The Reel Rejects - THE TOWN (2010) IS GRIPPING!! MOVIE REVIEW!! First Time Watching!!

Episode Date: April 22, 2025

WELCOME TO THE BANK ROBBERY CAPITAL OF AMERICA!! The Town Full Reaction Watch Along: https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects With The Accountant 2 Reviews, , Andrew & John are back for The Town Rea...ction, Recap, Commentary, Analysis, & Spoiler Review!! Download PrizePicks today at https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/RE... & use code REJECTS to get $50 instantly when you play $5! Join Andrew Gordon (Cinepals) and John Humphrey as they dive into The Town - the gritty 2010 crime thriller co‑written, directed by, and starring Ben Affleck. Set in Boston’s Charlestown neighborhood, the film follows seasoned bank robber Doug MacRay (Ben Affleck, celebrated for Gone Baby Gone and Argo) as he masterminds high‑stakes heists while evading the relentless pursuit of FBI Agent Adam Frawley (Jon Hamm - Mad Men, Baby Driver)... However, after a tense opening Bank Robbery, Doug finds himself drawn to Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall - The Prestige, Vicky Cristina Barcelona), the bank manager-turned-hostage, striking up an unexpected relationship that forces him to question his life of crime. Rounding out the ensemble is Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol) as Doug's loose-cannon right hand man, Pete Postlethwaite (The Usual Suspects, Inception) brings intensity as Doug’s volatile employer, Fergie aka The Florist, Blake Lively (Gossip Girl, A Simple Favor) adds depth as Doug’s childhood friend Krista, Chris Cooper (Oscar‑winner for Adaptation and American Beauty) grounds the family drama, and Titus Welliver (celebrated for Bosch and Lost) heightens the tension in a memorable supporting role. Andrew & John break down every unforgettable moment—from the pulse‑pounding opening heist with the skeleton masks, the nail‑biting Nun Robbery Sequence, and the climactic shootout beneath Boston's historic Fenway Park... Discover how Affleck’s raw direction and the powerhouse performances elevate this character‑driven thriller into a modern Boston classic! Follow Andrew Gordon on Socials:  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MovieSource Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/agor711/?hl=en Twitter:  https://twitter.com/Agor711 Intense Suspense by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/reelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Music Used In Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Happy Alley by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:25 just a bit John, are you ready to escape to the town? Yeah, man, let's do this thing. I want out of here. Let's do this. All right. We're going to get right into it, guys. All righty, the town commence.
Starting point is 00:00:49 All right. Well, if you were able to watch that, it's because of the fine folks over at Piper. They did a great job editing down these highlights. as they always do. So special thanks to them. Appreciate you guys as always. And also, if you are listening to this on Apple or Spotify, please give us five stars. We would really appreciate it.
Starting point is 00:01:06 John, I know this has been a very tiring and heartfelt week for you. We appreciate everything you've done. It's all good. After watching The Town, how are you feeling? I'm feeling good. I'm feeling catharsed, you know? I feel like I've been, you know, some movies are tense enough. to make you feel like you've been out there kind of, you know, running a mile.
Starting point is 00:01:30 And, you know, there are more tense movies. But this had tension in ways that I didn't expect. And I really enjoyed this from top to bottom. You know, I came in expecting a crime movie, most certainly. And I mean, you know, what are the trappings of a crime movie? You have your, you know, criminal organization of whatever stripe that you're following. You have whatever law enforcement guy slash entity that you're following. and then, you know, a significant other or two family member just to add some personal stakes and whatnot.
