Format: Blu-Ray from personal collection on rockin’ flatscreen.
Honestly, this isn’t much of a prediction, or at least it’s a prediction without much in the way of risk. Every year since the incarnation of The List, the latest Best Picture winner from the Academy Awards has made it into that year’s edition. While there’s certainly the possibility of an exception, my guess is that Argo will grace one of the back pages in about a month.
Ben Affleck has gotten a lot of crap in his career. A lot of that (Daredevil, Gigli, Paycheck) has been deserved. So Argo is rather a redemptive moment for Mr. Affleck. It was, up to this point, pretty easy to push off all of Affleck’s acting roles as trying to capitalize on his charm and good looks. Despite his less-than-stellar movies in front of the camera, he has been slowly working out from under the baggage of his name as a producer and director. Argo put him in triple-threat territory: producer, director, and actor. And all of us can shut up about Ben Affleck now, because he nailed this one.
