[Closed] Jason Bourne

*quickly checks IMDb for director*
*Reads "Paul Greengrass"*

Woo! 😀

Good friend is the stunt coordinator 😉

YOU KNOWS IT!!!!! 😀

Hadn't heard a thing about this until last night but glad it is coming back, looks like it will be a good one!

Superb!

Hooray!

Nice to see the Damon back in the saddle. I had a fear that the franchise was either done or it would be further diluted with more spin offs.

It doesn't look like that. Nice

Tidy

Looks like he has got himself in shape.

That last punch could have been blocked or avoided by my Grandmother. And she's dead. 😆

He's been practicing his frowns. And yeah, that dude took that punch like it was the first time he'd ever seen one thrown 😆

I quite liked the one with hawkeye... It went a wee bit off the rails with the stunts at times, you could almost see the thought process "Right, you know how Bourne showed them how to make a post-2000 Bond film? Let's see what happens if we do 1980s Bond in a Bourne film."

...

"Well this sucks"

And she's dead

Saw the trailer earlier and it looks awesome. Much better than the previous attempt..glad MD is back

Not seen the trailer yet but I really liked the original trilogy and was fairly disappointed by the Jeremy Renner one, so I'm cautiously optimistic about this...

Yes please. I'm in.

Looks good 😀

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Quite looking forward to Deadpool showing from Wednesday near me 🙂

Am I the only one who didn't think the Legacy one was that bad?
Not sure about this one, looks a bit too 'big spectacle' compared to the relatively small-scale stuff in the first 3. Hopefully Greengrass will keep it in check though!

No you are not, the legacy film was pure Hollywood crap. However the Bourne films were superb, hope this one is just as paranoid and gritty

Yes, knew this was in the making as I had to review cranage for some of the filming. Not sure if it would be a spoiler to mention the location. 😉

Not seen the trailer yet but I really liked the original trilogy and was fairly disappointed by the Jeremy Renner one, so I'm cautiously optimistic about this...

The Jeremy Renner one was OK on its own merits; it just wasn't as good as the rest of the series.

Am I the only one who thought these films were a bit rubbish?

Yes 😀

The first one is on ITV2 right now.

Errr what? New filum? That's made my day.

Woohoo! I like Bourne 😀

When's it out? Bourne beats 007. Especially the last one.

Ohhh my, even I liked the look of that.

Hmm. Turns out it wasn't great. Ok, but nowhere near the previous films.*

*Greengrass/Damon ones.

Have I just heard people were dissapointed by rent-a-soldier Jeremy renner? Christ.
Looking forward to this one, like an action film that treats me like I've got an IQ over 37.

I do like Paul Greengrass films. I'm not entirely convinced on the whole 'shakey cam' though. Just makes it a bit hard to follow and I end up focussing more on the shaking than what it's supposed to be giving a feeling of.

I agree with the it's OK but not brilliant. To similar to previous films, too many wobbly unfocussed camera scenes as well.

Prepare to be disappointed. Treadstone, yawnstone. Action was excellent especially London and Greece. It could have been so much better though story lacked focus and we went round the block again.

It needed a new direction using Bourne for what he was trained for. I really hope we see that in the next installment with Greengrass's action touch.

Alicia Vikander tho!

First one with its
Brutal (virtually single take) fight with a rolled up magazine and a car chase in a mini
was a complete v-sign to Bond.

This one is just a pastiche. Kept expecting Roger Moore to cameo somewhere

and that wobblecam is really annoying !!!

Best to wait for DVD release?

Best to wait for DVD release?

No, Just watch the first one again. I have a 'copy' and i've tried to watch it 3 times now but just can't manage to stay awake through it - i've still about 30 mins to watch. If it was as good as any of the others i'd be buying it for real, but it's not. It's not even close.

If it was as good as any of the others i'd be buying it for real, but it's not. It's not even close.

^This

I went to see it last night. But it just doesn't work. For me there was always a sense of "yes, not likely, but that [b]could[/b] happen in real life" to the Bourne films, but this one has ventured into Bond territory at times. The car chase at the end is laughable with the sort of effects you'd see in a Marvel film.

The originals shook up the formula, this one is cashing in.

It's better than the Jeremy Renner one. It didn't fully live up to my memories of the original three, but it's been a few years since I last saw them so my opinion of them may have inflated a bit.

Some of the hacking/tracking stuff felt very unconvincing and there was one moment where I'm sure even I would have been able to apply better tradecraft than one of the characters. As the plot can no longer be moved forwards due to Bourne's amnesia and confusion it occasionally relied too heavily on distracting him with ill timed flashbacks or similar.

It did have about the right levels of bleakness and cynicism for a Bourne movie though and mostly it rolled along well and let its momentum carry me through the less effective bits.

In a couple of years Tommy Lee Jones may be able to play a live action Gollum...

hang on, did someone mention shaky-cam?

is this filmed in vomit-vision?

Plus, does he have to end every film walking off into the distance with a bullet inside him (to the Moby soundtrack)?

It felt like the original trilogy came to a natural conclusion, difficult to see where the story had left to go.

