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The Bourne Ultimatum
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Matt...damon!
"comin' to save the mother****in day yeah..."
Aaaaanyway, I thought the Bourne Ultimatum was great. Don't know about that book scene though, seems a bit tough to survive that. Movie fights make real fights seem so lame and unsatisfying.
iBlue, you are fantastic, thanks for playing up to my joke
loved it! one of the best flicks i've seen in some time. the car chase was wicked intense as with the tangiers fight.
he makes Bond look like a wimp and i like the bond flicks too.
love the close up quick cam shots. gave the illusion of speed and intensity. didn't even notice the issue during dialogue scenes.
i'm also wondering if the DVD will have an alternative ending where he does get shot at the end. i haven't read the books so i don't know what the real ending is, but it would make sense if he was. i hope he found julia stiles character as she's a hottie i would disregard the fact that i couldn't remember my past with her and start creating a new future
he makes Bond look like a wimp and i like the bond flicks too.
love the close up quick cam shots. gave the illusion of speed and intensity. didn't even notice the issue during dialogue scenes.
i'm also wondering if the DVD will have an alternative ending where he does get shot at the end. i haven't read the books so i don't know what the real ending is, but it would make sense if he was. i hope he found julia stiles character as she's a hottie
i would disregard the fact that i couldn't remember my past with her and start creating a new future I thought it was a great film, but for me, a few things were left unresolved specifically <a spoiler>
I got the feeling that there was something between Bourne and Nikki, like maybe that they had a history together before Bourne joined Blackbriar/Treadstone .
I got the feeling that there was something between Bourne and Nikki, like maybe that they had a history together before Bourne joined Blackbriar/Treadstone .
Actually, the movies don't really follow the books at all. Most notably Marie isn't killed and they're not on the run. In fact they're actually living on the east coast and he's a professor at a college.
As for the film I thought it was the best action film of the summer, and certainly far better than any of the other sequels that have come out (am I the only one who didn't care for Die Hard 4?). Great pacing and they did a masterful job of weaving the previous films in with this one; the end of Supremacy being in the middle of Ultimatum and Bourne saying to Paz the same line The Professor said to him in Identity, Look at what they make you give. I think I still liked the chase scene with the Mini from Identity more than in the other two films but you can't have everything.
Maybe I'll have to go see if a fourth time.
I liked that that wasn't explained. I was cringing at the thought of a lame, forced love story. If that had happened, I would have gagged.
I saw it last week and it was great! It tied up the trilogy really well. I can't wait to get it on DVD and watch it again.
I also like Ultimatum much much more than Live Free or Die Hard.
I also like Ultimatum much much more than Live Free or Die Hard.
Oh, I'm not saying the movie/trilogy needed a(nother) love story. But rather that they knew (at least to some extent) each other before the movies' events took place. I guess to me, a lot of the plot of the movies centered on Bourne trying to remember who he was, and it seemed like Nikki might have a lot of answers to his questions.
In the first film, Nikki was a very underdeveloped character. I was surprised to see her return in the second and third films. And while I know she played a much more integral role in this last one, I guess I was expecting her to spill out some of her knowledge on Bourne's past based on that scene.
Matt Damon would agree that Bourne bests Bond, it would seem.
Well, that's me convinced Matt that Bourne chap sounds like a barrel of laughs.
And I was glad she didn't. Can't we have some mystery in movies anymore? Do we have to be given all the answers? Isn't it more fun to imagine what the answers might be sometimes?
I absolutely agree with you.
That's why I was disappointed when they showed Bourne swimming away at the end. Surely Julia Stiles' character smiling at the news story was enough?
But who am I to tell Paul Greengrass how to make a film?
This movei was a good way to tie up the series. It provided a nice full circle of event completion by having Bourne
in murky waters like he was found at the start of the first one.
, or Webb,
I absolutely agree with you.
That's why I was disappointed when they showed Bourne swimming away at the end. Surely Julia Stiles' character smiling at the news story was enough?
But who am I to tell Paul Greengrass how to make a film?
True, true.
That would have been nice too.
Just saw it. Loved it. The music was great too. The camera movement during the dialog scenes was a little bit of a strange style choice, but it wasn't too bad and it seemed go away later.
Also in the trailer they show Bourne jumping thru a open window from a rooftop. In the actual film the same window has glass in it, thru which he crashes.
Although I'm a little confused on one scene.
When Bourne calls Landy in her office, its exactly like the end of Supremacy. But my wife said Landy was just playing the scene again to give him (bourne) the 41571 code as his birthday when they both knew the phone call was being monitored. So that scene is actually different from the one in the previous movie right? I think so.
Also in the trailer they show Bourne jumping thru a open window from a rooftop. In the actual film the same window has glass in it, thru which he crashes.
Although I'm a little confused on one scene.
When Bourne calls Landy in her office, its exactly like the end of Supremacy. But my wife said Landy was just playing the scene again to give him (bourne) the 41571 code as his birthday when they both knew the phone call was being monitored. So that scene is actually different from the one in the previous movie right? I think so.
It's the same scene. It's reshot, but it's supposed to be the exact same scene. The movie opens after the chase scene in Supremacy where he jumps to the boat and hurts his leg. The middle of Ultimatum fits into the timeline of the end of Supremacy.