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Oh yeah! Lol! Still "Paul" for me though.
Dominic Cooper apparently was under consideration for James Bond (according to him). If true, Craig’s return may have averted a major crisis. Based on a series of books by Douglas Falconer, this has got to be one of the most horrendous attempts at building a Bond/MI like franchise entry I’ve had the misfortune of witnessing in the last few years. It was excruciatingly painful to get through. By the numbers & lacking in tension or inventiveness, with forgettable uncharismatic performances. Quite frankly, it made Seagal’s made-for-home-video entries seem exciting in comparison. Most disgracefully, the film makers seemed to have drawn inspiration from SP (yes, you read this correctly), and also subject us to an empty streets nighttime chase in Rome (presumably this one cost less than £24m). If this wasn’t bad enough, they further shame themselves by plagiarizing TWINE (they really were going for the winners here) with a boat chase across the Thames and through the Docks. Based on the evidence of this misbegotten tripe, Cooper isn’t fit enough to play an extra in Mexico, let alone Bond. Do yourselves a favour and please don’t bother. I want my two hours back.
A waste of time. A failed attempt at trying to emulate Robert Rodriguez or Quentin Tarantino. Infantile dialogue, mindless action, clicheed macho b.s., boring story. If you like that kind of thing, highly recommended.
True. Apart from the choral piece that accompanies the monolith I like it all. Can't listen to the Blue Danube without seeing that space station spinning in space!
It was actually Richard Gere, but close. Easy to mix up.
I just got on to make this joke... Great, now I have to use Rich Little.
You might be getting confused with this famous duo...Mulligan & O'Hare.
I saw that the day of its release, I was one of only two people in the room (not a good sign). I went in to the films with hopes of a Stratton film series, with emphasis on an adaption of Undersea Prison. As I left the screening, I knew that all hopes of a series, were dead in the water. Cooper did a fine job, considering that he was a last minute replacement for Henry Cavil, who bailed less than a week from filming. My one big gripe, was that it clearly needed a bigger budget. After that decent opening with that pipe system, all of the action scenes are far to brief. Once the boat chase got underway, I expected that to be the big sequence of the film, Stratton is SBS afterall, but even that quickly fizzled out.
I've seen a lot of people say that they should just let it end and that they're beating a dead horse but I disagree. Bourne could go on for longer. He's a really cool character. The problem is they keep putting him in the same situations. He's always fighting the CIA, there's always at least one assassin who's just as well trained as he is, he usually finds himself running around european cities, etc. This one was a step in the right direction: the Vegas setting and the social media surveillance storyline were both very different. But they could still do more. At the start of the film Bourne's a drifter. Why does he need to be bought back to face off against the CIA again? Why can't he be in some foreign location keeping his head down but gets sucked into a new adventure with a new threat to take on? Greengrass and Damon seem to only want to make these films when they have something to say but there's all sorts going on in the world that they could use as the jumping off point for a new story, now he knows who he is and what he's capable of it doesn't always have to involve the US government.
Decent film. Great seeing Damon back and Tommy Lee Jones was pretty good too. I'd like them to make more. But Bourne needs some new bad guys to fight.
They are indeed easy to mix up. And while Gere was originally contracted to score 2001, he famously told his gerbil friend: "I have to score this film or somebody's going to have my —!"
We all know how that turned out...
You can only see a man going up against the same government with the same formula so many times, in many ways the problem the Bond films have had in the past. It's easy to say "Do something new with him" but that also has to fit his character. The only thing you can do with him is have him drifting to different locations where he randomly helps people with their problems but I don't think that fits his character that well and those stories would be rather small scale and ill fitted to a big feature film.
The only interesting thing they could do is go back to the Ludlum books and retool the Jackal villain of the original stories to a modern take on the character where Bourne chases after or faces off with this trained killer to give him a new angle. That still doesn't change the limited and rather boring nature of his character, however, in comparison to what else is in the market. And we know that the studio would just repeat the same thing like all the other films too; there's only so many ways to make those movies at one point.
No Damon, no Bourne as far as I'm concerned. Same goes for MI without Cruise (although I'm sure they'll reboot that at some point in the future).
I don't think you'd want to see the Renner led film, @Fire_and_Ice_Returns. Unless you wanted the world of Bourne to change into one of super serums and magic pills. Wish I was kidding.