Ranking the MDGHCU (Matt Damon Getting Home Cinematic Universe)

[trappedslider]

I think it's a combination of a lot of things. It's a little cyclical, of course. Matt Damon was good in that kind of role, so he gets hired for that kind of role, so he gets known for that kind of role, so he gets hired for that kind of role, etc, etc. Type casting is a thing, but it's also a thing where people get hired for roles they're known to be good at.

Also, Matt Damon has a pretty extensive IMDB page at this point. As much as this is a good joke, it accounts for a relatively small percentage of his credits.

When he first started out acting he said that his desire was to have everyone look at him and say "Matt Damon, now there's a hard working guy."

 

[Gradine]

I enjoyed Send Help. Sam Raimi is still one of my favorites. But...

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...it was definitely a rough and major downer ending. Certainly not the "girl power" exit I was expecting. Although I guess I shouldn't have expected that from Raimi.

Look, it's a rough time out there, constantly promoting and supporting Women's Rights in the face of ceaseless ignorance and resistance. Sometimes, we get to enjoy some Women's Wrongs instead, as a treat.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

Surely he has found his way "home" more often than this. He has 98 acting credits on IMDB, and it's one of the archtypical story structures.

I'm going to nominate Rounders. He starts the movie losing his $30k gambling bankroll and spends the rest of it finding his way back to having a $30K bankroll again. Structurally, it's an odyssey, even if geographically he never gets more than a daytrip from his apartment in New York.

 

[Joshua Randall]

Where is Stillwater? Where Matt Damon goes to France unexpectedly, lives there awhile before eventually getting home to Texas.

My wife and I watched that movie on whatever streaming service had it and we were like "daheck did we just watch?!"

I would argue it doesn't fit into the MDGHCU because it's about his attempt to get his daughter home, but then

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she turns out to be a murderer

so the real home is the French child Matt Damon befriended along the way.

 

[Deset Gled]

Surely he has found his way "home" more often than this. He has 98 acting credits on IMDB, and it's one of the archtypical story structures.

I'm going to nominate Rounders. He starts the movie losing his $30k gambling bankroll and spends the rest of it finding his way back to having a $30K bankroll again. Structurally, it's an odyssey, even if geographically he never gets more than a daytrip from his apartment in New York.

Sure, you could argue all his movies count. You could also argue that we're all a little bit Matt Damon. But arguing that Coca Cola is a soup and pizza is a fruit salad doesn't actually help rate a restaurant.

If you want to be serious, then please show us your ranking of all 98 movies. Because that would be respectfully taking part in the thread on your own terms. But otherwise, it's kinda indistinguishable from threadcrapping, eh?

 

[Gradine]

As for my rankings:

1) Game Night
2) Red Eye
3) Send Help