The View From Here Argo and the return of Ben Affleck Subscribe Ben Affleck . Who'd have thought..? I remember going to a sparsely attended screening of Jersey Girl, Kevin Smith's laugh-free 2004 romcom with Affleck cast alongside his then girlfriend, Jennifer Lopez, and wondering what had happened to derail such a promising career. Jersey Girl was the worst in a dismal run of movies that Affleck had starred in - misfires like The Sum Of All Fears and Daredevil or godless romcoms like Forces Of Nature and Bounce. Films that took Affleck further and further away from his breakthrough, in 1987's Good Will Hunting. Of course, while Affleck's career drifted further into the dumps, you couldn't help but wonder what he thought as his Good Will Hunting partner Matt Damon began to pile up impressive credits on his CV: Ocean's 11, The Bourne Identity, Gerry... In 2005, I went to New York to interview Damon, who was then starring opposite George Clooney in Syriana, a fearless political thriller that ended up with a pair of Oscar nominations. While Damon was high on the hog, that same year, Affleck reprised his role as Matt Murdoch in Daredevil spin-off, Elektra. The scene was cut from the finished print. So where did it start going right for Affleck again? There was good work in Hollywoodland , playing George Reeves, the star of the 1950s Superman TV series, who committed suicide. Hollywoodland is a good film - underrated, I think - and Affleck