Bennifer documentary was Ben Affleck’s idea+he’s already dating again?

[nutella_forever]

Ben Affleck 'Had Control' Over Documentary About Marriage to Jennifer Lopez: 'It Was His Idea' (Exclusive) https://t.co/9SW0FSgkv4
- People (@people) August 25, 2024
People reports that Ben Affleck had creative control over Jennifer Lopez's Prime Video documentary, 'The Greatest Love Story Never Told

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[peddlestools]

we did a watch party for the actual "movie" which was like 45 minutes?? but not the documentary. ontd, we have to do a watch party for this doc.

[squirrels_oh_no]

Or we could just watch Maid in Manhattan, which came out around the time they were dating the first time? What impact did Maid in Manhattan have on their relationship? What does Ralph Fiennes have to say about any of this?!

[peddlestools]

lol didn't he play a republican in that movie

[squirrels_oh_no]

He most certainly did. But like 2002 Republican is today's Joe Biden. Whoever wrote this movie apparently thought Republicans were big into the environment.

https://www.vulture.com/2021/12/maid-in-manhattan-jennifer-lopez.html

https://letterboxd.com/film/maid-in-manhattan/reviews/by/activity/ and most of the letterboxd reviews are about people feeling uncomfortable about being attracted to a Republican.

eta yet again and I know his American accent is terrible and idek why it was mostly ok in Strange Days so who the hell knows.

tl;dr IDK why I love Maid in Manhattan so much but I do.

[peddlestools]

lol nixon founded the EPA and signed the clean air act

today's republicans are also racist misogynistic lying war-mongering pieces of shit like nixon but uhhhhhhh... maybe they need to re-read silent spring or some shit

[squirrels_oh_no]

My grandfather worked for the EPA and was a leading expert on acid rain but is now MAGA and has a blog where he denies climate change (he's 92 and retired in 1990 so idk where he's getting his facts except out his ass) so who fucking knows with Republican men, they're all over the place.

[theylezharold]

If you ever wanna troll a Quaker, just remind them that Nixon was a Quaker.

I've worked in two majority Quaker workplaces and most of them are THE WORST....they think they're above you, and so insufferable and militant.

Quakers also invented and enforced the modern prison system, and forced isolation for every prisoner all day so that they could spend all that time praying and speaking to god about what they did. They also believed that interaction was bad for prisoners because prison is about saving your soul by communion with god, so they made silence and isolation the mainstays of prison. You were not to connect with each other, only with god.

And ofc none of this is humane. And the Quakers I worked with were also obsessed with so many performative SJW issues...lawn signs but not actually helping via mutual aid, donating money but not actually knowing your neighbor, they're that person who identifies their politics as "progressive" (could they please be more vague?) and they still send tons of missionaries all over Eastern

[peddlestools]

have you read nixonland? it's super engaging for a non-fiction book with heavy citations that's like 800 pages long

[theylezharold]

Omg that sounds right up my alley, as a hater of Nixon, a hardcore admirer and lover of Martha Mitchell 💜, and a hater of many quakers! 😆 Thank you - I just requested it at the library.

I loved the book The Fifties and it was like that too! It says it was 1216 pages but I swear the bibliography was a tome all on its own with some great info.

I've gotten back into sewing vintage patterns and embroidering thrifted clothes, and I'm doing Martha Mitchell's bright red phone on the back of a white camp shirt, with a cigarette (might sequin the outline of some cigarette smoke). And either her name or "Martha was right" or idk....something worthy of her.

[peddlestools]

i was basically like "wtf" throughout reading the whole thing

[wickedground]

isn't Arnold Schwarzenegger really into the environment tho and he's republican lol.

[squirrels_oh_no]

Yeah, but he's not really the 2024 definition of Republican, even if he is a Republican.

[sanditar]

Yes, only because of Natasha Richardson

[archersangel]

What does Ralph Fiennes have to say about any of this?!

If it's true that her PR people planted stories that they were dating to cover for her & Ben dating, he wants to stay out of this.

[squirrels_oh_no]

Ralph Fiennes also should probably not be counted on for providing any sort of comment about dating, cheating, JK Rowling, marriage, or anything related to those topics, given that his Wikipedia relationship section is mostly about his affairs, cheating on his wife, cheating on his partner he left his wife for, and details about how he joined the mile high club on Qantas.

He should probably just keep his mouth shut off-screen.

[kp199]

Yaaaas! I want a watch party!