Last week we posted the movie trailer for Ben Affleck’s directional debut Gone, Baby, Gone. If you haven’t seen it yet, check it out. We wrote that the film looked like it had award potential. It looks extremely promising. Well the first mini-review is in, and it’s over the top positive. Clerks filmmaker Kevin Smith has seen the film and loved it. Sure, Smith is best buds with Affleck, so chances are this is extremely biased. But heck, we’re going to run Smith’s quote anyways.
“I’ve seen the flick twice and it’s awesome. Total awards contender,” Smith wrote on his website. The writer/director later said on the Film Freak radio show: “It’s one of those movies where you watch and you’re like [groan] First time out? He made a better movie than I’ve ever made. That jerk! And he’s easier to look at, richer, I hate him so much! But it’s a really great flick.”
July 12th, 2007 at 10:41 am
Kevin Smith stating that it’s a better movie than he’s ever made isn’t saying a whole lot.
Great, another bad-Boston-cop movie. I’m sure I liked it better as “The Departed” last year, and “Mystic River” before that.
July 12th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
See Zach Lawrence’s “Surviving Affleck” article….apparently it is so well written I am dubbed the OFFICIAL stalker!! Thats means it was one fucken brilliantly written editorial!!
July 12th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
ps Wild Bill, I liked your joke the last time I heard it… When it was on Spade in America!! I’m sure the movies you wrote and directed were much better than Kevins!!
July 12th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
Kevin Smith is so irrelevant. If we were to file a missing persons report on his career, it would be declared legally dead, because nobody’s seen anything from it in at least seven years.
The Affleck movie looks decent in the trailer, but come on: Quoting one of his best friends for no other reason than he made a cool movie 13 years ago? Give it a rest.
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:39 pm
I saw the screening yesterday and i have to agree. It’s a good movie, very well done.