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The Town (2010) directed by Ben Affleck.. One of my favorite bank robbery movies, What About You?
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I also liked everyone's performance in this movie. Personally, I always believed that Affleck was better as a director than he was as an actor, but he was also very good in this movie.
Also, did you like the ending of the movie?
I mean, Claire was so angry and devastated after she found out that Doug was one of the people who robbed her bank, terrorized her, and then manipulated her into keeping her from talking to the FBI, but she seemed to forget everything and forgave him when he went to her in the garden, and then she helped him to escape from the FBI in the end, after everything he did. Isn't Claire is considered an accomplice to a criminal in the end, and that Doug got away with it after all of this with her help? Why did she even help him?
What do you think?
Top Comment: The amount of times I’ve watched this on tnt at work is an unhealthy amount
The Town (2010).
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Every now and then I watch a movie that when the credits roll I kinda facepalm and wonder why in the ever living fuck I didn’t watch it earlier.
The Town is a movie I avoided because it looked like a Heat/The Departed mash up and also came out about the time most of my friends were into Sons of Anarchy which I found pretty lame and was kinda burned out on crime movies.
Fuck 2010 me.
This movie was incredible. Nothing short of incredible. Ben Affleck and Jeremy Renner absolutely kill in their roles. Both of them, it’s easily some of their best work.
The life they bring to their roles (also Blake Lively straight up kills her role) is supremely authentic. They walk talk act like hoodrats from Charlestown, and the whole movie is SO much more than a heist flick.
I dare say, as much as I loved Heat, I found The Town to be a much more compelling human story that also was an incredibly exciting heist flick.
Top Comment: The Florist is one of the most menacing characters you'll ever see.
The Town (2010)
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I have a question:
What made a good woman like Claire (volunteer at the Boys & Girls Club, community garden, teaching) become an ally to a bank robber and criminal like Doug and eventually help him escape?
What made her forgive him and help him escape justice after she was devastated and distraught after learning his truth and what he did to her?
Did you like that or not?
Top Comment: Women will do a lot for Ben Affleck that they wouldn’t do for Paul Giamatti.
The Town (2010)
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Top Comment: Come on guys!....I thought this was the "UNDERRATED" movies group!....I'm seeing some undeniable, POPULAR classics being brought up!🤔👀🤣 Stevie Wonder could see THIS was an INCREDIBLE movie.
Thoughts on The Town (2010)
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Top Comment: "I need your help. I can't tell you what it is, you can never ask me about it later, and we're gonna hurt some people." "Whose car are we gonna' take?" Not my favorite Ben Affleck movie, but a decent one. Dude is a great director.
What do you think of The Town directed by Ben Affleck?
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The film is really good. Affleck really found his footing as an actor and director with this film. This film is one of the best heist films. The cast is incredible and their performances are incredible as well. This film grabs you from the beginning and doesn’t let you go until the end. Affleck and Renner have amazing chemistry.
Top Comment: The Extended Edition is my 2nd favorite crime movie after Heat!!! Affleck directed the hell out of this and improved upon the book.
Some thoughts on “The Town” after a first viewing
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I watched The Town for the first time last night, and it completely changed my perspective on Ben Affleck. I always thought he was an overrated actor, but now I just don’t think I’ve seen him in the right roles to really show off how great of an actor he can be when given the right script. This movie really grabbed me, and I couldn’t stop thinking about this movie while I was at work today. Everyone in this movie gave a phenomenal performance, especially Ben.
The final phone call between Doug and Claire isn’t just my favorite scene from the movie, but one of my favorite scenes I’ve ever viewed before. The way you can see the pain on his face, and hear the pain in his voice when he sees that there’s police in Claire’s apartment but she still tells him to come over. “Well if you think I should stop by.... I guess that’s what I’ll do.” Perfectly delivered line. And then the way Doug starts to smile when Claire makes a reference to an earlier scene where she talks about her brother “It’ll be just like one of my sunny days.” Now I want to see more from Affleck, so I’ll be watching gone baby gone and gone girl next.
Top Comment: I think The Town is the best Affleck has been, as both a director and actor. It’s the kind of movie I stop to watch even when it’s on network with commercials and edits. If you haven’t seen Live by Night that he directed/starred in, give it a watch - nowhere near as good as the Town, but also nowhere near as bad as people make it seem.
The Town (2010) is a narcissistic self-insert written, directed, and acted by Ben Affleck
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I love crime films and recently watched The Town by Ben Affleck. I went in blind. However I increasingly felt something was off until I paused it and looked it up. After finding out Ben Affleck also wrote and directed it alongside playing the lead role it clicked. Ben Affleck is the male version of authors who write romance novels where the girl is a clear self-insert.
The Town is supposed to be a story about a morally grey bankrobber but the way Ben writes his character:
- He's always overly justified into every bad action he does
- He's a super badass who never gets outsmarted and always gets the last laugh
- He's irresistible to hot women, with no clear reason why
- Women always forgive him for his bad actions
- Everybody loves him
- Writes like a child daydreaming he's a cool badass with a heart of gold who all the girls like
Here are some notes I made while watching
- Hot women always initiate. The bank manager he's stalking randomly comes up to him in a laundromat, he even tried to fob her off but she can't be stopped and cries in his arms. He doesn't chase women, they chase him and force him into a relationship.
- Girls are emotional and if you only physically restrain them and force them to listen to your explanation they'll come round and stop being mad at you.
- When he admits something bad he did girls ultimately always find his truthfulness more endearing than his bad actions. For example when he tells his girlfriend he was actually the one who robbed and kidnapped her at gunpoint. - This is ironic because Ben allegedly has a problem with cheating and alcoholism leading to many divorces, so wishful thinking.
- People sacrifice themselves for Ben's character, for no discernable reason.
- Writes himself as a badass and writes little powertrips that completely justify his violence. For example he wrote into the script black kids throwing glass bottles at his girl so he's justified going over and torturing them.
- Cannot write a real character flaw because he's obviously self inserting. He creates absurd overjustifications whenever his character does something grey. For example, the Irish gangster he kills for forcing him to do one last job, reveals before his death he gave Ben's mom drugs until she hung herself. Why is this extra justification even needed, isn't threatening to kill him enough?
- Another example is writing himself as the most moral, kind, and caring bank robber ever. Everything that goes bad is his crazy friend's doing. You could say that's Ben's fault for bringing him but then he writes a justification for even that, his friend took him in when Ben lost his parents and his friend did 9 years in jail for him.
He obviously was trying to ape The Heat, but his self-insert completely drains The Town of true stakes, moral ambiguity, and diversity of characters.
This isn't the first time, Good Will Hunting has some similar traits, just Matt Damon played the lead. Or in The Way Back (which he didn't write/direct but probably had input): https://youtu.be/do3YCMYw0E0?t=135
Top Comment: It's based on a novel by Chuck Hogan who is not Ben Affleck.
Having rewatched it last night, The Town (2010) has got to be one of the best crime dramas of the 2000's
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I cannot speak highly enough about this movie. The movie posters make it look like a generic crime thriller but I can assure you it is anything but.
The acting, particularly from Renner and Affleck, is sublime, the script packs a surprisingly big emotional punch and the direction is artful without becoming corny.
Absolutely riveting from start to finish and - in a rare instance for me - every bit as good as the first time I watched it. 10/10 go watch if you haven't already.
Top Comment: White trash Blake Lively is a top tier babe