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So did only a few people see the Bourne movie this weekend? I find that I don't have much to complain about, but also not much to say. It might have lacked heart.
Also, and possibly interesting only to me, I didn't see a car chase filmed in Chelsea. But I did pass by Bourne's choice of vehicle parked unassumingly on the street several days in a row in Feb. I don't know why they had several blocks roped off for a chase that magically went from the Port Authority to the Seaport, but whatever.
I never got around to seeing the second Bourne movie, and TCG has never seen either of the first two, so if we do get around to seeing the third one, it will probably be on DVD. I did want to see this one, because of Julia Stiles.
I didn't even notice that, which is how much I was paying attention to detail!
In Bourne-related news, Matty D movies apparently make the most per dollar of his salary: [link]
So did only a few people see the Bourne movie this weekend?
I found it wonderfully distracting, but not a conversation piece. I think they sit around and decide which cities they'd like to go to this time and then plan a movie around them -- which isn't a knock, I'm just jealous.
I'm glad we saw it at Union Station because people there are more likely to whoop & cheer when Jason Bourne walks away from each car crash, etc., and that improves it for me.
In Bourne-related news, Matty D movies apparently make the most per dollar of his salary
In a little less than a year, Damon has done the Ocean's movie, Bourne, The Departed, and the Good Shepherd. That is quite a run-- he seems good at selecting good projects, unlike a certain Ben Affleck I could name.
It made me miss a lot of places--many of them to which I've never been. But that's the most of what stayed with me.
Hey! Ben's got his best project yet--Violet. The husband/father downtime has rehabbed him dramatically.
It made me miss a lot of places--many of them to which I've never been.
Before the movie started I told my DH to keep an eye out for places we might like to vacation.
And Ben's been directing, so if that movie's any good, he could be all the way back, in a totally different format.
he seems good at selecting good projects
This is to make up for his karma at selecting some gargantuan number of financial failures (of otherwise-promising projects) in the past. Dude did Ripley, All the Pretty Horses, and The Magical Negro Golfing Movie right in a row, and I think none of them made much money. During that period, Affleck was making shitty but profitable action pictures.
And that's not even counting the period when Affleck was making shoestring indie successes, while Damon kept having his big break in major movies that nobody ever saw.