by canofhumdingers » Thu Apr 07, 2011 2:46 pm
Interesting. I just read the original 3 Bourne books (fantastic btw!!) & while I know there are more out there by another author, but the Ludlum trilogy completes the character's arc & I wasn't really interested in what someone else had to write about him (not to mention the 3rd book ends with him in his 50's married with a wife & kids...)
I'm now rewatching the movies, which are also really good but SO drastically different from the books! I actually kind of like it that way as, unlike in so many cases where the movie is different from the book in ways that make it less good, in this series both the books & movies are really good, but they're so different that it's like you get two different versions of the same character. Kind of like how there's so many different incarnations of Robin Hood, many of which are really good in and of themseleves, no matter how different they might be from one another, yet they still share some of the same key things that make them Robin Hood.
Anyway, not sure how I feel about this new movie, but I like the attitude they're taking towards it. Here's hoping it turns out as good as the first three.