The Bourne Ultimatum Thread

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 13 May 2007, 13:22

Yi-Long wrote:Looks ok, but seems the action is once again filmed by a spastic guy suffering from convulsions... plus ofcourse we need 5 different angles of a move within 1 second.

Grrr. I'm not at all surprised, Greengrass loves it. It worked very well in United 93 but in Bourne it's just annoying. Still at least it looks more real than the usual Hollywood stylised approach.

gojensen wrote:Next time be a good chap and link to the trailer site and not directly to the playback of the video you happened to prefer... Personally I only watch the HD trailers.

On my old AMD Athlon XP 2500+ I used to watch the 480p trailers as the HD ones never worked properly.

I'm just downloading 1080p and 720p to try on my new Core 2 Duo. I usually end up keeping the 480p version as the HD ones take up way to much disk space. 480p looks pretty good still, way better than the cruddy Hi Res. version.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 13 May 2007, 13:27

The Bourne Trailer is up on Dave's Trailer page, scroll down and you'll see it:

http://www.davestrailerpage.co.uk/

As usual he's posted all 4 resolutions, if you struggle downloading or playing the HD ones the 480p one is bound to work (unless your PC is ancient).

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 13 May 2007, 14:13

Looks good

I dont like the shaky cam either (one thing that brought Supremacy down a notch compared to Identity IMO) - on the other hand the trailer is cut quickly together.
Is it the same director?

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 13 May 2007, 14:18

grim_tales wrote:Is it the same director?

Yes. No offence, but use IMDB or google next time instead of asking stupid questions. Hell I've even mentioned it in this thread before.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 13 May 2007, 15:10

Was that Franka Potente I saw in the teaser? Obviously not the first shot of her. I doubt it was but hope it was.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 13 May 2007, 18:28

Jeez, excuse me Eva

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 13 May 2007, 18:32

grim_tales wrote:Jeez, excuse me Eva

I know I get often get a bee in my bonnet over this (Brad being the usual/worst offender), but would it kill people to do a google and/or wikipedia search before they ask questions with really easy to find/common knowledge answers? You're only wasting your own time and other peoples' by asking such things.

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 13 May 2007, 21:16

Wait, I'm too lazy to scroll back up, but what is this argument between Eva and Grim about!?

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 14 May 2007, 09:01

Don't worry Yi, just a tiff about my being lazy

Paul Greengrass is the director of Ultimatum.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 27 May 2007, 09:06

bradavon wrote:Was that Franka Potente I saw in the teaser? Obviously not the first shot of her. I doubt it was but hope it was.

Nope, it was Julia Stiles.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 01 Jun 2007, 20:16

Thanks. They look "kind of" similar.

I hope this is out soon, it's going to rock!

Yi-Long wrote:Wait, I'm too lazy to scroll back up, but what is this argument between Eva and Grim about!?

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 26 Jun 2007, 15:49

Some very cool posters can be seen here:

http://www.theimportforums.com/viewtopi ... 2&start=15

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 26 Jun 2007, 19:36

I saw the first one in my local multiplex the other day.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 12 Aug 2007, 02:40

This has been getting positive buzz thus far. Oh and the shaky cam is back. Can't wait, the only blockbuster out this year worth two shits.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 12 Aug 2007, 13:25

Yep afraid so, even the other good ones are worth only one.

I really hope sales are down this year so forcing the studios to listen and make some effort next year, if not the world is full of idiots and we'll just get more drivel next year.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 19 Aug 2007, 03:55

The blokes who were killing in for Kermode this week (one was a BBC security journalist or something) gave it a rave review, I can't wait.

I'll try to get seating at the VERY back of cinema, otherwise it's disorientation city with the shaky cam.

Shingster · Post by **Shingster** » 19 Aug 2007, 05:08

I must admit, I've never found any of the Bourne films in anyway disorientating. Maybe it was my misspent youth sitting near the front row during many a blockbuster.

Shingster · Post by **Shingster** » 19 Aug 2007, 05:10

bradavon wrote:Yep afraid so, even the other good ones are worth only one.

I really hope sales are down this year so forcing the studios to listen and make some effort next year, if not the world is full of idiots and we'll just get more drivel next year.

Pirates 3 & Spidey 3 are already 2 of the highest grossing films of all time, so what do you reckon?

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 19 Aug 2007, 19:51

The world is full of idiots, obviously

. I'd forgotten about Spider-man 3, not being a fan of the films I've not seen it.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 23 Aug 2007, 08:45

4/5
Terrific seat-of-your-pants chase film. A lean and fit script, great editing, impressively choreographed fights and stunts. Definitely the best Hollywood blockbuster of the year (not a hard achievement considering the stacks of shit that we've had in 2007).

IMO The shaky cam worked (but I sat in the very back row, centre). I easily followed what was going on (even though I had less than 3 hours sleep the night before); probably helped that I've seen both Supremacy and United 93 several times on DVD.

Greengrass' political commentary was a welcome addition (albeit it being terribly blunt and high school essay level) and added a tiny bit more depth. Don't expect something on par with United 93 though, lol.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 14 Sep 2007, 19:35

I'd say Ultimatum is on the same level as United '93. They're in entirely different genres but both are of excellent quality.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 15 Sep 2007, 03:02

bradavon wrote:I'd say Ultimatum is on the same level as United '93. They're in entirely different genres but both are of excellent quality.

Re-read my paragraph. I was talking specifically about the depth of Greengrass' political discussions in each film, not the overall quality of the movies.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 15 Sep 2007, 15:12

Ah fair enough then.