Traveling Thoughts

I went and saw The Bourne Supremacy today and I must say that it was good. It just about made me sick from all the motion but really that’s the only complaint I have and I know what they were trying to do with all the action and the shaky camera.

Well, let me be honest here, my first comments concerning this latest installment in The Bourne series were:

[16:57] buddy: what did you think?
[16:58] iamfyrestorm: it was good, it left it open for another movie, the action scenes were a little unfocused for me
[16:59] iamfyrestorm: i had a hard time following what vehicle we were in what vehicle we were following who were we behind
[16:59] buddy: yeah, thats because they kept showing it from the ‘asset’s’ point of view
[17:00] iamfyrestorm: right, but, it was just too much for my little brain, it hurt me
[17:00] iamfyrestorm: and my eyes
[17:00] iamfyrestorm: it was like being on the teacups at disneyland and watching everything spin by at such highspeeds you almost can’t see what exactly it is that you’re spinning past

Regardless of us running around as though we’re the asset, and the few scenes like the cop car scene and the bomb where he survived and most likely wouldn’t have had it been real life, the movie was good. But it left us hanging in some respects, which is normal when there’s yet another sequel in the future (we’ll see what rolls down the pipes with this one).

*sighs* I do have one more thing to say before I jump into my Bourne Relationship bit. The BlackBriar Project, awesome name, but why couldn’t they have just stuck to Treadstone, it seemed unnecessary for it to progress into a bigger project, because obviously, there’s still issues with the Treadstone project, or maybe BlackBriar was needed to further show that the CIA was corrupt, I’m not sure…

The whole Nicky Parsons / Jason Bourne thing though, now that’s something worth spending some time on. If there is another movie, it could totally build on what turned out to be the lack of a Bourne Relationship in this movie. We’re told so little, and yet, it peaks our interest, it’s apparently enough to get across a small point, but for people like me, it leaves us begging to know more. Did Nicky Parson know Jason Bourne before he was Jason Bourne, did she know him as David Webb?

Jason asks Nicky why she is helping him and she says something to the affect of “It was very hard for me…with you.” Within the Bourne Supremacy, their relationship, both past and present wasn’t explored and I believe that it could be further explored. By not taking the time to further explore their relationship, The Bourne Ultimatum lost something that was vital to The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy, the human side to Jason Bourne. Without Marie (as we had in The Bourne Identity) and her memory (as we had in The Bourne Supremacy) and the lack of development with Nicky we’ve got nothing but a killing machine in The Bourne Ultimatum. We had something central to Jason Bourne in the first two movies, we had him looking to find out who he is and what created him, here it’s more about the corruptness of the CIA than it is anything else. There was nothing so personal in this movie, it was more broad and centered around the government.

Another thing that was a little whack was that in The Bourne Supremacy things closed themselves and the story was closed as far as we were concerned. Coming into this film, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect but then for the ending to be left open, are we going to see David Webb in the future, is it good for Jason Bourne to revert back to being David Webb, is Jason Bourne really gone or will there be someone else hunting him down, there’s just so many questions left to be answered…