The Bourne Ultimatum

newer, longer trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRtCdnhjNuk

SO EXCITED
love these movies so much

whoo hoo

bad. ass.

Oh I love! Was v disappointed when Marie was killed in the second, the books were so much more complicated & with character development etc etc obv but I am fond of M Damon and these movies kick it.

Yes the start of the second was like the start of Alien 3, it was dramatic but completely negated the end of the previous films, AND your emotional investment in it.

Yeah. The movie Bourne is a superman, he can "find" himself without any help, simply by being a hardass who wants it enough. But book Jason B has to remake his mind & emotions v laboriously b/c the returning memories are tragedy and loss and violence and how much agency did he really have when he did monstrous things? And Marie is the only reason he sticks it out.

I'd stick it out for Marie.

I'd stick... nm

i think that this is the perfect role for m damon, or at least in the first movie, where, yeah, there was less hardass and more questioning of self (naturally) - that's what made the character watchable and was so closely tied to the plot. whereas the second one was more like WHOAOAOAOA we are going reaaally faaast yowwwww@! but with some emotion from bourne bc after all, they'd killed marie (i was v sad and surprised abt that). i don't quite know what to expect from this one b/c he's obv more 'in control', less confused abt who he is and more into how he got to be that person. so though i am excited i am also sorta worried that it might be too straight-up action movie? and could they top the final car chase scenes from the last one?? those were so rad

i have not read the books! i have never been able to get into ludlum's, uh, style - also car chases and kitchen fights and running along tops of buildings are better in movies obv

from the longer trailer it would appear greengrass has subscribed to at least one parkour chase newsletter, which is excellent news

ooh yes
i'm really glad this is greengrass again

i've not read the books either, but i would love more marie!

nevertheless, i am a total fan of these movies, and i am generally not an action movie type at all. wld not mind more character development with occasional kickass actions stuff, but come one, american audiences, etc.

stoked and apprehensive

gleeful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCxTVH4VGHY
matt damon!

FRIDAY

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!

IWILL WATHC THIS.

Is it meant to be good? I hope so.

:D

I completely missed the fact that the Bourne movies were a popular series.

popular in the way that a lot of people who might not normally go out to the theatre to watch movies will go out to the theatre and watch this movie . gets the older demographic too.

i just watched a bit of the beginning of 'the talented mr ripley' and y'know, matt damon! i used to not really care but several years ago i realized: matt damon!
p.s. 'the departed' is really awesome

i am glad beth parker is excited abt this movie :)

i never go to the movies, but i already have plans to go with my friend to see this next weekend! for me, i saw the first one on a 'let's go to the movies tonight what's playing? oh i guess we'll see that' whim and was like 'woah!!! that was awesome!'. not usually an action movie person, but i really liked it! the european setting helped, too, i think. it's funny, i have always liked 'the talented mr. ripley' but i think not because of damon. i do, though, think that the jason bourne role is one of the best things he's done (of what i've seen of his work, anyway).

i've said it before: damon as bourne = one of the most perfect casting choices ever

I completely missed the fact that you are a chump, a mark and a rube, Curtis >:(

my stokedness levels are at an all-time high for this!!! it's funny to think how i was wary of greengrass taking over before supremacy came out, i really disliked bloody sunday, but it turns out he is pretty much perfect for this kind of movie. they could make a hundred more of these and i'd watch them all.

i bet greengrizzle could make a wikked batman movie~

I wasn't criticizing the series! All this hype surrounding it just completely flew over my head until this movie!

i love matt damon and would let him invade me, no homo

there is a pretty tough balancing act to these movies when i think about it, getting the audience to take it seriously while indulging all kinds of action movie craziness? well mb not that seriously, but the last movie made me have, like, EMOTIONS guys.

i am going to blog abt these movies probably

This series might be the first successful reboot in the 'spy movie' form as mass entertainment since Bond, though I'm probably overstating the impact of forty years, while any number of HK spy films work with their own particular formula brilliantly. Still, I've been wondering if there's any American or European non-comedic/parodic spy movie series that's been as noticeable -- the various le Carre adaptations have been mixed while the most successful was the 70s TV series (which might be Guinness's finest moment but that's another matter). Anyone?

mission impossible nedry

Haha, I probably counted that one out because it seems so schizophrenic to me. (That and, well, Tom Cruise.)

The preview for this one makes me think it'll be the weakest of the three :/ Stupid youtube keeps deleting the matt damon team america clips too. :( MATT DAMON

car chases and kitchen fights and running along tops of buildings are better in movies obv

-- rrrobyn, Wednesday, July 4, 2007 6:43 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

OTMFM

curtis is right, i think -- the second movie got all kinds of love, but the first one wasn't *much* bigger than, say, 'shooter'.

I'm going to rent Identity and Supremacy just to refresh, for optimum experience.

the scene in supremacy where he casually kicks the shit out of the american consulate dude and clones his cell phone is just awesome.

i have during the course of discussing my psychedness for this discovered that the bourne movies have extreeeeemely wide appeal and are in fact the most popular films ever made ever. srsly everyone likes them. everyone.

