mostly Bourne Ultimatum(another omnibus-ish post)

[meganbmoore]

1. Bourne Ultimatum

That, my friends, was one truly awesome movie.  As mentioned before, I loved Bourne Identity but missed out on Bourne Supremacy(I'm banking on a pretty DVD set when Ultimatum hits DVD.)  One of my chief thoughts after first seeing Identity is that Bourne is what Bond should be(which they finally figured out with Casino Royale.)

Comments

[foenix]

All in all, I wasn't a huge fan of the first Bourne flick, and haven't seen the others. I do think I deserve to give it a second chance, since I didn't find it *bad*, I just wasn't drawn into it. I think I was having a bad week at the time, and little sleep

[meganbmoore]

I hate stacked discs even more than I hate flippers. I especially hate sets that have both.

And Sabrina..pft...the Beauty and the Beast DVDs have SIX DVDs crammed into a regular zized DVDs case with inster trays.

[madame_manga]

Speaking of Yoshitsune, every once in a while, there's something almost slashy about Shun and Takki's scenes.

Sounds like a good show. :D

Actually, you don't need a feelthy mind to see slashy aspects in that sort of thing. Comradely-mentoring homosexual feelings/affairs were taken for granted among samurai for centuries. And also in Buddhist monasteries -- where the practice had a more pedophiliac aspect -- and among townsmen who aped samurai customs. Brothels were well stocked with boys as a routine matter. Funny how they do not tell you this in all those books on the martial arts and the history of bushido written by American men. ;) But think ancient Greece, its cultural misogyny and its worship of the youthful male as the godlike ideal, and you'll hit pretty close to the mark...

[meganbmoore]

yup yup yup...but the very vast majority of the time, in things written now, it's not meant to portray any sort of sexual relationship, but most things we get out of Japan still portray the closeness without the sexual aspect, but because friends in the US would NEVER act like that if they were both straight, it's taken a different way. In this case, Yoshitsune and Karusue may have had sex at one point, but in the series, it's very much NOT meant to come across that way...the look was "OMG YAY! WE FINALLY GET TO GO TO BATTLE!" In an american production, they would have cheered or something and run off, not look at each other and exchange excited grins.

[kitkat_cat]

Argh, the Bourne film still isnt't out in old blighty yet! maybe it's out this weekend...hmm...

I remember when it was announced that Matt Damon would be Robert Bourne and I was a little upset. Matt Damon just did not look like the Robert Bourne from the novels...but phwoar, I fell hook, line and sinker for his interpretation! Can't wait for the thred film...hmm, I'm not too sure about Bond vd Bourne. Any of the other Bonds, I agree would lose, but the Daniel Craig Bond...a close one i say!

[meganbmoore]

You can't see Matt Damon as an action hero until you see Bourne, and then that's ALL you can see.

Craig-Bond vs Bourne would be a good fight, but I go with Bourne winning...if you think about it, all Bourne is is angst, stubbornness, and pure fighting instinct, while Bond still has the ideals and goals, and that tends to hold you back at times.

[boundaid]

I have been lurking on your friends list. So, I thought I'd come out and just tell you I'm here! ;)