THE BOURNE POLLTIMATUM

supremacy

yikes hard... gotta be supremacy or ultimatum... tempted by ultimatum since joan allen is in it more... plus code ten abort...

i think ultimatum for its awesome major set pieces, train station with paddy considine and morocco parkour jamout

I've never seen any of the Bournes, I just came here to lol at A-Rod

train station scene was some srsly virtuoso shit def

morbs i think you might lik eem

i dunno i kinda <3 id bc of franka potente and og badassness.

HEY MORBS DO YOU LIKE THE BOURNE MOVIES ?

a-rod was the love interest in bourne 2 fyi

you're mixing him up with shrill-rod

The lack of Potente puts Part I ahead of Parts II and III for me. Plus Chris Cooper is really good in the first film (and Finney appears to be playing Brian Cox in Part III.) Also Clive Owen!

i think jeter in the karl urban role would have been vv satisfying

ya, potente and clive and chris do make a strong case for 1

The second film, despite Joan Allen.

i'm voting for 2 because of joan allen and brian cox, + the russia stuff

this is really really tough. i love these movies so much for different reasons.

supremacy -- just.

probably quote strathairn in ultimatum more.

"GET THE VEHICLES, WE'RE GOING MOBILE"

exactly

i'm upset that there is no ballot for "i've only watched these on TV half-paying attention and don't really know the different between them." i think the first one has the least amount of Julia Stiles, though, so i'll vote for that.

2nd one has least julia stiles

who would hate julia stiles that much

I think some dude is right. Her part in #2 is more significant even if she is on the screen less.

she looks the best in ultimatum btw

When she gets all Goth'd out def.

surely this thread will lure tombot back in?

the tom identity

bourne poll + flash mob assholes = perfect stormbot

if only that sniper dude had been there...

http://www.lasplash.com/uploads/2/splash_the-bourne-ultimatum__3__1.jpg

hey man just enlivening yr dreary life with these bullets

hahah

if bourne was smart he would have used facebook + theater kids and spirited paddy on outta there

identity was good. very above average for what i was expecting. and ultimatum was great, but the shock of the jump in quality from identity to supremacy means that one sticks out more for me. supremacy, for making car chases exciting again.

the third one, for the reasons slocki outlined, is so awesome. the first one has some great shit, too though: the opening scene where he escapes from the bank, the whole hunting down clive owen scene, the scene where the dude busts through his apt window. it should finish in second here imo.

The fact that I can't remember what happened in the third one after he gets to NY hurts it.

there's a fourth film in the works although i really wish they'd leave it as is cause right now this is pretty much as perfect as a trilogy can get.

gonna go with identity, for clive owen, franka potente, fight scene in the apartment and my genuine surprise at the time at matt damon's acting + hotness.

TS: Joan Allen vs Julia Stiles.

I don't mind Stiles, especially for her perfect underacting in one key moment in Ultimatum, but, sorry, Allen's just a frowning bore. She doesn't think of new ways to unclench her jaw.

need to think about this but my gut reaction is supremacy

Tempted to go for Supremacy because of the insane scene where for a second you really thought Bourne was going to kill Julia Styles' character.

leaning Supremacy b/c Gukbe otmfm

identity because franka potente is not dead in it

identity because franka potente is not dead in it

― horseshoe, Monday, February 9, 2009 2:09 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah this is part of what i meant by the 'less stiles' preference

the potente kill was a great surprise

not for her obv

the potent kill would be a great name for the next bond movie

the potente kill was a great surprise

― s1ocki, Monday, February 9, 2009 1:15 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i was so mad all the way through supremacy bc of this. also some horrible people had brought their three year old son and he was clearly traumatized by it. more the loss of potente, though.

who would bring a three year old to bourne

blackbriar early training methods

ultimatum if only for the train station mentioned, he's the most bourne there he will ever be and I agree that making a fourth movie now seems kinda risky (not box office speaking obviously)

you mean matt damon might get injured?

i personally believe there should be a law compelling a new bourne every year

the bourne legislation

haah

i feel like i'm in crazy land do you people not remember all the interminable gauzy faux-manchurian candidate flashback shit in ultimatum!!? "who am i" works a lot better when the answer still could really be anything, rather than the answer being like, a soldier dude who once had to kill a guy in the middle of an erasure video

yeah all that stuff took up 2 minutes of screentime

ya i didnt like that but like i said, i dont really care about that movie outside the major set pieces so it didnt bother me

this is the only series i can think of where i think it got better with each movie.

Bourne: just consider the fact that you might be dead before your next shit

joan allen: well i'm shitting right now as a matter of fact

bourne: well i call bullshit, if you will, because i;m on your toilet and you're not on my lap

― wanko ergo sum, Friday, 14 December 2007 00:20 (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Identity by a long chalk - the momentum from complete anonymity to painful revelation, while having no time to think or settle was pretty good. Each subsequent one worse. Ultimatum, Waterloo bit aside, was pretty dire.

