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seremtan wrote:flags of my fathers - 8/10 - fairly thoughtful, downbeat kind of war movie

Make sure to see Letters From Iwo Jima for the Japanese perspective on the battle. I think it was better than Flags of Our Fathers.

Rescue Dawn - 3/10 Jesus, what the fuck was Christian Bale thinking? Poorly acted, not at all engaging, the only thing that saved it from getting a turd/10 rating was the shock of Steve Zahn's demise. Other than that, don't waste your time.

the bourne identity - 9.98/10 - just got the box set, still awesome. the 0.02 was deducted for some of the implausible elements of the plot, such as

* a fishing crew that picks a guy with two slugs in his back out of the ocean and instead of selling him out to the cops helps him

* mobile phone that works in the basement of a swiss bank

* dumb jarheads at the US embassy who fail to spot neither the broken locks/doors and footprints at the fire escape, nor red bag on the ground below

* helena driving bourne to paris and sticking with even though she knows he's on the run from someone extremely dangerous

* treadstone guy who becomes an hero by jumping out the window of bourne's paris apartment, for less than obvious reasons

* shotgun blast that makes a car explode

* ability of the CIA to tap into every single CCTV camera in the world at a moment's notice

other than that, awesome

Yes, 1 was kinda good. Don't bother with parts 2 and 3 if you haven't seen those already.

Ryoki wrote:Yes, 1 was kinda good. Don't bother with parts 2 and 3 if you haven't seen those already.

rubbish. they're all real good, 1's just better than the others.

ryoki are you high? they're all great

Apocalypto - 6/10 - not sure what to make of this. i'm sure it was breathtakingly authentic and historically accurate etc but the storyline was daft with coincidence upon coincidence, with an utterly lolworthy ending

Ryoki wrote:Yes, 1 was kinda good. Don't bother with parts 2 and 3 if you haven't seen those already.

Fuck you; Bourne is top-notch quality.

seremtan wrote:the bourne identity - 9.98/10 - just got the box set, still awesome. the 0.02 was deducted for some of the implausible elements of the plot, such as

* a fishing crew that picks a guy with two slugs in his back out of the ocean and instead of selling him out to the cops helps him

well, first they help him because he's in a terrible state. then hes on the boat for a few days and/or weeks so its not implausible for them to trust him. he seems like an able hand, too.

I'm stunned and amazed that my q3w buddies like movies that believe the idea of shooting an action sequence is to employ a camera man with parkinson, i really am. What the fuck?

think i've seen the second one (there's a bit where he has to meet some lass on a bus and it's got that guy from doom in it) - took itself way too seriously for an action movie. i liked all the location stuff, there was something nostalgic about it. will have to check out the first one.

I think it's a quality action & spy series, one of my favorites. I own the first two, but I've been up in the air on whether I want to buy the last one or not.

The shaky-camera fight scenes was probably my biggest complaint about the 2nd film, but I've kind of gotten used to it and accepted it as a part of the style of the movies.

The director for these used to be a stuntman. He had said that one of his biggest gripes about Hollywood action sequences was that they don't really get across the rush or the excitement of the action that a stuntman sees during filming. When he made these movies, he gave camera rigs to actual stuntmen during certain scenes to try to capture that.
I remember seeing a clip online once of his shooting method. At one point in the 3rd film, Bourne jumps off a roof across an alley, and into an opposite window.

When they filmed that scene, there was a stuntman with a floating camera rig right behind Bourne. He chased him across the roof, and jumped off right behind him, letting the wires catch him from falling to the ground.
After seeing the way that was shot, it gave the scene a different feeling. Watching it is almost like you're Bourne's tag-along, running like hell with him across a roof.

It still gets a little irritating during certain fight scenes though, because at times you can't even tell what the hell is happening or who just hit whom.

Ryoki wrote:I'm stunned and amazed that my q3w buddies like movies that believe the idea of shooting an action sequence is to employ a camera man with parkinson, i really am. What the fuck?

yea 4 shizz

one thing i do not like is that plus too-fast of edits and lack of wide-shots

nothing but nothing says low budget/talent/effort than over use of this gimmick.

OMG SHAKY CAM CLOSE IN ACTION IN THE DARK!

4days wrote:think i've seen the second one (there's a bit where he has to meet some lass on a bus and it's got that guy from doom in it) - took itself way too seriously for an action movie. i liked all the location stuff, there was something nostalgic about it. will have to check out the first one.

it's thriller genre rather than action, hence the lack of laffs

R00k wrote:The shaky-camera fight scenes was probably my biggest complaint about the 2nd film, but I've kind of gotten used to it and accepted it as a part of the style of the movies.

i read about this in the reviews and was expecting something like crank, where the cameraman was some kind of speed freak, but it turned out to be far more tolerable imho

Ryoki wrote:I'm stunned and amazed that my q3w buddies like movies that believe the idea of shooting an action sequence is to employ a camera man with parkinson, i really am. What the fuck?

My wife was commenting on the excessive use of shaky "action" filming in the latest film when we watched it the other night. I agree, but other than that I liked all three films. But take heart Guyblowki, you now have something in common with my wife besides the fact that you both have vaginas.

shoot 'em up 8/10

too much paul giamiaitaitiati and a bit preachy about the importance of healthy snacking. excellent otherwise, lots of comedy and lots of action.
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the bourne supremacy - 10/10

why oh why is it winter in europe and moscow, but apparently summer in NYC in the final scene? also, how can it be summer in NYC at the same time as it's winter in NYC in the bourne ultimatum, whose narrative timeline largely overlaps supremacy?

Weather machine.

seremtan wrote:the bourne supremacy - 10/10

Ryoki wrote:Yes, 1 was kinda good. Don't bother with parts 2 and 3 if you haven't seen those already.

Truth.

LawL is this: Totally incorrect.

Eastern Promises - 6/10 Not bad overall, rather understated, very much a Russian "History of Violence". Perhaps I'm jaded because I've been watching slasher films forever, but every time I see a gory scene in a movie it always seems needlessly gratuitous. The throat slashing scenes were far less disturbing to me than the pregnant chick sliding in her own blood as she passed out. Nothing about this film really grabbed me and made me want to watch it to the end, I just felt sort of obligated.

Children of Men

I'm not even ready to rate it yet; powerful shit. The fantastic cinematography draws you right into the action. Hell, one of the scenes was about 5 minutes long and done entirely in one shot.

Awesome all the way

AvP:R

the bourne ultimatum - 10/10

top quality, and great idea interlocking it with supremacy so it hits the ground running on the action front

rofl...