Aug. 21st, 2007

trinityvixen: (Doom)
I dreamt last night that Steve Martin set the Predator after me. Yes, that Predator. And, yes, that Steve Martin.
trinityvixen: (thinking Mario)
The Bourne Ultimatum really should have been stellar. As is, it was mostly just good. I don't want to say I didn't like it, but I definitely am disappointed on some levels, most having nothing to do with the quality of the thing or the story as a whole. I think the problems I take issue with really started in The Bourne Supremacy, for all that I really love that film. It's like with X-Men: The Last Stand--the problems of the third movie are really that movie's own fault, but they were not helped by problems in the preceding films.

I am not going to explain this well. Cut in case of spoilage )

I'm still not putting that right. Damn it. I did enjoy the film, but still...

I think my problem is that the formula showed too much and added too little. Like with James Bond--you knew, in the old movies, that something outlandish would happen to threaten humanity as we know it; an outsize villain with a henchman who might as well have had mutant powers would show up and menace people; Bond would screw some anonymous chick but work his way into the bed of another throughout the whole movie; and he'd save the day using gadgets revealed to him by Q in an earlier scene. Much the same way, The Bourne Ultimatum ran through the numbers and did so less effectively. Hi, actual cities in Europe, Africa, and America! Otherwise known as the, "Fabulous and real city" money shot. And here's the elaborate, if awesome, fight scene with the guy who isn't quite as good as Bourne. Awkward personal moment, check. Painful (?) memory reappearances at inconvenient times. Hello, Julia Stiles. Blustering at CIA shot. Etc etc.

Didn't like the way the problem was resolved either. Won't say more than that without a cut-tag for now.
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Oh the British. Do they even HAVE anything left to prove? They're hands-down better at everything than we are, and they still show it at every other turn.

Case in point: turned on over to BBC America and, before a re-run of Spooks came on, there was a disclaimer. Given the episode (it's the really freaky one in series two where they have the security drill for those of you who know the show), I expected a warning about violent and disturbing content (there's a VX atack for God's sake). Instead, it was a cheeky as buggers warning that the following program is chock-full of British accents and, in case of emergency inability to translate, how to set the closed captioning so the slow Americans can follow just the same. And there was another, different one before the next episode:

The British accent is ridiculous. So much so, that I'm struggling to keep a straight face as I'm talking to you right now. You might want to use the closed captioning.

Brilliant.

Also, they seem to be showing Torchwood come September. Part of me never really needs to see that show twice, but I am dying to know how they're going to play even half of the shit that went down in season one of that show. It hits all the wonderful purity sensors thrown at American TV--swearing, sex, gay-ness--and I don't think the de-lovely hotness of Jack Harkness is going to save it from some serious editing. Which...might actually improve the thing, who knows?

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