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Affleck, mindwiped
Affleck's upcoming movie "paycheck" has him playing a reverse engineer who's memory of his most recent assignment is erased. If the hero had been keanu, they wouldn't have needed to erase anything, but I digress. I think the reason Affleck doesn't look as good as he used to is because he's gained some fat. In "good will hunting" he had a good clean jaw line, he hasn't for some time. That, and he's just been going through the motions, kind of like plated or thurgreed when their on-line personas drifted from endless combinations of mean, angry and sarcastic, rather than simply retiring like the great patentgreedy.
I recommend "pirates of the carribean". It's a fun movie. Depp is great, as is Rush. Orlando Bloom and Knightly did a servicable performances, but nothing special.
"Dirty pretty things" is good as well. Chewitil Ejiofor did a standup job. Audrey Tautou is fine as well, although her role doesn't allow her to show off. Benedict Wong gets the fun lines, and delivers them well. E.g., while doing his job as some sort of morgue worker, he's stitching up the pockets of a corpse's suit:
"If he's a Buddhist, I'm giving him eternal peace for the price of a peice of thread.
"If he's an athiest, I'm ruining a perfectly good suit.
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