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What question should Boards.ie ask Ben Affleck this evening?

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  • 20-09-2010 2:07pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭


    Hiya folks,

    As you may know, Ben Affleck is in Dublin to promote his new film The Town - it's being discussed here - and on the red carpet tonight I've arranged to get to ask him at least ONE question from Boards.ie members - but what should that question be?

    It may be to do with his 29 year career, some of the roles he's played, the new movie, his South Park appearance or any of the trivia here.

    Below is all the details on this new movie, but put your (reasonable) suggestions for a question to Ben Affleck in the comments - keep them clean and respectful, and, well, we'll see how we do tonight!

    Cheers

    Darragh

    thetown.jpg

    Here's the press release from http://www.jdiff.com
    “THE TOWN” Cert 15A is released in Ireland September 24th


    THE TOWN
    There are over 300 bank robberies in Boston every year. And a one-square-mile neighborhood in Boston, called Charlestown, has produced more bank and armored car robbers than anywhere in the U.S.



    One of them is Doug MacRay (Ben Affleck), but he is not cut from the same cloth as his fellow thieves. Unlike them, Doug had a chance at success, a chance to escape following in his father’s criminal footsteps. Instead he became the leader of a crew of ruthless bank robbers, who pride themselves on taking what they want and getting out clean. The only family Doug has are his partners in crime, especially Jem (Jeremy Renner), who, despite his dangerous, hair-trigger temper, is the closest thing Doug ever had to a brother.

    However, everything changed on the gang’s last job when Jem briefly took a hostage: bank manager Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall). When they discover she lives in Charlestown, Jem gets nervous and wants to check out what she might have seen. Knowing what Jem is capable of, Doug takes charge. He seeks out Claire, who has no idea that their encounter is not by chance or that this charming stranger is one of the men who terrorized her only days before.

    As his relationship with Claire deepens into a passionate romance, Doug wants out of this life and the town. But with the Feds, led by Agent Frawley (Jon Hamm), closing in and Jem questioning his loyalty, Doug realizes that getting out will not be easy and, worse, may put Claire in the line of fire. Any choices he once had have boiled down to one: betray his friends or lose the woman he loves.

    Academy Award® winner Ben Affleck (“Good Will Hunting,” “Gone Baby Gone”) directed and stars in “The Town,” a dramatic thriller about robbers and cops, friendship and betrayal, love and hope, and escaping a past that has no future.

    The film also stars Rebecca Hall (“Vicky Cristina Barcelona”), Jon Hamm (“Mad Men”), Oscar® nominee Jeremy Renner (“The Hurt Locker”), Blake Lively (upcoming “Green Lantern,” “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants”), Titus Welliver (“Gone Baby Gone”), with Oscar® nominee Pete Postlethwaite (“In the Name of the Father,” “Inception”), and Academy Award® winner Chris Cooper (“Adaptation”).

    “The Town” is produced by Academy Award® winner Graham King (“The Departed”) and Basil Iwanyk (“Clash of the Titans”) from a screenplay by Peter Craig and Ben Affleck & Aaron Stockard, based on the novel Prince of Thieves by Chuck Hogan. The executive producers are Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni, William Fay and David Crockett, with Chay Carter serving as co-producer.

    The behind-the-scenes creative team was led by Oscar®-winning director of photography Robert Elswit (“There Will Be Blood”), production designer Sharon Seymour (“Gone Baby Gone”), Oscar®-nominated editor Dylan Tichenor (“There Will Be Blood”), and costume designer Susan Matheson (“The Kingdom”). The music is composed by Harry Gregson-Williams and David Buckley, who previously collaborated on Affleck’s “Gone Baby Gone.”

    Warner Bros. Pictures presents, in association with Legendary Pictures, a GK Films Production, a Thunder Road Film Production, “The Town.” The film is being distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Fun question: Are we EVER going to see Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season :pac:

    Actual question: Was he disappointed that Daredevil never got a sequel? the directors cut is great and it showed a lot of potential for a follow up.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Gigli? Really Ben?

    Just out of curiosity, any more jobs like yours going? :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 111 ✭✭stbrennan


    Forget Ben Afflect!


    Why didn't you get a meeting with Rebecca Hall?!?!?!


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,589 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman


    Does he find that collarborating/working with friends can put a strain on their relationship particularly if creative differences arise?


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,122 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    Is Rebecca Hall as pretty in real life as she is on the tv? And will she go out with me?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    No question, just tell him he was "Da bomb in phantoms".


