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  1. oppps! yes thats a 12 ton D9 bulldozer accidently eaten by the bagger 288
  2. you have it about right.. Bourne set the bar at a new level... though you could argue the arc came via the vastly underrated RONIN, which was a homage mash up itself. the suspending disbelief issue failed in bond movies when they became too comedy orientated... you could kid yourself about the volcano base and gadget stuff but if the film makers didn't take it seriously anymore why should we? the invisible car jumped the shark... Bourne started to fail in the third outing as Bournes skill set was becoming increasingly ridiculous... do they really teach motorbike trial skills at Langley to MK ultra super spys?... along with free running (which copied the Bond reboot to be fair) the first outing of Bourne was good because the action progressed us through the narrative rather than the plot just a device to steer us into set piece action pieces.. the exception being the Ronin lite car chase with the italian job mini copper. the first fight scene didn't relie on fast cutting and its utcome displayed the differences in character between Bourne and the girl (why why why did they kill her off!).. their first kiss is a classic piece of cinema. the bond franchise needs to re-introduce us to the character bond traits... the sophistication etc... even the austin power quiffs after killing someone... but in a re-invented way. I didn't get the opera house shot out at all.. sub mtv BS trying to do a luc besson or somefink continually dreaming up new ways of doing action and trumping the other rival efforts is an ask... underplay the extravaganza and do it more "real" so minor displays of bravado under pressure appear genuinely cool... which is how they really are. neil armstrong going to manual while the landing radar crashed the computer on the eagle as it headed into a boulder field. thats pulling the fat out of the fire... how to make this exciting in cinema terms is not impossible, BoB displayed being cool while the world collapses around your ears was quite convincing (though not necessarily realistic) that combination of action combined with suspension of disbelief is what makes a action film cutting edge IMO. I quite liked some of the new bond stuff... specter is super secret diffuse network/old boys club rather than some centralized cartoon show shacked up in a volcano base.. they can do a lot with that.
  3. it what it is.. I'm not that down on the US guy... not stirling work but its a heartfelt expression and at least its some sort of communication I don't pretend to know how much he is on the money but not far off is not out of the question... the thing is it just highlights how difficult it task it was from the start with the skill set you have. the us (military) are not renowned for tact or social insight into other cultures never mind trying to fixing them.... on a aside there is concern in kurdish areas that a us withdrawal will trigger civil war between the central gov and kurdistan... from kurds themselves that rumor.
  4. I could do it but it would be sweaty palms and tingle feet flash game
  5. earthlike gas giant moons would never develope complex life because they would be too prone to impact events caused by gas giants hoovering up interplantary objects of significant size..asteroids comets etc... no you need a earthlike plasnet screened by gas giants as we have in this solar system you also need a Iron core/magnetic field and a disproportionally large moon /double planet system as the terra-luna system the list of things required to make survival likley is pretty improbable we are alone or effectivily alone.. don't talk to me about eclipses either...
  6. "tickling" the bond apart could for the sake of argument be the most efficient way of breaking the bond but the net energy gain recovered from recreating it will never exceed zero... comparing the efficiencies of two methods does not alter the task... or the energy stored in the bond... or the energy released upon recreating it thermodynamics Boris London
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