Batman is NOT a Ben Affleck Fan

Argo: Movie Review

Bad hair dayz....

Short version: This movie rocks and you should go see it. Why: it's good drama, comedy, and has excellent 70s sideburns.

Long version: I was riveted to my seat throughout the whole movie, which takes place during the 1979 takeover of the US Embassy in Iran. Six Americans get out of the embassy right before it happens and take refuge in the home of the Canadian ambassador. It's up to CIA guy Ben Affleck to smuggle them out before the Iranians figure out where they are and get 'em. He comes up with this cockamamy idea to fake that a Star-Wars-like-bad-movie is going to be made on an Iranian location and pretend that the Americans are part of the movie crew, then use that as an excuse to smuggle them out of the country. You pretty much already knew that from the commercial, right? What you didn't get from the commercial is that this is a very well done drama, expertly directed by Ben Affleck! The pacing is solid, without seeming rushed, the story is suspenseful and thrilling, and because it's based on a true event, very interesting. Alan Arkin and John Goodman bring the comedy home as the fake producers of the bad Star-Wars knockoff movie (called "Argo") and there are multiple moments in the movie where a pun on the movie name is repeated to good effect (I can't tell you what the pun is without spoiling it, but trust me, you will laugh each time you hear it). The unexpected bonus of this movie was how well it captured the side-burny-post-hippy-hairstyles, big-glasses-on-men, long-straight-hair-on-women, and big-boat cars of the 70s. Much like "Mad Men" captured the spirit of the 60s, this movie does just that for the Carter generation.

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GOP Goes to “Town” in Debt Ceiling Crisis With Ben Affleck Movie

We're going to hurt...Americans!

Washington, DC – As the default crisis looms on August 2nd, The Washington Post is reporting that GOP leadership played a clip from the Ben Affleck movie The Town in a meeting last night to rally support for Speaker Boehner’s budget plan.

In the clip, the bank robber played by Affleck tells his accomplice, “I need your help. I can’t tell you what it is. You can never ask me about it later. And we’re going to hurt some people.”

While hurting American folks is nothing new to the Republican party (see: wars, pollution, siding with insurance companies, stripping social services, creating tax-cuts driving America into record-breaking deficits), we were still kind of surprised they would let it be known that they were using a violent movie about lawlessness as a motivator to get the job done instead of say, a Zig Zilar or Dale Carnegie tape.

Unsolicited Drivel reached out to an anonymous source on the Hill for comment who told us, “I was surprised too at their choice to reveal their plans for blatant thievery by screening The Town, but I’m sure my surprise was not nearly a great as Ben Affleck's as he's a very vocal critic of the right.  Of course, it’s not likely they will take Ben’s suggestion of using his movie The Company Men as an inspirational piece as it’s all about how they ruined the economy leading to an unprecedented number of lay-offs and Boehner’s new plan will likely create more poverty than the Great Depression and the current recession combined.  Anyhow, I’m just relieved considering some of the self-hating, sexually repressed ilk in our party that the media didn’t catch the actor’s GOP fans watching Jimmy Kimmel’s I’m F**cking Ben Affleck video instead."