Starting point is 00:02:03 But this, for some reason or another, just had a lot of different, it's like it's a, in some ways it's a classic crime movie, but in other ways, it, yeah, I don't know, it surprised me with the way it, you know, it has these action moments, like each act has its, you know, heist, essentially. and those kind of tie everything together and those create the escalating stakes and circumstances and all of that. But, you know, beyond that, just the way that it characterized, especially Doug, but also just the place, the setting, and drew this very unlikely,
Starting point is 00:02:40 oh, Charlestown's reputation as a reading ground for armed robbers is authentic. However, this film all but ignores the great majority of the residents of Charlestown past and present who are the same good and true people found most anywhere. The film is dedicated to,
Starting point is 00:02:52 to them. Fascinating. Yeah. I mean, it does have that element of humanity around the periphery and it is an unlikely romance drama of sorts in a way that I never quite would have expected and certainly like it doesn't wrap up with a nice shiny bow by the end and I think that's a good thing. But yeah, they do have you in this real push pull of like, man, I totally get why Rebecca Holler want nothing to do with this guy ever and yet somehow like their relationship feels authentic enough that you believe the sort of question mark of it all and at least why she would ultimately come to give him the tip at the end or directly give him the tip so that you know for her character it is clear I care about you I don't want you to come here and get cooked or
Starting point is 00:03:39 at least taken away by the FBI and locked up forever yeah like I thought that this did again the Boston crime movie really well but also gave a nice grouping of flavors to the people and why they're in the positions that they're in and what it is about this place that might push you to being in this lifestyle because it seems like, at least as the movie presents itself, you know, barring that, you know, a little epilogue note at the end there about how many lovely and, you know, hardworking people live in this part of the country, you know, you also get the sense that it is a place that does deal with some level of neglect and lack of resources and in which many people are just
Starting point is 00:04:24 forced into lives of crime and these greater webs therein like with all the stuff with the florist and the fact that yeah like you might even want to get out you might not want to you know let it go this far get that high up but you know you might be under the wrong person's thumb that's all that it takes and uh yeah i really like the performances a whole lot i really like the way that was written everyone was great i mean john ham definitely one of my favorite you know especially movie roles for him um but everyone brought something and even a character like jeremy renner who's kind of hateable and who is like this sort of like you know requisite mad dog on the team even he got some level of development where you're like man i understand i understand who this guy is even if he does put me
Starting point is 00:05:11 on edge and i don't like it very much you know like it's well done and even that like the whole thing of the tattoo, and they never actually used that as a giveaway. Good point. Good point. Yeah. I didn't think about that. Yeah, this felt smart, and this felt like it was having fun with you because you know what some of the tropes are going to
Starting point is 00:05:26 be, and it certainly had that iconography of like the skull masks and the nun masks and stuff like that. It's doing a lot of the crime playbook and motifs and things. But yeah, this was a more human movie than I was expecting, and it had a more compelling, again, story about these
Starting point is 00:05:42 people and the life that pushed them to this life of crime and also yeah this unlikely romance and things like that and yeah i just i really enjoyed all of it you know the writing the directing the editing the second unit with all the stunts and stuff like that like the robberies were very tense and the chases were really tense and all that stuff and uh there was baseball what'd you think andrew sound like a toony john hey i would i would no hey i'm uh yeah i'm really before i get into it i'm glad you brought up that that the neck tattoo because obviously they made a very prevalent shot to focus in on that yeah this is going to come back in some way and obviously they had a line
Starting point is 00:06:24 of exposition with rebecca hall and with ben afflick talking about and he made a very compelling case why she should go to it and really it was in subtext for her not to go to it because she's going to have to go into wits sec protection yeah now she's not going to want to uplift her entire life and move away because of that but again that was really really smart of Ben Affleck and I think it was Peter Craig, whoever the other writers were, I was really smart because like immediately you, me and I'm sure everyone else watching