The momentum of the first had changed into headache/fight/run/headache/fight/run/headache/jump in water in several meaninglessly different locations. Those shaky camera fight scenes and car chases don't really do it for me either.

the of course hes still alive reveal at the end of ultimatum w/incognito stiles smiling in the cafe and the music kicking in was super obv and great

to me all of these movies reduce to the moment when he smacks a book into a dude's throat. pretty sure i blurted out "fuckin book!" in the theater. that's ultimatum, right?

i like it when he whacks a guy half to death with a magazine

I fucked up

I bought my brother and sister-in-law these movies for Christmas when clearly I should have kept them

woe

whatevs tnt/usa is constantly showing them anyway (when they're not showing law & order i mean)

it really doesn't seem to me like the plot point of (spoiler) stiles being in love with him before he went into the program was dreamed up until the third movie; a rare case of a big revision like that not being a disaster. it does kinda add another layer to her scenes in the earlier movies.

whatevs tnt/usa is constantly showing them anyway (when they're not showing law & order i mean)

― mookieproof, Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:22 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yah these are gonna be on tv all the time forever

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Supremacy for this ^^^

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interesting

Same pattern as you get with a lot of trilogies, innit? You either get first movie winning, as the others are diluted (see Matrix), or else second movie wins, as narrative is generally more fully-formed, plot and tone darker, and characters more established - see Star Wars, X-Men, Spider-Man, etc.

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What world is Beyond Thunderdome > Mad Max?

Also Hollywood generally doesn't make sequels to crappy movies.

Missed this poll!

Would have given it to Supremacy. Or maybe Ultimatum. For code ten abort, obv.

I think I liked Identity the best.

What world is Batman > Batman Returns?

Everyone with a bit of sense knows T1>T2 as well.

Also, DHWaV > DH2

What world is Beyond Thunderdome > Mad Max?

I think you're seeing the "more people have seen it" effect in play there.

(Also, I've only seen it once, but from what I remember "Mad Max" wasn't that effective a movie until the last 10 minutes, when it suddenly went awesome; "Beyond Thunderdome" is distilled silliness but is pretty entertaining throughout.)

Everyone with a bit of sense knows T1>T2 as well

im getting the sense that your an idiot. also somone should poll those for most/least accurate

I'm getting the sense I've wandered on to a YouTube comments page.

im getting the sense...

in my piggy bank...

(cents)

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Escape from Planet of the Apes is better than Beneath the Planet of the Apes. Also, JPIII >>>>>>> Lost World: JP

LOL U R ALL GAY

Also, JPIII >>>>>>> Lost World: JP

Agreed.

die hards 2 and 3 rated way too highly there.

its actually "die hard with a vengeance"

because of its vengeance theme, right

thanks for spotting that

— with a vengeance
1: with great force or vehemence <undertook reform with a vengeance>
2: to an extreme or excessive degree <the tourists are back—with a vengeance>

die hard
1. To take a long time in passing out of existence: racial prejudices that die hard.
2. To resist against overwhelming, hopeless odds: radicalism that dies hard.

i would guess that the title means: To resist against overwhelming, hopeless odds to an extreme or excessive degree

JP: o.g. rated way too low imo

i would guess that the title means: To resist against overwhelming, hopeless odds to an extreme or excessive degree

― max, Friday, February 20, 2009 4:55 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yes but the word vengeance also conjures up lars gruber's fury and attempt to redress what he perceived as his brother's wrongful death

it's all in there

die hard..... with a vengeance!

heres a lil philosophy question for u: is it possible to resist against hopeless odds to an excessive degree?

Grammar question: isn't the 'against' superfluous?

heres a lil philosophy question for u: is it possible to resist against hopeless odds to an excessive degree?

― max, Friday, February 20, 2009 5:03 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ya what about those dudes who wont leave their homes and a volcano is going to erupt

Need to buy this box set.

which one was the one with all the cellphonez?

YES PLZ THX

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/matt-damon-to-return-to-jason-bourne-franchise-1201306336/

lol in the last one both the google ceo and the ambitious cia operative went to stanford, and dr. hirsch the treadstone guy has a stanford phd

scriptwriters otm stanford sucks

I feel like a contrarian, but these got worse with each film? Am I the only one who rates them so?

They shoulda let Franka Potente take over as Bourne imho

Questionable plot devices that always bothered me about the 2nd film:

How did Eomer/the Russians get access to Bourne's fingerprint--and remember how insistent he was at wiping everything (cars/hotel rooms) down in the first film--... a fingerprint that the Director of the CIA (!!!) can't even access to identify.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2SqONEpNlk

i forget whether they killed jeremy renner off but even if they did a dazzling guest appearance on this thing would be just his speed