Matt Damon has made some really good movies- I'd say The Departed is the best- but the amazing thing is all the directors he's worked with. For comparison, first look at Ben Affleck. Affleck and Damon had similar starts: TV movies, jobs as extras; I think some of their early credits overlap.
In this post, I'm listing directors that are either great directors who have made some of the best movies and other directors who, no matter how good or bad they are or what they've done, we probably all know their names. So here's a list of directors that Ben Affleck has worked with: Martin Brest, John Woo, Richard Linklater, Kevin Smith, David Fincher, Mike Judge, and Gus Van Sant. Not bad. Not bad at all. And Affleck has done some shitty movies (Armageddon, Good Will Hunting- I like GVS and his work, especially My Own Private Idaho and extra-especially Drugstore Cowboy, but GWH is lame and just thinking about "Vickers" and "apples" makes me cringe. I don't believe that GVS cared about the script. I think he was just turned on by Damon, the Afflecks, and Cole Hauser.
But anyway, back to Matt Damon. Whose movies has he starred in? Martin Scorecese, Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, Gus Van Sant, the Coen brothers, the Farrelly brothers, Cameron Crowe, Terry Gilliam, Steven Soderberg, Kevin Smith, Anthony Minghella, Christopher Nolan, Frank Darabont, Kenneth Lonergan. That's not all. He's also been directed by a few movie star directors: Robert DeNiro, Robert Redford, George Clooney, Billy Bob Thornton, and Clint Eastwood.
That's an impressive list, right?
There are a few that Matt Damon didn't get to work with and all of those cool directors worked with another lucky guy instead, and this guy doesnt even specialize in acting- singer Chris Isaak. His "Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing" was in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, and Isaak has appeared in movies by Jonathon Demme, John Waters, David Lynch, and Tom Hanks.
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