Starting point is 00:06:50 this like, ah, Dupree. That is how they're going to get caught. It's that neck tattoo and I like being that smart kind of subversion of expectation. It's not subversion just to be subversive. It's like smart subversion because right away is like I know the audience where we're going to think about
Starting point is 00:07:06 that, especially when we lock in on that shot and also we're going to use that in some dialogue there later on. So that was really smart, too. And also, too, I figured, I mean, Renner I knew was a goner. I really did. But I wasn't sure about Affleck. I was like, given where the movie's heart is, you are correct. I was like, this movie isn't quite bleak enough to have him live through this. Yeah, I wasn't sure, but anyways. And his exit is
Starting point is 00:07:31 harsh too. Yeah. In asking me how I feel about this, this is definitely, again, I always talk about recency bias, but this is one of the best heist movies I've ever seen. It was really good. It was incredible. It was incredible. And again, I really want to give Ben Affleck some major praise the fact that he wrote it, the fact that he directed, the fact that he's like 90, 95%
Starting point is 00:07:51 in the scenes. And you can do like both of those. It's really impressive. And he gave a great performance, too. Like, I really, I couldn't relate to the character from the robbery perspective and connect him there. But obviously I could connect with all the other stuff that was happening. Like, I actually really felt bad
Starting point is 00:08:08 for him, especially as we learned more about his character throughout the film. Oh, all that stuff with his dad And the story of his mom And like the way they developed that slowly I actually was like Oh my God This guy who robbed a bank
Starting point is 00:08:19 Like you'd think like I want this guy to get caught He robbed a bank Like how can I be on his side And of course from that perspective Yeah Right But yeah
Starting point is 00:08:29 But yeah and like obviously I'm not defending anyone Who robs banks And doing stuff like that But again I felt bad for him I felt bad for how he was You know The lifestyle he was raised in
Starting point is 00:08:37 And then obviously he really did want to change You wanted to get away with Rebecca Hall and, you know, start a new life with her. And I really felt bad. I really did. Like, I was so connected from him from that perspective. I'm like, this is a great, like, it's really dramatic from that perspective. And I thought they did just Affleck and, again, the other writers just did a great job of making
Starting point is 00:08:59 me really care about this character. And also, too, like, I actually cared about the FBI agent. I cared about Blake lively, too. I felt bad for her, her rejection from Ben Affleck because he didn't want her in that way like she just looked at her as an object and i mean i get it but i like i felt bad for these characters and and i was emotionally attached them and i know blake lively's character did not get a ton of screen time but again she was effective in the screen time she had in her character so i feel for the circumstances for sure for everyone yeah i think i think they did a great job of
Starting point is 00:09:35 just making me really and again i will say this to jeremy renner i i mentioned it during the reaction. I'm not sure if he'll get cut or not, so I'll say it here. The first film I ever saw him in was SWAT. I liked him in that. I mean, he's spoilers for a 2003 film. Have you seen it, by the way, or no? Swat? No. Oh, okay. Never mind. I will not say the spoilers because you might react to it one day. I will just say in this film. People love SWAT. Yeah, I say, Koi loves it. I love it. Geekchicks love it. Oh, because it's got Colin Farrell, right? Yeah, it's got Colin Farrell. I think it's a, it's a fun movie. And I think Wentworth, no, is Wentworth Miller the voice of a thing in that movie or am I thinking of a different movie?
Starting point is 00:10:16 It's been a while since I saw it. Never mind. Anyways, what I'm trying to get at is Jeremy Renner, he really had me on edge and scared the crap out of me in every single. Even the scene where he's with Rebecca Hall. Oh, yeah. Especially that. Yeah, where they're just at the coffee table. Like, Ben Affleck has this, and again, I've only seen Argo in this.
Starting point is 00:10:35 So I'm just judging based on these two films. he has this knack and this ability for me as an audience member to have me on edge and like clenching my fist or my hands on the or your butt cheeks or my butt cheek whatever you want to say
Starting point is 00:10:51 but like he does a really he knows how to create tension for the audience and suspense and I like throughout the film there wasn't really many scenes where I felt calm and relaxed and I think like I think that's credit to him as a writer as a director
Starting point is 00:11:06 and I just I really appreciate that from, you know, from this and Argo. And, like, it's just incredible, like, that he's able to capture that and put it on film. And also, too, getting to the action, that was some compelling and immersive action sequences, like the sound design on that. It's just absolutely mesmerizing. And some of those cinematography shots with the car chases, it's just unbelievable. I'm just, again, I'm always happy to do reactions.
