I don't watch movies with the small angry Scientology man on principal.
I will continue to watch a giant tank blast through brick walls and go on a chase through St. Petersburg thank you.
Anyway, the superior spy movies are the Bourne movies. You get serious dumb guy energy from Matt Damon, every fight is choreographed to a level only seen in Chinese made Kung Fu movies, the character Bourne, refuses to kill unless there's no other option. Best part is, the CIA is the bad guy. I can watch Bourne movies on repeat and dream about the european "WEEEEWOOOOOOO WEEEEEEWOOOOOO" sirens every night.
I honestly really love those movies and it drives my wife nuts.
I don't want to steer you in a certain direction but its a cool flip on typical spy movies. He's considered property by the CIA, created as a weapon but experiencing amnesia. He has to figure out who he is while being hunted by the most powerful intelligence agency in the world. The only thing keeping him alive is the instincts instilled in him from the training that makes him such a valuable target. He's not trying to do double agent things, he's simply trying to find out who he is and why the CIA is after him, which makes the morality fairly clear cut.
The pacing of the movies is quick, extremely little dialogue so you don't need to think very much if you've had a long day. The fighting is fluid and impactful. I wouldn't call them kino by any stretch but they're amazing entertainment you don't have to feel guilty about enjoying.
hell yeah. i celebrate the entire bourne collection, including the jeremy renner spin off. there's something so elegant about how threatened the calculating NatSec puppetmasters are by one of their own tightly-wound, manufactured and monomaniacal enforcers rediscovering a lost humanity... and like, not even trying to Fight the Power, but just survive quietly outside their control.
i really enjoyed Legacy, the linkages with private sector pharmaceuticals, the predatory nature of the army in recruiting the intellectually disabled Kitsom and then later being inducted into the program after a TBI in iraq, all those little details that show how deeply connected and evil it all is. i hope they make more of them.
I haven't seen the renner spinoff but I'll give it a shot. I love my big dumb damon boy but I can try a movie staring a guy with a face who looks like a 5 hour old baby still reeling from being pushed out a far too small canal.
I need to rewatch the bourne movies again. I have a terrible memory for movie details, which is a blessing and a curse. I can't talk about movies or books in great detail but rewatching it still feels novel because I don't remember any of it. I have a talent for predicting what will happen in movies extremely early but that never works with movies I've seen oddly enough. I've seen the prestige probably 3 times and in my most recent watch, I remembered every scene as I watched it but did not remember the ending.
I don't watch movies with the small angry Scientology man on principal.
I will continue to watch a giant tank blast through brick walls and go on a chase through St. Petersburg thank you.
Anyway, the superior spy movies are the Bourne movies. You get serious dumb guy energy from Matt Damon, every fight is choreographed to a level only seen in Chinese made Kung Fu movies, the character Bourne, refuses to kill unless there's no other option. Best part is, the CIA is the bad guy. I can watch Bourne movies on repeat and dream about the european "WEEEEWOOOOOOO WEEEEEEWOOOOOO" sirens every night.
Another person in this thread suggested the Bourne franchise. I'll have to check it out.
In a few days I may have a new hot take to post here.
I honestly really love those movies and it drives my wife nuts.
I don't want to steer you in a certain direction but its a cool flip on typical spy movies. He's considered property by the CIA, created as a weapon but experiencing amnesia. He has to figure out who he is while being hunted by the most powerful intelligence agency in the world. The only thing keeping him alive is the instincts instilled in him from the training that makes him such a valuable target. He's not trying to do double agent things, he's simply trying to find out who he is and why the CIA is after him, which makes the morality fairly clear cut.
The pacing of the movies is quick, extremely little dialogue so you don't need to think very much if you've had a long day. The fighting is fluid and impactful. I wouldn't call them kino by any stretch but they're amazing entertainment you don't have to feel guilty about enjoying.
hell yeah. i celebrate the entire bourne collection, including the jeremy renner spin off. there's something so elegant about how threatened the calculating NatSec puppetmasters are by one of their own tightly-wound, manufactured and monomaniacal enforcers rediscovering a lost humanity... and like, not even trying to Fight the Power, but just survive quietly outside their control.
i really enjoyed Legacy, the linkages with private sector pharmaceuticals, the predatory nature of the army in recruiting the intellectually disabled Kitsom and then later being inducted into the program after a TBI in iraq, all those little details that show how deeply connected and evil it all is. i hope they make more of them.
I haven't seen the renner spinoff but I'll give it a shot. I love my big dumb damon boy but I can try a movie staring a guy with a face who looks like a 5 hour old baby still reeling from being pushed out a far too small canal.
I need to rewatch the bourne movies again. I have a terrible memory for movie details, which is a blessing and a curse. I can't talk about movies or books in great detail but rewatching it still feels novel because I don't remember any of it. I have a talent for predicting what will happen in movies extremely early but that never works with movies I've seen oddly enough. I've seen the prestige probably 3 times and in my most recent watch, I remembered every scene as I watched it but did not remember the ending.
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