The year is 2012. René Redzepi is torturing unpaid interns as they painstakingly attempt to make shark teeth into spaghetti carbonara. The world loses one of the greatest voices it has ever had in Whitney Houston, and one of the finest action directors in Tony Scott. Middle aged women are getting SUPER horny while reading Fifty Shades Of Grey, and everyone is putting Sriracha on everything.
But folks, it’s not all bad, not for America’s #1 Dunkin’ Donuts fan at least. That’s right, Ben Affleck and his hideous back tattoo are having a hell of a time. 2012 was the year that Mr. Affleck released his third directorial effort, Argo, in which he also starred as real life CIA operative Tony Mendez. Argo is based on true events and follows Mendez as he and his team attempt to free six escapees of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis by pretending to be a Canadian film production company who are location scouting for a made up movie called, “Argo”. Are you still with m…