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|CoR|Braveheart
10-21-2007, 06:02 PM
What do you guys think of it?
Jawsofwar
10-21-2007, 07:32 PM
It was about as good as the other two; so if you liked the first two you will enjoy this one. One thing about the movie is that it seems to suggest another movie. (at least to me it did) Which would be awesome. Bourne movies are fun to watch
Icthus
10-21-2007, 08:03 PM
Except they are nothing like the books...
|CoR|Braveheart
10-21-2007, 09:38 PM
It was about as good as the other two; so if you liked the first two you will enjoy this one. One thing about the movie is that it seems to suggest another movie. (at least to me it did) Which would be awesome. Bourne movies are fun to watch

Mhm ok, is there any bad stuff in it, besides violence?
Durruck
10-22-2007, 09:23 AM
from IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0440963/):

Rated PG-13 for violence and intense sequences of action.
Parental Guide for Content in Bourne Ultamatum (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0440963/parentalguide)
tjguitarz
10-22-2007, 10:56 AM
I thought it was a great movie. Number 1 is awesome and still the best of the series. Number 2 had ridiculously shaky cameras and I DID NOT LIKE IT. Number 3 was almost as great as the first. Highly recommended.
|CoR|Braveheart
10-22-2007, 04:37 PM
from IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0440963/):

Rated PG-13 for violence and intense sequences of action.
Parental Guide for Content in Bourne Ultamatum (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0440963/parentalguide)
Thanks for that link man.
blackgravity
11-30-2007, 01:33 AM
After The Bourne Identity. got butchered I haven't even considered watching the other two. It's just disrespectful to use someone's work as a loose guideline and drive it into the ground.
XionTawa
11-30-2007, 09:42 AM
Except they are nothing like the books...

The reason I hate the movies...
Durruck
11-30-2007, 09:47 AM
Unfortunately, that's how book-to-movie transformations go. I've read probably a dozen books that have become movies. The movies are nowhere near as good as the books. But I think that's the beauty of written works - they allow for so much more imagery, so much more fine detail that's hard to point out and amplify subtly on the screen.

Most authors understand that when a movie is made from their book, it won't even be close. But I'm guessing that a lot of them end up not really caring - a movie (no matter how poorly done) will get more people to buy the books...which has obvious benefit to the author.

Dahl (Willy Wonka), White (Charlotte's Web), Tolkien (LotR, Hobbit), King (Christine, It, Green Mile, and many more!), Lewis (Narnia), Rowling (Harry Potter) LeHeyes/Jenkins (Left Behind) all had fantastic books that were slaughtered as movies, but were done well enough to get new people to read the books. Books that, quite frankly, some of them I wouldn't have even considered reading had it not been for the movies.

The exceptions to that are Dahl - I read 3 of his books long before I watched the movies. I found both adaptations of the Willie Wonka book to be quite horrendous. I never could bring myself to watching James and the Giant Peach; the other is White's Web. I read that in grade school.

Pointless rant, I suppose, but I think what I was wanting to say is that you have to take the movies for what they are - condensed versions of the book, with lots of alterations to fit the entire storyline into a screenplay that lasts 90-120 minutes and keeps the action going. If it gets dull, people lose interest. It's a different approach than writing - people want the filler information because they develop a bond with the lead characters; the reader wants to know more. Authors have the ability to spend more time on the backstory, filler plot, building suspense. Movie producers have to keep you on the edge of your seat - there's no time to build the background.
|CoR|Braveheart
12-01-2007, 11:49 AM
The reason I hate the movies...

Yeah, good ol' Hollywood. i don't think it was as bad as the Narnia movies though, they messed that movie up like heck.
Glitch
12-01-2007, 07:01 PM
as a movie series... i really enjoyed them. I thought it was a nice mix of realism and a little crazy WOW.. action. As in all movies... you can find the flaws in the physics... yet i thought it was pretty good.

Really suspenseful, great action, good storyline. All in all, i really like that series of movies though.
|CoR|Braveheart
12-01-2007, 10:19 PM
as a movie series... i really enjoyed them. I thought it was a nice mix of realism and a little crazy WOW.. action. As in all movies... you can find the flaws in the physics... yet i thought it was pretty good.

Really suspenseful, great action, good storyline. All in all, i really like that series of movies though.

Same here, he should have died about half way through the movie though:p
Durruck
12-01-2007, 11:17 PM
lol. that's ruin the opportunity for a sequel. Unless they go Heroes-style and bring back Bourne using the cheerleader's blood. wierd.
|CoR|Braveheart
12-02-2007, 12:28 PM
lol. that's ruin the opportunity for a sequel. Unless they go Heroes-style and bring back Bourne using the cheerleader's blood. wierd.

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