Ben Affleck cranks up the cringe with new love video
nypost.com“Gigli” have Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez produced this level of cringe.And oh, my God, is it amazing.“This seriously melted my heart,” J.Lo wrote in an online post to fans this week.
She couldn’t help herself, she said, from sharing “something very special and personal with you that normally I would only share with my inner circle . . . [a] Valentine’s Day present from Ben.”What follows is J.Lo’s music video for her song “On My Way,” intercut — for reasons clear only to the director — with black and white footage of Affleck and Matt Damon shooting 1997’s “Good Will Hunting.”Damon may be Affleck’s forever Valentine.
But that’s an aside.We see lots of shots of young Ben smoking, or wrinkling his forehead and smoking, or showing off his dance moves interspersed with clips from Bennifer’s great artistic meta-commentary on romance amid tabloid fame, 2002’s “Jenny from the Block” video.It’s a love letter . . .
I guess?Forget Woodward and Newman. Burton and Taylor? Amateurs.No, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez have staked their claim on The Greatest Hollywood Love Story of All Time as well as outer-limits narcissism.Consider the refrain to “On My Way”:“And every heartbreak was just a yellow brick road/Pointing me straight, just taking me home/I was never lost/I was just passing through/I was on my way to you.”In other words, every other relationship these two had — including long marriages that produced multiple children — were mere speed bumps, distractions, nuisances, crosses to bear on their way to reclaiming True Love.Oh, my God.
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