Willow ,'Storyteller'
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I liked the first two Bourne films quite a bit. I was surprised by how much I bought Matt Damon as a killer spy, but he's very believable as a guy who can disappear into a crowd only to emerge to wreck havoc and then disappear again.
That final car chase in Supremacy went on a few minutes too long, IMO, but the shaky camera work didn't bother me too much.
Top 20?
Indeed.
They go to 11.
Someday I will get to see Waitress.
I also want to see Once and POTC3.
That's right: I haven't seen a movie in MONTHS.
Also, yay on new thread and esp. new thread name!!!!
Matt Damon kick some ass.
As I said at the time, Dude beat me up with a back issue of Cosmo!! I'll never live this down!
That final car chase in #2 was indeed very jittery, and although it didn't make me nauseated, it made it almost impossible for me to assemble visual images into a coherent narrative. Like, it was all pure raw experience and absolutely no idea what was going on. Which is probably a bad thing.
Dude beat me up with a back issue of Cosmo!!
"Are you Jason Bourne's bitch? Huh? Are you? Take this Cosmo quiz!"
it was all pure raw experience and absolutely no idea what was going on. Which is probably a bad thing.
I see it as a possibly desirable goal of the storyteller. Why wouldn't it be? Pure raw experience has its place.
Oy.
I see it as a possibly desirable goal of the storyteller. Why wouldn't it be? Pure raw experience has its place.
I suppose so, but, at the end of a film that had been narratively coherent up to that point (or relatively so, by Hollywood standards)? Kind of a "one of these things is not like the other" experience.
The upshot of the chase sequence, as with other sequences in the movie, is to showcase Bourne's awesome skills of divergent thinking and creative mis-use of everyday objects. When I can't tell what's going on, how am I to tell he's being creative, and it's not just an accidental splicing of film?
Oy.
I have to give the reviewer credit for typing that long a piece one-handed.