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Re: "this is not a film about a hitman." Huh? What film did you watch?

Posted by jamesgarvin (A) on April 18, 2007 at 10:45:40

In Reply to: "this is not a film about a hitman." Huh? What film did you watch? posted by tinear on April 17, 2007 at 17:00:10:

Once again, you fail to see the forest through the trees. Please take my posts in context. I stated that this was not a film about a hitman per se, because it could have been about an attorney, a doctor, or even someone who spends their lives sitting on a beach as their brain become mush, and the arc of the story would have been the same. An attorney who spends their lives in the high powered courtroom, uses their mental faculties and persuasion to help the downtrodden, or the brain surgeon, whose brain is now reduced to putty. Understand?

The Bourne films are specifically about a hitman with memory issues. But make our "hero" an attorney, doctor, or bum on the beach, and you have no film, because you cannot substitute those occupations for his and have the same film covering much of the same issues. Capiche?

"A piteous wreck who cold-bloodedly shoots a policeman in the face, killing him, and then backs up over his backup.
A very deep film. Deeeeeep."

You seem to apply the Doc Holiday mantra of "my hyprocrisy knows no bounds." You compliment Bourne, when he is as cold blooded a killer. With, apparently, no moral compass. See the second Bourne film with Malkcovich, who embroils a regular guy in a hit merely because the regular guy tossed Bourne a barb at a party? You loved Pulp Fiction, you called it a classic, even though our heroes blow away some pimple faced kids who are unarmed, or Our Lady of the Assassins, in its depictions of senseless gang killings, etc.

Now, for the ultimate coup de grace from the tin, from 2004: "So, any director respected by the evil media/criticsare overrated? You aren't asking us to take your ranking as being necessarily higher than SCORES of critics and film appreciators, are you?" You called the film "rubbish." According to RT, 84% of critics recommend the film, 86% of the "cream" critics. Were they all fooled too? How 'bout Andrew Sarris, who has been reviewing film since, well, since film was invented.

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