Random *****ing About the Bourne Movie Trilogy

[Walker]

Random *****ing About the Bourne Movie Trilogy

Okay... we just went to see the "Bourne Ultimatum" in theaters today. Additionally, I just started re-reading Robert Ludlum's Bourne trilogy (not the crappy sequels my Eric van Lustbader). Since my family wouldn't let me ***** at them, I'll do so at you.

First, and most annoying: Marie. Book-

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How in the hell did a French-Canadian economist and Albertan farmgirl working for the Candian government and in Zurich for some conference or other at a hotel who was abducted by Bourne, saved from a rapist, to end up helping him, falling in love with him, and eventually marrying him and having kids and being with him into old age (at least according to Lustbader's crappy much-later sequels),

become Movie-

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A German student grabbed from a bank in Zurich and paid to drive him around, to eventually fall in love with him, be ditched by him to end up opening a scooter rental place in the Carribbean and to end up dying in the first moments of the second movie?

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And only being his girlfriend instead of his second wife.

And the names are utterly unrelated. Kreuntz, or something like that, and St. Jacques. Just about all that was the same was that they both had dark red/auburn hair.

And how did Project Medusa

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go from being a secret operation in the Vietnam war wherein bunches of criminals, soldiers, intelligence operatives, and French people whose property was taken by the North Vietnamese all working to assassinate people, rescue POWs, and interrupt communications and transport; to being a secret program that A) trained CIA assassins and B) did so by destroying their personalities with torture and turning them into killing machines?

And how did Concklin (or whatever his name was) go from being

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a friend of Bourne's at least once they figured out he was amnesiac from a bullet wound to the head; to being his dire enemy?

And how did Bourne,

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the name itself, go from being the identity of a traitorous Medusan assumed by David Webb to become the (fake) assassin Cain as part of a big secret plan to trap the (real) assassin Carlos; to being the name given to the rebuilt personality of David Webb? Where the hell did Carlos go in the first place?

And why did they feel the need to go from the Cold War to present day? I mean, why ruin a perfectly good trilogy of books to make a sometimes confusing, sometimes plotless, and lacking in really cool explosions and stunts trilogy of movies? I mean, at least books were realistic up until they his Lustbader's Legacy and they had

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a sixty-year old David Webb running around like he was twenty, getting shot and breaking bones and blowing **** up with impunity.

I mean, WHY?????

 

[FableFreak]

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Haven't read the books, and I never planned to. Your rant just solidified it. I didn't like the second movie at all, and I really am unsure about the third.

 

[ruler_of_albion]

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dude wtf? if you dont like the books dont read them! and if u like the movie DONT READ THE BOOK! it will screw you over. i love the bourne trilogy and i have never seen one of the books and im happily ignorant, so just screw it

 

[Walker]

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Freak, how'd my rant solidify your un-desire to read them? Any particular reason, or just the fact that it was an OCD fan's rant?

Yeah, I really didn't like the third. Most of the rest of my family just said "not very good" my obsession with the books makes me say "very bad." The second movie was bad too, as I remember. The first was the best of them, I think, but I saw it awhile ago.

But yeah, ruler, you should read the books. They are VERY good, thouh rather complex and a bit slow-starting.

And the book is always better, so why would anyone want to restrict themselves to the movie? Unless, of course, the movie already sucked ***.

 

[Sephiroxas]

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Ruler of Albion kind of has a point, if you don't like some of the stuff than leave it be. Other people like it.

 

[ruler_of_albion]

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im a very smrt.. sorry smArt purson. and i now a lot uv stuf so donut akuse me uv not ceeing yur point. i donut apreci8 it at all.
im sory i annoyded yu

 

[Sephiroxas]

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I mean I know you're voicing your opinion and all. I look at it like movies are Fanmovies to things. It's like Fanfics.

Resident Evil movies are Fan fics to the games.
Harry potter Movies are Fan fics to the books.

And so on and so forth

 

[Steve]

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Afraid I haven't read the books; and I could only manage getting 40 minutes into the first Bourne flick before coming to the conclusion that it was absolutely dreadful. Kudos to those of you who could stomach the entire trilogy. I don't doubt that the novels are great, though. It's just the movies that aren't for me, sadly.

 

[LionHeadTex]

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I thought the third movie was a solid performance, I liked it :lol: I guess it was the first movie and the third that was really true to the books, in the way that they had a good formation of thriller and action.

 

[Walker]

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im a very smrt.. sorry smArt purson. and i now a lot uv stuf so donut akuse me uv not ceeing yur point. i donut apreci8 it at all.
im sory i annoyded yu

Um... huh? How'd I abuse (or did I accuse you? Sorry, I assumed the first but it could be the second) you? All I did was disagree and advise you to read the books...

And... no, LHT... I can only assume you haven't read and seen them... the only movie I've ever seen that was LESS faithful to the book was "I, Robot", which was to be expected since I, Robot was an anthology about weird robots and stuff in the (fictional) early days of (sapient) robots as told in the framework of a reporter interviewing Dr. Susan Calvin, Robopsychologist. Though, yes, the movies were not COMPLETELY useless.

But yeah, really I have to agree with Projectego... the movies were just really damn bad. The books were slow and sometimes confusing, but they at least had some substance...

And yes, Sephi, I know what you mean about fanfiction and movies... but I don't really like fanficition either [grin]. I'm too much of an OCD purist, and when the differences are as severe as they were in the case of Bourne... well, I can't stand it.

 

[Angel]

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Never even knew there were books and I liked the first film but had no idea what the hell was going on and in true Sharon form had no desire to understand either. Much like Mission:Impossible, which to me is still the singularly most boring film of its kind on the planet.

Never saw the other two films, although I wanted to just to see if I could get with the programme, as funds would not allow at the time...