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[ksmith]

Also treated myself to a movie. The Bourne Ultimatum, which I have not yet seen. Sometime this weekend...

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[ebenstone.livejournal.com]

This was the only one of the Bourne movies I've seen and I want to watch the rest because it was so good. It just doesn't stop to rest at all.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Second one is better than the first one, imho. But they're both good.

[barbarienne.livejournal.com]

I thought it was a very good movie from an acting/plotting perspective. Terrific tension and very clever action.

However, I had two major problems with it, though they are of a specialized nature:

1. The whole thing is shot with hand-held cameras. I had a headache three minutes into it.

2. Their presentation of Manhattan geography requires wormholes, tesseracts, and teleportation for the action to occur as presented. This won't bother anyone who doesn't know where Tudor City is.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Sometimes it's hard to watch a film or TV show that's set in an area you know well. Chicagoans used to complain about the opening credits for the old Bob Newhart show--the psychologist one--because if he had really traveled to work using all the train stations and L-stops shown, he'd have circumnavigated the city.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

I like the Bourne films. Yay!

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I do too. Intelligent Action is nice.

[(Anonymous)]

I love the Bourne movies, too. And in the era of one-note actors it is nice to see someone who can do the Bourne movies and the Ocean movies with such totally different characters, and do them well.

The only first-hand experience I've had with movie making was Gettysburg, in which they had the unfortunate fact of historical record and couldn't really do their own thing. I'd like to think that behind the scenes it was more like Alan Alda's movie Sweet Liberty, which is good for a laugh if you haven't seen it.

Jody in PA