NoDisrespectToBenAffleck
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Post by famvir on Oct 5, 2014 11:14:35 GMT -4
It's interesting in that report that to see little Ben, apparently you have to be a dude. Nearly all the guys report a sighting, but none of the women do. I find this sociologically significant, but I don't know why.
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Post by kostgard on Oct 5, 2014 11:16:19 GMT -4
Yeah, I knew things were going to go to shit when Sam Harris was on Bill's panel - he is someone who says that he became an atheist in the wake of 9/11, but really he just became an Islamophobe (and of course would support Bill's rant from the previous week). Good on Affleck for not letting them get away with it.
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Post by Foo on Oct 5, 2014 12:47:13 GMT -4
Saw Gone Girl last night.
As one who has read the book, I have to say that, while Ben was competent, he was miscast. Not really a plot spoiler, but don't read on if you don't want to know the personality of his character:
...the character had to at least come off as a little bit dangerous, that he has the capacity to be or get violent, but Ben doesn't pull it off. He just comes off as schlubby and hapless. Now, the character should embody some of that (well...the hapless part, not so much the schlub), but he should also have a dark side that's apparent to the audience. And, I'm sorry, Ben simply can't sell dark side. Just like he can't sell himself as a real character in period pieces (I think he sticks out like a sore thumb in period pieces set before 1970; see: Pearl Harbor, Shakespeare in Love).
Mark Wahlberg or Edward Norton or James McAvoy would have fit the role better. And probably others I'm not thinking of.
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Post by prisma on Oct 5, 2014 14:48:01 GMT -4
Saw Gone Girl last night. As one who has read the book, I have to say that, while Ben was competent, he was miscast. Not really a plot spoiler, but don't read on if you don't want to know the personality of his character: ...the character had to at least come off as a little bit dangerous, that he has the capacity to be or get violent, but Ben doesn't pull it off. He just comes off as schlubby and hapless. Now, the character should embody some of that (well...the hapless part, not so much the schlub), but he should also have a dark side that's apparent to the audience. And, I'm sorry, Ben simply can't sell dark side. Just like he can't sell himself as a real character in period pieces (I think he sticks out like a sore thumb in period pieces set before 1970; see: Pearl Harbor, Shakespeare in Love). Mark Wahlberg or Edward Norton or James McAvoy would have fit the role better. And probably others I'm not thinking of. Interesting. I saw it last night (and enjoyed it!) but I haven't read the book. I posted in the movie thread about Gone Girl that I thought Ben's not that great of the actor. Having not read the book, I didn't realize that Ben's character was supposed to be dangerous or have the capacity for violence. He just came off as a cheater and schlubby and happless, like you said. Ben doesn't do multifaceted roles well. Rosamund Pike did multifaceted like a champ, though.
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Post by kateln on Oct 5, 2014 20:10:16 GMT -4
Yeah, I knew things were going to go to shit when Sam Harris was on Bill's panel - he is someone who says that he became an atheist in the wake of 9/11, but really he just became an Islamophobe (and of course would support Bill's rant from the previous week). Good on Affleck for not letting them get away with it. I actually really admire him for fighting back to Bill Maher. Maher is a liberal, but he's also a misogynist(I hate that he refers to women he doesn't like as bitch/slut/c**t), so to discover that he's an Islamaphobe with backwards views on Muslims (painting them as all the same) and most religions (all Christians are idiots) doesn't shock me at all. His documentary, Religulous, presents a lot of misinformation. For the record, I'm a liberal--and an agnostic. I don't know enough to know what's out there. I pretty much believe in God, was raised a Catholic, and while I don't know if Jesus existed or was divine, I do think he has a lot of good things to teach us. But Maher's liberalism is Fox News in a new coat.
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