Ben Affleck Says His "Armageddon" Commentary Track Is Famous With Approaching Fans

A few months ago I made an article about how Ben Affleck's commentary track for Armageddon is the best one ever made and now Affleck is commenting on it while visiting the Criterion Closet.

On the Armageddon Criterion release:

“I was surprised when I heard Criterion was doing Armageddon. I didn’t think of it as that kind of movie when we did it. And in retrospect now, I feel like maybe my best work in my career is the commentary on this disc. People approach me to talk about the commentary on this disc as much as they do the movies I’ve been in. And it’s because I didn’t know any better than to be really honest. But I won’t spoil it for any of you who are interested. It is an achievement that I am proud of, and didn’t intend to be as good as I now think it is, at the time.”

On how fans remember it:

“People approach me about that commentary track as much as my actual movies.”

On the nature of 1990s DVD commentary culture:

“By the way, nobody said anything to me. I don’t think any of the other people listened to it or gave a f*** until years later when it was played. And I was kind of shocked and appalled that I went on there and started being like… I mean, that’s all true. Everything I said was a hundred percent true, but that’s the point. You’re not supposed to go on there and tell all of the truth.”

On the absurdity of the plot:

“I thought, I’m going to go do a big Hollywood action movie and I love it. And yes, during the movie, I was kind of surprised to find that sometimes they weren’t all that interested in making sense. I remember Billy Bob [Thornton] was having a long conversation about a scene in the space mission control or whatever it was, and he was like, ‘No, that’s OK, man. I can stop talking about it. I just kind of like to be in the kind of movies that make sense, you know what I mean? But f*** it, we don’t have to do that. We’re not doing that on this one. F*** it.’ And I was the only person who was kind of like, ‘Okay, I guess we don’t operate by those other rules here.’”

On his kids’ reaction to the movie:

“Even my kids relentlessly mock Armageddon.”

On Dazed and Confused and Richard Linklater’s directing style:

“It was a really wonderful experience for me. It really taught me in doing it that… Because Rick Linklater, the director, kind of invited us to be authors and participate and write and improvise. He made every actor in it a partner and, as a director myself, I’ve really latched on to that lesson and tried to continue with that. I remember he sent us a note that said, ‘If this movie is produced as written, it would be a massive underachievement.’ I had never seen humility in that way, or that kind of approach.”

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