When I read this heart-wrenching gut piece from Lil White Girl... I just knew that the soul and anguish in the piece must be shared with the world at large... just as she instructed me. This is one Lil White Girl with love in her heart for Mr Affleck, and stabbing shards of glass within her skull from his latest career turns...
Reindeer Games
An open letter to Ben Affleck:
Dear Ben,
As a fan of your work since School Ties and Dazed and Confused, I watched you rise as a promising star. I laughed at Mallrats; I cried at Chasing Amy, I watched you imitate my college life in Glory Daze. You became an auteur for both myself and many of my friends – you knew how to pick roles that spoke to us. In interviews, you spoke with elegance and intelligence. I cheered when you won the Oscar.
Then something happened. Did you fall and hit your head? Armageddon? Phantoms? A romantic comedy with Sandra Bullock? Yesterday I tried to sit through Reindeer Games, your newest embarrassment. I left to go sneak into the new teen romance vehicle because, well, when I watch a bad movie I like to know what I’m getting into.
Look, Dogma was pretty good. It needed to be longer, so that it could make sense, but it was still the best thing you’ve put out since Chasing Amy. So I propose this: you exclusively do movies for Kevin Smith. It could be like a De Niro/Scorcese relationship. You owe it to him – You owe your career to him. He could use your star power; you could use his dialogue and direction.
All I’m saying is that you’re digging your own grave. At the very least, hire the same script reader as Mr. Damon – he didn’t fall into the same vat of mediocrity after Good Will Hunting. Yes, he chose scripts in which he essentially plays the same character. But at least his characters were relatively believable. Hell, I’ll even volunteer to be your script reader. (I can only work at night, I have a job to take care of.)
Or maybe you could take a vacation. Move to the Italian Riviera and take up painting or music or something. Just please take some time off from making the crap I’ve been wasting my time and money watching. Get back to your roots. They need you.
Thank you,
Lil' White Girl
