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July 20, 2010
Ben Affleck, Jon Hamm, and The Town
Ben Affleck might not be the world's greatest actor, but I will give him this: he knows how to hire a great cast. He's now directed his second movie, The Town, which comes out in September. Here's the new trailer. [Warning: it seems to me like the trailer gives away a lot of plot twists, so if you're not into that kind of thing, maybe don't watch it.]
Even if you have no idea what this movie is about, I bet you can predict all its main features: 1) crime, 2) Boston, 3) uneducated white people who live on the fringes of society and swear like feckin' crazy.
But that's not the interesting part. The cast looks phenomenal for this movie. He's got Jon Hamm as a tenacious FBI agent determined to bring down some bank robbers (who, in a Boston heist movie cliché so obvious it almost transcends itself, dress in nun costumes) and Rebecca Hall as some kind of bank employee/love interest. Unfortunately for me, she's not Jon Hamm's love interest, because then they would have been the most beautiful screen couple of the year.
Instead, she's Ben Affleck's love interest, who decided to just give in and cast himself in this movie, a temptation he resisted for his first movie Gone Baby Gone. Judging from the trailer, it looks like he's one of the movie's weaker links, but he did make the creative choice of including a scene of himself doing pull-ups that's dramatically lit to highlight the chiseled topography of every ab and pec of his body. Nice one, Ben.
Anyway, there's also Jeremy Renner, who post-The Hurt Locker should finally be a real superstar. He's about a hundred times tougher and more scary than Ben Affleck in the trailer, and he's only on screen for about 4 seconds. There's Pete Postlethwaite, one of my favorite actors ever (even if half of the movies he does are of the Clash of the Titans variety,) and Blake Lively as a stripper who let's just assume is a real sweet girl deep down. And is that Chris Cooper as Ben Affleck's dad? Awesome.
Here's the trailer.
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Comments
Maybe there are 300 bank robberies a year in the same Boston movie universe where Alec Baldwin is a cop. I know I wouldn't mind getting caught.
Posted by: amy at July 26, 2010 11:26 PM
There are 300 bank robberies a year in Boston? That seems about as realistic as the microchip smuggling Irish mob in The Departed.
So why are there so many movies about poor white people in Boston? Are there just not any scenic urban neighborhoods full of poor white people in other cities, or is that people from Boston write more of these stories?
And yes, it does seem like they're giving away quite the plot point in that trailer, even if it's one that I figured out before they actually gave it away. Just like Shuttah Eyelin.
Posted by: T-Rock at July 21, 2010 1:24 PM