'The Bourne Ultimatum' Politicized

NewsBusters ^ | August 5, 2007 | P.J. Gladnick

[brytlea]

Hehehe, I thought it was just because I’m old that I have a difficult time following that kind of camera work.
susie

[Perdogg]

I am shocked that anyone would be shocked. MI-3 was the same.

[DTogo]

Matt Damon also co-starred in "Team America, World Police"

HA!

[rabidralph]

I wonder who's regime Enemy of the State was made under? Did any reviewers make a fuss about that?

[Varda]

I saw this and thought it had an anti-American slant.
In the beginning they labeled the bad guys in the CIA, the anti-terrorist unit. I thought they made it especially obvious with a shot of the American flag with a pan back to the head of the CIA bad guy. All the good guys (women) were willing to disobey orders.(My husband thought the Pam Landy character was a liberal-eye view of Valerie Plame)
PS - I loved the first Bourne movie.

[CarryaBigStick]

I’m still not over hollywood screwing up the last Tom Clancy movie, I think it was the Sum of All Fears. With Damon’s buddy Ben Affleck.

I still haven't seen that film, and avoid it like the plague even when it's on the boob tube.

When is Hollyweird gonna learn how to not screw up a good story?

[rineaux]

The Departed was a good flick. Glad Markie Mark took him out in the end.

[Riley]

Something similar happened with another recent movie, Shooter, starring Mark Wahlberg. It also featured the standard leftwing proganda including a portrayal by Ned Beatty as an absurdly charicatured EVIL rightwing senator who practically drooled bile all over himself.

I just happened to catch Shooter on DVD today. I remember it occurring to me that this is the insane mental image that the Left has of us. It's all complete BS, but that's what they believe.

So ridiculous in the propaganda department was Shooter that one of the few good guys in the FBI wore a Che Guevara T-shirt when he was off duty.

Ned Beatty's character differs from Che chiefly in the fact that Che was a real murdering thug.

I had to wear hip waders to get through the insane lefty propaganda- but I enjoyed the movie all the same. I enjoyed it mainly because they got the firearms stuff mostly right, for a change, and portrayed a Marine in a positive light.

[freekitty]

Look what they are doing to “24”. Now they want a woman President so they can help Hitlery and now they are greening it up. I won’t be watching and I was a diehard fan.

[Perdogg]

I am still pretty angry how they put a left wing spin on “Clear and Present Danger”.

I hope Gary Sinise plays John Kelly in “Without Remorse”

[Perdogg]

“300” is the best pro-America movie I have seen in long time.

[rineaux]

Look what they are doing to “24”

After the woman president, lets expect a gay president or vp.

[Principled]

they’ve got that stupid “shaking camera” garbage nearly the entire film...

I hate that. Oh well. It'll be another run of JJ The Jet Plane on my new LCD my grandkids got me for birthday :0-)

[Riley]

I am still pretty angry how they put a left wing spin on “Clear and Present Danger”.

They completely destroyed it. It was awful.

[dljordan]

“BTW, it was fabulous!”

I saw it Saturday and loved it. Did you catch the little continuity error at the end with the Sig and Glock?

[Zeon Cowboy]

From this story it doesn’t sound like they stayed too close to the source material, which is a shame. Ludlum’s books are excellent.

[Sender]

I saw the first two Bourne movies, and I also don't see any connection between the movies and Bush or Cheney or any real world organization.

There are antagonists (that's bad people, for Democrat lurkers) in every story. Some people just see a bad character and their BDS screams Bush!

Maybe the specific reference to waterboarding, if there is one in the new movie, is a slap at Cheney. I'm going to see it to watch stuff blow up.

[dfwgator]

[PISANO]

Modern cinema depicts the military as half wit ultra conservative, closeted homosexual demigods planning some illegal mission with the backdrop proudly displaying pictures of Ronald Reagan and/or George Bush.

Police are donut eating dim bulbs, who carry two extra throwaways bent on killing and/or framing minorities.

Cowboys are portrayed as twangy southern village idiots bent on nailing their 12 year old female cousins.

And this year, to top it all off, "24" has gone green; it's productions are now carbon neutral, Jack will take on global warming, and the series will sport a woman president, named Helena Roseanne Clifton!!!

Gotta love Hollywood!!

[rineaux]

Waterboarding was referenced in Syriana as well. It was a method used by the Chinese on the Falun Gong.

Matt Damon and George Clooney are supporting Obama for prez.