This movie will be released in September of 2010. It is being released by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is a crime and drama film. The cast members are all great actors and actresses and this is going to be a good movie.
There’s a man named Doug(Ben Affleck) basically is a very unrepentant criminal, in essence the leader of a group of bad bank robbers who take great pride and go to great lengths in stealing what they want and they plan out getting out clean.
Having no real attachments, Doug never has the fear of losing anyone that would be close to him. But that all changed on the gang’s last heist; at this point they had a brief hostage, who was the bank manager. Claire Keesey. This isn’t really isn’t their style but at this point they had no choice. And still, they let her go unharmed. Claire is aware that the robbers know her name and also where she lives. But she lets her guard down when she meets a charming man named Doug. However she doesn’t realize that he is the one who only a few days before was the one that had her terrorized.
The instant attraction they felt between them eventually turns into a passionate romance but it threatens to take them down a path that is going to be very dangerous and deadly. This is a crime ad drama movie as stated above and you will be captivated until the end of the movie wondering what is going to happen next.
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The Town: A Stupid, Overrated, Crappy Movie:
The Town is an overrated, cheesy, cartoon-like piece of junk that”s more like a feature-length made-for TV soap opera than a regular movie.
The cast is mediocre at best, the plot and story are overused, the Boston accents, especially on the part of Ben Affleck, are forced and way overdone, and the chemistry between Doug and Claire is non-existent to paltry, at best. One of the most, if not the most bothersome aspects of The Town is the message that it clearly conveys; that it”s okay to steal and rob innocent people of money that they don”t deserve to lose, to terrorize, permanently maim, put innocent bank employees and customers” lives and safety at risk, to abet an armed felon and wanted fugitive (Doug MacRay, the ringleader)to escape the law by getting involved romantically with him, allow him to buy expensive Tiffany diamond necklaces for one, and make utter dupes of law enforcement people who”ve been assigned to bring guys like Doug MacRay to justice and end their robbery careers once and for all, by lying to the Feds, and tipping an armed felon off to them and helping them escape. I think it”s totally wrong.
Oh, and why is it okay for good-girl Claire to receive stolen goods and spend money on the renovation of a seedy hockey rink and dedicate it to her criminal boyfriend”s mother who she never knew?
Hey…come on…Doug put the romance moves on Claire when he met her, in order to shut her up and warn her oh, so subtely not to talk to the Feds or else! One”s supposed to think that Doug really loves Claire and is attrracted to her by her winsome personality, but nothing could be further from the truth, imo. He found Claire attractive, in that she was clearly vulnerable after being traumatized by him and his guys after they held up her bank at gunpoint, and therefore quite gullible and open to exploitation. Almost as soon as Doug got what he wanted out of Claire (a promise not to go to the cops or the Feds), he left the money in her garden and skipped town for Florida, because he was on the lam from the law and couldn”t elope with Claire and exploit her as a bargaining chip, the way he”d wanted to do.
It”s funny how most people don”t realize that Doug was a sociopath who totally exploited the women in his life; Krista for sex, and he left her with nothing, even though he knew she had a young child to take care of (who might or might not be Doug”s), and Claire, who he thought he could elope to Florida with, but could not, after having charmed her into trusting him and then worming his way into her heart so that she”d shut up and not talk to the Feds. One is supposed to sympathize with both Doug and Claire, but, in reality, neither of them deserved any sympathy.
Imho, when the Feds had Claire and Doug meet at her Charlestown condo in a last-ditch effort to nab Doug MacRay and send him off to a Federal penitentiary for his crimes, the Feds should”ve made Claire keep her big fat mouth shut, not call Doug, and let them do their job of arresting Doug and bringing him to prison for his crimes.
Doug deserved to end up in a penitentiary for his crimes, and Claire deserved to be criminally prosecuted herself, or at least put on some sort of probation for abetting Doug and for receiving stolen goods (Doug”s illl-gotten heist money).
I”m sorry, folks, but I cannot bring myself to be sympathetic to either Doug or Claire, who, imho, turned out to be the most dislikeable, and annoying characters in The Town. What most people don”t realize is that Doug is an armed felon and wanted fugitive who”s on the lam from the law, so he”s not going to Florida on vacation. Happily, there;s no way that he and Claire will ever meet again, but the fact that Claire didn”t turn to Frawley for help after learning the truth about Doug and reallizing that she was in over her head, is beyond stupid, and wrong.
The fact that Doug and Jem beat the crap out of two Dominicans from a housing project who”d supposedly thrown bottles at Claire when she”d been stupid enough to walk by herself through a housing project (no woman in her right mind would do that, at any time of night or day) and permanently cripple them shows that Doug, as well as Jem, is a man of violence. My, my…Lady Claire must”ve felt flattered that two armed felons who were also wanted fugitives from the law came to her defense! Pretty sickening, this whole thing.