It’s cool to make fun of Ben Affleck. Conventional wisdom was that Affleck and Matt Damon made the leap with Good Will Hunting, but it turns out that most of the talent the duo had was with Damon. While the acting side of things certainly favors Damon, Affleck is acquitting himself well from a directing standpoint. I’ll admit to having not yet seen Gone Baby Gone, the first film he directed, but I can say his latest, The Town, shows that he has some real talent working from behind the camera. This talent makes a film worth seeing, but Affleck definitely has some room to improve as well.
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Faceplant! 