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Oh, what the heck: T delayed by Affleck
By adamg on Sun, 03/26/2023 - 10:32am
Crews were busy filming a scene for the Matt Damon/Casey Affleck crime-caper film at City Hall last night. Lots of faux emergency vehicles with blue lights flashing everywhere, film workers and actors doing film work and acting and the whole nine yards. Enter Stage Right: The shuttle buses called in to replace the Red Line due to signal work:
*robot voice* “Attention Red Line passengers: We are experiencing significant delays in service due to Matt Damon” https://t.co/e8LYmSHyie
— Kevin Slane (@kslane) March 25, 2023
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congress st
oh is that why congress street was closed last night? i was heading into the city, was on mental autopilot, missed my stop on 93N, and had to get off at gov't center.
big mistake. it added 30 minutes to my drive in.
Really?!
Really?!
Orrrrr
The T was already delayed and some smart individual decided to shift blame.
Seems like adding insult to injury
As if breakdowns weren't enough, we have entirely shutdowns due to entirely elective reasons as well.
Starf*ucking
Pure and simple.
Elective?
Do you think gritty crime dramas set on the streets of Boston make themselves? It's important that this completely original and unexplored story be told - and if nothing else, we need to support Hollywood in case they want to get *really* original and make a movie about World War II, or some sort of spidered man who fights crime.
Maybe we can have a gritty crime drama
in which Damon and Affleck find out what exactly is causing all those delays on the T:
Affleck, a motorman, finds evidence of Things. No one believes him. He calls his old buddy, now-McKinsey-consultant Will Hunting (Damon). Chase sequences through Southie and snarky faceoffs at palatial North Shore politician estates ensue.
Yes!
I’d watch that!
No, too unrealistic: you don
No, too unrealistic: you don't hire McKinsey to fix things, you hire them to cover for unpopular decisions.
Elitist arrogance at it's finest
"Let's cause 20 minute delays to the T just because we CAN". With all the problems the T is currently having, and the inconveniences riders endure on a daily basis, I have to wonder just how tone deaf these people can possibly be.
And all for that one exact same movie Ben Affleck keeps making over and over again.
Huh?
Unless you know something we don't, the filmmakers didn't create the reason that the Red Line was using shuttle buses in the first place.
Not to mention that filming in Boston requires a series of permit approvals so none of the street disruptions are happening without the consent of the city government.
Not the first time
The entire Zakim was once shut for a scene in a forgettable Tom Cruise movie.
The friends of Eddie coyle
The friends of Eddie coyle was the only good Boston movie. Everything else is chat
The original "Thomas Crown Affair"...
...was a pretty good one too. Not much of a plot, but Steve McQueen was so damn cool.
I had Bruins seats in the old
I had Bruins seats in the old Garden not far from where Eddie sat. What was good about that movie was that it took place not just in Boston proper but in near suburban spots where most of us reside, i.e., a Red Line station in Quincy(where Eddie lived), Dedham, the train station in Sharon. One scene took place on Memorial Drive near the MIT Baker dorm, not far from own frat house. Robert Mitchum nailed the accent.
https://dvdizzy.com/images/f/friendsofeddiecoyle-05.jpg
At least this isn't as bad as
At least this isn't as bad as the more and more frequent orange and green line shutdowns for the developer of the government center garage site. Somehow highways are never shut for all the deck work being done or other construction but the state is happy to make the T even more useless by shutting it to save the developer money.
Two hours from Harvard to JFK
Two hours from Harvard to JFK last night on the shuttle bus. If they had told me what was happening, I would have gotten off at Haymarket (suddenly a stop on the Red Line) and walked to South Station.
Im gonna guess
Im gonna guess
Im gonna guess
I am gonna guess that this bus here, used as a prop at GC today was apart of this shoot.
Oh the irony.
WE should keep that bus...
The 5 digit number is intriguing in its own right. Although it's prob just one of the 0600-0929 (or whatever the highest number of that range is, too lazy too look it up now) repainted to fit the scene...
It's not
Its actually not a MBTA bus.. at least according to the twitter thread attached to that picture. Its a Gillig made bus. The MBTA never had buses from them (although had a bid out for hybrids at one point apparently). They LOOK like a NABI/Neoplan but it is not.
Movie bus
The bus you're seeing there is a Gillig Advantage, which is used in Brockton, Springfield and Worcester. Movie studios will rent a transit bus from that authority, or lease a bus from a company that specializes in movie buses. The company will shrink-wrap the bus with that transit authority's logos (MTA of New York, CTA, SEPTA), and use it for the movie.
The buses you're talking about are the New Flyer D40LF buses (0600-0910 series - 0910 was formerly 0755, as the original bus was involved in a fatality and had to be renumbered) that the MBTA purchased in 2006-2008. The MBTA is getting a new fleet of 160 hybrid buses to replace those buses.