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Sun, Aug. 8th, 2004 10:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterWatched The Bourne Supremacy today, and luckily was not as pissed off at it as I was by the first one. I liked Joan Allen's character very much -- cool CIA lady. Why, why, why why are there so few competent women in action movies? Instead, they're all wives or lovers or daughters who get threatened and kidnapped or interfere with our manly hero's mission out of their ignorance and civilian status. Just once, I would like to see an action movie about a cool female assassin who takes over some poor civilian guy's life instead.
Of course, this could send me on a large rant on how the women in action movies are always somehow representative of the good and pure and innocent pieces of life and their purity can reconnect our manly hero to the greater good, blah blah blah babycakes. And they're almost never professional spies or agents or what-have-you. Or, if they are, then they are the evil woman spy for the other side who seduces our manly hero with her feminine evil wiles. *rolls eyes*
Luckily, Bourne Supremacy didn't do this (outside of a few moments).
However, while the movie was fairly entertaining for its genre, I would like to say that whoever the cinematographer was should really be shot. I have a headache from watching it. He coudn't just shoot things, normally, oh no. Instead, everything had to be super close up, cut back out, close in, come back out. This alone would have given me vertigo. But then every other shot was fuzzy and out of focus, including shots of key newspaper articles. I wanted to stand up and scream, "Just let me read the headlines, damnit! Stop moving your fricking camera just because you can!" And then I swear, the entire thing was filmed with a handheld camera. So during the very long car chase at the end, we got shots of Bourne's hands, the car pedals, various flashes of car somewhere, and for the life of me, I could not tell what was going on. Now, I appreciate a good car chase as much as the next person, but I would really like to know 1) where they are 2) who the camera is filming 3) what the fricking hell is happening. I feel like those pieces of information are quite useful to a car chase scene and should not be obscured by some idiot trying to give the entire audience an epilepsy attack.
In other news, I got more books because I had a 20% coupon thing for Borders ^_^. I tried to pick books that I wouldn't see come in to the store very often. So I now have Anne Fadiman's Ex Libris, Patricia A. McKillip's The Alphabet of Thorn (in hardcover, sigh... but her covers are so gorgeous that I want them in hardcover), and John Dower's Embracing Defeat.
I also went to Banana Republic with another coupon, from the boy's sister, who works there now, except even with the coupon, everything is too expensive. Plus, everything is ugly and does not fit me. I should remember that next time things I actually like come back in fashion, I should just buy tons and tons of things and save up.
Oh!! And I saw a sign at Stanford Mall -- Alton Brown is going to be there on Aug. 21!!!! Coolness! Except it's a Sat. and I will have to work =(. Maybe I can ask my boss if I can have a few hours off to go see!
ETA: some spoilers for Bourne Supremacy below in the comments.
Of course, this could send me on a large rant on how the women in action movies are always somehow representative of the good and pure and innocent pieces of life and their purity can reconnect our manly hero to the greater good, blah blah blah babycakes. And they're almost never professional spies or agents or what-have-you. Or, if they are, then they are the evil woman spy for the other side who seduces our manly hero with her feminine evil wiles. *rolls eyes*
Luckily, Bourne Supremacy didn't do this (outside of a few moments).
However, while the movie was fairly entertaining for its genre, I would like to say that whoever the cinematographer was should really be shot. I have a headache from watching it. He coudn't just shoot things, normally, oh no. Instead, everything had to be super close up, cut back out, close in, come back out. This alone would have given me vertigo. But then every other shot was fuzzy and out of focus, including shots of key newspaper articles. I wanted to stand up and scream, "Just let me read the headlines, damnit! Stop moving your fricking camera just because you can!" And then I swear, the entire thing was filmed with a handheld camera. So during the very long car chase at the end, we got shots of Bourne's hands, the car pedals, various flashes of car somewhere, and for the life of me, I could not tell what was going on. Now, I appreciate a good car chase as much as the next person, but I would really like to know 1) where they are 2) who the camera is filming 3) what the fricking hell is happening. I feel like those pieces of information are quite useful to a car chase scene and should not be obscured by some idiot trying to give the entire audience an epilepsy attack.
In other news, I got more books because I had a 20% coupon thing for Borders ^_^. I tried to pick books that I wouldn't see come in to the store very often. So I now have Anne Fadiman's Ex Libris, Patricia A. McKillip's The Alphabet of Thorn (in hardcover, sigh... but her covers are so gorgeous that I want them in hardcover), and John Dower's Embracing Defeat.
I also went to Banana Republic with another coupon, from the boy's sister, who works there now, except even with the coupon, everything is too expensive. Plus, everything is ugly and does not fit me. I should remember that next time things I actually like come back in fashion, I should just buy tons and tons of things and save up.
Oh!! And I saw a sign at Stanford Mall -- Alton Brown is going to be there on Aug. 21!!!! Coolness! Except it's a Sat. and I will have to work =(. Maybe I can ask my boss if I can have a few hours off to go see!
ETA: some spoilers for Bourne Supremacy below in the comments.
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Mon, Aug. 9th, 2004 10:07 pm (UTC)I didn't mind the shaky camera so much for the flashbacks, but when it started going on for all the action sequences, which went on for quite some time, my head really started to hurt.
I think the trailer for Paparazzi with the six million strobe light shots didn't help either.
Yeah, the beginning was pretty stupid! I saw her get in the car and thought, "Yup, that's it for her!"