Affleck’s off-screen controversy is said to have overshadowed the performance.
Trying to do anything social after watching the film remains difficult even on later viewings.
Tate Donovan wearing two polos is called outrageous.
Contemporary complaints that the Adagio in G minor was overused are themselves criticized because the older film examples were decades earlier.
Damon reports that a planned joyful family whale-watching flashback required difficult boat, whale and drone photography and was not filmed after the production ran out of money.
Damon is jokingly blamed for not contributing his own money to preserve the unfilmed ending.
