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.

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?

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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?

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.

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.

Oh, I liked both of those, too--although neither of them is an action-film, so there still could be some shaky-cam.

I've heard that there is some fun to be had in Rob Schneider mocking Stallone's speech patterns to his face, but doubtless not enough to justify sitting through the entire movie.

When you need people who are good at violence and operating in icy cold conditions, where else would you go for recruiting?

Yeah, the fact that it was so obviously "See, this is funny! Because hockey players are rilly violent!" didn't help.

So. I've now seen all of Batman and Robin. I like the ending. One can only imagine that conversation at Arkham Asylum.

"We have a new inmate coming today. Tried to massacre the entire city."
" Cool. [Oh yes, I went there.] Who is he?"
"Frieze or Fries or something. Umm... Oh yeah. That woman in Cell 16A, she tried to kill his wife."
"Oh, so he knows someone here already! That's nice. We should make them cellmates."

I can haz whitefont?!

Did not know any comic backstory, and yet the Talia reveal didn't totally surprise me, so much as I'd forgotten my The Mask epiphany back when Bruce was rubbing over her scar and I had a moment of "the good girl is the bad girl, and the femme fatale is the honest one". Yes, Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz were a feature of my perusings while watching Verbs. Also, I was kinda thrilled when I went from "stupid hollywood, having MC catch that gun-toss like she's used to it and not fumbling it like a normal civvie would" to "OH!".

As for sound, my theatre had the score/SFX cranked to 11, and I had a hard time understanding anyone.

I thought Bats lessened growl even more ridiculous than his growl, and was glad there was less Batman and more Bruce Wayne, because everytime I saw him in a scene with Bane, I thought he looked silly. The Batman looks best at night, where the shadows hide his goofy comic-bookness.

I floved it. I actually gasped and slapped my hands over my face at one point when I realized that Blake was either going to be the new Batman, or Robin.

I hadn't rewatched the previous movies in a while, but I still remembered enough at promptings in Verbs to recall deets and it was rewarding.

And I don't mind that there didn't seem to be consistency in a message about whether "government is bad" or "individual citizens are mobs" or any institution/authority issues, because they ALL have good and bad points. We can be sad that the entire police force is locked in the tunnels, and there are still scared douchey rule-followers who don't let little orphan kids cross the bridge.

Excellent, I killed the movie thread. This is what I get for avoiding weekend crowds at the theatre? Wah!

So while we're not talking about Verbs, or anything at all, I rewatched the Ritchie Sherlock movies instead of catching up on Batman. Which then prompted me to look for BBC's Sherlock, and finally am watching season 2. Again, I am struck by how Ritchie's Sherlock is instantly besotted with Watson, can't live without him, and all the love and brangst, and Watson's (not so) secret joy of Holmes. And then we have Moffatt's Holmes, who is cold and I'm halfway through Scandal in Belgravia and have yet to note any respect or warmth towards Watson at all, despite Watson' initial hero worship (and even that is gone by now).