Film Shapes

Belmont. Sunday morning. Long ticket queue. Even longer pocket-shafting snack bar queue (not required, thank you suckers). Bouncy castle for screaming kids in foyer. BUT $10 TICKETS!!! I'll suffer all that for a tenner, no mistake. To see Jason Bourne , the 4th film in the Matt Damon Bourne series. Let's gloss over the Bourne Legacy , just as director Paul Greengrass and the other writer, editor Christopher Rouse, did. Poor old, marginalised Jeremy Renner. He's got to be the richest "poor man's Matt Damon" going around. This 4th Bourne, coming nearly 10 years after Damon did one into a river, manages to track down our battered and bruising protagonist pretty easily. Lots of neat tech on display here. Damon himself looks grizzled and serious as ever. Cards on the table here. I'm a big fan of the Bourne films (again, leaving aside Legacy ) so I brought some positive baggage into the cinema, and I wasn't disappointed with Jason . It's excitin...

Hey you, don't watch that. Watch this! This is the heavy, heavy monster sound. The nutsiest sound around. It's Star Trek Beyoooooond ! Anybody else feel like getting up on a stage and dancing with some trumpets or whatever when they hear that title? Just me then. Still a good tune. So the film. Nothing new. Big ship gets decimated by some weeny bee ships. Nicely done but seen it before. Crew crash-land on a planet and are right up against it. Seen it. Meet a troubled individual who may just help them. Seen it. Bit of 'buddy buddy' stuff between captain and 1st officer. Seen it. Civilians running in peril on a big floating city. Seen it. The one barnstorming moment of using 'Sabotage' by the Beastie Boys when the swarm are all but about to buzzfuck the space station is rendered a bit twee by focusing on crew members toe-tapping and jiving along with it. Oh, and heard it. In the first reboot. [This kind of sequence was done with more panache ...