Simon ,'Objects In Space'
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Saw
Les Innocentes
(which was called
Agnus Dei
at Sundance but is now
The Innocents
for some reason). It really just blew me away. Serious themes and complex characters, but also humor at times. It's especially interesting on faith. The cast is mostly women who give incredible performances. Beautiful cinematography. I will not be surprised if this shows up in the foreign-language category at the Oscars.
tl;dr: Like Bresson, but good.
Just got back from Jason Bourne. Very disappointing. Perhaps it was a mistake to watch the first three back to back last week because this one just doesn't compare. It took itself way too seriously and (even for a Bourne film) it strains credulity in so many places I lost count. Oh how I hate the soft bummerness of high expectations.
Aw, shoot, I was thinking of going to see Jason Bourne.
Aw, shoot, I was thinking of going to see Jason Bourne.
It really depends on your tolerance for action sequences. I could cut them down radically in almost any movie. Here they are just not believable and go on forever. My favorite thing about the Bourne films is him outsmarting his opponents and/or the puzzle of it all. That just isn't what this film is.
Also, more serious potential spoiler: the first thing my critic friend said to me after it was over was "Does that count as fridging?"
How bad is the shakicam?
How bad is the shakicam?
It's not as bad as #3 I don't think. (Though it starts that way so my friend just laughed because I had just been complaining about the flashback scenes in #3 before the movie started.)
Honestly, IMO, the action scenes were such a shit show overall that I can't say shakicam was a big problem, because there were SO MANY others.
Tom,
I think the treatment of the tech stuff in this movie will kill you before the shakicam does.
Honestly, the more my friend and I talked about this movie, and the more I think about it now, the more ridiculous it gets.
I just went to check the Tomatometer, which is already many points lower than last night and I think this reviewer sums it up best: "Simultaneously pretentious, mind-numbingly tedious, and dizzyingly incoherent from scene to scene, Jason Bourne is the definition of diminishing returns." Preach.
I really just wanna know what happens to Bourne and Nicky. I'll wait for the DVD.
I really just wanna know what happens to Bourne and Nicky. I'll wait for the DVD.
About that, don't watch this movie at all. Seriously, just pretend it was never made.
Thanks for the warn off, Megan.