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Nolfi Returns To Script BOURNE IV!!
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George Nolfi, who co-wrote “The Bourne Ultimatum,” is returning for the fourth installment of the Universal franchise.
The untitled sequel will not be based on a Robert Ludlum novel.
Director Paul Greengrass (“United 93,” “The Bourne Supremacy,” “The Bourne Ultimatum”) and Matt Damon have been attached to the project since February.
Find all of Variety’s story on the matter here.
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in the same way that was of supremacy.
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ended on a high note. whatever. fuck number fours. ...unless it's Metal Gear Solid...
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cause I'm a hypocrite like that.
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4... 3... 2... 1. And here we... GO!
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... I think its a bad idea to go a fourth. As they stand now the Bourne flicks are one of very few trilogies that remained consistent and entertaining right through the series. It's a major gamble and especially so since there are no more Ludlum books to go off.
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This time Jason is SAVED by Kirk Cameron!
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I am happy to live down to your expectations.
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If Tony Gilroy comes back, I'm in. Motherfucker can write.
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Are you letting a monkey do your research now or what? First its 2001 is based on Homer's Odyssey and now this? Are you drinking again?
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And I screwed up mine. BOURNE TO BE WILD, DAMNIT!
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Bourne traces his past back to Atlantis
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That's like saying "Don't make any more Bond films because there are no more Ian Fleming books". <p> The Bond movies haven't been based on the books for a long time.
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Ugh.. that sucked
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In the exciting 4h installmemt of the Bourne franchise, Jason gives Niki (Julia Stiles) the Shocker under the lights of the Eiffel Tower. . . soon, Jason meets Robert Langdon, and begins the next adventure, "The Bourne Vatican Conspiracy"
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starring people that hate the USA!!
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You know that would be the best title. It does'nt matter if it makes no sense.
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yes, there is a God, assuming that Jogn Voight's regurgatated river pirate is back for more mayhem (and to titty bang J Lo)
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David Webb in the last one. So maybe, Webb of Lies? That sounds good right?
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But there are some decent title parodies here! Definitely like Still Bourne, Zeegloo!
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starring Danny Devito as the devil, Ray Liotta as Daniel Webster, and Gary Coleman as General Santa Ana
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'Random spy movie dialogue' and 'Shake camera wildely' probably were the main building blocks.
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Starring Matt Damon as Bourne, yoga-emaciated Maddona as the Spider, and a very special appearance of Meredeith Baxter Berney as Charlotte
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It could take place in the ocean, with Bourne fighting on submarines trying to disarm a nuclear missile. There could also be a scene where the captain is desperate enough to try to Jettison Bourne out of a torpedoe tube at the other sub, ala the Simpsons.
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´Nuff said.
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Go Raiders!
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Yeah! That's the ticket!
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A Twisted Love Story
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I'm uh at my office. <p> GASP! Bourne's at headquarters, drive back! <p> anyone find that goofy? he's able to infiltrate a building packed with surveillance and security without any of the cameras spotting him.
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At the risk of sounding like a children's lit fag, Charlotte was the spider. And just as long as the fourth Bourne movie doesn't feature aliens or has Jason Bourne jumping around in the background going, "What's going on!?! What are you people doing!!?? Huh?!!? Lemme play too!!"..... then I'm interested.
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Yeah and look how great those movies were! What was the last Bond movie called? Oh, yeah... it was Casino Royale, which is- wait for it- an Ian Flemming novel!!! What say you now?
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I'm sorry I rarely chime in in such a childish way, but I feel compelled to comment.<p>you sir, just got owned.<p>indeed, it would not be an exaggeration to say that you got FUCKING owned.
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Even if I had no idea what was going on on screen, they got Oscars for the visual style of the last movie, which means that it must be good. So they just MUST top this. The audience don't want to see for one single frame what's happening.
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Send me my check, Universal. You're welcome.
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I was so just about to type that. Seriously. Oh well, back to the drawing board.
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this better not suck
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Hey bro, CHILDREN OF THE BOURNE is still available - but they might be saving that one for 10 years or so down the road when they introduce JB's twin sons and spinoff a whole new franchise.