Starting point is 00:11:38 here with Reject Nation with you and everyone on the team. But damn, that would have been fun to watch on a big screen some of those chase scenes. I mean, they were so damn compelling. We'd love to see this. And incredible as well, but I mean, just Ben Affleck. I will say this too.
Starting point is 00:11:54 I love the Robert Pattinson Batman. I can't wait in 20 years until we get the next one. But God dang, I really wish we could have gotten a Ben Affleck direct. This really makes me sad. We never got a Ben Affleck directed Batman movie. But that's neither here nor there, but I'm only talking about it because we just watched the Ben Affleck directed film, and he's just so damn talented.
Starting point is 00:12:14 He's so damn talented. It would be cool to see him do Bruce Wayne in his own Batman movie that has his directorial flavor. Yeah, and I have been told. Weirdly more than him as an actor in a Batman scenario, him as a director in a Batman scenario, gets me excited. Yeah, and I have been told by people who worked at Warren Brothers that his script really slapped. I would love to read that. I would be fascinated. Yeah, but, you know, unfortunately, it was not meant to be.
Starting point is 00:12:40 But, yeah, staying on this, though, I really did. I was so emotionally attached to to their relationship. I really wanted it to work out. Obviously, there are consequences to some of the actions that we, not some, but the actions we take in life and, yeah, nothing. You can do whatever you want in life. You don't have to worry about it. But, yeah, I really did feel bad for him.
Starting point is 00:13:00 By the way, too. And also, I was going to say, before I get to Chris Cooper, his chemistry with Rebecca Hall. yeah so damn good like really lovely i'm probably going to be accused of having seen the movie it's fine that's what we do we get accused of it all the time so it is what it is if you know i said right away in the first scene that oh they're going to start a relationship i only said that because of how saw it it's a robbery it's a robbery scene and he's being extremely and i i get it also too he was trying to calm her down so she could do the code so he
Starting point is 00:13:31 could get in there but because of the way like again he was able to to sway me over just in that moment, not just because he was trying to calm her, I could just tell with how soft-hearted he was being in his voice and his body language. I'm like, I'm really attracted to this woman. And it's, you got Rebecca Hall. You're not going to have Rebecca Hall for just one bank scene. Well, he's being empathetic at the very least. I don't know if he's got, you know, I don't know if there's enough in that moment for him to be like, oh, I'm attracted to this person. But yeah, he is like the most sort of compassionate and for sure. The most well-adjusted one of the team who's like, yeah, not in here to traumatize anybody and does care to like
Starting point is 00:14:06 get in, get out, and do as little damage as possible. And, and yeah, in a moment like that, you're sitting there going, well, damn, Rebecca Hall is in this, so she must figure in heavily, you know? Yeah, of course. So, yeah, it's like, it's a legitimate thing that you could kind of make an unlikely joke about. And then all of a sudden, you're like,
Starting point is 00:14:22 oh, damn, you know, like, and that was such a fascinating hook to me, this whole thing of like, I got to surveil you. And in this moment of just like playing it cool, now we've struck up a conversation and now we're talking. And now I'm trying to, you know, atone, it's just such a nice little seed
Starting point is 00:14:38 and they have a garden motif and stuff like that. It's such a nice little seed planted of just like, oh man, like clearly I am well aware of the trauma I have given you and the reason you're freaking here with this laundromat right now you know, let me do something nice for you even if you never become aware of it
Starting point is 00:14:54 and then it just grows from there. It's like so fascinating. Absolutely. It's a great point. And not only that, I also got attached them as well from the trauma that they both, not only from the bank obviously but the trauma that they both had in their personal lives her with her brother him with his mom i mean he didn't even that story that he told by the way really good i was really able to follow that story along again a lot of times we you know when you're doing exposition it's
Starting point is 00:15:20 you know show don't tell but i thought this was a really good tell don't show seen like and it was credit to his acting in that moment yeah and i really felt for him in that moment then we get the reveal later from the flower pete uh i always forget to say his name god rest is beautiful Hostile Thwait. Yes. And when we get that reveal, that was just daunting and so tragic and sad for Ben Affleck for Doug. What a threat that was. Yeah, but again, it was fascinating to watch him and Rebecca Clare.
