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.
You got fired, and you still hang around here like a big loser. Why can't he?
Cordelia ,'Chosen'
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megan walker - Jul 26, 2016 8:17:14 pm PDT #157 of 3455
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Zenkitty - Jul 27, 2016 9:48:14 am PDT #158 of 3455
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Aw, shoot, I was thinking of going to see Jason Bourne.
megan walker - Jul 27, 2016 9:58:39 am PDT #159 of 3455
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
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?"
Tom Scola - Jul 27, 2016 10:08:50 am PDT #160 of 3455
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How bad is the shakicam?
megan walker - Jul 27, 2016 10:53:33 am PDT #161 of 3455
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
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.
megan walker - Jul 27, 2016 10:59:25 am PDT #162 of 3455
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
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.
Zenkitty - Jul 27, 2016 11:01:02 am PDT #163 of 3455
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I really just wanna know what happens to Bourne and Nicky. I'll wait for the DVD.
megan walker - Jul 27, 2016 11:04:09 am PDT #164 of 3455
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
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.
Consuela - Jul 27, 2016 2:26:04 pm PDT #165 of 3455
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Thanks for the warn off, Megan.
megan walker - Jul 27, 2016 2:56:03 pm PDT #166 of 3455
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Thanks for the warn off, Megan.
I hate to say someone shouldn't see something but I guess that's where I am with this one. Maybe I just had too high expectations, especially after last summer, but this summer season has been a bit of a dud so far and I thought I could at least count on Bourne. And the cast seemed so promising.
In short, everyone go see Les Innocentes.