Bourne Supremacy

[meganbmoore]

Aaah...this movie was so much easier to see on my TV than it was on my parent's the first time I saw it. They have the color settings darker.

Anyway, spoilery.

Uhm, basic plot: Bourne and Marie have been travelling the world until Evil Director frames Bourne for murders and sends an assassin off to kill Bourne. Unfortunately, the assassin misses and 16 minutes and 42 seconds into the movie, he shoots Marie in the head, thus depriving Bourne of the ability to ever smile again. Or wear anything but black.

THERE SHALL BE REVENGE!

THERE SHALL BE JUSTICE!!

BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, THERE SHALL BE EPIC ANGST AND MANPAIN!

Here is Bourne getting a premonition of the fact that his life is about to royally suck:



Matt Damon's commitment to angst is quite impressive, really. Many should take lessons from him.

Megan's observations:

1) Bourne's girlfriend gets offed 16 minutes and 42 seconds into the movie. (Yes, I timed it. Why? Why not?)

2) Bourne's hair gets shorter(ok, fine, that was between movies...)

3) Bourne burns everything but a picture of Marie.

4) Including all his clothes that aren't solid black.

5) Matt Damon looks like he's taken to spending his spare time watching puppies die to make sure he looks suitably angsty.

6) Bourne destroys every car he sees after the girlfriend getting shot in the head part.

7) Bourne kills a lot more people than in the first movie.

8) Bourne forgets how to carry on a full conversation unless it involves terrorizing people or demanding answers.

Conclusion: Bourne needs a new girlfriend. Stat. For the good of the world. Except the fans.

Counter conclusion: I wouldn't wish his angst on anyone. Except the fans.

I have a theory, though, that Bourne secretly bears a deepseated grudge against cars, what with Marie getting shot in the head while driving one and driving their car into a river. It explains why, after that, he makes it his life's mission to destroy all cars.

There was also this line: "You killed Marie...the moment you climbed into her car."

It was soon after this that he did nothing but destroy every vehicle he could find for about 10 minutes, totalling 5 or more cars a minute.

Meanwhile, Julia Stiles serves no real purpose here. Pam, though, is quite cool. Nowhere near as cool as in the third movie, but cool.

I am also deeply amused by the "Tension" of all the goverment people talking over each other where all you can hear is "Bourne Bourne Bourne," while Pam throws up her hands at the men and Bourne dances circles around them all.


Also, what is quite possibly the best Bourne video known to man, WUXIA BOURNE:

Now to fix dinner and then finish the marathon.

Comments

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

That is a fantastic vid. Do you know the song? I love the song!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

The song is the full version of the opening song of Handsome Siblings. I forget the title, but it's sung(I think) by Nic Tse...who plays the assassin secondary hero of the series(and my new Bourne post explains why the song is ABSOLUTELY PERFECT for Bourne.) It is, I'm told, a very nationalitistic song, but it's also extremely epic wuxia.

The vid is by calixa, who is my recently spawned anime/manga friend.

[wistfulmemory.livejournal.com]

Also, what is quite possibly the best Bourne video known to man, WUXIA BOURNE:

That is a very good Bourne video, but the ultimate one will be the one that includes clips from the third movie as well.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

And if there's one that includes the 3rd movie, she can include the wuxia standard of other girls trying to sway the hero from True Love.

[wistfulmemory.livejournal.com]

Hee. :)