Starting point is 00:15:49 It was fascinating to watch how they connected over that. And again, also, too, like you said, he wanted to atone for what he put this poor woman through as well. Because he didn't mean to do that. He just wanted to rob the bank. I wasn't trying to do that. Well, yeah, it's not even about that. It's like, you know, they need the money. And they're also clearly at the whim of the florist.
Starting point is 00:16:08 And this is clearly, you know, a life that he has entered into. I'm sure that at the point at which he entered this life, he was just probably desperate, needed money and was willing to do this. And so, yeah, it's not even about wanting to rob a bank so much as it is just sort of like, this is just something I have to do. It's just a thing I am unfortunately good at. And it's the only way, you know, to rise beyond my means in a place that doesn't seem to have a lot of mobility. and yeah so like it makes sense why someone in that position it makes sense why you would have a Jeremy renter grow out of that situation and how you could have a Ben Affleck grow out of that situation someone who's like I'm not in this game to traumatize people you know and then
Starting point is 00:16:48 somebody else who's like I don't care if I traumatize people and yeah like it without getting too preachy about it even with Blake lightly like there are multiple moments or or his dad there's multiple moments where it gives you these insights into the character where you're like I get why you have to be here you know like I get the situation that grew this for you yeah and again too yeah totally I also thought to like against a version of expectations I really thought that springs here baseball's in full swing and if you're looking to make watching games even more exciting check out prize picks our go-to in the daily fantasy sports category the reason this household is so in a prize picks is because it's super
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Starting point is 00:18:25 You're Robbie and our review. It's okay. But no, in terms of social. subversion of expectations. Greg was the one who told us how great this movie was to begin with. In terms of subversion of expectations too, I also
Starting point is 00:18:39 sorry. Sorry. It's okay. I'm not going to lose my train of thought. I want to make the video about me. Yes. It's good. I don't want to make it about me? No, no, no, it's fine. Nobody even noticed. Yeah. No, in regards to subversion of It's not about me, Andrew.
Starting point is 00:18:53 All right. Well, that was the town guy. In regards to subversion of expectations, I did want to, I go over another thing, too. I really thought, like, Jeremy Renner's hot-headedness, too, was going to also be his undoing. You can make a case that probably
Starting point is 00:19:08 was, but obviously, you know, we talked about it earlier, Ben Affleck and kind of rejecting Blake lively, and then John Ham again, I love how smart John Hamm was. He was such a good foil, because Ben Affleck is extremely intelligent, and he,
Starting point is 00:19:24 I know Pete... Postle Thwait. Thank you. He maps out all the plans, and then Ben Affleck's got to execute on them as well so he's got to be intelligent because he even said I'm not ironing this group without you vice versa type of thing too but you're too good and
Starting point is 00:19:40 level headed to not you know insist on having a part of it for sure for sure but John Hamm I just I love it's kind of like heat I love those good foils for each other it's so much fun to watch on screen oh sure and they only have like one scene back and forth right
Starting point is 00:19:55 they have the interrogation it's kind of like heat actually yeah I'm glad you put that brought that up yes yeah absolutely like it does it does the more i'm thinking about it now the more i'm like oh there's clear heat love in this movie without feeling like a heat rip off uh and and two yeah i like that jeremy renner like while he is the requisite sort of hot headed loose cannon unpredictable guy on the team he's not so much to the point where you're like please lose you are saying like please don't you know consort with this guy but at the same time he's not so
Starting point is 00:20:28 you know off the rails that you're like good point why would you hire this guy you know like he he is volatile and you get tense when he's around and he is just controlled enough that you get why they they know yeah yeah no that's a good point he and I think this also this movie just shows the power of his acting range too
Starting point is 00:20:46 because again he really scared the crap out I mean every single scene he was in calm scene or not calm scene he just I'm really just impressed with him because I have not seen him in any movie like this where I was just on the edge of my seat this tense so really power to hit credit
