Posts from ‘August, 2007’

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 series were [...]

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:
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 Fun:  how many of these movies can you identify?

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 I [...]

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 it provides in [...]