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The Lakers Escape and Miami Flops With Kevin O’Connor, Plus Wesley Morris on ‘Air,’ ‘Succession,’ and Ben Affleck’s Unique Career

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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The Importance of Blackness in 84

Affleck has made this movie as light as a movie from 1984 right where the consequences the stakes are low um and yet there's a kind of sneaky depth to it too. The way they were able to pull in basically everybody who would like this movie isn't just me I was glad you liked it  I mean I'm the target audience I grew up with all the posters that are in the office" Amazon initially wasn't going to put this movie in the theater and then they said fuck it they made like 20 millionUm they spent I don't know 110 130 whatever it was really when it went into production everything about it for them once it's on Amazon literally everybody's gonna watch it

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