One thing that is weird (and fits within the thread) is the "green" vs. the "blue" pills. Like green is supposedly physical enhancement, blue is mental. Yet he supposedly hasn't had a blue in 48 hours when he meets Oscar Isaac but then still has some blue residue later and hasn't had a green (which he's already been viraled off of) when he talks to Rachel Weisz later. No biggie, but it is a mistake that dozens of paid professionals are supposed to review, right?

Like The Bourne Legacy...hmmm lol

Seriously RBK i am absolutely stunned at you never seeing a Star Wars movie.

Someone as interested as yourself in film and not having seen a SW film is mind blowing.

It's almost like a film critic saying he/she has never seen SW. I know you take the subject of film pretty seriously. Please explain yourself...

P.S. Chillrob your LOTR story is almost as mind blowing. LOTR has got to be one of the GOAT book to movie adaptations. Of course there's going to be
more action in the movie! People don't wanna be sitting there for 3 hours listening to elvish.

Not sure if its been mentioned but The Game has so many plot holes its unreal yet still one of my favourite movies.

When he jumps off the roof, a few meters to the right or left and he is dead also the whole ah its OK i just tried to kill myself now lets throw a party after the most harrowing week of his life.

I hardly watched any film or TV growing up (born in 1980) I started watching movies seriously in college and by that point star wars was somewhat dated and in general i don't have much interest in that genre.

I have no moral objections to watching, I'm not avoiding it out of principal, and I keep meaning to check out the original 3 at some point but haven't got around to it.

while I LOVE LOVE LOVE film and will watch movies I like a million times and have seen an absurd amount of different films, I have a very low tolerance for movies I am not enjoying and will not sit thru a film if I don't like it in the first 30mins.

pretty sure I mentioned that exact thing earlier in the thread.
and that's a favorite of mine that I forgot to include in my list, despite knowing the twist I watch the game at least once a year.

fincher is one of my top 5 fav directors and the game is a really fun film.

Just saw Popstar.

Was expecting it to be terrible, but was actually quite funny. Just ignore the story line.

6.5/10

lol wrong thread

The Godfather takes place in 1946. How is it Mike was the only one who served in the military? How did Sonny, Fredo and Tom get out of being drafted? I thought in the days of WW2 every able bodied male was drafted. I never read the book is it addressed?

I think it was because of how popular the family was. Didn't Vito get them out of it? But Michael wanted to serve his country anyway?

Makes sense that Vito would use political influence, but old timers will tell you that men who got deferments were looked at as unmanly and considered cowards at that time, much more so than Vietnam. I don't see a guy like Sonny accepting staying home with the girls...but then again he did say in that scene that soldiers were suckers for risking their lives for strangers.

Sonny is probably past draft age?

I believe "draft age" during WWII went up to 45 yrs old (38 starting late '44)

So what was Carlo's excuse then?

Did the Don buy an exemption for him as well when he married Connie? What about before they got married?

Humm...

LOTR is not garbage lol...All three are incredible and have received high ratings from literally everybody.

Which reminds me,

RBK i've found a franchise that is better than The Bourne series!
Took me a while but yeh. All LOTR are great and highly received by all.

The Bourne is not as good as a whole. I win.

Actually they're getting married after the war is already over, so I don't suppose Vito ever would have purchased a deferment for Carlo.

meh they never really did it for me, I loved the books as a kid and really wanted to love the films but always found myself getting bored.

I might not have been in the right mindset to give them a fair shot tho so I think I'll give em another chance sometime in the near future, but I def don't think they are better or even as good as the Bourne films.

they are a much different genre tho and the LOTR films had a gigantic preexisting fan base whereas the Bourne films had to create a fanbase from nothing.

would be like saying more ppl like the harry potter books.

Everything is subjective...blah blah blah

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I'm pretty sure the Bourne books were highly successful way before the films.

wait lol are u really trying to compare a few ludlum books from 30+ years ago to LOTR n Harry Potter????

being a "successful" book and having a multi million massive dedicated fan base that literally dresses up to go see the films isn't even on the same planet.

Of course it's not on the same level. But it's not "nothing". These books were best sellers.

lol come on bro how big of an audience do you think the films got from the books?
it's totally disingenuous to even bring it up like it's relevant to the conversation.

I was a fan of both series of books, which got me to watch the first movie of each. But as I said previously, both were greatly disappointing.

I haven't read any of the Bourne books. But I can't imagine they have pages and pages of characters just sitting and conversing.

So you must have had a different issue with the first Bourne film.

the first Bourne film is only very loosely based on the book.
the book was pretty enjoyable but it was very different from the film.

the subsequent films had absolutely nothing to do with any of the books.

Honestly I don't remember a whole lot about the Bourne books, I read at least 3 of them but it was probably 20 years ago. Just remembered I liked them, and they were political / spy intrigue type stuff, similar to Ludlum's other books, but about a guy with amnesia.