Noooooooo!!!! Not MAH entrails! I needz dem! They're as essential to my continued existence as my absolute certainty that my taste in movies is the only possible correct opinion to have!
She growls?! You made her so she growls?!
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
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Steph L. - Jul 23, 2012 8:02:34 am PDT #21950 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
§ ita § - Jul 23, 2012 8:48:47 am PDT #21951 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The Bourne series lost me a while ago. The migraine in the theatre due to the camera in the last one reminded me I wasn't enjoying myself as much as I'd liked the books. With the loss of Damon I don't expect the loss of Stiles to be appealing enough.
And I'm spending too much time in the trailers wondering if they changed his genes as an adult or it's a Hanna thing. And if I have time to think of all that, I'm not excited. That and wondering how genetics change the laws of physics.
Which is kinda what I was thinking about the infrastructure of the JT sci fi movie versus that of Panem. If it's distracting me right then, not my cake.
I am getting more and more excited about Total Recall, though. I did watch the second half of the original a month or so ago, and am wondering if it would be interesting to be up on it for Easter eggs. Which reminded me of a comment I read on TDKR, someone saying they were grateful that Nolan avoided the catfight option, where Total Recall clearly couldn't.
Consuela - Jul 23, 2012 8:58:18 am PDT #21952 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Crap, I forgot about the motion sickness.
I probably won't be able to watch the Bourne movie in the theaters. Damn it.
Ah, well, back to my bingeing on Foyle's War...
Zenkitty - Jul 23, 2012 9:00:58 am PDT #21953 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I liked the first Bourne movie, can't recall a thing about the second and third. I plan to watch Bourne Legacy paying no mind to anything except Renner and the thrilling physics-defying action sequences. I'm sure the movie will have a bit of a plot and a girl, but I don't care.
Scrappy - Jul 23, 2012 9:13:16 am PDT #21954 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Nom, nom. Delicious gluten-free entrails.
Calli - Jul 23, 2012 9:17:23 am PDT #21955 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I enjoyed the previous Bourne movies well enough to see them in the theater but not so much that I had to buy the DVDs. TNT ran a Bourne marathon a week or so ago that I had on in the background. I liked the movies for the scenery and the fight scenes, and I mentally pasted over the main plot arc with "big eeeeeeevil goverment conspiracy thingy" 10 minutes after the credits ran. So the possible mitachlorination of the Bourne mythos suggested by the trailers probably won't bother me much. And I find Renner attractive, so I'll probably see it in the theater the first week it's out.
le nubian - Jul 23, 2012 9:17:54 am PDT #21956 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
So, tell me if this doesn't look like it could make for an awesome movie. I feel like it could not be feature length though. How will this work?
le nubian - Jul 23, 2012 9:18:11 am PDT #21957 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Vonnie K - Jul 23, 2012 11:06:40 am PDT #21958 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Crap, I forgot about the motion sickness
Different director. Paul Greengrass, who did the last 2 Bourne movies, is extremely fond of motion sickness-cam. Bourne Legacy is directed by Tony Gilroy. This is only his third movie, but I really liked his two other films (Michael Clayton and Duplicity) and I don't recall any shaky-cam mania in either of those.
Renner just shot a wacky-sounding movie with Marion Cotillard and Joaquin Phoenix, in which he plays... a magician. Err. [link]
Well, he's not playing a criminal or a soldier or a government agent. Woo-hoo for branching out, I guess?
Atropa - Jul 23, 2012 11:20:14 am PDT #21959 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I never saw the first Judge Dredd movie, so I don't know what it's about. (Is that something I shouldn't admit? My pop culture is spotty.)
Don't see the first Judge Dredd movie. I never have, but I have been assured by the rabid Judge Dredd fan I live with that there is NOTHING good about it. (There's more to the rant, but it is best witnessed in person, because Pete gets very worked up.)
But he's really, REALLY looking forward to the new Judge Dredd movie. Me, I'm looking forward to Paranorman and Frankenweenie.