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OOOkay. I have no excuse for being absent from my own blog-thingy, but here it is, mid-August, and I've been AWOL since July. But I have been to the movies -- not as much as you'd think, given my predilection for the summer blockbuster -- so let's start with the Bourne Ultimatum, which needs no introduction.
Here are the original reviews of The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Identity.
August 2004
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I figured "A Star is Bourne" was pretty much established in THE BOURNE IDENTITY, where we met amnesiac assassin Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) and went along on the wild ride that wowed us with innovative hit man techniques and Bourne’s hunky romanticism.
In A Mighty Heart, Angelina Jolie portrays Marianne Pearl, journalist wife of Daniel Pearl (Dan Futterman), the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and beheaded on tape (to just say murdered doesn't really cover the outrage) by self-proclaimed Islamist nutjobs in Pakistan in 2002. Going into the movie I was expecting it to be serious and heartrending -- it is --
Oh, boy. I am a pretty big fan of Sci Fi and willing to go out on a lot of limbs for it (Ha! I'm going to see The Invasion!), so I was looking forward to Sunshine, the new movie from Danny Boyle, who previously has brought us the awesome 28 Days Later and the unusual Trainspotting. Sadly, Sunshine is a muddled...
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