I'm the same way on the Bourne films. I can't remember a goddamn thing about them. But I'm sure they were cool at the time.
Angel: He is dead. Technically, he's undead. It's a zombie. Connor: What's a zombie? Angel: It's an undead thing. Connor: Like you? Angel: No, zombies are slow-moving, dimwitted things that crave human flesh. Connor: Like you. Angel: No! It's different. Trust me.
'Destiny'
Buffista Movies 6: lies and videotape
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Polter-Cow - Jul 09, 2007 7:54:58 am PDT #7 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
§ ita § - Jul 09, 2007 7:55:47 am PDT #8 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Bourne fights kinda kravlike. I dig that.
beekaytee - Jul 09, 2007 7:56:55 am PDT #9 of 10000
Compassionately intolerant
Thwapping that guy with the rolled up magazine kills me.
Paper train that bad guy Bourne! Rub his nose in it!!
Kathy A - Jul 09, 2007 8:00:21 am PDT #10 of 10000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
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.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 09, 2007 8:05:05 am PDT #11 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Top 20?
Indeed.
They go to 11.
sumi - Jul 09, 2007 8:05:48 am PDT #12 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
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.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 09, 2007 8:06:18 am PDT #13 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Also, yay on new thread and esp. new thread name!!!!
Nutty - Jul 09, 2007 8:32:41 am PDT #14 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
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.
Tom Scola - Jul 09, 2007 8:41:46 am PDT #15 of 10000
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Dude beat me up with a back issue of Cosmo!!
"Are you Jason Bourne's bitch? Huh? Are you? Take this Cosmo quiz!"
§ ita § - Jul 09, 2007 8:43:36 am PDT #16 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.