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The Bourne Dumpster Fire
Wow. Bring a barf bag. Jason Bourne begins with its title character, David Webb John Cena Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) scrounging a living in underground bareknuckle boxing matches in Southeastern Europe. He’s called out of hiding by his former CIA handler, Nicky Parsons … Continue reading
Posted in Entropy
Tagged #Alicia Vikander, #hashtags, #jeremy renner, #unexpected john cena, Camera shake, Edward Snowden, FBI backdoor into smartphones, hacked, Hillary Clinton doing the Nae Nae, Jason Bourne, Julia Stiles, Matt Damon, Paul Greengrass, Ripped from the headlines, Shake it like Elvis, social media, The Bourne Dumpster Fire, The Bourne Supremacy, Tommy Lee Jones, Trust your government, Vincent Cassel, Was this a satire?
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The real-life Bourne legacy
The Bourne Identity is one of those movies that was so massively influential it gets taken for granted. On the eve of the franchise’s second attempt at rebooting, let’s look back at the movie that shifted action on its axis. Going … Continue reading
Posted in A less chaotic state, White Noise
Tagged #batman begins, #casino royale, #daredevil, #die another day, #mission: impossible, #quantom of solace, #star wars, #the matrix, Jason Bourne, Mission: Impossible II, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Legacy, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Green Zone, The Phantom Menace, The Raid, The World is Not Enough
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Lights Out is an instant classic in every sense of the phrase
Lights Out is a stellar horror film that walks the line between terrifying and fun, but before that, it’s a happy ending for a genius short. After a pulse-pounding introduction in which a shadowy woman kills Paul (Billy Burke), Lights Out follows … Continue reading
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Tagged #a nightmare on elm street, #jaws, #pixels, #teresa palmer, Billy Burke, Can't run from your problems, David F. Sandberg, Depression, Gabriel Bateman, Horror tropes, Lights Out, Lights Out is a standard but perfectly executed horror movie, Lights Out is an instant classic, Lights Out is one of the best representations of depression in modern media, Maria Bello, Run from your problems, Toxic friends
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Star Trek Beyond — OR What the Fuck is Going On: The Movie
In 2009, they rolled out Star Trek: The Only Reboot You Ever Wanted. In 2012, they brought us Star Trek Into Darkness: Dark Knight Knockoffs Can’t Melt Steel Beams. Now, from an entirely new writing and directing team after Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman broke … Continue reading
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Tagged #anton yelchin, #batman begins, #bones, #gaySulu, #idris elba, #simon pegg, #star trek beyond, #wrath of khan, Actual evolutionary theory, Bad movies, Bourne, Chris Pine, Don't tell me to watch my language, Doug Jung, eat it up, eat the slop, eat the slop before the slaughter you fucking pigs, Galaxy Quest, Galaxy Quest was better, George Takei, have sex with all the remaining Vulcan women in the universe, How do blind people watch movies?, J.J. Abrams dumped the franchise, John Cho, KHAAAAAAAN, Kobayashi Maru, Leonard Nimoy, Lighting crew strike, military industrial complex, military industrial complex is bad, oh Spock don't stop, population bottleneck, Rest in peace Anton Yelchin, Rest in peace Leonard Nimoy, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman broke up, rubber-faced Idris Elba, Spock, Spock and Bones forever, Star Trek Beyond is aimed at dumb people, Star Trek Beyond is not boring, Star Trek Beyond lifts scenes from Wrath of Khan, Techno Babble, Techno Babble is a lazy excuse for writing, The Actual Bourne Legacy, The Enterprise is destroyed again, warlock powers, What the fuck is going on, Yeah I get it, You can't see, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana
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A word about commodifying homosexuality
Representation of minorities and women have always been important, and they’ve become increasingly important to the public over the past few years. For political reasons both flimsy and painfully real — the Black Lives Matter movement and all the death … Continue reading
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Tagged #black lives matter, #blacklivesmatter, #matt damon, #oscarssowhite, #simon pegg, #star trek beyond, Black Captain America, gay representation in film, Gay Sulu, Gay sulu is tokenism, George Takei, Ghostbusters is an exploitation film, Hikaru Sulu, James Bond is pansexual, lady Thor, minority representation in film, representation of women in film, silencing minority voices, Social justice warriors
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