Well, AFI can revise their top 50 films...finally!

Rating: 10/10 (14 September 2008)

You ever wonder what it must have been like to see Henry Fonda for the first time in 'My Darling Clementine' or 'Grapes of Wrath'? Or Marlon Brando in 'The Wild Ones'? Did people watch those movies then and think "Wow! This guy is going to be iconic!"? 'Cause that's the feeling I got when watching two of Casey Affleck's performances this last year. "The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward..." and "Gone, Baby,Gone" The beginnings of greatness, the pivotal break through performances that turn an actor towards the career path of legendary actor, American icon, and a multitude of lifetime achievement awards. You can count them on one hand for each generation and lately it seems we've had to lower the bar some. In a cultural wasteland where everything has been done and redone and the resounding belief is that all the great books have been written and all the great pictures painted, Affleck is a welcome surprise. I can't wait to tell my grandchildren what it was like. And we should all be lucky enough to have big brothers like Ben Affleck to point the way! Outstanding movie!!!