I'm in Chicago and not able to spend a great deal of time online, but I'm (unsurprisingly?) your exact demographic: not just where the Renner love is concerned, but also being spectacularly 'meh' about Damon in the Bourne films (although that has less to do in my case with Matt Damon generally and more to do with the fact that I imprinted on the Ludlum novels when they were first written, thought they were fantastic, and realized ten minutes into the first Bourne movie that it was going to feel *nothing* like the books)
(really nothing, since a weird t.v. miniseries version starring Richard Chamberlain years ago felt far more true-to-the-spirit of the books)
Anyway!
I saw the film at 10:15 in Chicago with three fan friends (although only one of them is a specific Jeremy Renner fan and none are especially into action movies or Bourne) and we all liked it a great deal - as did the very-engaged audience. Yes, the first fifteen minutes could have been slightly confusing for, you know, people who knew nothing about the series *and* hadn't ever watched intrigue-based movies and the end, well...the less said about the closing music the better; I thought I was watching a movie in 1973. But it worked for me on a pure movie level and it killed me on a Jeremy Renner level (I'm sure you'll understand when I say I cried the first time I read Flowers for Algernon, so my anxiety for Aaron in this was kind of ramped up *g*)
Also...I would watch the jacket movie, so see what you can do about getting some financial backers. :)
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Date: 2012-08-12 11:34 am (UTC)(really nothing, since a weird t.v. miniseries version starring Richard Chamberlain years ago felt far more true-to-the-spirit of the books)
Anyway!
I saw the film at 10:15 in Chicago with three fan friends (although only one of them is a specific Jeremy Renner fan and none are especially into action movies or Bourne) and we all liked it a great deal - as did the very-engaged audience. Yes, the first fifteen minutes could have been slightly confusing for, you know, people who knew nothing about the series *and* hadn't ever watched intrigue-based movies and the end, well...the less said about the closing music the better; I thought I was watching a movie in 1973. But it worked for me on a pure movie level and it killed me on a Jeremy Renner level (I'm sure you'll understand when I say I cried the first time I read Flowers for Algernon, so my anxiety for Aaron in this was kind of ramped up *g*)
Also...I would watch the jacket movie, so see what you can do about getting some financial backers. :)