This is the first time I am going to do this, but since I just watched Gone Baby Gone right before The Town and they are both directed Ben Affleck, I am going to do a comparison of the both of them.

Gone Baby Gone
Actors: Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris

The Town
Actors: Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jermey Renner, Blake Lively

Intrigue:  Well both of them are written by Affleck, who already co-wrote Good WIll Hunting, so these two had a good foundation.  I like Casey Affleck as an actor a little bit more than Ben so there is a little edge there.  Gone Baby Gone also has a much more quality cast over The Town, even though Hamm, Renner, and Hall look to be breakout stars in the next few years.  Last but not least, the plots in both of these are awesome but the trailer for The Town had me more anticipated than Gone Baby Gone.  Overall, the both of them had great intrigue, but Gone Baby Gone edges out The Town with a score of 14 to 13

Action:  Both of these films are known for being crime dramas, but one had way more action in it.  The Town was simply strung together using mostly action while Gone Baby Gone intertwined itself with plot twists.  The action in The Town kept you on your seat wondering what was going to happen, Affleck did a great job of taking the predictably out of this movie and it made you think what is he going to do in the climax of all the action.  The Town receives the full 15 and Gone Baby Gone gets a 14.

Summation:  Both of these movies had great endings, but the best part of the both of them were the possibilities that could have happened in them.  A movie is pure genius if at the point where the climax is about to reach its peak and you have to question in your mind what is the protagonist going to do next.  Gone Baby Gone gave the viewer a moral question that had me questioning what I would do.  And the Town just had a lot of different paths that Ben Affleck could have went down.  The full 20 points for GBG and 18 for The Town.  2 points deduction for The Town because they preach that they are all family in Charleston, but there is a very specific point in the movie where a backstabbing occurs.

Acting:  The acting in both of them are great.  The more well known actors are in GBG, but the Town has some up and comers.  There was no single downfall in GBG and everything seemed perfect.  At first, I thought Renner was a little sloppy in the Town, but then I thought to myself that he was supposed to be a wild card throughout the whole movie.  He was supposed to be sloppy so we would not know what he would do next.  Full 20 for GBG and 18 for The Town.  They lost by two only because Ed Harris was amazing as always and Morgan Freeman’s character surprised the heck out of me.

Directing:  20 points for both movies.  I am really starting to like Affleck directing movies.  These two were amazing, but i would like to see if he could make a movie outside of Boston.

Special Effects:  5 points for both, no flaws here.

Misc.:  For GBG, I am giving it a full 10 for the moral question raised at the end, and I am glad that they showed how the situation was handled afterward as well.  For The Town, a full 10 here for the sweet masks they have, the ones in the introduction were sweet, I hope someone else notices them and starts a movie off of them.  The movie could be called the guys with the sweet masks or something along those lines.

Final:  GBG received a 98!!!  Sound the alarm, thats a new high score!!!  “What does “high score” mean? New high score, is that bad? What does that mean? Did I break it” that line is courtesy of Grandma’s Boy.  GBG is a quality movie in every aspect, it brings you in early and it never lets you go.  I advise everyone to see this movie, it is a must-see.  The Town received a 94.  Hopefully since i did a comparison between the two you do not think lesser of The Town because it did not score as high as GBG.  The Town is still a very good film and it deserves to be seen by everyone as well.