Dirty Water

So I just watched Ben Affleck's Gone Baby Gone. It's surprisingly good, especially since most everything that Affleck has touched since 1998 or so has been shit. Casting his brother as the lead instead of himself was a good call. But the one thing that I really took away from the film was that Boston is not a nice place. Granted, I had already begun to get this impression from films like The Departed, Mystic River and- perhaps most of all- Fever Pitch (the one with Jimmy Fallon that managed to transform a Nick Hornby book about soccer into a moist love letter to the Red Sox.)