{"id":406278,"date":"2022-02-16T04:19:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T01:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ben-affleck-cranks-up-the-cringe-with-new-love-video\/"},"modified":"2022-02-16T04:19:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T01:19:57","slug":"ben-affleck-cranks-up-the-cringe-with-new-love-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ben-affleck-cranks-up-the-cringe-with-new-love-video\/","title":{"rendered":"#Ben Affleck cranks up the cringe with new love video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Ben Affleck cranks up the cringe with new love video<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Maureen Callahan\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=152 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=38 38w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>       <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Not since \u201cGigli\u201d have Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez produced this level of cringe.<\/p>\n<p>And oh, my God, is it amazing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis seriously melted my heart,\u201d J.Lo wrote in an online post to fans this week. She couldn\u2019t help herself, she said, from sharing \u201csomething very special and personal with you that normally I would only share with my inner circle . . . [a] Valentine\u2019s Day present from Ben.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What follows is J.Lo\u2019s music video for her song \u201cOn My Way,\u201d intercut \u2014 for reasons clear only to the director \u2014 with black and white footage of Affleck and Matt Damon shooting 1997\u2019s \u201cGood Will Hunting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Damon may be Affleck\u2019s forever Valentine. But that\u2019s an aside.<\/p>\n<p>We see lots of shots of young Ben smoking, or wrinkling his forehead and smoking, or showing off his dance moves interspersed with clips from Bennifer\u2019s great artistic meta-commentary on romance amid tabloid fame, 2002\u2019s \u201cJenny from the Block\u201d video.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a love letter . . . I guess?<\/p>\n<p>Forget Woodward and Newman. Burton and Taylor? Amateurs.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Affleck-Lopez-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Jennifer Lopez video reedited with Ben Affleck in it\" class=\"wp-image-21224520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Affleck-Lopez-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Affleck-Lopez-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Affleck-Lopez-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Jennifer Lopez re-edited her video for \u201cOn My Way\u201d and added Ben Affleck to it. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Vimeo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>No, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez have staked their claim on The Greatest Hollywood Love Story of All Time as well as outer-limits narcissism.<\/p>\n<p>Consider the refrain to \u201cOn My Way\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd every heartbreak was just a yellow brick road\/Pointing me straight, just taking me home\/I was never lost\/I was just passing through\/I was on my way to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, every other relationship these two had \u2014 including long marriages that produced multiple children \u2014 were mere speed bumps, distractions, nuisances, crosses to bear on their way to reclaiming True Love.<\/p>\n<p>            <iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"wpcom-iframe-fc601a39d281f7a404f6108692e3a9f0\" width=\"\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/embeds.nypost.com\/protected-iframe\/fc601a39d281f7a404f6108692e3a9f0\" scrolling=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"fullscreen\"><br \/>\n    <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Oh, my God. This breakup is going to be epic.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Affleck is the undisputed performance artist of our time. His cycles of self-sabotage and last-minute career resurrections, all for public consumption, are more riveting and dramatic than any film he\u2019s ever done.<\/p>\n<p>The back tattoo, the rehab stints, the gambling, the nanny, the \u201cFinding Your Roots\u201d debacle, the Oscar bait leavened by bombs and Batfleck, the self-inflicted wounds, the cruelty \u2014 these are but a few that come to mind.<\/p>\n<p>Here he was on Howard Stern in December, shading his long-suffering ex-wife, Jennifer Garner, while campaigning for an Oscar nomination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI probably still would\u2019ve been drinking\u201d had they stayed married, he said. \u201cPart of why I started drinking was because I was tr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed. I was like, \u2018I can\u2019t leave because of my kids, but I\u2019m not happy. What do I do?\u2019 And what I did was drank a bottle of scotch and fell asleep on the couch, which turned out not to be the solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Affleck-Lopez-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Video grabs of Jennifer Lopez video reedited with Ben Affleck in it.\" class=\"wp-image-21224527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Affleck-Lopez-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Affleck-Lopez-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Affleck-Lopez-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Not since \u201cGigli\u201d have Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez produced this level of cringe.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Vimeo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Apparently the solution is to play reality show with your old flame. J.Lo wore a wedding dress to her \u201cMarry Me\u201d premiere, escorted by Affleck. She uploaded that private Valentine\u2019s video on her opening weekend. She sat for cover stories with Rolling Stone and People, telling the latter that their rekindled love is \u201csacred\u201d and \u201cI want to do everything I can to protect that and keep it safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This from a couple that loves to claim that <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> attention originally broke them up \u2014 not Affleck\u2019s cheating with s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>pers in Canada weeks before their wedding in 2003, an epic night that ended back at a rental, his pal Christian Slater getting his back shaved by a topless dancer.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>\u201cKeep this just between us,\u201d Affleck reportedly told stripper Tammy Morris.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Morris told all to the National Enquirer.<\/p>\n<p>And Lopez \u2014 gifted a Rolls Royce, a diamond ring and a lavish birthday party just a week before by Affleck \u2014 called off the wedding.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, the path to true love isn\u2019t always smooth, right? Every heartbreak was just a yellow brick road.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video. Be a humanitarian \u2014 share it. And hold its memory close when they issue the inevitable joint statement announcing, after much painful consideration, their decision to part ways \u2014 requesting, of course, \u201cprivacy at this difficult time.\u201d\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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And oh, my God, is it amazing. \u201cThis seriously melted my heart,\u201d J.Lo wrote in an online post to fans this week. She couldn\u2019t help herself, she said, from sharing \u201csomething&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":406279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Jlo-Ben-Valentine.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[125751,50541,77078,19935,1899],"class_list":["post-406278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2-15-22","tag-ben-affleck","tag-celebrity-relationships","tag-jennifer-lopez","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}