The wife swapping pitchers sounds more interesting.

Matt Damon is a true friend. Remaking a five year old movie just to subsidize Affleck's career.

I love Matt Damon's accent.

/from Bristol County.

tulax: Matt Damon is a true friend. Remaking a five year old movie just to subsidize Affleck's career.

beat me to it.

I have a huge man crush on Matt Damon. There I said it and I AM FREE AT LAST!!!!

tulax: Matt Damon is a true friend. Remaking a five year old movie just to subsidize Affleck's career.

I am not sure Affleck needs that much help with his career. I mean The Town and Gone Baby Gone showed that he has skills as a director. Plus even if Affleck didn't work his wife still gets regular enough work to keep supporting him. That said a crime movie directed by Affleck, starring Damon and scripted by Terence Winter sounds kind of awesome.

"MATT DAMON."

I thought they reached their individual quotas on making (or ripping off) fu*king horrible Boston crime movies.

The Departed (Damon)
The Town (Affleck)
Gone Baby Gone (Affleck)

BAHSTON

SnakeMan: Wiki says that they grew up in Cambridge, which is apparently part of the "Greater Boston area". I don't know, as a resident of the "Greater Los Angeles area" I hate being lumped into a town that I don't technically live in.

cambridge is considered part of boston by the locals. For example, i live in Allston (technically) but i consider myself as a boston resident.

at first I was like:


But then I was all:

mechgreg: That said a crime movie directed by Affleck, starring Damon and scripted by Terence Winter sounds kind of awesome.

This.

netringer: Yeah, subby, what would two guys from South Boston know about doing Boston accents?

And this.

tlchwi02: SnakeMan: Wiki says that they grew up in Cambridge, which is apparently part of the "Greater Boston area". I don't know, as a resident of the "Greater Los Angeles area" I hate being lumped into a town that I don't technically live in.

cambridge is considered part of boston by the locals. For example, i live in Allston (technically) but i consider myself as a boston resident.

But do folks from Boston proper consider you a Boston resident?

/Met many Chicago residents from Naperville.

SnakeMan: netringer: Yeah, subby, what would two guys from South Boston know about doing Boston accents?

Wiki says that they grew up in Cambridge, which is apparently part of the "Greater Boston area". I don't know, as a resident of the "Greater Los Angeles area" I hate being lumped into a town that I don't technically live in.

Nearly all of Cambridge is closer to downtown Boston than most of Boston itself is.

Make me a farking martini, you fat farking retard!

Wicked pissa!

They should do a movie about psychologist that gets past his personal issues about his dead wife and helps a talented youth from South Boston realize his dream of being a genius.

Robin Williams can play the student and Matt Damon could by the psychologist.

Moopy Mac: tlchwi02: SnakeMan: Wiki says that they grew up in Cambridge, which is apparently part of the "Greater Boston area". I don't know, as a resident of the "Greater Los Angeles area" I hate being lumped into a town that I don't technically live in.

cambridge is considered part of boston by the locals. For example, i live in Allston (technically) but i consider myself as a boston resident.

But do folks from Boston proper consider you a Boston resident?

/Met many Chicago residents from Naperville.

Boston itself is relatively small. It's dense; some 700k people live there, but Greater Boston compares to other cities proper in landmass and density. Excluding people in Cambridge would be kind of like saying you're not from NYC if you live in Brooklyn. Not a perfect analogy. Outside the Greater Boston area are actual suburban communities with commuter rail into the city, for example.

//not a resident, just a fan, feel free to correct

Moopy Mac: But do folks from Boston proper consider you a Boston resident?

yeah, because "Boston" proper is sort of this spread out and nebulous city. For example, even though i live in "Allston" when i want a pizza delivered, or someone sends me a b-day card, when i get my parking permit i go to the Boston City town hall. When i renew my gun license, i do so through the Boston PD. There's a lot of town names that are left over from the really early days of settlement that now are all sort of one big mess.

also why our roads are so bizarre

OtherLittleGuy: It's a fair assessment, if you live with 128, you're part of the Boston area. There's actually a difference in the various Boston accents. A Southie accent is different from a Charlestown accent is different from a Somerville accent is different from a Revere accent, and so on.

yeah, within 128 is "boston" and within 495 is "metro-west."

dothemath: I thought they reached their individual quotas on making (or ripping off) fu*king horrible Boston crime movies.

