Movie thoughts and fiction updates.
#2 in my ranking of the Bourne Franchise. So, I kind of love this movie, but I can't help but notice something really odd about its third act. Peeking ahead towards the fifth Bourne movie, they sort of try to address it there before simply giving up, but it introduces a great idea very late… Continue reading The Bourne Ultimatum
#1 in my ranking of the Bourne Franchise. I have loved this movie since the very first time I saw it, which was on a plane back when not every seat had a screen. I watched it about eight rows back on the small television sized screen ahead, and I was enthralled for every minute… Continue reading The Bourne Supremacy
#3 in my ranking of the Bourne Franchise. It feels like a lot of movies that come along and start new trends tend to be throwbacks. Action movies by 2002 had become Matrix clones and other high concept over-produced spectacles with little grasp of character, and along comes The Bourne Identity with its 70s paranoid… Continue reading The Bourne Identity
Silent cinema wasn't just arthouse fare and comedies. Audiences wanted adventure and action as much then as they want it now, but these types of movies tend to age more poorly, especially silent versions, because of an over-reliance on plot mechanics when tends to slow things down to a series of intertitles as people explain… Continue reading The Thief of Bagdad
Meh. No cute introduction. Just go to my Top Ten to see why Top Ten's are all wrong. David Lean was a great filmmaker who grew up in the British studio system preceding the outbreak of World War II and became a director, hitched to Noel Coward, during the conflict. After working directly with Coward… Continue reading David Lean: The Definitive Ranking
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