Movie/film suggestions.

In my opinion, Matt Damon is a talented and versatile actor, and although I do not like all of the movies he has been in, I have thoroughly enjoyed some of them.

One that I thought he did an excellent job in was The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) which also featured  Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and some musicians (trumpet player Guy Barker, Perico Sambeat/alto sax, Byron Wallen/cornet).

Syriana (2005) was a Matt Damon movie that I enjoyed even more than The Talented Mr. Ripley; Wiki says that the movie "was  loosely based on CIA agent Robert Baer's memoir, See No Evil." George Clooney played the CIA agent, Bob Barnes (who was apparently intended to represent the real life CIA agent Robert Baer) and also featured Chris Cooper, Christopher Plummer and Amanda Peet who plays the role Of Matt Damon's wife.

BTW, was WHM’ wife, the female in the Seinfeld episode when she was attractive in the light but very unattractive in the dark?

@slaw , I could not remember whether I had seen Edmond or not (it turned out I have) so I watched the first couple of scenes, and I did recognize Macy’s wife as actress and female vocalist Rebecca Pidgeon.  I haven’t seen many of the movies she has been in, but she did play a consultant for the defense team in Phil Spector (which I thought was an excellent movie) and she had an instrumental role in State And Main which was an okay (basically a comedy of sorts) movie.  I do remember the episode of Seinfeld you are alluding to; however I did a google and she was not credited with acting in any Seinfeld episodes.  I own her Chesky CD, The Raven (1994) which is a well produced/recorded CD and she does a beautiful cover of Spanish Harlem on that disc.

I would say Matt Damon doesn't have a huge range. You either like him or you don't. I think he is getting much better with age. Oppenheimer, Ford vs Ferrari, the Instigators were all stellar performances. I think he struggled with the Departed. 

I also know his classmate from Harvard who said he was a jerk with a giant ego. I don't trust her 110%, she also has a big ego, but sounds about right. Overall, with his activism, Jason Bourne dark charm, I take him any day over Vincent Vaughn.

One movie I like a lot starred Damon: Hereafter, directed by Clint Eastwood. A great story.

@gano , I remember you explaining the reasons that you did not like The Departed, and after I googled it and discovered that a lot of it was not actually filmed in Boston, that did knock it down a notch on my list.

But, I really enjoyed the actors, including Matt Damon as the corrupt Ma state trooper.  What I appreciate about Matt Damon is how he can portray an actor that gives everyone the warm and fuzzies (Will Hunting or Private Ryan . . . and this kind of role is not at all my favorite) or a quite despicable character (such as Mr. Ripley or the corrupt trooper in Departed) or just some type of character who comes off as not extraordinarily good or bad but just flawed to some extent and believable.  His character in Syriana worked for me on that level.

Based on your opinion of his performance in The Departed, I take you would not cast him to play Michael Proctor in the Karen read movie? I don't think I would either.  Maybe Amy Ryan as Karen Read. . . .