Bourne Ultimatum and more

[meganbmoore]

Yes, I was too lazy to make a new Bourne-angst pic, so I'm recycling another. Maybe I shall do so later.

Uhm, actually, I have little to add that I didn't say in the last post.

Angst reaches even more epic levels. Even more cars are wrecked. Bourne beats people up and dances circles around government people who are trying to keep up with him. Pam is extremely awesome.

Julia Stiles decides to try to match Matt Damon in the unsmiling angst department. She doesn't succeed, but I admire her for trying. I maintain that puppies were killed in front of them before scenes to make sure no smiling took place.

Meanwhile, Nikki finally adds something to the plot. In general, I am pleased by this. However, her becoming a fugitive to help Bourne was an amazingly TSTL moment and made no logical sense, no matter how many hints they dropped about their past(that he doesn't remember and gives no indication he wants to or cares about, making it all fairly irrelevant anyway.) I could handwave it, but she's always so sensible beyond that. I think that she saw a future where she became Pam and was far smarter and more awesome than anyone else around, but had to put up with silly men who think pointing and shouting indicates suspense and tension, and that loudly talking over each other indicates deep thinking and analytical abilities.

Personally, I think Pam should take over the world with Nikki as her Girl Friday and Bourne her hitman. Except that Pam has too many morals for that. And Bourne is too busy angsting in a cabin is the woods somewhere or something.

Incidentally, to explain the song in the Wuxia Bourne vid(beyond it being a good epic wuxia song)it is from a wuxia where one of the heroes is an assassin. At one point, he has amnesia. His wife dies twice. The first time, of course, she wasn't really dead. She was just at the bottom of a cliff and couldn't get out. He wanders around the desert for months, randomly calling out her name and hoping he dies of dehydration or something. They get reunited, of course, but later she dies for real. He carries her body around for a while, and after he buries her, he spends weeks sitting at her gravesite, staring at the grave marker. He is, of course, now a very easy-to-find assassin, so all his enemies come to kill him. When they come, he covers the grave marker(I guess so she won't see him killing them, though she never really had any problems with his past once it was his past...she was too practical to obsess over such things) and then puts on a blindfold before fighting. I have no idea why he made himself fight blind. Maybe there was some secret message about him not wanting to see them as people or something. I don't know. He also kept their swords. When we saw him at the grave, he had about a dozen strapped to his body. I don't know. Largely, I just admire the epic assassin angst.
Also, for an explanation of Wuxia Bourne, here is the Wuxia Bourne post. Cheers for anyone(who doesn't already know, and without looking at comments) if you can pick out the Handsome Siblings couple. Wuxia Bourne was actualy born in another post. I'd link to it, but it involves 50 or so comments between myself, calixa and lesbiassparrow. As is usual for us, we got rather carried away. It can be found under lesbiassparrow's "bourne" tag, though.

And finally, I bring evidence of Bourne's deepseated grudge against cars:

Uhm...I have no idea what I could possibly watch next to live up to this.

Comments

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Is "Handsome Siblings" the name of the movie where the guy dies twice? Because I want to see that one.

Nic Tse is in a movie I love very much, 2002. He has a black leather trenchcoat and makes an origami grenade launcher, so he can burn and use it in the spirit world. He has a lot of angst because everyone he loves dies or something like that.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Handsome Siblings is a 40~ ep wuxia series. It's licensed, but I think you can still find it on crunchyroll or to DL. It's...hmm...I was very, very into it when I watched it, but now...well, I love Nic Tse's storyline, but the handling of the other storyline(which, I understand, was completely gutted from the original storyline to cater to Dicky Cheung's usual slapstick) was really offputting at times, and it eas the dominant storyline.

I know nothing about a movie where a guy dies twice but am now curious. Ditto for 2002.

I am very fond of Nic Tse's movie with Donnie Yen, Dragon Tiger Gate, which I watched for DY, but I became a fan of Nic Tse's too with it.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Doh! I meant the one you describe where the wife dies twice.

What do you rec off crunchyroll?

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Ah. Yes, that's Handsome Siblings. As far as off crunchyroll...uhm...I'm not sure. I really hate watching things on my computer, so when I use crunchyroll, it's typically just to watch enough of a drama or anime to see if I want to get DVDs of the series.

If you mean what wuxia do I rec,though, click the "wuxia primer" tag...I THINK it has all the wuxia I've seen(if it has "Romance of Red Dust" then it does, if not, then I'll have to see what else I need to include.

My favorite wuxias are Young Warriors of the Yang Clan, Sword Stained With Royal Blood and The Little Fairy(all of which, I think, are on crunchyroll)

[wistfulmemory.livejournal.com]

Curse my busy schedule and it keeping me from being able to have my Bourne marathon. Sigh. Maybe I'll be able to fix it in during the next national holiday...

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

to which I say "sick day"

(ah, not what I did, but if you have the comp time...)

[wistfulmemory.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I don't get comp time, and if I took a sick day, it would really affect my work place as I'm a teacher and we don't really have anyone who could take over my classes for me unless we plan my time off far enough in advance to find a way to take care of them.

[kinkytinky.livejournal.com]

GAAHH!
First thing I wanted to do after watching the Bourne Ultimatum was post a long rant on LJ about how much this movie sucked!
'Course I held back, knowing someone might not appreciate it, but now I'm just bursting at the seams.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I actually do rcall you unleashing a bit in IMs.

[kinkytinky.livejournal.com]

Did not!
It was included when I named a string of bad movies I happenned to watch that week, but I never said anything specifically about this movie since you didn't want to hear anything bad said about it.

I guess that means I'm not ALWAYS inconsiderate. You can give me that much, at least.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

More accurately, I hear no negative words about Bourne himself. The movies I freely concede have flaws

[uclamaverick.livejournal.com]

Kimmel did a skit about Bourne Ultimatum. Its hella funny, especially at the 1:26 mark.



if that doesn't work, you can go here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGXr4uOnBrw) instead.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

HAH! That was fun. Except 1:12. That was rather scarring.

[surgingshark.livejournal.com]

Watch "Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever" (starring Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu)

...not much on story, but shit blows up every five seconds

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

seen it