‘Bourne Legacy’ Actual Slows To $38.1M; ‘The Campaign’ $26.6M, ‘Hope Springs’ $14.6M
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The first three Bourne movies borrowed titles and the basic idea of the character from the books but don’t really have much in common with them otherwise. Another writer started publishing more books with the authorization of Ludlum’s estate, and the title of the first of those is also The Bourne Legacy, but this movie doesn’t have anything to do with it, either.
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Bourne Legacy is the very definition of bland.
The first hour is exposition heavy, it was as if they were tying this in to Ultimatum and the film was desperately trying to justify its existence. And Jeremy Renner does nothing for the first hour, its almost boring. It picks up in the next hour, but its surprisingly scarce in action. I’ll be surprised if the film is well received by audiences.
So what you are saying is that it has too much story and not enough mindless action?
No. He said the first hour was exposition heavy. Which is not what story is. I honestly don’t think I’ve ever seen so much throat clearing in a feature film before. The first forty five minutes could have been cut down to twelve. It was crazy.
This isn’t a matter of getting to “mindless action.” It’s about the economy of storytelling. It was strange. I mean, really, really strange the way this movie kept not getting around to getting a story going.
I never stop thinking this “Bourne Legacy” would be able to pull in 40-50M this weekend. It just goes to show you that if it’s a movie people want to go see, they’ll see it, Olympics or no Olympics. And i’ve been watching the hell out of the Olympics, but i’m going to see “Legacy” tonight. If the numbers play out like early projections say, even “The Campaign” might open better than “Total Recall” did last weekend.
Not really. The Olympic are in their last two days. People are Olympic worn out. Sunday should be a telling day as the hype for the closing ceremonies have being high all week. As for “Bourne” I also would like to see what the Cinemascope rating is going to be. I being to a couple of sites with viewers review and they aren’t liking “Bourne”. I haven’t seen so many one star reviews for a film in a while so it will be interesting to see if “Bourne Legacy” has legs after this weekend.
I might add “The Campaign” has even worse viewer ratings than “Bourne”.
True, the Olympics are in their last days but these are also the biggest days as well being all the climatic final events are all for medals now. You are right about “Legacy’s” legs, it looks like it will open in the low 40′s and it will be interesting to see how well it can hold up in coming weeks. Especially with “Expendables 2″ opening next week. I’ll say this much, if “Legacy” can follow up this weekend with a solid 20 million midweek and 20 million weekend and play pretty well through Labor Day weekend it could set itself up for a possible final solid box office domestic take of around 140-150 million, but only time will tell.
Liman’s was the best. This new one is dreadful and word of mouth of how bad it is is spreading quicky. Critics didn’t think much of it and Renner has no personality nor is lead material. He’s a drip.
Because reviewers are such geniuses? Check out this doozy of a criticism: “Why focus on a Jason Bourne clone as opposed to exploring what kind of different tactics a woman in the same position might explore?” Yep, this writer complained that the film is rubbish because it didn’t feature the idea that he wanted.
How about Ebert’s negative review, in which he initially commented that a lab technician that “looked to me exactly like Tom Noonan, although Noonan’s not mentioned.” After he was tweeted with the answer, he re-edited the review: “Now there is the best sequence of violence in the movie, which involves a lab technician played by Zeljko Ivanek.” This is meant to be one of the best critics in the country, but he can’t even be assed doing the bare minimum of research.
BOURNE rocks…saw it at an earlier screening. Renner does an amazing job, (& looks hot), and Gilroy knocked it out of the park. Go see it, you’ll have a great time. F all you naysayers.
So? Many people do that. Especially with THE AVENGERS and TDKR.
Early viewers enjoyed the movie. Their reviews were higher than I expected. I guess it depends on how the person enjoyed it.
Just got back from The Campaign. Between that film and Ted, original comedies are finally having their moment in Hollywood.
What does that mean exactly? What about Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, screwball comedies, Some Like It Hot, Woody Allen, Blazing Saddles, Animal House, Ghostbusters, Nora Ephron, the Farrelly brothers, Anchorman, The Hangover, Bridesmaids, and so forth?
very nice list, succinct yet inclusive
Just returned from seeing Bourne Legacy. Pretty good minus the car convo (all the science stuff for 3 minutes straight caused my eyes to glaze over) and the woeful copout of an ending. The entire (packed) theater actually sat around for a bit confused and wondering if that was the real ending. Lots of “REALLY, that’s the ending?” mutterings from the crowd.