<double post- for novelty I'll remove the original>

I enjoyed it. Bit overdependant on "don't stop or they'll have time to think" and like the renner one it's lost the plot a bit on the driving scenes, half the point of the early films was it stayed within the bounds of credibility- it was a stretch but it was conceivable. This one's got too much csi (they[i] very nearly[/i] create a gui using visual basic to track an IP, it felt almost like an injoke), too much fast and furious and yep too much bond. But for me it didn't take too much away from it

Chrisl's comment on the tradecraft was spot on- Bourne looks as shifty as ****, a HMV security guard would spot something out of the ordinary 😆

*downloads black op folder*

Exactly! It's like, I don't keep my bestiality porn in a folder called Northwind's Bestiality Porn, it's filed away under Boring System Files.

I did like that <spoilers> there's basically 2 completely separate plots; there's the one about facebook, and there's the one about Bourne. And Bourne actually couldn't give a shit about facebook. He's still all about treadstone, which ironically pretty much everyone else has forgotten about apart from tommy lee jones and French Clive Owen

Not overly excited about this one but the accountant looks pretty smokin.
(Afleck haters please look away)

There is basically no plot, a decent intense action film but no more, some of the hacking and the car chase check rear view mirror "oh he's catching I'd better drop the box" stuff was very cringeworthy. I'm pretty sure there'll be another, Bourne goes full circle.

I was not a fan of it. It was basically 2 hours of people following people. I liked the 1st three a lot, I even liked the Jeremey Renner one. this one was not that great in my opinion.

Bourne goes full circle.

That's what I thought. He'll be back as an agent in the next one - they can't string this amnesia thing out anymore!

"Enhance..."

In an otherwise rubbish film that bit did make me laugh. Surely a deliberate nod?

The last 'Bourne' was ace. Not sure the amnesia thing can be peddled on anymore..

I enjoyed it...perhaps not as much as the first three...but i still really enjoyed it. Know what you mean about the car chase scene tho.
The girl at the bureau was smoking hot - i liked her a lot!

Very disappointed. I might even go as far to say that I preferred Jeremy Renners Bourne Legacy. NVM.

It was dull. 'Now it ends'. 'This ends now'. 'Finish it in 24 hours' etc etc. Legacy was poor. But 'Jason Bourne' was just...miserable. Could have been so good. But the 'plot' and the lack of any real intrigue or suspense made it a real disappointment.

Having said that, it lost me in the first act with 'use SQL to corrupt their database'. If Mr Robot can make hacking credible and interesting on screen how come Jason Bourne couldn't?

WARNING SPOILERS It was alright. But they basically just did a slightly shit remake of Supremacy. Is it wrong that I was glad I Julia Stiles got shot she really annoyed me in the original trilogy?

I would like to pass a message on to Hollywood...make something new.

Jeremy Renners version is highly watchable. When I first hear that was the next one I though going to be one of those poor sequels

There is basically no plot

Not quite true, granted it was pretty much the same plot at all the others, but there is a plot.

Was OK, shaky-cam was a bit annoying and over used, it is as if modern directors have decided they must have a really obvious "signature" Abrahms has lens flare, Edgar Wright has those annoying cut shots and Bay blows "everything" up. there was fighting, car chases, double crossing and cliches...Everything you need in a Hollywood spy movie.

It's a pop corn movie, just right for STW as Matt Damon is now the same ages as most of them

The last 'Bourne' was ace. Not sure the amnesia thing can be peddled on anymore..

No he has full recall now...

[b][i]SPOLIERS AHEAD[/i][/b]

Surely the chap he hooked up with in Germany to look at the files was as paranoid as he appeared he wouldn't have an internet connection when putting a strange device into his computer & given the hassle I have trying to get my phone to intentionally connect to my computer I found that was a leap too far.

No he has full recall now...

SPOLIERS AHEAD

Surely the chap he hooked up with in Germany to look at the files was as paranoid as he appeared he wouldn't have an internet connection when putting a strange device into his computer & given the hassle I have trying to get my phone to intentionally connect to my computer I found that was a leap too far.

Considering he has gone off grid again, just how easy was into find him!
Why didn't he and the girlie handler think of wearing hoodies ... everyone other 13 yr old knows that this means the fact can be obscured.
And when they were in Greece, how did the baddies know exactly where they were going ?

I love the Bourne films. I even don't mind the Jeffery Renner now.
This was rubbish ...

Not overly excited about this one but the accountant looks pretty smokin.
(Afleck haters please look away)

Looks quite interesting but half of my brain was thinking of Vanilla Sky all the way through that trailer as they used the same music.

 

Just back from seeing it I thought it was excellent 8)

Same break neck action and fighting shit as previous three .. And the eye candy(girl from ex-machina) played a good part.. Roll on the fifth movie 😀

I thought it was actually quite poor. The Jeremy Renner one is loads better.
Recycled plot ending with same hotel confrontation/discussion as the first 2. Too much computer/tech BS. Baseball cap and looking at the floor is apparently all you need to fool the CIA. Final car chase was just too 'big'.

Basically it seemed like it was cynically stitched together from Bourne movie tropes but it just didn't work for me. The appeal of Bourne is that he's [i]not[/i] Bond and this was a bit too Bond.

Lastly, why do they never learn their lesson? Why do people keep saying things like "Well, if Bourne's a problem we'll just take him out" when every single team they have sent against him in the last 15 years ends up the same way?

And those passports he has must have all expired by now! 😀

Endured the first hour, then walked out. The first time I have done this in over forty years of independent film-going. This says a lot, normally my feeling is all film should be given a chance to the bitter end, but it looked like Bourne had dropped about 100 IQ points.

The new Star Trek is much more worthwhile.