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The Ben Affleck Affect

So peeps I've been feeling a bit down in the dumps recently. A new year but still the same old me, I haven’t lost those extra pounds, gotten that new job in fact it’s a new year but the same old shit and I’m sure I’m not the only one feeling these blues. Why is it so hard to turn around our lives for the better? Well behold this man, Ben Affleck

  

Yes good old Ben, to look at him now he has it all, critical and commercial praise for his acting, directing and script-writing, a lovely wife and family, Hollywood bromances (both Matt and recently George) and I even hear he’s even down with Obama the ultimate cool dude. Nowadays everything he turns his hand to is a winner, heck he even managed to make Blake Lively’s acting seem tolerable in ‘The Town’, which deserves an Oscar in itself. But things haven’t always been so rosy for Ben; let’s cast our minds back to 2002 and life for him looked like this

He began an ill fated romance with Jennifer Lopez who was fresh from divorcing that K-fed wanna-be Chris Judd. Ben had met her on the set of ‘Gigli’ and it was this film that signalled the loss of the Affleck mojo. A string of movie failures followed for Ben, ‘Jersey Girl’ ‘Daredevil’ ‘Surviving Christmas’ each more horrific in their failure than the last. Was it possible that the birth of ‘Bennifer’ had caused his career to go the way of the Titanic? I mean let’s be honest people; the best thing Ben starred in during this time was this

Acting at its best if ever I saw it.

Alas Ben had become box office poison, he received more attention for being a part of ‘Bennifer’ than for his acting. His Oscar nothing more than a doorstop. 
But nobody puts Ben in the corner. He turned it all around beginning with calling off his engagement to Lopez and took to directing, with ‘Gone Baby Gone’ his directorial debut. His marriage to Jennifer Garner cemented his return to the top and like a phoenix from the flames he went from joke to man on top, Argo his current film is hotly tipped to take best picture at the upcoming Oscars.

So guys let’s take encouragement from Ben’s story his rise, fall and rise once again to the top has certainly inspired me, the guy survived Jennifer Lopez, surely then I can survive anything!