It's worth seeking out for the clean, efficient, and all-around solid entertainment it provides.Most people who discover that their husband is a cheating slimeball choose one of two options. Affleck and Damon haven't had a big win in a while, but they made a good movie together here and I hope it does well. And the soundtrack may have laid it on a little thick at times (but hearing two Violent Femmes tracks was cool, and not only is Bruce Springsteen discussed in dialogue, but he's also in the soundtrack, which is always a win in my book). The writing takes some jarring shortcuts here and there, and keeping this under two hours also made for some occasionally weird edits. That's the sign of a good movie, sometimes. It moves well and kept me interested for nearly two hours, even though the story on paper wasn't one I thought I'd find interesting. The cast all give very strong performances, and between this and The Last Duel, I have to say that I think Affleck's even better in supporting roles than lead ones. So the film's only likely to be suspenseful for those who've been living under particularly large rocks for a particularly long time, but it's not so much the what that's interesting, but the how. I know nothing about basketball, but have always known Jordan and Nike go together. Here, it's all about Nike trying to partner with a young Michael Jordan in the mid-80s. It's most comparable to Argo in that it takes an interesting story from history, and gives it a classic Hollywood level of polish that makes things a bit snappier, more entertaining, and a little funnier, too. It's been about a decade since I watched his other films (Gone Baby Gone, The Town, and Argo), but I remember liking them quite a bit, and enough to say that Air feels like a return to form for Affleck as a director. After the shaky Live By Night in 2016 (which I think was affected more by executive meddling than anything else), Ben Affleck took a break from directing, and now has a mini comeback of sorts with Air. You're Michael Jordan, and your story is gonna make us want to fly. You're gonna be remembered forever, because some things are eternal. Everyone at this table will be forgotten as soon as our time here is up - except for you. We need you in these shoes not so you have meaning in your life, but so that we have meaning in ours. The rest of us just want a chance to touch that greatness. A shoe is just a shoe until somebody steps into it. And I think you already know the answer, and that's why we're all here. And what would you do then? Can you summon the will to fight on, through all the pain, and rise again? Who are you Michael? That will be the defining question of your life. It's the way down that breaks them, 'cause that's the moment when you are truly alone. You're going to be attacked, betrayed, exposed and humiliated. And we do it again, and again, and again. We build you into something that doesn't exist, and that means you have to try to be that thing all day, every day. But you know what? Once they've built you as high as they possibly can, they're gonna tear you back down - it's the most predictable pattern. You're going to change the fucking world. Man, we'll build you up into something that doesn't even exist. People are going to build you up, and God are they going to, because when you're great and new, we love you. It's an American story, and that's why Americans are gonna love it. You were cut from your high school basketball team. I'm going to look you in the eyes and I'm gonna tell you the future. Money can buy you almost anything, it can't buy you immortality. You're going to make enough money, it's not going to matter. Sonny Vaccaro: Forget about the shoes, forget about the money.
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