Why Bourne is the best American film trilogy ever made

[Phoenix Dark]

THE FUCKING PEANUT ARRRGHHH

[bud]

i still haven't seen it. i liked the first two --i preferred the second one-- but the third one seems to be universally hated.

i'll rent it for johnny, geoffrey and the monkey.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

seriously, I didn't see it
why is everyone talking about peanuts

[Gay Boy]

Depp tries to eat a peanut like 3 times in the movie.

[Ichirou]

There's a scene in the movie (that turns into a running gag) about Johnny Depp's character fighting with *spoiler* over a peanut.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

the monkey?
spoil away, I don't care.
does the peanut represent his mortality or something? if he eats it does he return from the spirit world? WHAT IS UP WITH THE PEANUT

[Ichirou]

Here goes.  WARNING SPOILERS FOR A SHITTY MOVIE AHEAD

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He dies at the end of the second one and when you first meet him in Davy Jones's locker he's in the middle of a desert with the Black Pearl, and his crew consists of multiple copies of himself, all of them fighting for a single peanut.

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[etiolate]

Lesse

#1. Bourne series is awesome. Ultimatum or Identity battle for the best of the trilogy. The chase scene in Morocco or whatever is fucking awesome.  It's a great scene which creates a very long period of tension, while visually displaying two themes beyond the spygame story of Bourne, a la Invasion of privacy and the main character's inner confusion.  The only prob with the third is they make Bourne more superhero than he was before.  The great thing about the first film was that Bourne got hurt, and you saw he got hurt.  He was believable and human.  In Ultimatum he survives like ten car crashes.

2. Pulp Fiction was very 90s, and maybe it defined the 90s, but I never loved it and Fight Club defined a generation.  PF was just the culture, not the feeling or most relevant of the era.

3. Seinfeld SUCKS

4. Julia Styles in black hair? Not so bad.

[Vizzys]

editthisohnoes

[Stocky]

Fuck that, it's Spiderman!

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LOLZ WILLCO. LOLZ

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[Mandark]

Defined a generation?

Man, did anyone actually ditch their bar code lifestyle for a macho, spartan existence after seeing Fight Club?

I realize that FC's better than my feelings towards it, which are a bit warped by the fanboys who basically missed the point, but still.  Sometimes I think it would be a good double feature with American Beauty.  I don't mean that as a compliment.

[Solo]

Fight Club didnt define shit, outside the 17-20 year old "Im angry at my parents" male demo. As far as Im concerned, its not even debatable that Pulp Fiction is the movie that defines the 90's, whether you love it or hate it. Every time I revisit Fight Club I feel more embarassed that it was such a hit.

[etiolate]

A movie with hero terrorists and a distaste for consumer lifestyle pretty much vibes with the undercurrent thoughts of a generation. 

It's like the Matrix, it wasn't really the special effects that made it ding with everyone, it was that idea of being stuck in a redundant program of a world, that things really don't feel like they've changed since the 90s, that we're in this loop and that some outside force isn't helping us but fucking with us. But people see the Matrix for the effects and jesus figure or whatnot, when that isn't where it really struck people.

FC and "fuck khaki pants" idea hit a nerve as well.  It's just we never follow through on these nerves.

[Solo]

I would put the Matrix much higher than Fight Club in a "defined the 90's" list. That is actually a pretty solid pick.

[CajoleJuice]

Yea, I think etiolate's opinion is pretty much null and void at this point.

[Gay Boy]

Films I say that defined the 90's:

Pulp Fiction (as stated)
The Matrix (as stated)
Titanic (For it's box office and sheer obsession amongst women it has to be included, defining a decade doesn't mean the film has to be amazing)
The Phantom Menace (Nor does defining a decade have to come from even just a GOOD film. Sadly Jar Jar Binks very much was a huge part of 90's culture as was the double-bladed lightsaber darth maul shit)