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Good Will Hunting (1997)
Good Will Hunting (1997)
1997 | Drama
Them Apples (0 more)
My favorite Robin Williams Film, and that is saying something...
This is another Modern Classic about potential and brains, but also about where you come from and how you adapt. Here's an anecdote about finding the right studio: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck found a clever way to choose the right studio for their script: the story goes that on page sixty of the script, they wrote a completely out-of-nowhere sex scene between Will and Chuckie. They took it to every major studio, and nobody even mentioned the scene. When they met with Harvey Weinstein at Miramax, he said, "I only have one really big note on the script. About page sixty, the two leads, both straight men, have a sex scene. What the hell is that?" Damon and Affleck explained that they put that scene specifically in there, to show them who actually read the script, and who didn't. As Weinstein was the only person who brought it up, Miramax was the studio chosen to produce the film.

Also for those of you out there who think just because something is done in school it's not good: When Matt Damon was in his fifth year at Harvard, he was in a playwriting class. The culmination of it was to write a one-act play, and he just started writing a movie, which, with the help of Ben Affleck, became this movie.


"But the question is whether or not you're perfect for each other." were they talking about Ben and Matt?



I guess Ben liked Them Apples, LOL, just kidding.... and here's another Alternate Movie Poster.
  
The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
2004 | Action, Drama, Mystery
Matt Damon second outing as Jason Bourne, with the amnesiac assassin hiding out on India, but then being pulled back into action when he is framed for the murder of CIA agents during a government operation in Berlin, and after a tragedy strikes.

Like The Bourne Identity before it, this has some bruising action sequences (while, perhaps, the 'shaky cam' is overdone), culminating in an impressive car chase sequence through and under the streets of Moscow, after which the film seems to run out of steam but still goes on for a bit!
  
The Martian (2015)
The Martian (2015)
2015 | Sci-Fi
Ridley Scott's adaptation of Andy Weir's book of the same name, following the trials and tribulation of botanist astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) after the rest of his crew take off and abandon him on Mars, believing he is dead.

While - of necessity - a large part of the screen time is devoted to Watney and his time alone on the planet, the film (and book) also cuts between his colleagues on the spacecraft home (and how they react once they find out he is alive), and various NASA personnel, most of whom are only given the broad strokes of characterisations

As a Ridley Scott film, you know you're going to get impressive visuals and world building (it's one of the things he excels at), while Damon actually proves surprisingly well cast as Watney. I don't remember the final section of the film being in the book though ...
  
Contagion (2011)
Contagion (2011)
2011 | Drama
The Outbreak
With all of this news about the coronavirus, i thought i reviewing this movie. This came out when the swine flu was around, so back in 2011. When the trailer came out, it looked really scary, because it was about a deadly virus speading. Now thats happening right now with the coronavirus. Its scary, but if you wash your hands with soap and water/hand Sanitizer, keep away from sick people, cover your mouth when you snezze and dont touch your eyes, you will be okay.

Anways to the plot:

When Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow) returns to Minnesota from a Hong Kong business trip, she attributes the malaise she feels to jet lag. However, two days later, Beth is dead, and doctors tell her shocked husband (Matt Damon) that they have no idea what killed her. Soon, many others start to exhibit the same symptoms, and a global pandemic explodes. Doctors try to contain the lethal microbe, but society begins to collapse as a blogger (Jude Law) fans the flames of paranoia.

It has a all-star cast: includes Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, and Jennifer Ehle. Plus Steven Soderbergh directed it.

If you like medical action thriller film, than you will like this film.
  
Downsizing (2017)
Downsizing (2017)
2017 | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
The idea of downsizing (1 more)
Matt Damon
Slow at times (1 more)
Terrible ending
So this started out interesting, and had it's funny points. Some parts got fairly slow by the middle of the film, but it was still entertaining. However, the last 30 -45 minutes were pretty bad. The ending was horrible- it just stops, like the main part of the ending was left on the cutting room floor, or the writers just gave up on trying. I would recommend watching it just to entertain the idea of downsizing. It made for a good thought provoking conversation afterwards.
  
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Good Will Hunting (1997)
1997 | Drama
Oh, look… 4 years later and a different Robin Williams. What is the difference? Well, Matt Damon for one thing. This is perhaps the most serious of the feel good films, riding that boundary boldly and without apology. I was obsessed with this film when it hit its Oscar vibe. I wanted it to win everything, such was its impact on me, and still is. No moment in cinema is more likely to break me than “It’s not your fault“. I am not sure I have ever seen it outside of the cinema without taking a pause there… Minnie Driver made two good films, this and Grosse Point Blank. And in this she is perfectly cast. The feel good factor comes from enduring the pain and seeing it to its conclusion, as Damon rides into the gloom to chase his girl. Perhaps the most satisfying end credits of all time! Just watch him drive towards happiness…