Matt Damon

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Wikidata Q175535: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as producer, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they produced, which the two lists below run through too: Manchester by the Sea (2016). Count them as actor (25 films) instead.

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career (7)

career (career): The Martian → Matt Damon. The Martian is Damon's local-maximum: a post-apex Apex Mountain, the I-still-got-it peak.
“So Matt Damon, the Martians, a great one.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:41:14 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Brad Pitt → Matt Damon. The group debates whether Damon's best seven films can match Pitt's.
“So the question for me is, could Matt Damon top that with his best seven?”
The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:24:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Matt Damon → School Ties. School Ties is the model for the young Matt Damon part.
“Like a 1993 school ties there, Matt Damon, as Winchell, but he was too old by the time they made this movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:21:58 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
career (career): Matt Damon → The Bourne films. Damon cited his Bourne commitment as the reason he turned down Avatar.
“Apparently he cited his ongoing commitment to the Bourne films as the reason why he ultimately didn't take this, right?”
The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:16:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
career (career): Matt Damon → The Great Wall. Damon took the Great Wall for the same reasons he supposedly gave for passing on Cameron.
“But he did it for all the reasons that he said he didn't work with James Cameron.”
The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:16:48 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Matt Damon → Interstellar. Interstellar is named as the capper to Damon's run as a supporting actor.
“interstellar being the sort of like beautiful capper to that, right?”
The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:19:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career contrast): Ben Affleck → Matt Damon. Damon did the serious prestige work while Affleck made the big blockbusters.
“Damon was doing the serious prestige stuff with serious filmmakers, and Affleck makes the big dumb blockbusters that people like, but they're not taken seriously.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 1:00:01 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

industry (1)

industry (accent rivalry): Mark Wahlberg → Matt Damon. Damon's Boston accent is better; Wahlberg overdoes it.
“I think that Damon is better and I think Wahlberg overdoes it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:30:24 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)

programming (1)

programming (programming): Good Will Hunting → Matt Damon. Good Will Hunting plus its Damon/Affleck/Williams Oscar campaign started Amanda's interest in the stories around movies.
“I think the 1st time I was aware of all of that was Goodwill Hunting”
The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:08:11 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)

unmapped (3)

unmapped (passed the part): Brad Pitt → Matt Damon. Pitt dropped out of the Damon role and produced; Damon later passed Manchester by the Sea to Casey Affleck in a similar gesture.
“Matt Damon later paying it forward in that same way, giving Casey Affleck, Manchester.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.65 sure it was them)
unmapped (Boston accent): Matt Damon → Good Will Hunting. Damon is the best Boston accent in the cast, going back to Good Will Hunting.
“Goodwill hunting, the part is the best.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:30:09 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (creep vs sweetheart): Matt Damon → The Martian. Damon's best work is the creeps like Ripley, and Ryan prefers that to his America's sweetheart phase in The Martian.
“Matt Damon's best performances are always the one where he plays the creeps, like Ripley”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:47:42 · Chris Ryan (0.75 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

verdict (verdict): Matt Damon → Matt Damon. Posed as a recurring Blank Check bit: is Damon better as a supporting actor than a lead.
“is Matt Damon secretly a better supporting actor than he is a leading man?”
The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:19:49 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (4)

what-if (what-if): Matt Damon → Friday Night Lights (2004 film). A mid-90s Matt Damon, as in School Ties, would have been ideal for Winchell, but he was too old by 2004.
“And what I realized was that this would have been an amazing mid 90s Matt Damon part.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:21:52 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Avatar → Matt Damon. Damon was offered the lead role of Jake Sully, which Sam Worthington ended up playing.
“Matt Damon famously was offered the role of Jake Sully, which Sam Worthington eventually portrayed.”
The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:15:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Matt Damon → The Departed. If Damon had spent the mid-2000s on Avatar he might not have been in The Departed.
“maybe he's not in the departed.”
The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:18:55 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Matt Damon → True Grit. Missing True Grit would have been the real cost of Damon making Avatar.
“But then if he's not in true grit.”
The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:19:08 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

fun, about Matt Damon: Damon reportedly brainstormed his character's impotence issues.
“So supposedly he brainstormed it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:36:47 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Matt Damon: Matt Damon is shirtless and yoked on the set of The Odyssey, which launches the cold plunge jokes.
“Matt Damon is absolutely yoked out of his mind at the moment.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:02:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Matt Damon: Damon turned down Jake Sully plus 10 percent of the future growth.
“In addition to 10% of the future growth of this movie.”
The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:15:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Matt Damon: David wrote a sarcastic Atlantic article about the Great Wall poster and Damon blamed his own disappointment on the magazine.
“I wrote a sarcastic article and then Matt Damon gave an interviewer.”
The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:17:11 · David Sims (0.80 sure it was them)