16 06 2002
Despite how brillant a cinematic event the new Scooby Doo movie is, Paul and I decided to see Episode II on Friday. He hasn’t seen it yet, and I’ve already stated my interest in seeing it on the big screen again.
My interest was in going to see Matt Damon in “The Bourne Identity” since it’s playing at AMC 30, but we needed to make sure Paul sees Ninja Yoda on the big screen. This time, we saw it on a good ol’ film projector. There was slight degredation in quality since digital does give sharper colours - and since it’s data instead of film - it won’t get worse over many plays. This copy of the reel must be a few weeks old by now, but it was still pretty good quality. The Matrix trailer, however, was noticably worse off.
*side note* For any KaZaA users out there, do a search for “Matrix Reloaded”. Amongst the list will be the 24 MB QuickTime video directly downloaded from the Matrix web site. Move your mouse over the selection and it will come up with a bunch of information including file name, artist and keywords… Read the keywords and take note of the last one in the list ,^_^
Between Jack Astors and the theatre, Paul and I were comparing “Sum of All Fears” and “The Bourne Identity”. Two movies, released a week apart, were based off novels by competing authors, Tom Clancy and Robert Ludlum (respecively). However, they each starred one half of the notorious duo, Ben Affleck or Matt Damon…
…we were pretty drunk and the movie was about to start, so that’s as far as the comparison went.
Simone, Rita and I went to see “The Bourne Identity” on Saturday night. It was a very thrilling film - but I think I was expecting something more Frankenheimer from the car-chase scene. The scene was good, just not great.
Anyway, it was cool to see both Franka Potente (from “Run Lola Run“) and Clive Owen (from the BMW short films) in an exciting film like this. Matt Damon also put in a good performance in his first spy-thriller, but his action scenes left something to be desired. A lot of the one-on-one fights involved the audience watching the back of his stunt-double’s head. Overall it was a really thrilling movie.
Well, if I go to see a movie this week, it’ll probably be “About A Boy”. After Friday, there’s “Minority Report” and “Lilo & Stitch” starting, so that should keep me busy for a while longer. I still think it’s sad that last Summer I had to go to AMC 30 or Colossus two or three times a week just to keep up with all the movies I wanted to see. This year, I’m able to plan what I want to see right to the end of the Summer blockbusters…
…but at least it won’t be stressful this year.
