New Affleck flik The Town

[Pea-n-Me]

Anyone seen it yet?

I dunno if it's just a Boston thing, but we had to go to two theaters last night, the first one was sold out and so was the second.

We thoroughly enjoyed it.

 

[CaliforniaDreamin]

I really would like to see it. I saw Blake Lively on Regis and Kelly talking about it and they showed a clip with her in it. I have to say, I was impressed by her acting. She had to really fight to get that role. Ben Affleck didn't even want to meet with her but she took a train up to Boston and convinced him to cast her.

 

[twinmomplus2new]

Here on The Cape. it was sold out for the 7pm when we arrived at 6thirty. We came back to another theatre at 8 thirty for the 9pm. NAd it was also sold out. We did get in though.
I Loved it. grew up very near Charlestown and grew up hearing about the townie code. So for me it was alot of fun alll the referances mostly!

 

[mtemm]

loved it! we saw it last night and thought it was very good. the accents were dead on and the shots of boston and the surrounding areas were some of the best I've seen in a movie. Felt very authentic overall.

one question for those who know, where did the term, "toonie" come from when describing the yuppies who have moved into charlestown?

 

[coneeny4]

I dropped my DD and her friend at the movies last night and she said all the shows were sold out.

My DF grew up in Charlestown and I still have a lot of relatives that live there. I will ask them about the "toonie" name.

I saw part of the movie being filmed in the next town over..planning on seeing it next weekend.

UPDATE- Just spoke with my cousin..Toonie is because they were not born in Charlestown so they are not a real Townie.

 

[momrek06]

We are from BEANTOWN ... just moved to CA 2 years ago. My DS now lives in RI (law school) and he called me last night to say all his college buddies were headed to see it. Now I am wondering if they actually got in.

It looks AWESOME, from listening to Ben and watching trailers of it!

I really want to see it.

I hope someone comes on here and gives us a full review.

 

[Fintastic]

We saw it last night. It really wasn't our kind of movie but there was a sitter available so we went anyway.

 

[tiggger1]

I havent seen it yet but a girl I went to high school with had a small part in it.. I am hoping to see it soon!

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I was just reading some reviews and I have to say I am SHOCKED that neither Jeremy Renner nor Blake Lively are from Boston - their accents were about the best I've ever heard in movies (nothing worse than those bad ones, lol), I can only imagine Ben must have coached them himself! I know Chris Cooper, who plays the Dad, lives in Kingston, so not surprisingly, his accent was good also!

Here's what Affleck had to say about the accents:

Q: WHAT ABOUT THE BOSTON ACCENT?
AFFLECK: These guys became experts. I think the accents are a big issue because if you don’t do them well, as Jeremy said, they can really upend your movie. You have to hire really good actors to do it. I mean you have to know that they can do it. When Blake came in and read the scenes for me, I asked her what part of Boston she was from. So that was handled.

And then with Renner who I knew was a good actor, a great actor, I wasn’t worried about his ability to do it. I was just worried would he do it, to what extent and what we need best. Who knows? So I sent him a lot of recordings. But more than the recordings I’ve found that it’s about the people you stand next to. So I put the right people around Jeremy without saying anything and Jeremy is so smart that immediately you could just see him, like, radiating towards the people without them knowing who would be helping him. It was really fun to watch. Then he’d show up on set and he’d have it dead to rights. Blake also went around and did her tour. Some of these girls in the projects, we took Blake around and she spent time with them because it’s not just an accent. It’s not just vowels and diphthongs. It’s a world that you carry. It’s vocabulary. It’s so many different things. Particularly, people in Boston are really hard on that kind of thing. That’s first thing that people say about Boston movies, like, ‘Yeah, I saw it. The accents were all right.’ ‘It’s a race car movie. What do you mean the accents?’ Rebecca [Hall] had a doubly challenging thing which was that she was from Marblehead which is a kind of suburb. So we recorded a bunch of dialect from Marblehead. It’s almost English and American. The pronunciation is a kind of flat dialect, not meant to standout as Charlestown or anything else, but she was reflecting kind of gentrification. Yet it was another kind of accent particularly if you were British. Then Hamm, we talked about it and he and I both had the same instinct that being from whatever it is, Missouri, Illinois, Rochester, something; being an outside kind of said more for him than being someone who had an accent.

And about shooting at Fenway:

I asked Affleck if his iconic status as a beloved son of Boston made it easier to lock down one of the film's locations, baseball shrine Fenway Park, the oldest major league baseball park in use. He laughed: "I don't know how beloved I am. I know that they wanted assurances that things were going to be done properly, things weren't going to be broken, we were going to be done on time, and we weren't going to make anybody look bad. And obviously they knew that I revered Fenway Park and the Boston Red Sox."

 

[LuvOrlando]

I can't wait to see this movie, 93% on Rotten Tomatoes I am a huge fan of anything Ben Affleck does (well maybe not Gigli), I like his acting but I much prefer when he is also creating. Good Will Hunting is my all time favorite movie so I am thrilled Ben is back at the cerebral side of the industry creating films I really want to see. For this I will gladly shell out $30!!!!

 

[RNMOM]

We have no connection to Boston and saw it last night. It was great! I think everyone in it did a great job and Ben did a great job writing and directing.

 

[crjack]

I was just reading some reviews and I have to say I am SHOCKED that neither Jeremy Renner nor Blake Lively are from Boston - their accents were about the best I've ever heard in movies (nothing worse than those bad ones, lol), I can only imagine Ben must have coached them himself! I know Chris Cooper, who plays the Dad, lives in Kingston, so not surprisingly, his accent was good also!

I thought the Boston accents from The Departed were awful for Matt Damon & Mark Wahlberg and they are both from Boston!

I love Chris Cooper and I am looking forward to seeing this movie.

 

[brittsmum1998]

Its been getting "Oscar" buzz for a couple of months now. I'm looking forward to it.

I would be really happy to see Ben nominated in some fashion. It would be great for him and for Boston.

 

[TimeforMe]

DH and I saw it last night and while DH is not a fan of Ben Affleck, he even said he did a fabulous job. All the actors were tremendous--really--each and every one of them were so believable. It was a good old-fashioned (but new fashioned) cops and robbers movie with good guys and bad guys, a love story, and Ben looked HOT, HOT, HOT. Yowza.

I thought it was great and give it