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.
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.
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.
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.