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Just kidding. I love these films. Supremacy and Ultimatum are the shit.
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Oct. 17, 2008, 2:20 a.m. CST
There have been 3 great movies. Don't get greedy!
by The Gospel According to Bastardface
I don't want a fourth Bourne movie. For one, he's no longer Bourne, and for two, I don't want to untangle the ending to Ultimatum so we have another shakey cam chase film. I'm over it. Let it lie. 3 great films is enough.
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It's been a good six to eight months since I saw the last one and I have finally gotten my inner-ear problems sorted. Anyway, the next one won't be based on a Ludlum novel? WERE ANY OF THE OTHERS?! No. No a bit. Maybe the first one a little, but the second and third were way, way, way off the reservation. I like the franchise, but please God, stop shaking the damn camera.
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How bloody original.
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I win.
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Dammit.
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Damon is in it in voice only. The plot involves him helping a reporter in danger by dictating every action he'll need to take over the course of the movie into a tape recorder and slipping it into his pocket. Bourne is so good that he knows exactly what the guy will have to do weeks in advance.
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Oct. 17, 2008, 3:30 a.m. CST
This time the editing in the fight scenes will be so fast...
by newc0253
you'll swear you have epilepsy!
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Bourne meets McClane. Hilarity ensues.
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Oct. 17, 2008, 4:01 a.m. CST
In which Bourne remembers that his Maths teacher once hit him
by Mr Gorilla
He goes back to his school, and there are flashbacks as he remembers his childhood. He then kills everyone he met between the ages of 12 and 17. Using ring binder files.
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THE BOURNE NOEL, where he has to remember his identity and the true meaning of Christmas. If not then maybe THE BOURNE FOOFERAH would be good.
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How's that for a title, eh? Double redundancy bitches.
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is the unofficial 4th book so I guess that's the title they'll end up going with. But since none of the films follow the stories from the books then I'm not expecting this 4th installment to do so either. I'm guessing it will deal with his past relationship with Julia Stiles that was hinted at in the last movie and other crimes against humanity he has yet to redeem himself for. These films are great, but if they make too many they will become too formatted the way the Bond flicks were.
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Bourne vs. The Jackal vs. Leon, The Cleaner vs. Anton Chigurh. Let bloody mayhem reign!
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last night. . . .never read the book either!! Am I missing out? Thanks for the correction
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...wild camera shaking that is!
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from which they drew their respective titles. Can't say I have any interest in this. The last two Bourne films literally gave me headaches whilst I was trying (and failing) to watch them.
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Too twisted?
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etc etc... you know the drill.
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When Greengrass and Damon were promoting Ultimatum they were adament about no more Bournes and kept making the joke it would be called "The Bourne Redundancy" They both expressly said there was no more story to tell and it would just be a story for the sake of telling one. Fascinating. They must have had a lot of dough thrown at them, It's strange how even people with artistic integrity go back on themselves. The Bourne Cashcow indeed.
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Where Bourne just slacks around L.A. gettin' drunk and occasionally flipping out and pulling pistols on people and stuff.
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I love all three of the Bourne movies, but three really is enough. This one won't even be based on any of the novels (not that any of the films really are). Ultimatum was a perfect end to the franchise. So why make another one? <p> Oh, that's right. Money. Just like Spielberg and Lucas did with Indy. Good one. <p> Don't sell out, Damon!
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Will Sarah Silverman be the love interest in this one?
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Oct. 17, 2008, 7:58 a.m. CST
Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatttttttt Daaaaaaaaaaaammmmooooooonnnnnn
by Nasty In The Pasty
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They inadvertently destroyed the James Bond franchise. Yes they did.
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One could randomly watch scenes from all three in any order. One would not know the difference.
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Thinking up crazy sequel titles are great ways to waste time at work.
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yeaaa
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Supremacy seemed like it might have been a good movie, but I couldn't make out a single scene due to all the shakiness. I don't mind a little shakiness, it never bothered me in other movies or BSG, but they went so far overboard in the last movie that I left in shock. How could anyone give a positive review to a movie they couldn't possibly have seen? Since they've decided to go with the same director, I'll most likely pass on this one. Too bad, I really liked the first movie.
