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Offline midnight Target

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« on: July 29, 2004, 01:08:41 PM »
Anyone else think the 1st Bourne movie was good? Once you get past the fact that it had little to do with the book, it was a good action flick. Looking forward to the next installment.

BTW I think Ludlum is a hack. Nice outline for a story, but he writes terribly.
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« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2004, 01:11:35 PM »
That movie I did enjoy. I didn't read the book so I had no book details to go on. The wife and I will probably see the second movie tomorrow evening.
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« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2004, 01:15:17 PM »
Hell, I'd watch it just to see Franka Potente again. ;)
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« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2004, 01:22:19 PM »
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BTW I think Ludlum is a hack. Nice outline for a story, but he writes terribly.


I have read only one of his novells. Thought that it was a terrible translation...
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« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2004, 01:26:15 PM »
The movie was good,  the camera angels were a little strange in some parts,  but it was worth the watch
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« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2004, 01:27:51 PM »
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I have read only one of his novells. Thought that it was a terrible translation...


He tries to decribe his characters through the conversations in the book... drives me nuts.

ie: "Well, my 6 foot 2 inch blonde haired friend. Since you quit playing professional hockey, how has the work gone on your doctorate?"

idiotic.
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« Reply #6 on: July 29, 2004, 01:42:50 PM »
good flik i enjoyed both
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« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2004, 01:46:37 PM »
great car chase scene in the 2nd one.  Man did that shooting style get old with me, this MTV shaky camera crap.  Gave me a headache.
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Offline phookat

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« Reply #8 on: July 29, 2004, 03:25:37 PM »
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Anyone else think the 1st Bourne movie was good?


No, but then again I think most movies suck.

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BTW I think Ludlum is a hack. Nice outline for a story, but he writes terribly.


Yeah, that's about right.  He's great at the surprise-after-surprise-after-surprise plots, but his characters are shallow (or painfully lame), and he has a poor ear for the language.

In fact, they read a lot like mainstream hollywood movies.  I'm surprised it has taken so long for his books to be filmed.
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« Reply #9 on: July 29, 2004, 11:36:02 PM »
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great car chase scene in the 2nd one.  Man did that shooting style get old with me, this MTV shaky camera crap.  Gave me a headache.


I walked out of the Blair Witch Project after 10 minutes due to the "shaky camera".  

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« Reply #10 on: July 30, 2004, 12:16:40 AM »
It was a decent film.  I liked it a bit better than the first.  I thought the car chase was really well done.

I'm not a big ludlum fan though... I find most of his books to be of the same basic formula.  A killing machine built by the government decides he wants to be a good guy and the government isn't willing to let that happen.  That's only after 3 books, but the underlying plot was always the same.
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« Reply #11 on: July 30, 2004, 07:13:31 AM »
don't forget the never ending "German-money-stolen-during-wwII-re-stolen-by-KGB" plot...
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