Jason Bourne | 7.29.2016 | One week IMAX release on August 26 thanks to Ben Hur flopping

[ecstasy]

On ‎5‎/‎5‎/‎2016 at 10:42 PM, Blank Panther said:

Got the trailer at Civil War. Looks phenomenal, although like a typical Bourne movie. That's A-okay though in my book.

 

Supremacy moves my soul. But I love all 3.

[somebody85]

Well can't say I didn't see these reviews coming. Looks like it could be more sequel fatigue from those consensus with no real reason to be back. That was the worry all along too.

I'm sure it will be good but it won't come close to the last one (Ultimatum - not the Renner one).

Edited July 27, 2016 by somebody85

[Mojoguy]

This has been getting very mixed review on RT.

I think they waited too long...

[DeeCee]

I watched the first 2 and then the first 20 minutes of Ultimatum last night and I was going to watch the rest tonight. Not happening. I'm dog/house sitting and they don't have a Blu Ray. 

[antovolk]

Okay so this was actually pretty good?

I marathoned the trilogy over past couple days: Supremacy > Ultimatum = Bourne > Identity

It's basically, as reviews point out, "greatest hits" essentially but they crank it up and add a bunch of mythology to it too (what they did there to be honest is the only possible way to go from the end of Ultimatum). I guess this is part of why critics didn't like it as much because I guess that "don't know anything about him" aspect was part of the appeal of the original trilogy, aside from it not really being anything new in some respects (although it's been nearly a decade since the last one and given they obviously want to do sequels, a familiar reintroduction is I think necessary)

and I like where they're at least hinting they'll go forward - Bourne and the reformed CIA working together to clean the agency up so to say?

Greengrass does a tight job with all this once again, Damon is on fire, was very inreresting to see the CIA side this time around filled with actually familiar faces - TLJ, Cassel, Alicia... although speaking of Alicia her performance the major letdown for me tbh. But hopefully it gets better in the sequels. Seeing Riz Ahmed was huge surprise for me too - one to watch too.

So essentially - a souped up and enjoyable re-introduction to the universe after nearly a decade, which may be familiar or feel like a retread, but necessary in the grander  scheme of things - and Greengrass' execution and Damon are what really helps make this actually good, more TFA than IDR...

[Ethan Hunt]

11 hours ago, DAJK said:

Identity is the best Bourne movie.

Identity is one of the greatest movies of all time

[AniNate]

Clearly they should've brought Doug Liman back instead

[MikeQ]

13 minutes ago, antovolk said:

Okay so this was actually pretty good?

I marathoned the trilogy over past couple days: Supremacy > Ultimatum = Bourne > Identity

It's basically, as reviews point out, "greatest hits" essentially but they crank it up and add a bunch of mythology to it too (what they did there to be honest is the only possible way to go from the end of Ultimatum). I guess this is part of why critics didn't like it as much because I guess that "don't know anything about him" aspect was part of the appeal of the original trilogy, aside from it not really being anything new in some respects (although it's been nearly a decade since the last one and given they obviously want to do sequels, a familiar reintroduction is I think necessary)

 

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and I like where they're at least hinting they'll go forward - Bourne and the reformed CIA working together to clean the agency up so to say?

 

Greengrass does a tight job with all this once again, Damon is on fire, was very inreresting to see the CIA side this time around filled with actually familiar faces - TLJ, Cassel, Alicia... although speaking of Alicia her performance the major letdown for me tbh. But hopefully it gets better in the sequels. Seeing Riz Ahmed was huge surprise for me too - one to watch too.

So essentially - a souped up and enjoyable re-introduction to the universe after nearly a decade, which may be familiar or feel like a retread, but necessary in the grander  scheme of things - and Greengrass' execution and Damon are what really helps make this actually good, more TFA than IDR...

 

Thanks for sharing your thoughts antovolk. It's nice to hear your perspective on it.

 

Peace,

Mike

[SofNascimento]

27 minutes ago, tribefan695 said:

Clearly they should've brought Doug Liman back instead

They are probably two movies in my mind that I would rather see Doug Liman doing than another Bourne, one of them is a Edge of Tomorrow sequel. So I'm glad he is doing that. (I think). 

[Ethan Hunt]

Liman has life time pass with me because of Identity but he didn't actually make anything good in between Identity and Edge of Tomorrow

[filmlover]

1 minute ago, Ethan Hunt said:

Liman has life time pass with me because of Identity but he didn't actually make anything good in between Identity and Edge of Tomorrow

Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a lot of fun, fool.

[Ethan Hunt]

Just now, filmlover said:

Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a lot of fun, fool.

Eh....

[DAJK]

5 minutes ago, Ethan Hunt said:

Liman has life time pass with me because of Identity but he didn't actually make anything good in between Identity and Edge of Tomorrow

I even thought Jumper had its fair share of enjoyment.

[Arlborn]

All fun movies.

[tonytr87]

Consensus so far is that it does nothing new with the franchise, or it at least feels like the same old, same old. Got that feeling from the trailers too. 

[Ethan Hunt]

16 minutes ago, DAJK said:

I even thought Jumper had its fair share of enjoyment.

Hayden Christensen 

[DAJK]

9 minutes ago, Ethan Hunt said:

Hayden Christensen 

Eh, it was an improvement over 

 

 

[Jake Gittes]

Jumper is one of the worst movies I've ever seen in the theater.

[Ethan Hunt]

16 minutes ago, DAJK said:

Eh, it was an improvement over 

 

 

When you've  reached a certain low up is the only way to go

[ecstasy]

1 hour ago, tribefan695 said:

Clearly they should've brought Doug Liman back instead

 

Nah. Liman is a psycho.

 

eta: Thinking about Liman and his work on this makes me smile. Dude is just out there.

Edited July 27, 2016 by ecstasy