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Posts from ‘August, 2007’

Great film trilogies…

I just read an interesting article that makes the argument that the Bourne trilogy of movies is the best American film trilogy around: Why the Bourne Series is the Best American Film Trilogy Ever Made He makes a lot of good points, and I’d be closer to agreeing with him if any individual film in the [...]

Cool tribute to movies…

You know those AFI Top 100 lists?  This guy put together a very well-done montage that counts down from 100 to 1 via movie quotes, called 100 Movies, 100 Quotes, 100 Numbers: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FExqG6LdWHU&rel=1]  Fun:  how many of these movies can you identify?

007, License to Be Incompetent?

An interesting take on the James Bond classic Goldfinger: The dirty secret at the heart of Goldfinger And you know what?  He’s right.  (Don’t get me wrong.  I love Bond films.  Even the bad ones, because campy can be fun.  But the films did get awfully ridiculous as time went on, and with Pierce Brosnan (whom [...]

Bourne’s camera work…

William Arnold, a film critic with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer whom I respect a great deal, has written a review for The Bourne Ultimatum, which opens this weekend: ‘Bourne Ultimatum’ is spy trilogy’s final, and weakest, link In the review, Arnold praises the movie’s effort to be different from other action movies, and notes the satisfaction [...]