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...that was kind of a homage to turketron, if you will..
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Actually sounds pretty cool and would work for a title to this movie. Oh yeah, I need to watch the other 3...
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Hard R rating, lots of blood and gore and secks. Buttsecks.... with full-bottomed brazillian hookers, and the shaky-cam is in tune with the jiggle of their assets. Then the camera pulls out to reveal... omg... she has... A FULL GROWN PENOR. GTFO Bourne, IT'S A TRAP
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The Bourne Indecency is the movie I want to see. Brazilian buttsecks and Matt Damon? Nuff Said.
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Jason Bourne goes batshit crazy, infiltrates hollywood, and unleashes mayhem on the sets of scores of reality shows. 120 minute bloodbath showcasing the brutalization and violent elimination of garbage reality tv casts. Documentary.
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Purple dinosaur drug kingpen with an appetite for evil and coke whores, who spawn his evil coked up mutant reptile babies/goons before he devours them. Amy Winehouse as his top coke whore bitch who spawns most of his army, but is too toxic to consume. This will be a spinoff that has nothing to do with the rest of the movies, like that one Halloween sequel.
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Not another one! it went full circle for crikes sake! Actually I smell Prequelitis!!!<P>first was best third was OK, 2 was shaky shit!<P> Thought it would take a bit longer before Greengrassi ass done a Lucas and started doing prequels and F'ing up his own shit! and his moovies are pretty shit guys you got to admit it's a cop out for a director to simply thrash the camera around coz he can't be arsed to compose a decent shot and build tension with genuine technique.
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Low budget. It takes place in a barn. The whole thing. One location. Minimum crew. Minimum characters. Huge return on minimum investment. Let's make it.
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Jason Bourne tries to collect on his life insurance
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the Bourne movies are great and they make up a nice trilogy...so really, what is the point of a 4th Bourne movie???...i understand its all about money even if it means to potentially discredit a franchise. if you ask me, is unnecessary additions to franchises like this that hurt the overall credibility of the franchise...unless they have a new trilogy of films up their sleeve with a VERY fresh story.
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Well...I don't know about the Supremacy or Ultimatum novels (or beyond) but I read 'Bourne Identity' and to say the first movie is "based" on the book would be a bit of a stretch. Names are the same, the into is pretty much the same but the moment he gets to the shore, it's quite different. The main antagonist is entirely different from the movie, etc, etc...so saying the next one isn't based on a Ludlum novel doesn't really mean anything as it's more like "The Bourne movies are very loosely based on characters and stories created by Robert Ludlum" in the first place.<p>If Greengrass directs, can someone at least get the guy a DoP who will refuse to film the whole movie in fucking shaky cam or as if it's an episode of "Cheaters!"? You're not a rebel if you sit in a booth 20 feet behind your actors and film them with a god damn handicam. You're just screwing up a scene with distracting camera work. Stop, please. And if I wanted to feel like I was right in the middle of a fistfight, I'd go down to the local pub and insult the local sports franchise or play a freakin video game, not watch an action movie.
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Oct. 17, 2008, 11:01 a.m. CST
BOURNE STAR: THE LEGEND OF RON JEREMY
by The Gospel According to Bastardface
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Oct. 17, 2008, 11:02 a.m. CST
A WOMAN BOURNED: THE BETTY BRODERICK STORY
by The Gospel According to Bastardface
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...being the american Bond. Franchise it till the cows come home. And when Damon moves on, cast someone else.
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I mean, why mess up such a good thing? I love the movies we have already. I don't want the fridge to get nuked (although it's probably inevitable at some point, even if it takes 19 years).
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it wont be based on a R. Ludlum novel. The first film was only LOOSELY based on the novel in concept and a few names, story was completely different. The other two had NOTHING to do with the novels...so why stress it that this one wont either...haha
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Yeah, I too got the sense that the crappy camera work was to make us feel like we were in the middle of the fight and that might make sense if Bourne was a drunk loser who had no idea what's going on, but it doesn't fit his precise, highly aware fighting style.
