I never really liked the Bourne movies. I feel they basically killed action movies as I knew them and loved them. Every action movie after wanted to be a gritty, shaky cam, overly serious political thriller.
But this was the video I saw many years ago where I straight up disliked Matt Damon. Rarely has a celebrity so quickly exposed how much of a liberal douche they are before the age of twitter.
Bourne 1 was sick. Love interest was a super sweet, believable German chick. Bourne 2 killed her offscreen in the opening and the series went downhill from there with shakier and shakier cam every minute.
The chase scenes were generally pretty good. There's one where he's literally reading a map while driving some narrow Euro side streets, that was pretty badass.
Yeah, that's the thing I like about Bourne 1 is the girl is one of the few women characters in movies that I like. Cute in that distinctly European way, and the soundtrack and fashion styles and editing feels very early 2000s/late 90s and the action wasn't shaky cam.
So it's an enjoyable watch for feeling like a time capsule even if it's not remotely a go-to movie for me.
But where that first one felt like that short period of when we had cultural specificity, and decade uniqueness, the sequels feel like that monolithic culture that doesn't feel distinct that's been the same for like 20 years now.
Like Bourne supremacy feels like basically any movie from the 2010s unlike the first Bourne which did feel like an early 2000s movie (which is a good thing)
To me the Bourne sequels fall squarely into 2006-2013 culture where everything was kind of loud and ubiquitous but it rolled off everyone's back like water off a duck. After 2014 everyone started to be offended.
That's more of the director that's in charge of what you are criticizing for the Bourne movies, and that's fine.
If it means anything I think John Wick 1 & 2 raised the bar for action movies and practically the camera work for a lot of those scenes is the opposite of a Bourne movie. You get wide camera shots with plenty of cause > effect visuals done in the same shot without any cuts.
I can't take the fight where the takes on the twins(?) in 2 3 seriously because if you go frame by frame you realise Keanu is possibly literally twice as tall as both of them. Even when he's on his knees he still almost ends up taller.
Yeah I don't blame Matt Damon for how Bourne was made, I'm just saying that's his major film/franchise and it's not one I care for so it's not like I'm a Matt Damon fan anyways.
The two Matt Damon films I like that I can think of are saving private Ryan and Good Will Hunting.
I never really liked the Bourne movies. I feel they basically killed action movies as I knew them and loved them. Every action movie after wanted to be a gritty, shaky cam, overly serious political thriller.
But this was the video I saw many years ago where I straight up disliked Matt Damon. Rarely has a celebrity so quickly exposed how much of a liberal douche they are before the age of twitter.
Bourne 1 was sick. Love interest was a super sweet, believable German chick. Bourne 2 killed her offscreen in the opening and the series went downhill from there with shakier and shakier cam every minute.
The chase scenes were generally pretty good. There's one where he's literally reading a map while driving some narrow Euro side streets, that was pretty badass.
Yeah, that's the thing I like about Bourne 1 is the girl is one of the few women characters in movies that I like. Cute in that distinctly European way, and the soundtrack and fashion styles and editing feels very early 2000s/late 90s and the action wasn't shaky cam.
So it's an enjoyable watch for feeling like a time capsule even if it's not remotely a go-to movie for me.
But where that first one felt like that short period of when we had cultural specificity, and decade uniqueness, the sequels feel like that monolithic culture that doesn't feel distinct that's been the same for like 20 years now.
Like Bourne supremacy feels like basically any movie from the 2010s unlike the first Bourne which did feel like an early 2000s movie (which is a good thing)
If you like 'the girl' she got famous in Run Lola Run (1998). It's a decent indie movie with catchy soundtrack. Definitely German though...
Yeah, that was actually a movie we watched in the screenwriting class I took in high school.
To me the Bourne sequels fall squarely into 2006-2013 culture where everything was kind of loud and ubiquitous but it rolled off everyone's back like water off a duck. After 2014 everyone started to be offended.
That's more of the director that's in charge of what you are criticizing for the Bourne movies, and that's fine.
If it means anything I think John Wick 1 & 2 raised the bar for action movies and practically the camera work for a lot of those scenes is the opposite of a Bourne movie. You get wide camera shots with plenty of cause > effect visuals done in the same shot without any cuts.
The Raid raised the bar. John Wick very cleverly modified that formula to focus on guns (because Keanu is a literal senior citizen).
I can't take the fight where the takes on the twins(?) in
23 seriously because if you go frame by frame you realise Keanu is possibly literally twice as tall as both of them. Even when he's on his knees he still almost ends up taller.https://i.ibb.co/HTFLgCpQ/jw3.png
Yeah I don't blame Matt Damon for how Bourne was made, I'm just saying that's his major film/franchise and it's not one I care for so it's not like I'm a Matt Damon fan anyways.
The two Matt Damon films I like that I can think of are saving private Ryan and Good Will Hunting.
The best Matt Damon film is Interstellar because he plays a sniveling dishonest traitor who hilariously gets himself killed.