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bourne supremacy

the bourne supremacy gave me the biggest headache ive had in quite a while.

apparently the director decided to pinch pennies on the cinematography and gave all of the camera workers hand-held panasonics from the 80s.

every single scene was jiggly and constantly moving. i wanted to grab the camera guy by his ears and scream into his face STAND THE FUCK STILL. could they not spring for at least one of those steadycam things? how about a quick tutorial on the camera focus ring?

i understand that they wanted to give the viewer a sense of being right in the middle of stuff with bourne, being in the car when he smashed it all to hell, but the only thing they gave me was that splitting headache.

and dont even think about closing your eyes, expecting to be able to follow alone with sound only: half of the movie is in russian or german and subtitled appropriately.

it had a good story, but was not worth spending the night submerged in the bath tub with a steady aspirin drip.