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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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To: lowbridge
standing between Mr. Greengrass and real-life terrorists who would slit his throat are, of course, real-life American intelligence people.

Great line.

I never took Matt Damon seriously, and since Team America I laugh at just the thought of him.
41 posted on 08/12/2007 3:55:53 PM PDT by visualops (artlife.us)
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To: Nachum

Transformers rocks! Seen it twice already lol


42 posted on 08/12/2007 3:58:52 PM PDT by visualops (artlife.us)
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To: mamelukesabre

Who cares about hollywood and their junk? you know who falls for hollywood? THE NAIVE!!!!! Have to say even the Simpsons, BARF BARF BARF!!!!!! NO talent actors, Garbage movie plots if they even ever realy have one, etc...etc... we got to quit wasting our money with this junk!!!!!


43 posted on 08/12/2007 7:10:50 PM PDT by Wakeup Sleeper
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To: visualops

Transformers rocks?, come on dude lets get REAL!


44 posted on 08/12/2007 7:16:23 PM PDT by Wakeup Sleeper
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To: TheSpottedOwl

It is an “exciting film” - but so are most car chase films especially Bullet with Steve McQueen. The politics of Bourne are JUST AWFUL - ABSOLUTELY AWFUL - and un American and now, I see, anti- Semitic. Somebody had better point that out to Matt “Ben Affleck’s best friend” Damon. Shame on him.


45 posted on 08/12/2007 7:23:01 PM PDT by juliej (vote gop)
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To: MizSterious

I saw it. O’Reilly got it right.


46 posted on 08/12/2007 7:24:26 PM PDT by juliej (vote gop)
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To: visualops

As the Damon character in Team America, said, “Matt Damon”.


47 posted on 08/12/2007 7:26:58 PM PDT by juliej (vote gop)
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To: lowbridge

Bill O’Reilly needs to get a life. I love the Bourne movies and I don’t care if Matt Damon is a lib. He’s a great actor.


48 posted on 08/12/2007 7:28:59 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Ron Paul: Doctor. Military Captain. Constitutionalist. Patriot. Devout Christian.)
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

Thank You, thank you, thank you!!!! I have read all three Bourne books many times over and I thought the first movie, ‘based on a book by Robert Ludlum’ meant that the screenwriter’s keyboard was sitting on a copy of the book. The second movie was a great action flick as long as you understood that Jason Bourne was just a coincidence of a name choice; nothing like the book. And the third book and movie are even more different!

I’m sorry to be so emphatic, usually I get flamed for saying how different the books are from the Matt Damon movies. Personally I liked the Richard Chamberlain/Jaclyn Smith movie version of Bourne Identidy.


49 posted on 08/12/2007 7:54:24 PM PDT by Vor Lady (Through the gates of Hell, as we make our way toward Heaven....Primo Victoria!)
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To: juliej

I loved the movie; didn’t see it on tv though, rented it at Hollywood Video.


50 posted on 08/12/2007 7:56:54 PM PDT by Vor Lady (Through the gates of Hell, as we make our way toward Heaven....Primo Victoria!)
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To: Wakeup Sleeper

About half the soundtrack rocks too! hehe
Linkin Park What I’ve Done
Disturbed This Moment
H.I.M. Passion’s Killing Floor
Julien K. Technical Difficulties


51 posted on 08/13/2007 5:24:14 AM PDT by visualops (artlife.us)
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To: juliej; timsbella

Thanks for the review—I trust Freepers lots more than Bill O’R!


52 posted on 08/13/2007 6:20:17 AM 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: MizSterious

You are welcome!


53 posted on 08/13/2007 7:17:27 AM PDT by juliej (vote gop)
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To: lowbridge
Thus, he can murder without conscience, kind of like what Hollywood producers often do to scripts.

I used to read a lot of Ludlum, and considered The Bourne Identity kind of his peak performance. When I saw the first Bourne movie, (the same title as the book) all I saw was character and motive sacrificed to action and special effects.

Ludlum is good at what he does, and Hollywood is good at what they do. Never the twain shall meet.

54 posted on 08/13/2007 7:23:37 AM PDT by LantzALot (Yes, it’s my opinion. No, it’s not humble.)
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To: lowbridge

Pardon me for asking. But Isn’t the CIA now run by a bunch of limolibs nowadays? Am I wrong


55 posted on 08/13/2007 11:04:52 AM PDT by Cripplehawk
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To: Psycho_Bunny
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.

And yet the corporate media had no problems with President Bill Clinton receiving oral pleasure from an unpaid intern without proper security clearance while he deployed troops on a phone call.

56 posted on 08/13/2007 11:25:07 AM PDT by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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To: lowbridge; juliej
I agree with those who say the movie is anti-American, yet there is hope, because the women will save the CIA and America! At least that's what the movie shows.

Although it's only the black ops, and the brainwashing, that are treated negatively, there is that scene where the Director of Operations won't take the phone call, thus washing his hands of killing Bourne, so the evil is portrayed as going all the way to the top--of the CIA, anyway.

In spite of all that, I loved this movie. It was fast and just clear enough, not overly clear to the point where you feel condescended to. I stayed to clap for the editor, and then for the stunt men. Technically, it was just about the best movie I have seen (although I have to admit I am far from a constant moviegoer; used to be).

By the way, there is one scene where Bourne uses European anti-Americanism in his tactics: He phones the Madrid police and gets them to come an foil the CIA---by saying it's Americans! A bit of irony that shows the moviemaker's hand?

57 posted on 08/14/2007 3:42:13 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: lowbridge
Stiles is also down with the far left. On a cable program she explained why she missed a MoveOn event by saying: "I was afraid that Bill O'Reilly would come with a shotgun at my front door and shoot me for being unpatriotic."

My only interest in this movie would be Julia Stiles... My intrest is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing she wears...

Mark

58 posted on 08/14/2007 3:46:07 PM PDT by MarkL (Listen, Strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government)
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To: MizSterious
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.

The sad thing is that Stiles is too stupid to research the fact that O'Reilly supports "reasonable" gun control.

Mark

59 posted on 08/14/2007 3:49:28 PM PDT by MarkL (Listen, Strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government)
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To: firebrand

It was anti-American. Yes, it was exciting - so was the Bruce Willis movie, Live Free or Die Hard and that movie had some HEROIC AMERICANS instead of the corrupt crew of Bourne.


60 posted on 08/14/2007 5:04:40 PM PDT by juliej (vote gop)
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