![]() The Bourne Supremacy (Widescreen Edition) $14.98 This is my favorite of the Bourne series as it is the middle film where you are right in the center of the action...I think the characters work well together and there is already an inkling of the full back story of how Bourne became who he is. The action is fast-paced and we move with Bourne across the globe. My favorite scenes are those in Russia and Berlin. Highly recommended! ![]() The Bourne Trilogy (The Bourne Identity | The Bourne Supremacy | The Bourne Ultimatum) $34.98 The Bourne Trilogy was in perfect condition and delivered promply. We have purchased numerous items form Amazon and have been quite satisfied with them all. ![]() The Bourne Identity (Widescreen Extended Edition) $14.98 It's an Okay movie with Matt Damon!(Team America LOL) I have not read the book(I don't read novels), So I don't know if it's true to the book or not.Movie is a bit far-fetched,kinda of bond-ish. Matt Damon is boring, Some good Action Though. Matt Damon! ![]() The Good Shepherd (Widescreen Edition) $9.99 I had not read any critical reviews of the film before I saw it, and had no expectations going in. I actually began watching it in the background, while surfing the web, and after a few minutes had to stop what I was doing and focus on the film, having been utterly drawn in. Even though it was quite late, and against my better judgment, I was unable to stop until I reached the end of this very long, and very engaging meditation on the origins of the American CIA, and the problems inherent in both it's mission, it's domain, and it's architecture. The problems of mission and architecture are nothing new to the history of intelligence. But intelligence is a game that Americans have really only been playing since WWII, unlike the English and the French. In fact, we learned the game from the British as the O.S.S., and the structure of the CIA was largely influenced through British guidance. The film does a good job of exploring the problematic nature of espionage, when seen from the catbird seat. It is a process of continually sifting through information in an attempt to correctly identify authentic, true information from misinformation and disinformation. In this process, your closest associates may be attempting to mislead and deceive you. Your most powerful adversaries may be attempting to enlighten you. Why would they do that? What are they really up to, one and all? And what is your best option to use misinformation to misdirect them, to pull the wool over their eyes, or to move them to embrace one alternative course of action over another? And this is an ongoing dynamic, continuously changing, requiring constant recalibration. This is an environment that breeds creatures uniquely adapted to survival within it--that they become something much different than the rest of us ordinary slobs, part machine, part monster, part logician, part artist, is beside the point--they end up standing behind the great and the powerful, whispering the words in their ear that set armies marching--or not--as the case may be. If I were to render any criticism at all of this well conceived and executed film, it would be this: in order to cut the topology of the game wide open and expose it in all of it's truly wicked problematic nature, they had to build their colossus on a foot of clay. A wanton socialite seduces an inscrutable and intellectual young man who doesn't care for her and becomes pregnant. This one seminal event grows into the engine that drives the entire story forward. It isn't far-fetched, it doesn't require a great leap of faith to accept, in many ways it is necessary in order to show the depth of the problem domain--but it is an awful coincidence. In a world of carrots and sticks and people who want to motivate you to cooperate with them, each person requires a different set of carrots and sticks. Is there ANYTHING at all which can be used to force Edward Wilson to compromise himself and his loyalty and trustworthiness? De Niro seems to want us to ask: could I do this? Would I do this? Here is a man who some would argue has been put to the ultimate test, and passed--what kind of a man is he? And what if he were different than that? Would he be a Good Shepherd to us, one and all? And where does that leave the sheep? At the mercy of the Shepherd, for good or for bad. Does that let you rest easy at night? |
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