The Bourne Legacy: Jeremy Renner's Arms.
I was disturbed at the close up shots of his arms during the
blood draw scenes,
not because of the arms (because helloooo) but they were doing it wrong.
I mean, all those lovely veins, and they just stuck the needle in at the wrong angle to the crook of the elbow.
Bah.
I did think Renner and Weisz had nice chemistry together. My favourite part of the movie was the
Flowers for Algernon plot. A nice unexpected characterization point, and Renner acted that flashback scene beautifully.
I hope there is fic.
I was surprised The Expendables made enough money to warrant a sequel, but I guess it pulls from a lot of different audiences with the cast's age range? I didn't even see the first one -- Stallone's face is too weird now.
Vonnie, what about the other
medical stuff
in Bourne: Jeremy Renner? Was it all
total bullshit?
Well,
viral vector is often used for gene therapy. But aside from that, the whole blue pill / red pill thing and the concept of "viralling" to lock in the enhancement seems like a bunch of mumbo jumbo to me.
I don't know enough about that particular field so I was happy to handwave the whole thing.
Beasts of the Southern Wild. IDEK. Shit was bananas, yo. What did I just see????
The premise of the medicine of Bourne Legacy that I can see from the ads is that they're doing genetic manipulation on him. In my head, that sort of thing is a breeding issue--what's the logistics of what they're doing in an adult? Or did they start early?
I saw it about a week ago. I can't make up my mind as to whether I loved it, but I thought it was extraordinary. The narrative was meandering and the pacing was odd, but I thought it worked very well as a fable. My favourite scene was the one set in
the floating crab shack / brothel, which was so saturated with tenderness and longing, it quite took my breath away.
I feel really badly for him and his family. Especially his poor family.
