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Maybe something inside of yourself died. Maybe you've never lived. Who knows? haha
I'll condense it for you, afterthefact.
My message is really very simple: Watch Bloody Sunday and United 93.
About The Bourne Ultimatum, I haven't seen it, so get your stones haha ready.
As an aside, I'll add that it's highly unlikely that I will see it on dvd. More probable is that I'll wait until its on the premium cable channels and even then, I'm not sure if I'll watch the whole thing considering I haven't seen either of the two previous movies in their entirety. Then again, I think I might enjoy the Bourne movies because I respect highly some other work (Bloody Sunday, United 93) by the director of the last two installments, Paul Greengrass.
About the shakiness of the camera in the action scenes: Again, I haven't seen the movie, but I'm fairly sure Greengrass delivers some great action scenes. Although, on the big screen things tend to blurr too much with too much herky-jerky camera movement.
Concerning the quarrel in this thread between !@#$%! and luxinterior, my comments follow.
Judgement is never all that pretty, but, let's face it, it's a fact of life, and, in this case, it's not like the life or death of an individual is being argued; it's just a movie.
Pre-judgement is even more ugly for its prejudicial suppostion, but then again, in a case such as this it's not like anyone has an infinite amount of time to explore every single media entertainment option. For that reason I feel that luxinterior's argument is a bit overwrought since it is such an obvious point to pick at and this same point gets picked at over and over again repeatedly.
It doesn't seem to me that !@#$%! stated anything that others haven't stated many times before about action movies in general. His posts are filled with bile-laded vitriol that may have helped drive the debate, but the sardonic cynicism he expresses is not devoid of some level of comic relief as well.
Then again, luxinterior probably has a good point to make considering that, like she maintains, this isn't your ordinary action movie and !@#$%! kept doggedly insisting that it is just like any other action movie in all regards. In addition, I agree that not all movies have to be filmic masterpieces to be sufficiently entertaining and satisfactorily enjoyed. Again, I haven't seen any of the Bourne movies (although, I tried to get into the first one (not directed by Greengrass) when it was on HBO and never stuck with it), but I would bet they are pretty good action movies.
At any rate, I'm glad to read with the bumps that you two patched up your differences somewhat on this matter. I found the whole brouhaha rather tragicomical.
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