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I just saw your post after posting mine. Guess I wasn't the first to notice. The 2nd movie had nothing to do with the book...in fact Marie is important in the 2nd book and doesn't die like she does 5 minutes into the movie...and the 3rd one...well let's just say our friend Carlos the Jackal came back
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Guest starring Adam Sandler as Cajun Man
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AND THE TROGDOR COMES IN THE NIIIIIIGHT!!!!!
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I've had more than enough handheld video camera "cinematography" for a lifetime. Bring back Doug Liman.
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Paul Greengrass's vision cannot be contained or realized on the film making medium anymore, to continue pursuing his unique vision for the SHAKIESt and most EDITED movie ever he will introduce Bourne 4 not in theaters, but for 10.00 you will be given the flip book and proceed to go inside a washing machine turned on and read away. Only don't eat anything 2 hours beforhand.
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Albeit, not of an official Bond film. <p> But my point remains the same. When they run out of books as source material, would you rather no more movies with that character be made?
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Can't wait to see, or actually TRY to see what's going on in that one...
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You will find that the two films after the first (and even the first to some extent) differ wildly from the books. For example, Bourne's girl does not get killed in #2, she gets kidnapped. Oh, and by #3 they're married and they have kids and his not on the run anymore, etc, etc. Check out the summaries.
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The Stedicam Edition.
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or that sequence in the crappy DOOM movie, and make the whole movie in POV with the camera attached to Damon's head so that we get his view the whole time. Then the constant shakiness would actually make sense.
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oh well.
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In case no one has said that yet.
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in case you young'uns didn't know. Yep, 7:30, time for bed.
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funnily enough, I seem to recall me actually starting this trend. ah well, at least I've accomplished something.
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Jason Bourne is 8 years old. And he pals around with the terrorists.
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Don't know if it has been mentioned yet, but it really, really doesn't matter if they are not "basing" this on a Ludlum book, as these movies where very, very different than the books (ummm as in, Bourne/Webb isn't even an assassin, he was only posing as one to draw out the world's most notorious killer, when he gets amnesia). I like the Bourne movies, but only because I can view them as seperate from the books.
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Next step is logical. Coercion. I think it's safe to say unless your going to go to the cliche family route. Long lost spy father or brother your only other chance is to finally make Bourne stop running and have him join up with Pam Landy and the Government. But of course he does not want to do this willing. Hence coercion. He is made by force to join up and help the side that hunted him. But of course this is the Jason Bourne series not Bond. Franchise gets boring if Bourne becomes a bitch like Bond always helping and not fleeing so as always with deception you can make it that Bourne is coerced into helping Landy and the Governement in finding 3 other agents with amnesia (like Bourne) and bring them in for questioning. Action ensues they all don't want to go. Yadda Yadda Bourne bags all their asses only to realize that he's just been lied to by Landy and these agents will be executed with no trial. One of them is executed. So Bourne being Bourne cant let that stand so he undoes his mistake in trusting Landy and the Government and helps break out the other two buddies. That seems a logical Part 4
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O65cZ3NE-Sc
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Bourne does the pencil disappearing trick; hilarity ensues.
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Jason Bourne runs after his childhood domestic terrorist friends ..... FOREVER !!!!!
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Let's get this party started !
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They've got to name it The Bourne Vengeance in order to keep the series alphabetized, or else my DVD shelf won't look right.<br><br> By the way, for the couple of folks on here who say it'll be bad because it's not based on a Ludlum novel: welcome to the party. The only movie that was remotely similar to its book was Identity; Supremacy and Ultimatum just stole the titles.
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But probably only if they set out an entire arc like the first three movies. They were about remembering what he was. Now the new trilogy (or duology - whatever) should be about him getting back into the CIA and do their dirty work again. Something like that. Maybe with a sidekick. BourneMan & Robin?
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Seriously, I hope they tone down the shakey-cam. Shakey-Cam *can* work, but only in the rarest of cases. It's like the "morph" effect in the 90's. The artificial "tension" and confusion shakey-cam provides only works in moderation, and usually it just tells me that someone along the line is a bad story teller. If you can't create tension, risk, fear legitimately in a chase, then you shouldn't have that scene. grumble grumble.... at least it's not bullet-time *and* shakey -cam
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He's not ready to be spy yet. He thinks he is.
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Maybe these guys just need the cash...
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