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The Bourne Buffoonery ("The Bourne Ultimatum" movie)
http://www.creators.com/ ^ | August 11, 2007 | Bill O'Reilly

Posted on 08/12/2007 1:29:58 PM PDT by lowbridge

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1 posted on 08/12/2007 1:30:01 PM PDT by lowbridge
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I’ve yet to see the first one.

I really don’t see the supposed acting ability of Damon. Regardless of the fact he’s a Leftist Moron.


2 posted on 08/12/2007 1:35:52 PM PDT by digger48
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I don’t mean to change the subject on you, but that simpsons movie seems like a good idea to me. I havn’t seen it yet. But I will. I think they should try to do a simpsons movie that is NOT animated...use real people with makup, kinda like that dick tracy movie they did 15 years ago or so.

It’s a shame when the best movies are cartoons and kids shows. Hollyweird is really losing it.


3 posted on 08/12/2007 1:36:44 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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Oh snap! And I was going to go see this with my wife after we finish our latest deadline...guess Hollyweird dosn’t need those evil conservatives taking up seats to view their anti-American fairy tales.


4 posted on 08/12/2007 1:37:42 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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No surprise.  This is what happens when you put cameras, money and idiots in the same room.

The left will never tire of the American Superfiend Motif.  Mark my words:  eventually some movie will portray the head of the CIA eating babies at his desk while giving the order for the hero of the movie to be raped to death by a horse.

5 posted on 08/12/2007 1:37:44 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny
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In other words, it's a blockbuster.

Yep, just like all the other "Bourne" flicks.

Real killers at the box office.

6 posted on 08/12/2007 1:39:35 PM PDT by woofer (Some strive to soar like an eagle, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines.)
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Wish I had read this before I wasted money on a matinee. I like good chase movies (Live Free or Die Hard was great), but I felt sick watching this one. Did you catch the fact that the corrupt CIA Director was named Kramer and the evil doctor who brainwashed Borne was named Hirsch? Bad Jews co-opting greedy Americans. Good thing Ludlum is dead, this might have killed him.

The only positive thing is that when someone sinks as low as to produce such drivel, it may indicate they’re going down fast.

Worse still than the movie were the awful US bashing previews such as the new Redford/Cruise/Streep collaboration. Sixties are over folks and the enemy is REAL. Support your people don’t trash them!!!


7 posted on 08/12/2007 1:40:28 PM PDT by timsbella (Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada! (Steve's won my vote in the meantime))
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It’s odd how Hollywood glorifies violence and then cries about war. What is terrifying about Hollywood is so many ignorant people believe what it feeds them. Hollywood also uses the claim “based on a true story” very, very loosely.


8 posted on 08/12/2007 1:42:27 PM PDT by TheThinker (Those who rewrite history doom others to repeat the past.)
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I saw this movie, and thought it was completely idiotic - even though I like car chases and action films. The whole premise is just stupid - why did he have to be brainwashed in the first place? Who cares if he knew what his name was? One also can’t help but wonder where Damon’s character is getting all the money to flit around the world, acquire weapons everywhere (because we know you can’t take them on airplanes anymore), and find all the people he needs to find without, apparently, talking to anyone. And Stiles was just a cipher - she could have been replaced by a cardboard cutout for all the animation (or even speaking) she brought to this movie. The CIA characters could have been replaced by cutouts, too - they were just cartoonishly eeeeeevil. If we were all as stupid as this movie made the CIA out to be, we’d still be 13 colonies ruled by Great Britain.


9 posted on 08/12/2007 1:43:12 PM PDT by hsalaw
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To: lowbridge

On the other hand, after the lies Bill O’R told about FR on his show, I wouldn’t trust a word he says about anything, including something as trivial as a movie. I’ll wait until someone else weighs in.


10 posted on 08/12/2007 1:43:38 PM PDT by MizSterious (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: lowbridge
Great flick.


11 posted on 08/12/2007 1:43:46 PM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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The makers of the first movie, The Bourne Identity, gratuitously changed the plot from the Ludlum novel in order to make it more anti-American.

In the novel, Bourne is going after Carlos the Jackel, the leftist terrorist assassin, and is wounded trying to prevent an assassination.

In the film, it was changed so that Bourne was part of a CIA unit that itself is sent to assassinate people, and Bourne is wounded in the course of an assassination assignment to kill a peace-loving reform-minded third-world politician of color, during which he has second thoughts.

The original plot would have made for at least as interesting, if not more interesting, movie, but it was not anti-American enough for Hollywood.


12 posted on 08/12/2007 1:44:43 PM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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To: lowbridge

Hey, loofahboy wrote an article!


13 posted on 08/12/2007 1:45:09 PM PDT by Crazieman (The Democratic Party: Culture of Treason)
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This is absurd. How can people enjoy life when they see politics in absolutely everything? I don’t know how many times I’ve seen or read here that a particularly movie is political and then I see it and it really isn’t. People like to be entertained. The more political a movie is, the worse it generally does. (Think Michael Moore.) People will judge for themselves whether a movie is political or not.

The movie is pure fiction, and I hope that the American moviegoing public is not so incredibly stupid as to equate this movie with reality. It’s pretty obvious that it’s fiction. The movie doesn’t contain a waterboarding scene. It’s got Damon being dunked in a tank of water with his head covered. Similar, but not the same.


14 posted on 08/12/2007 1:45:38 PM PDT by flintsilver7
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"...and actually force Julia Stiles to cut her own hair."

ROFL!

And after grabbing big clumps and whacking it off with carpet shears
...she looks like she just walked out of Vidal Sassoon's, $400 lighter.

15 posted on 08/12/2007 1:45:47 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: MizSterious

As someone who’s seen it, B O’R is on the money here. Shameful display.


16 posted on 08/12/2007 1:46:32 PM PDT by timsbella (Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada! (Steve's won my vote in the meantime))
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I wonder why they never made a movie of Condon’s novel “Winterkill”.


17 posted on 08/12/2007 1:47:46 PM PDT by expatpat
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Previews are not specific to a film (except in rare cases). Two of my previews were essentially for remakes of Death Wish. That’s right, the original “liberal who gets mugged” movie.


18 posted on 08/12/2007 1:48:01 PM PDT by flintsilver7
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To: lowbridge

It sucked, even at $7 senior rates.


19 posted on 08/12/2007 1:48:40 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: flintsilver7

“How can people enjoy life when they see politics in absolutely everything?”

It’s so blatant and awful you can’t miss it here.


20 posted on 08/12/2007 1:50:13 PM PDT by timsbella (Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada! (Steve's won my vote in the meantime))
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