The Departed (Damon)
The Town (Affleck)
Gone Baby Gone (Affleck)

There's plenty of Rom com's out there to satisfy your vagina.

aevorea: /moving to the region next month

its a really great city actually (although if you don't have one- get a GPS.) the accent isn't nearly as widespread as it used to be.

good food, good culture, and with the greenway its become a great walking city.

tlchwi02: OtherLittleGuy: It's a fair assessment, if you live with 128, you're part of the Boston area. There's actually a difference in the various Boston accents. A Southie accent is different from a Charlestown accent is different from a Somerville accent is different from a Revere accent, and so on.

yeah, within 128 is "boston" and within 495 is "metro-west."

Thank you.

One of my good friends always used to say she was from "Boston" when she was from Wilmington. Admittedly she would usually only do it when she was introducing herself but finally we called her on it and she got the hint.

Though when I lived in London for a while I would say that I was from Boston because very few people knew where New Hampshire was in relation to anything, and to be fair I only grew up less than an hour away by 93.

But yes, Cambridge is Boston for just about everyone in New England. In my experience the ones who most care about the distinction when describing it to outsiders are people from Charleston and East Boston.

Mr. Parker: There's plenty of Rom com's out there to satisfy your vagina.

There are also plenty of other actually good crime movies. Like the two Affleck ripped of to make 'The Town':
'The Friends of Eddie Coyle'
and
'Heat'.

I know, you like bang-bang gun movies but arent big on plot or dialogue so I guess there is plenty of light, simple entertainment out there for you.

having them walk around dorchester with a vid camera at 3am would be more interesting

Uptown Hipster Doofus: I just watched The Depahted!

My condolences.

FunkOut

I was explaining to my father the other day what a Masshole was


*boggle*

How much of an explanation can that really require?

Mr. Parker: dothemath: I thought they reached their individual quotas on making (or ripping off) fu*king horrible Boston crime movies.

The Departed (Damon)
The Town (Affleck)
Gone Baby Gone (Affleck)

There's plenty of Rom com's out there to satisfy your vagina.

Ohsnap.jpg

Lunchlady: One of my good friends always used to say she was from "Boston" when she was from Wilmington. Admittedly she would usually only do it when she was introducing herself but finally we called her on it and she got the hint.

Though when I lived in London for a while I would say that I was from Boston because very few people knew where New Hampshire was in relation to anything, and to be fair I only grew up less than an hour away by 93.

when i was living in franklin i would say "outside" or "a suburb" of boston when i was talking to people who aren't from the northeast, even though to a local it would be barely metro-west. its just easier sometimes

I don't care what anyone says. I love them both.

Uh... Wasn't Nicholson's character in The Departed already based off Bulger?

FerneJohn: Uh... Wasn't Nicholson's character in The Departed already based off Bulger?

This is what I was thinking. Are they remaking a recent movie?

SnakeMan: netringer: Yeah, subby, what would two guys from South Boston know about doing Boston accents?

Wiki says that they grew up in Cambridge, which is apparently part of the "Greater Boston area". I don't know, as a resident of the "Greater Los Angeles area" I hate being lumped into a town that I don't technically live in.

Plus, saying you know about South Boston when you grow up in Cambridge is a bit like saying you know about South Central when you grew up in Beverly Hills.

aevorea: OtherLittleGuy: SnakeMan: netringer: Yeah, subby, what would two guys from South Boston know about doing Boston accents?

Wiki says that they grew up in Cambridge, which is apparently part of the "Greater Boston area". I don't know, as a resident of the "Greater Los Angeles area" I hate being lumped into a town that I don't technically live in.

It's a fair assessment, if you live with 128, you're part of the Boston area. There's actually a difference in the various Boston accents. A Southie accent is different from a Charlestown accent is different from a Somerville accent is different from a Revere accent, and so on.


/Meffa

*blinks*

*cries*

/moving to the region next month

Don't cry! You're going to learn whole new ways to rhyme words! Words you never thought would rhyme!

/Like fedah and cheddah
//feta and cheddar

moving to the region next month

Read Zodiac.
And hike from Faneuil Hall out to Fenway Park - it's a good way to calibrate your sense of scale.

/Can't do much about the accents, though

SnakeMan: netringer: Yeah, subby, what would two guys from South Boston know about doing Boston accents?

Wiki says that they grew up in Cambridge, which is apparently part of the "Greater Boston area". I don't know, as a resident of the "Greater Los Angeles area" I hate being lumped into a town that I don't technically live in.

The Boston accent doesn't end at the Boston border and I wouldn't say the accent differs that much from area to area. Someone who grew up in Cambridge and someone who grew up in Quincy would probably has similar sounding accents.

But I really hate hearing the Hollywood version of the Boston accent because you can tell they're trying too hard to fake it. Especially when it a character who's a Kennedy. Yea, the 'Rs' are dropped and the 'As' are sort of drawn out with an 'H' sound at the end but the actors stress those things to make it sound unnatural.

Wiki: Boston Accent.