The Sum of Afflecks Fears
I have been indulging in a spot of online DVD rental. This has happened for two reasons: First, because it stops me buying so many of the damn things, and secondly so I can catch up on all the TV series and movies I have missed.
A few nights ago my father and I sat and watched 'The Sum of All Fears', another Jack Ryan movie based on the novels by Tom Clancy. The other 3 movies were entertaining (The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger), but something bothered me about the latest offering. I realised that where 'October' starred Alec Baldwin as Ryan and then "Games' and 'Danger' were total Harrison Ford vehicles, 'Fears' starred Ben Affleck, and this was what was niggiling me.
As I sat and watched Affleck save America from certain nuclear war with the Russians, the same thought kept repeating in my brain. Over and over and over. It was a couple of lines uttered by Security Guards on the Miramax lot in 'Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back' (directed by the one and only Kevin Smith, to who Affleck owes his whole damn career).
It goes like this:
SECURITY GUARD: Echo Base, I've got a ten-o-seven here: two unauthorizeds on the lot. Request back-up.
VOICE (from walkie-talkie): I thought that was a ten-eighty-two.
SECURITY GUARD: No, sir--a ten-eight-two is the code for vanishing a dead hooker from Ben Affleck's trailer.
VOICE (from walkie-talkie): Oh, that Affleck!
The Ben a few scenes later exclaiming that "I wasn't with any hookers today...Haha!"
Maybe I should have watched 'Fears' before 'JASBSB', because it really took the edge off what to other people was a perfectly good action/thriller.
But as a postscript to this post because I don't want you all to think that I'm completely 'anti-Affleck' I have to admit that he played Matt Murdock/Daredevil brilliantly, and was the bomb in Phantoms. yo.
A few nights ago my father and I sat and watched 'The Sum of All Fears', another Jack Ryan movie based on the novels by Tom Clancy. The other 3 movies were entertaining (The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger), but something bothered me about the latest offering. I realised that where 'October' starred Alec Baldwin as Ryan and then "Games' and 'Danger' were total Harrison Ford vehicles, 'Fears' starred Ben Affleck, and this was what was niggiling me.
As I sat and watched Affleck save America from certain nuclear war with the Russians, the same thought kept repeating in my brain. Over and over and over. It was a couple of lines uttered by Security Guards on the Miramax lot in 'Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back' (directed by the one and only Kevin Smith, to who Affleck owes his whole damn career).
It goes like this:
SECURITY GUARD: Echo Base, I've got a ten-o-seven here: two unauthorizeds on the lot. Request back-up.
VOICE (from walkie-talkie): I thought that was a ten-eighty-two.
SECURITY GUARD: No, sir--a ten-eight-two is the code for vanishing a dead hooker from Ben Affleck's trailer.
VOICE (from walkie-talkie): Oh, that Affleck!
The Ben a few scenes later exclaiming that "I wasn't with any hookers today...Haha!"
Maybe I should have watched 'Fears' before 'JASBSB', because it really took the edge off what to other people was a perfectly good action/thriller.
But as a postscript to this post because I don't want you all to think that I'm completely 'anti-Affleck' I have to admit that he played Matt Murdock/Daredevil brilliantly, and was the bomb in Phantoms. yo.
posted by Redrawn at 8:23 AM
1 Comments:
You're not alone. I always think of that line whenever I see him in anything now.
That and the 'Ben Affleck is: Moonraper' poster.
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