Jason Bourne to return.
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Looking forward to this, didn't realise it was so close to release.
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Really enjoyed Matt Damon's Bourne films. In fact, I may go back and watch them all again in anticipation of this new one. Bourne Legacy was highly forgettable in my opinion. I remember walking out of the cinema and feeling like the film had ended midway through the story.
You are wrong, stick to Bond if you don't like as the next one should be along shortly.
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my memory isn't that great but i remember him being hurt, outflanked and making mistakes over the spread of the movies ?
as for bourne having no personality i thought that was the whole point, he'd been programmed to lose the emotions and everything else relating to a personality to make him more effective at his job ?
with the new bond, all the things you mention are missing from him in the new films imo, think i read some where they wanted them to be more like "bourne", was just hoping it was from the no frills gadgets side, but they seem to have taken it further
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hes coming back from what i've seen, so close ya eyes and you might get away with missing it
if i understood it correctly, the film with renner in was supposed to be released this year but its been pushed back as damon decided he was coming back so they've give him first shout.
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Prequel or sequel?
from what i've seen sequels.
which makes sense with using the original actors and them being linked together in the legacy film, i'd find it stupid if with both of those thing that they'd go prequel for either/both, but its hollywood so don't hold me to that
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from what i've seen sequels.
which makes sense with using the original actors and them being linked together in the legacy film, i'd find it stupid if with both of those thing that they'd go prequel for either/both, but its hollywood so don't hold me to that
LOL, reboot with original actors and a different timeline due to time travel... that'll be next!
On a serious note, this is great news. Loved the first three Bourne films.
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Hope it lives up to the originals, they're classics in my eyes.
hey stop that, maybe they'd figure it out in time but no need to feed them suggestions like that
i liked them, and if they hadn't tried to split it off with legacy i'd have been ok about it, but since they did, i think it should have been left alone, i'm hoping i'm wrong.......
Well ok.
You state that Bourne has no personality, well that's kind of obvious because for most of the story he doesn't know who the hell he is. The movement of the story from one place to another to advance the arc and learn a little extra about himself and his history is genuinely interesting.
The action pieces are in no way perfect, the rapid cut 'showing barely anything' style doesn't really add anything for me but equally doesn't take anything away. However Bourne does come across as being genuinely hard but also as someone struggling with who he was / is.
Bond however, who you compared directly to, is just Gov't backed gigolo with no actual story, history or motivation. Its just a guy with some tech staving off the next global apocalypse for reasons we know not why.
All bonds films basically consist of blowing something up, then smashing a pastie, blow something else up, smash another pastie, blow something bigger up, smash yet more pastie, roll credits.
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Quoted for truthiness. I used to like the Bond films when I was a kid, but when I grew up I realised it was the same generic carp over and over and Bond is basically Superman. The Daniel Craig ones make him like a Terminator, he just comes off as a total psycho killer with no emotions or charm.
The Bourne films are much more grounded and they did things to humanise him more, like him getting injured and limping to that Russian girl's flat at the end to tell confess what he did. Even watching him climb down from the US embassy was such a great scene since it seemed like something someone could actually do, rather than in an action film where he would just jump down and be "saved by the snow".
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Just playing devils advocate here but:
Well quite a lot of that could easily be said of Bourne. plus the fact that since Craig took on the role, and indeed in the first movie 'Casino Royale', Bond is captured and injured so badly he is hospitalised - all in no small part due to falling in love.
Again I'd counter that point with the point I made above.
I love the Bourne Films but even I have to admit the idea of a super soldier assassin trained to perfection due to an illegal secret government black ops program is possibly one of the most hackneyed back stories ever...now add to that he has amnesia??
In my view Bourne works because of the actors and direction not the story...the same could be said of Bond and, well, rather a lot of action films to be quite honest.
Well quite a lot of that could easily be said of Bourne. plus the fact that since Craig took on the role, and indeed in the first movie 'Casino Royale', Bond is captured and injured so badly he is hospitalised - all in no small part due to falling in love.
Again I'd counter that point with the point I made above.
I love the Bourne Films but even I have to admit the idea of a super soldier assassin trained to perfection due to an illegal secret government black ops program is possibly one of the most hackneyed back stories ever...now add to that he has amnesia??
In my view Bourne works because of the actors and direction not the story...the same could be said of Bond and, well, rather a lot of action films to be quite honest.
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