  • Registered Users Posts: 36 neadycodd


    Boston is one of my favourite places in the world - but I'd love to know in his opinion where or what in Boston is the best place to visit, be it pub, restaurant, attraction etc.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,030 ✭✭✭angel01


    What was his greatest memory of Jennifer Lopez?


  • Registered Users Posts: 33,446 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    Start by saying "Well look at this morose motherf*cker right here!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    Ben, you've shown us that you're quite a talented director with Gone Baby Gone and your new film The Town that you're also directing. Will your career be moving more towards directing in the future, or will you stay with acting, or a bit of both?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭marwelie


    Kiith wrote: »
    Is Rebecca Hall as pretty in real life as she is on the tv? And will she go out with me?

    We have a winner ;o)


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,721 ✭✭✭Otacon


    He's done acting, now directing. Ask him will he try writing next and become better than Kevin Smith in every way!?

    EDIT: I mean on his own, not like GWH.

    EDIT-AGAIN: My serious question would have been the same as Karl's but another would be: so far, you have directed thrillers, what other genre of film would you like to take on?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Hi Ben,
    how do your co-stars avoid getting splinters during romantic scenes with you?


  • Registered Users Posts: 358 ✭✭milkycoffey


    Is Jimmy Kimmel a good kisser?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭Morlar


    What did he really think of the South Park Parody episodes ?


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,068 ✭✭✭Bodhisopha


    I especially enjoy your work with your good friend Owen Wilson, you have amazing screen chemistry. Any plans to work together again?


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭delbertgrady


    What is your own personal attitude to people with no shopping agenda?

    2024 Gigs and Events: David Suchet, Depeche Mode, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, The Smile, Pixies, Liam Gallagher John Squire/Jake Bugg, Kacey Musgraves (x2), Olivia Rodrigo, Mitski, Muireann Bradley, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Eric Clapton, Girls Aloud, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Rewind Festival, The Smashing Pumpkins/Weezer, Henry Winkler, P!nk, Pearl Jam/Richard Ashcroft, Taylor Swift/Paramore, Suede/Manic Street Preachers, Muireann Bradley, AC/DC, Deacon Blue/Altered Images, The The, blink-182, Coldplay, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Nick Lowe, David Gilmour, Public Service Broadcasting, Crash Test Dummies, Cassandra Jenkins.

    2025 Gigs and Events: Billie Eilish (x2)



  • Registered Users Posts: 32 Fearganainm


    So how come Matthew McConaughey keeps getting invited back to do Family Guy - somethin' you said?


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Does Jennifer Lopez have taco flavour kisses?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,417 ✭✭✭Miguel_Sanchez


    Did you and Matt Damon really write a blowjob scene for Robin Williams into an early draft of Good Will Hunting just to see if studio execs were reading the script thoroughly?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 43,852 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Either:

    a) Seeing as Casey (his more talented brother) has taken on acting, directing and writing - have you any more plans to work with him in the future?

    .. or probably a better question..

    b) What was his take on Casey's recently-released directorial debut 'I'm Still Here'? It being a documentary following brother-in-law Joaquin Phoenix's retirement from an Oscar-nominated movie career to a career recording rap-music, and the controversary around it - especially now having been confirmed as a hoax by Casey.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9 Grun


    Question 1: What is everyone gawking at in the poster?

    Question 2: Do you have a favourite moment from Dogma?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27 Lickin' Gravy


    Can he do any impressions of his co-stars? (I read somewhere that he is good at that)


  • Registered Users Posts: 37,297 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Did he enjoy being part of Kevin Smiths "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back"? Also, why did he get such a small part in Clerks 2? Finally, is he going to star in any of Keven Smiths future comedies?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,750 ✭✭✭liah


    What was his favourite Kevin Smith film to participate in? And why?


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,255 ✭✭✭Renn


    Ben, you've shown us that you're quite a talented director with Gone Baby Gone and your new film The Town that you're also directing. Will your career be moving more towards directing in the future, or will you stay with acting, or a bit of both?

    How freaking exciting.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,945 ✭✭✭D-Generate


    Daddy or Chips?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Renn wrote: »
    How freaking exciting.

    That's not a question.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,014 ✭✭✭✭Corholio


    Thaedydal wrote: »
    No question, just tell him he was "Da bomb in phantoms".

    It has been a while since I laughed out loud at any post on boards. Thank you sir, that was genius.

    But as for asking a question, What was it like having sexual relations with Jimmy Kimmel?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,255 ✭✭✭Renn


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    That's not a question.

    Sorry, I got so bored from reading the other post that I suddenly stopped mid-question.


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