I'm going to rent Identity and Supremacy just to refresh, for optimum experience.

yes this is good, will do.

we should find out if morbs likes them

If he doesn't he should be ashamed.

but we should find out

Aw, the Miami boys are arguing!

s1ocki who are you to tell people what to focus on in a movie?? sometimes you just can't help it. most movies with any underscoring beyond your standard menacing bongos get ruined for me just because i can't help being cheesed out by it. the way somebody smokes a cigarette will bother me. these things are usually pretty momentary. but dialogue is all the way through! it's kind of hard to ignore it.

-- Tracer Hand, Sunday, January 27, 2008 11:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

who am i? i'm your worst fuckin nightmare!

You're a Miami boy, too, Alfred.

lololololol

xp

I didn't mean that I'd want Altman directing action films, or this film in particular. I just used him as an example in order to flesh out the point a bit. There are other directors who either (a) do "natural dialogue" very well or (b) do better "action-film" type dialogue better than in this movie (to me, obv.).

(Obv., it's a bit late for Altman to direct any new films, but whatevs.).

who does better action film dialogue (except for michael mann) (high-fives milo)?

you need to set your motherfucker to 'receive'

fuck syd field, this shit is writing:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0360009/quotes

hahah i was gonna say mamet... for ronin of course...

mamet, syd field, and robert mckee should be relegated to a special room of hell to write together for eternity.

on like one script, or multiple different scripts?

s10cki now see that kind of dialogue i can get behind

You guys, I watched this again last night with some people, and there was someone there who during every scene with any kind of ambiguity in it, they'd ask, out loud, the question the scene suggested...

"Does he know where the shooter is?"

"Why is she helping him?"

"Did they have a thing?"

"Why didn't he shoot him?"

"Does she know she's being followed?"

"Did he get hit? Is he dead?"

ALERT! We have a CODE 10 NARRATIVE DEVICE!!

And it was still good. All Steadicam jokes evar are OTM though.

rewatching this right now. all i am going to think of whole time is CODE 10 XXXXX! i can't wait!

love this movie but all i think of when i think of it is WHEE-WHEE-WHEE-WHEE & julia stiles face breaking into a grin

which is awesome

I want him to kill somebody with a petunia and then jump through a moving train into an ice cream truck which he will drive off of a parking ramp into a pillow factory while crushing the larynx of an assassin with a waffle cone.

Still the best movie anticipation post in the nu-ilx era, imo.

which he will drive off of a parking ramp

this part basically happened

THIS IS NSA LEVEL 4

GIVE ME CCTV'S EYES

i agree with aimless

THIS ISN'T SOME STORY IN A NEWSPAPER; THIS IS REAL

if you were in your office right now we'd be having this conversation face to face

ahhhhhh still gets me!

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, Thursday, December 13, 2007 6:20 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

-- J0rdan S., Sunday, January 27, 2008 2:02 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark Link

Fictional CIA assassin Jason Bourne will appear in a fourth film, according to trade newspaper Variety.

It says actor Matt Damon will reprise the lead role in the fourth instalment of the Bourne franchise, with Paul Greengrass directing once again.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7676070.stm

IT'S OVER

the bourne overkill

bourne fans should see the international

I love Clive Owen and I love the Bourne films, but Metacritic isn't very complimentary about this; http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/international

Is consensus wrong?

Thread of Duplicity and The International

empire says it's not vg but im still gonna see it.

yes!! well, it certainly doesn't have the action pieces of the bournes (altho it's one big piece, a shootout in the gugenheim, is really great) but its a good european thriller about a rogue agent trying to uncover some corruption. the film looks incredible (wide, sweeping shots of european cities and modern architecture etc) and it keeps its suspense and tension ramping for way longer than you'd imagine. it kind of ties things up a little more neatly than i would like, but if you're into the bournes and you're into clive owen, i'm pretty sure you'll enjoy this.

if this had one more big action piece it would've been definitely better than the new bond - as it stands now it's a little bit of a different film even tho the plots are analogous, but this one exceeded my expectations whereas bond was v underwhelming

Bourne U re-watch was awes today

aw man, the whole sequence of desh chasing down julia stiles and bourne hunting them both while being chased by the police climaxing with the insane desh/bourne fight scene is soooo good

btw

*holds walkie talkie to mouth*

THIS IS A CODE 10 ABORT

<3

Hah @ recommendation for The International. I thought it was ok if a little sleepy, but the Guggenheim shootout was a+

While we were doing the red carpet thing at last night’s premiere of Invictus, we cornered Matt Damon and demanded that he tell us just what the HECK is going on with Bourne IV, following Paul Greengrass’ recent departure. What he told us will rock you to your very core:

“There’ll probably be a prequel of some kind with another actor and another director before we do another one,” he said, “just because I think we’re probably another five years away from doing it – we’ve got to get a script…”

that definitely rocked me to my very core.

Yes, I'm glad I now know just what the HECK is going on.

core: rocked

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it's bourne night on bravo!

This really is the weakest of original three. I think even the Renner + Weisz one is more enjoyable than this. Everything after Desh is a snooze.

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