Quote: sootyj @ August 22 2012, 11:29 PM BSTBourne always seemed kinda violent and witless.
I did really like Blood Diamond though.
Bourne was bloody excellent and totally re-wrote the cinematic spy genre - Mission Impossible 2, Spy Kids and Die Another Day were the kind of campy, over the top, garbabe that spawned Austin Powers. Bourne came along and shat on them all.
Blood Diamond would have been excellent if Leo 'I will always be 12' DiCrapio wasn't in it.
I'm with Sooty on Bourne. Tedious shaky-cam 'I've impossibly outwitted you' violence. It just took itself seriously, that's all that distinguishes it from Bond etc.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ August 22 2012, 11:32 PM BSTBourne was bloody excellent
That.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ August 22 2012, 11:25 PM BSTMr. And Mrs. Smith
Quote: Harridan @ August 22 2012, 11:31 PM BSTYou are banned from suggesting movies to anyone ever.
And that.
Quote: Harridan @ August 22 2012, 11:36 PM BSTI'm with Sooty on Bourne. Tedious shaky-cam 'I've impossibly outwitted you' violence. It just took itself seriously, that's all that distinguishes it from Bond etc.
This.
Sorry but all the classic actioners have combined wit with their bang bang.
Check the classic of the genre Diehard.
Bourne's good but it's not fun, like '80s and '90s thrillers were.
I want a new Hand That Rocked The Cradle, or Fatal Attraction. Where's the films about cheating husbands and mental bitches?
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ August 22 2012, 11:32 PM BSTBlood Diamond would have been excellent if Leo 'I will always be 12' DiCrapio wasn't in it.
Given half a chance he's a good bloody actor.
And he must be the only American to get a decent Afrikana accent and character.
But best action of recent years.
District 9.
Fakkin Prawns!
Quote: zooo @ August 22 2012, 11:38 PM BSTWhere's the films about cheating husbands and mental bitches?
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I ended up having to watch part of Battleship the other day.
Dear God why?
Quote: sootyj @ August 22 2012, 11:39 PM BSTDistrict 9.
Fakkin Prawns!
Quote: Nil Putters @ August 22 2012, 11:40 PM BST?
Like Brigette Jones it's a huge ugly dollop of reality smeared with an icing of wealth.
There's no fantasy, or humour or sweetness. Any of those things that made Pretty in Pink or Working Girl completely aces. Funny, engaging and sexy.
Quote: sootyj @ August 22 2012, 11:42 PM BSTLike Brigette Jones it's a huge ugly dollop of reality smeared with an icing of wealth.
There's no fantasy, or humour or sweetness.
I wouldn't know, I haven't seen it.
Quote: sootyj @ August 22 2012, 11:38 PM BSTSorry but all the classic actioners have combined wit with their bang bang.
All the classic actioners had become tired, stale, retreads that began to parody their own genre. That's why Bourne was such a breath of fresh air.
And I despise shaky cam as much as the next person, but Bourne also has some excellent performances and a decent story.
Is it as good as some of the older films? No, I enjoy thrillers such as Enemy Of The State - the only Will Smith movie that I can watch - but without Bourne, there would have been no Casino Royale.
Quote: Nil Putters @ August 22 2012, 11:43 PM BSTI wouldn't know, I haven't seen it.
But a weird hybrid of both, like a pink Chimera?
Damn your editing, you are a woman and a homosexual!
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ August 22 2012, 11:43 PM BSTAll the classic actioners had become tired, stale, retreads that began to parody their own genre. That's why Bourne was such a breath of fresh air.
This.
I prefer the original with Woody Allan and David Niven.
And yes I'm serious.
Bourne is just dull.
There is an alternative to Bourne et al andthat's the techno thriller.
Executive Decision, Clear and Present Danger et al fine films.
Ugh. I have seen so many episodes of Sex and the City (had to in a girls' boarding house) - what a horrible bunch of women. I remember one episode where Sarah Jessica Parker was invited to a baby's birthday party and flipped her lid when asked to remove her shoes in someone else's house "This is an outfit!" and then someone nicked her shoes and she made the parent of the baby pay $600 for a new pair. $600 shoes? You deserve to be battered to death with those shoes, you horrible excuse for a human being.
ahem.