Escape to the Movies: Bourne Legacy

[JoesshittyOs]

"America, we're so awesome that the only enemy who can challenge us now is... us" Brilliant!
Hollywood had to get there some time. After saving the world multiple times from ALL threats (including extra-terrestrial beings) that is the ultimate and last challenge.

Likewise, why is that what we're supposed to assume when they choose a domestic threat? Who is supposed to be an enemy? Terrorist? China? Russia, again?

No, that was projection on Bob's part. And as a person who supposedly likes movies and has done at least over fifty reviews on movies, I'm honestly surprised he actually has that thought process.

The whole point of the Bourne stories, and now apparently Aaron Cross's story, is the student turning on the master. In this case, the master happened to be the US shadow government. People are trying way to hard to fit "America, FUCK YEAH!" into every little innocent thing nowadays.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I think I have yet to sit through an entire Bourne movie. Oh wait, I think I saw Supremacy, but that's the only one.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

Triple post

 

[Darth_Payn]

4:30 - "America..."

Seriously? NOW You get that notion? And where were You during last decade of American filmmaking? (and game making for that matter?)

I got sick and tired of this trope ages ago.

I agree, this trope is so overused in political/military movies and video games, it's stupid. I think the makers want to reflect the American public's paranoia of the government, but factoring in the "People Are Dumb" principle, and it winds up fostering and nuturing paranoia. Just knock it off, guys.

So we are getting an ALF reboot, but now he is a alcoholic, emotionally retarded, physical and verbally abusing stoner alien... ok, it's not original but at least it sounds way more entertaining than the original show..

You just described last year's "PAUL", didn't you?

 

[SnakeoilSage]

My hope is that despite this being a vestigial arm growing out of another vestigial arm of a franchise, it makes enough money and wins Jeremy Renner enough action flick cred to maybe earn some more screen time either in the next Avengers film or a Hawkeye film of his own. This might happen anyways if DC ever works the kinks out of that piano strapped to their ass and gets something resembling a DC film universe produced, and Marvel needs to pit their secondary-colored master archer against DC's secondary-colored master archer, but I liked him as Hawkeye. He was cool, professional and had a dry sense of humor that suited a guy who's special talent is to basically snipe at you with arrows. Eh, that's just my opinion anyways.

 

[maninahat]

I don't remember a damn thing about the Bourne movies. I can't even remember which order I watched them in, because they seemed so milquetoast in terms of impact. I do remember wondering why the couldn't just leave the fucking guy alone, considering how hard he was trying to be left alone. A case of "just give Tony Jaa his fucking elephant".

 

[MB202]

I would TOTALLY go see an ALF movie... but ONLY if they still use the puppet.

 

[bificommander]

Didn't see the Bourne films, but the comment at the start was what bugged me about Quantum of Solace. That movie had some interesting ideas about the underlying conflict and real-politics going on... and then the final fight is an old-school fight in the super-villains base while it is in the process of blowing up. I've had fun with the goofy old Bond movies and I had fun with the gritty and realisic-ish Casino Royal, but QoS fell kind of in between and didn't do much.

Plus, someone needs to tell the director that if you must follow a footchase with shakycam, FFS don't have both participants being identically dressed white men. That was about 5 minutes of my life utterly wasted. Those scenes probably still costed a lot of money to shoot, and yet they could've shown a black screen the entire time and I wouldn't have seen anything less.

 

[daxterx2005]

Well that's good hes a new character entirely.
I dislike when films replace the main actors but keep them as the same characters and then don't even reference it.

Like Bruce in the Avengers >.>

 

[freakonaleash]

So who should we fight? The Russians? The Chinese?

 

[ivc392]

So we are getting an ALF reboot, but now he is a alcoholic, emotionally retarded, physical and verbally abusing stoner alien... ok, it's not original but at least it sounds way more entertaining than the original show..

You just described last year's "PAUL", didn't you?

Not really, but now that you mention it, thats a very accurate description of that alien on American Dad. I don?t remember Paul being neither emotionally retarded, alcoholic nor physical or verbally abusing.

 

[Terramax]

Wait, we were supposed to like the Borne movies? My dislike of the Borne trilogy stemmed from the half/half approach. Never delving into true camp while still mascaraing as a serious movie.

Isn't it strange. People on these forums are stating they generally didn't enjoy the series, as did Bob (as do I) and yet these films made some serious cash.

In any case, it's a shame movie Bob didn't mention Edward Norton.

I'm watching this movie with my best friend (one step away from a Bourne book/ movie fanatic) but I'm watching simply to see if Norton still has the power to keep a boring film entertaining enough to watch.

So who should we fight? The Russians? The Chinese?

Hows about they don't 'fight' at i.e. have movies star non-Americans. Exclude America full stop.

 

[Azuaron]

I've seen the second and third Bourne movies three to six times each, largely because I kept forgetting that I'd seen them, and I got to experience them, several times, in this weird deja vu way where I could remember what happens in the next five minutes, but not anything after that.

Currently, while I at least know I've seen them, and multiple times even, I can't remember what happens in them at all, and I can't even give a firm count of how many times I've seen them.

Bourne Legacy: to be watched on Netflix once, and forgotten immediately after.

 

[ace_of_something]

I have only fallen asleep in the theater twice ever. This includes when I was a little kid. One was some Rom-Com a girlfriend at the time made me see. Pretty sure it had Reese Witherspoon. That had an excuse being that I just worked two double shifts in as many days.
The other one was the bourne... second one. I was so off put by jittercam that I stopped focusing on the movie then I realized while I KNEW what was going on, I didn't understand it, got bored and dozed off.

I didn't bother with the next one and I won't bother with this.

 

[FamoFunk]

But Jeremy Renner is so pretty...

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

I saw them as revenge movies. He tries to find out who he is, then wants to live a normal life but they wont let him and i think they try and kill him. So he goes looking for them instead. The Damon films were great to watch. I think Bob looks to much into them than he needs to.

Will watch the Legacy movie soon.

 

[Jaeke]

Bob you're REALLY trying too hard to fit jingoism into this series. Did it honestly fly right over your head that the whole point of Bourne was 'what happens when we go too far?' Or did you just fall asleep for the last five minutes of Ultimatum and miss Matt Damon saying EXACTLY THAT to the guy who tried to kill him?

I think you never really got out of the Michelle Bay Transformers mindset.

Lol. He's been in that mindset since even before Transformers. It just got worst after.
It's why I don't respect Bob's critique anymore.

 

[ShadowKatt]

I just love how we can't win.

When it came out that in Assassin's Creed 3 there would be Americans(Or soon-to-be americans) dying, there was an uproar of "Finally, America gets to be the bad guy and stop picking on the rest of the world!".

And then Bob comes out with "America's so bad that the only country that can challenge America is...America."

So what is it you want? Hmm? What the fuck is it you want? I suppose the only way to make anyone happy would be to remove the US from the globe from now on. Just spray paint some blue over that part of the world and pretend like the american continents just don't exist anymore and the only part of the world that matters is the east, because that's definitely the vibe I'm getting. As far as the US is concerned, we can't do anything right, we can't do anything good, and we're the bane of the entire planet.

Huh, you know when I think about it that way, it actually DOES make me want to pick up a weapon and treat every other country like it wants my blood. Because if the attitudes I keep hearing are correct, they do.

 

[Steve the Pocket]

And from the look of those clips, it also has ugly Transformers-style blue-and-orange color correction. Granted, it's not as severe as in some films (*cough*Hugo*cough*) but it's definitely noticeable.