Movie predictions: The Bourne Ultimatum

What I liked about the first Bourne were the amazing action sequences and how the movie transformed an ordinary looking Matt Damon into a believable, one-man killing machine. Move over, 007. Jason Bourne is here. I watched the second Bourne and was not disappointed since I know what to expect anyway. There’s something about one man’s battle with a powerful government agency that appeals to moviegoers. Plus the movie packed a lot of what action movie fans want.

Enter Bourne Ultimatum, the third film of the series. I expect to see the usual car chases and knowing Bourne, motorcycle runs as well. The in-your-face fist fights that are prolonged and a tad bit brutal. Loud explosions here and there and the stunts shot to look like climbing down a building or jumping from one to the next is child’s play. Yes, I think that’s just about it. It is interesting how they can continue to write a script about an amnesiac spy and the government agency that can’t seem to get the job done. Don’t make me start with the dispensable and seeming inexhaustible supply of hired guns either. What you have is tinsel town’s recent formula for blockbusters.

What else can one expect from the latest installment of a series? More of the same, I’m afraid. I don’t think we can reasonably ask for anything new. It will be Bourne and his killing prowess and admirable command of five or so languages. They’ll send one assassin after another but Bourne will be left standing.

Frankly, I’m getting tired of the fact that movie studios keep rehashing the same characters and plots and still make a killing at the box office. After the disappointing Spiderman 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean 3, I vowed never to fall for this brand of movie-making again. As to my prediction: It’s bound to earn more money for the studios which would in turn encourage them to make movies with second, third, (gasp!) fourth sequels in mind. I’m pretty sure my steering clear of this movie won’t make a dent but I sure hope movie makers would stop doing sequels because it’s so darn tired.

If anybody else out there is feeling the way I do about tiresome sequels of the same plot, I am appealing to you. Please stay away from these movies. Until we do, studios will continue to churn out movies with at least three sequels. What will stop them from making an otherwise entertaining movie character into a tiresome franchise?

What kind of movie goer are you

When I go to a movie, I go to have fun with my friends. That is my main priority. Not special effects, not acting, not plot lines, fun. That being said, some movies are just too bad to have fun while watching. I’m not going to name names, but we all know which ones they are. I am a major fan of all of the very popular movies, like Spiderman, Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Die Hard, Harry Potter, and now I am a fan of the recently released Transformers movie. These movies are the big huge, globally dispersed fun engines that people will watch twice and still think they are amazing. These are the movies that make hundreds of millions of dollars in a single day. I don’t go to the theater just for thrills or romance or humor or action! I go because the movie looks like fun. And, most of these movies I have named has all of the above criteria in spades, I have fun.

Movie critics are so focused on what they want to see that they don’t see the good in every movie. They only saw the part with a corny line or a bad effects-shot, they don’t see the hero saving the world or the great kiss between the couple that speaks louder than words. They don’t see the humor that the everyman sees. They try to tell you what’s wrong with a movie, and forget to mention the right. Very few films that are well-reviewed make very much money, and absolutely nobody has seen them. What I see when I sit down in a movie theater is, just that, a movie. The critics only enjoy films. They can enjoy their films alone; I’m going to a movie.

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