Am I the only one who can't stand Matt Damon?

really, what was the deal there?

Damon probably tortures puppies too.

That was a staged video and meant to be funny. His true tosser moment was his reaction to his portrayal in Team America.

He was convincing as a psychopath in the Talented Mr. Ripley. He's got the earnest, goofy boy face with the hate simmering inside. He's forever typecast in that role for me. When he played a boyfriend of Liz Lemon's in 30 Rock he was a quirky airline pilot who seemed likeable but ended up being a psychopath. In anything else, he just seems like a permanent teenager. But he was ok with the beard in Oppenheimer as you could hardly tell it was him.

LOL you've moved on though right? I get you. God bless

And you like him.

I concur. When he delivers his lines it’s like he’s telling everyone Hey, I’m acting here! Sooo overrated

My favorite performance of his might be in The Talented Mr. Ripley. Most of his performances are pretty lukewarm though - decent, but not particularly impressive.

Way back in the 90's a movie critic named Anthony Lane (The New Yorker), with some movie history to his credit wrote dismissively of Matt Damon as a movie star: "Matt Damon! Cary Grant would have tipped Damon five dollars to park his car."

That's how it felt back then. Damon was part of a new generation of "boy man stars" led by Tom Cruise and added to by Leo DiCaprio and early Brad Pitt and ...though eventually they all aged into their 50s and 60s...they WERE boys. Of sorts. And that's just what young audiences seemed to want.

But Damon seemed the most boyish of them all. Good Will Hunting was a good movie, but Affleck looked more like the movie star -- and was made such for awhile(The Sum of All Fears, Reindeer Games.)

But then something funny happened: Affleck started bombing (Gigli was the big one) and Damon lucked into a franchise -- The Bourne movies. You ask me, it was the same movie three times and the car chases were shaky-cam incomprehensible. But they were hits, the fight scenes were great and Matt Damon made sense as a young military guy turned spy. (Still, in the first one, a scene versus Clive Owen as a bad guy had me asking: "Why is Damon, and not Owen, the star of this?)

Bourne on the one hand, and the Ocean's Eleven movies on the other, bought Damon a lot of box office in the 2000s and I'd say The Martian saved him from another slump.

And now, he's simply...an established name. Castable. That's it. And as he gets older he gets better -- he was fine in True Grit (13 years ago!) in the role Glen Campbell massacred in 1969.

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