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Old 27-August-2007, 07:56 AM
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Default Re: The Bourne Ultimatum

Re The Boured Ultimatum
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This style worked very well in Gladiator as a means of communicating both the confusion of combat and the speed at which the combatants had to react. In this case, the film works really well with those who have what one might call a better trained eye. Those who do not watch much sports or films or television that uses quick cuts will probably find the cuts too fast. However, these people are probably outside of the target audience of the film.
I.e., the ADD/MTV/What the heck is "character development"?/Is it cool? folks.
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The director was able to keep the pace of the movie up throughout the film, even with a few mandatory pauses, which was a pretty amazing feat.
Yeah it was like watching a two hour beer/sneakers/cell phone commercial. If that's your idea of quality movie making you can have it.
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But we should be talking about the poor physics! How much glass can one man crash through?
If one has no interest in the character who's crashing through yet another glass barrier, then who cares?

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a better trained eye
obviously Newspeak for an eye (and what's left of the brain) that's been programmed by commercial TV.

Someone wake me up when the next interesting Hollywood movie comes along.

Move over, Rip.

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