ita is making me feel better.

I won't get to see the movie until at least next weekend, but I was looking forward to a good action/spy thriller.

I also am not a big fan of Julia Stiles. They showed the Prince & Me on the plane over here and since it was hour 9 of the flight, I watched it. I was actually enjoying it until it came time for her to head to Denmark (spoilerfont just in case someone wants to see this movie) and then it got pretty unbelievable.

There is another reason to see Blade 2. Danny John-Jules as one of the acrobat guys. The Cat! From Red Dwarf! In a movie! I don't remember him being very good, but it's still a trip if you're into Red Dwarf.

I think there may have been some creative for-TV editing, Matt. Because every version (and there are a couple, a la Blade Runner) I've seen has that happen after he fucked up the quote from The Day The Earth Stood Still.

No, I'm going to have to go with Matt on this one. I just watched Army of Darkness (Director's Cut) a few weeks ago, and I remember the windmill scene happening before he finds the Necronomicon.

Hellboy was pretty great, though.

Agreed! I liked it a lot. Ron Perlman totally sold it for me.

I'm going to see The Bourne Supremacy this afternoon, yay! Though I'm pissed at myself for looking at ita's whitefont above. grr.

I cannot abide Julia Stiles, and when I saw Bourne Supremacy last night I was so, so grateful that she was just in it for a little tiny bit, and that during her brief appearance the stakes were high enough that she was forced to express actual emotions. I generally hate her but really found her not at all unbearable in this. I did have a moment of panic when Famke died, because I knew Julia was in it and the thought of her as replacement-Famke terrified me. (Which was irritating, as I wanted to be able to be more affected by Marie's death, and I loved, in a wrecked sort of way, the final Night Of The Hunteresque shot of her, and it was mighty annoying to have that pleasurablesad experience interfered with by Stiles Fear.) But eventually she showed up, expressed two actual emotions, and then he locked her in a utility closet and we never saw her again! Best Julia Stiles appearance ever, IMO.

I liked the whole thing overall well enough (certainly better than Hec), but then I am acting's bitch and so the plot holes and shaky camera work bothered me not a whit as long as either Matt Damon, Joan Allen, or, really, any other human was onscreen. So very well cast.

Also, I realized about 2/3 of the way in that my brain and heat had totally woobified Jason Bourne. I don't know what it says about me that my two biggest woobies are Bourne and Dr. Zoidberg.

Damon's Bourne is a bit of a woobie, isn't he? Chamberlain's wasn't, and I never got that vibe from the book. But a dangerous woobie -- I had no sympathy for Franka when she balked at the return of "Treadstone." He didn't bring them back. Remember the first movie, honey? Kind of not his fault.

Oh, totally dangerous. My exact words to Hec were something like "He's my murderingest woobie ever!"

I did have sympathy--I knew the rational reaction, given everything that had happened previously, would have been to listen to him, do what he says, and don't fuckin' argue and hem and haw; but her reaction felt emotionally true enough to me that I let it slide. All the badness had been several years ago; they'd been drifting and anonymous and happily, lovingly wrapped up in each other in a sort of nomadic domestic bliss for so long. She'd just been wandering through the market, pondering the dark ugly mystery of his past, but also picking up food for the dinner they'd be eating in their shabby chic little beach house. Her reaction felt to me like the kind of horrified "No no no it's not fucking fair!" railing against fate before buckling down and doing it that there should've been time for.

It felt awful and emotionally gut-punchy to me to see that even as she was complaining and protesting, she was also swapping seats and seamlessly taking the wheel. Even while part of her was kicking and screaming in protest, another part of her was already working as a team with him, not letting the grief and upset stop her from doing what needed to be done. And if the Russian had shot but missed, she would've been fine. Or, not fine, but anyhow running, no longer griping, an effective partner to Jason, and not dead.

I really would have liked to enjoy The Bourne Identity, but since I spent most of the action scenes looking away, so as not to be sick, it wasn't quite the ideal experience for me.

Maybe it would be better on DVD.

But, JZ, it wasn't over -- she was the one encouraging him to write the dreams down -- he'd wanted to ignore them. Fact is, when your nefariously programmed assassin boyfriend says jump, don't ask how high. It's need to know only. Please don't try to talk him out of the whole jumping plan either. I know she said he didn't have to, and he took that to heart and didn't execute people, but she seemed to be saying he didn't have to be in that life. Much less choice there. And that was what bothered me.

All you Blade II haters are crazy and wrongheaded.

Loved Blade. Loved Blade II even more. It's the better movie. Neither of them are great cinema, but both are well done and enjoyable.

And Blade II is better.

Oh, I know it wasn't the smart reaction on her part, but it was, frankly, very likely the reaction I'd have had in her place. She should have known better, and many of her actions indicate clearly that part of her DID know better, and she still, when the crisis moment came, couldn't stop herself from wanting it to be not that, wanting it to be safe and normal and a situation where you quit a job and it's over and done and you don't have to run forever.

A stupid, flawed, ultimately fatal reaction, but one that happened to be stupid and flawed in a way I painfully, uncomfortably recognized. YStupid&FlawedMV.