Starting point is 00:21:03 and John Hamm too I think you said this one of his best performances I haven't seen a ton of John Hamm film so I wanted to be transparent about that but this was an incredible performance and I love that that note that was on the car when I saw that no I was like okay now he has to get away with Doug
Starting point is 00:21:19 I was like there's no way you can leave that note and not get away but yeah like you said the cat and mouse chase game that was so incredible incredible to watch. It was so fascinating. Just again, created this level of paranoia for us, the audience, because we don't know how we're supposed to feel
Starting point is 00:21:35 because we're rooting for this guy, but then we're also like, it's the guy who robs the pinks, but also too, we've connected with him throughout the film, so I'm like, God, dang it, Pennapuck, you got us. Good on you, man. Yeah. Good on you. Absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. So any, oh, before I get
Starting point is 00:21:51 into this, any other final... Let's quiz it up. Let's quiz it up. Okay. Quiz it up. John's got to get out of here, so let's just really quick. I'm not going to get into trivia, but I will say really quick, what do you think the budget of this movie was? $90 million? $37 million?
Starting point is 00:22:06 $37? I guess all these people weren't that as high of a gross $90 million. All right. Oh, I didn't want you to see that. It's all right. It's okay. Damn. Oh, no, no. That's domestic. Domestic. Worldwide. $300?
Starting point is 00:22:21 Unfortunately, $154. It deserves so much more than that. I thought this was pretty well liked, but I don't know. Some days I'm really good at the budget stuff. Some days I'm not. I believe that this could be a $37 million movie, but I am surprised. It feels like a $90 to $150 to $60. Maybe not $100, but like $60.70 maybe.
Starting point is 00:22:39 Just the way it's shot, the stunts, the, I mean, you pay for all these actors. Yeah, that's why I figured it'd have to be ballooned up, but it doesn't feel like a $37 million budget. Yeah. Maybe you save money on the Ben Affleck rights directs and stars package. That's a good point, too. Good, good point. It's his baby. that's a great point. All right, last thing, and then
Starting point is 00:22:58 we're going to have to unfortunately call it here, guys. Review critics. What do you got? 89. 92. 92 was my original guess, and then I lowballed myself because John, why do you do this to yourself? I guessed way too high on something else we did, just recently.
Starting point is 00:23:21 Why do you do this? Should have gone with my gut, 92. Last thing, and then we're out of here, audience. 95. 85. 20% high. God, I'm off today. You low-balled and you high-balled yourself.
Starting point is 00:23:37 Here, get one fact in here. Let's get one fact. We'll do one fact for you guys. And I will say, too, I guess him escaping at the end after John Hamm and then they're all like, ah, you know, watch every transit, every bus, every, you know, thing out of town. Like, there is something that they do also sell you on without it being too in your face of, like, But you're not from here, man. Like, Ben Affleck, that character, Doug is from here.
Starting point is 00:24:01 He knows that to get out of here. Yeah. He's like, spiritually, he hasn't been able to, but, like, logistically, he knows what to do. Let me do two, please. Please. Before the movie was released, Ben Affleck praised Jeremy Renner's performance.
Starting point is 00:24:14 He jokingly stated that if there was a bad shot or performance from someone else in a scene, editing could easily cut to Renner looking at a napkin to make the scene work. Jeremy Renner would go on to receive an Academy Award, nomination for his performance i swear on my life i had no idea that i didn't know anything other than this movie was like praised by so many people i had no idea renner was nominated for this performance but dan he deserves it absolutely amazing he's the standout for me yeah jeremy renner surrounded himself with actual convicted bank robbers in charlestown for research and to help him nail the
Starting point is 00:24:49 accent you believe that and also ben affleck was struggling to find the right actor for the role of james Coughlin. His younger brother, Casey Affleck, suggested Jeremy Renner, who he'd worked with in the assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Of course. That's right. They are in that together. Good choice, Casey. Nice choice. A guy got an Oscar nominated performance. So I'm sure Ben appreciated. We as the audience did as well. Guys, what did you think of the town? Are there other Ben Affleck directed films? Because I haven't seen any others besides this in Argo. What are the other ones there? Is Live by... Oh, Live by Night? I know that one's not. as loved as this one. And then there's
Starting point is 00:25:26 Gone Baby Gone? Is that right? Did he direct that? I think that, right? Gone Baby Gone? Is that not a David Fincher movie? No, that's Gone Girl. Oh, Gone Baby, Gone. Right? Am I right? Yeah, you're correct, Andrew. You're correct.
