Gone Baby Gone

She Said:

Ben Affleck. His first screenplay he wrote--won an Oscar. His first movie directed--hmmm? Could be! After seeing Gone Baby Gone on Friday night I am trying to think of what other movies are Oscar-worthy this year. I'm having a hard time finding a better one than this.

I may be bias on two parts: 1. I love Ben Affleck and when I was high school had not one, but TWO AIM screen names with his name or character in it. 2. I am from Boston and this movie was so natural, so representative of the RESIDENTS of Boston.

So beyond Ben Affleck, beyond Boston--dramatic, comedic and beautifully shot. At some points my heart was beating out of my chest. The sequence of shots cutting to black back and forth with the rhythm of a heart beat made it even MORE suspenseful. I was so excited that the movie kept going on--it tends to make you think its over--then you (along with the Jimmy Stewart like Casey Affleck) find out there is more!

I don't want to babble on about Casey Affleck, but his performance was tremendous! He is SO a modern day Jimmy Stewart. As for the Boston aspect as mentioned before...the accents, the culture--everything was there. The language and violence were not as intense as other recent awesome Boston movies (The Departed) but that made it even better. As much as I loved seeing Alec Baldwin and Mark Whalberg say c*cksucker 50 times each.....Gone Baby Gone's intensity is more inferred, not blatantly thrown at you. The quiet calm gets me every time.

So seriously, go see this movie. I did not read the book, but after seeing the movie I can see why so many people enjoyed it. You won't be disappointed!


He Said:

Gone Baby, Gone is the most authentic "Boston" movie ever made in my opinion. The accents were there, the verbiage and the auro all screamed Beantown to me. I heard they really knocked on people's doors, dragged them off the street and in some cases stumbled into people from the area who made it into this movie and it seemed it. This movie was intense from start to finish. Not intense like a Tom Clancy movie/book but intense in a more intimate way. You feel violated at times and that is what makes this movie so interesting and well done. I usually have a gigantic Coke at the movies which makes me run to the bathroom at least once. I held it in for about an hr so I didn't miss anything. If I remember right I even got up during Transformers to relieve myself, so that is saying something. SEE THIS MOVIE!