Starting point is 00:25:41 I just want to double check because I'm going to feel stupid. Yeah. Neither. I've seen neither movies. So that's part of why. Oh, you haven't seen Gone Girl? No. That's a good one. People like Gone Girl.
Starting point is 00:25:52 Yeah. I know you've got to get a 10 seconds, I will have this answer. Andrew. I'm killing you. I'm counting the time. Director, okay, get rid of producer, get rid of writer, actor, director, he did Argo, the town, Live My Night, Air. Oh, I love air. Oh, he did air. I totally forgot he did air. I love that movie, too. I got to see that. Gone, Baby, Gone. Yeah, that got an extremely high rating on here, so we definitely need to do that at some point. I love to. Let us know if you want us to do, Gone Baby Gone, and him for Gone Girl, right? Yeah. Yeah, anyways, guys, if he stuck with us this song,
Starting point is 00:26:23 We appreciate it. Let us know in the comments. What do you think of the town? Is it Ben Affleck's best film that he's been in? Is it the best film he's directed? We'd love to hear... Is it Jeremy Renner's best performance? We'd love to hear all your thoughts down below.
Starting point is 00:26:35 And take care. Don't rob any banks anytime soon. Gabriel. Get Gabriel. You were the perfect person to shout out for this movie. Get Hard. A comedy about a white man who is framed and is being forced. to go to prison, so he was having to learn
Starting point is 00:26:55 to get tough and hard. So he was learning from a black man projecting his own racism on it there to try to get tough out of it. Why Gabriel is perfect to liken it to it. Because if you look at the Will Ferrell character and the Kevin Hart character,
Starting point is 00:27:13 both of them, neither one of them have crucifixes. They do not believe in God. No religion. Nothing to ground them. And if they had Jesus, they would have not been in this situation. Just like Gabriel. That's what it means to get hard.
Starting point is 00:27:32 To be turned into brimstone. He hasn't found guys. We would try to tell this guy as two people who are by no means people who practice any religion. We've been trying to tell Gabriel for the longest time to get into religion. Or else you will suffer the consequences like Will Farrell did. That's right. And Kevin Hart, you know, he didn't want to have to send him to hell, but he had to do it, you know. He did.
Starting point is 00:28:00 He did. And, you know, I just hope that you're happy with the path you've chosen in this life. And, you know, we might not judge you, but the God that doesn't exist is judging you. I would love T.S. and you, but I am so judging him. Oh. Well, I got to judge you now, too. I am very judgmental of him. I am, you know, I mean.
Starting point is 00:28:23 He's got to realize it's like maybe, oh, this was funny at first, but, dude, it's been two years of you making the same joke about you being, maybe it's not a joke. Maybe we are trying to speak to your immortal soul. We are on a mission from Gad. I'm just hoping that if we save someone else, then send him to God, we don't have to do shit. Yeah, we can still not go to church and we can swap out. Yeah, what we basically need is for you to do the, to walk the walk. and then tell us how to talk the talk like save us the time all right we can get a time for that i'm not gonna go to a homeless shop this somehow i'm not gonna do some kind of charitable act in a place
Starting point is 00:29:05 where no one can see me money to be like get away from me here you take my money and go yeah my own thus says the lord germ take my money and go he is like that he is our homeless shelter so gabriel please go to God because we need it.

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