First one was just okay, second two blew.

Problem with the series (as films -- apparently the books are less so) is that Bourne is nothing but a whiny b*tch. He has all these amazing abilities, and yet his only goal in life is to be left alone. A true hero seeks something transcendent, or at least tries to help other people in need (and not just his girlfriend). Bourne is a "hero" for the 21st century, a self-centered whiner.

I suspect the new Bourne will make corporations the bad guys, since with Obama in the White House, the government is no longer eevil. After all, Obama can slaughter suspected terrorists all day long, and wiretap away to his heart's contentment, without so much as a wimper from the left. Also, remember when unilateral exertion of executive power, or politicization of the Justice Department, were considered bad things? Good times....

I agree The Rock is smarter than your average athlete/actor. But what makes people here suggest he is a political conservative? He spoke at the 2000 RNC convention, but only as part of a visit to both the RNC and DNC conventions. Anyone got any other, more recent evidence?

Poor Clint. He's been suckered by the Hollywood left time and time again. Remember Flags of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima? And more recently, J. Edgar. He made an anti-American movie written by a gay activist that gave credence to a rumor (totally unsupported by any evidence) that Hoover was gay. He works with the likes of Sean Penn and Matt Damon. You lie with rats, you get rabies.

I understand, Clint isn't a doctrinaire conservative, he's more a libertarian. But all the more reason why he shouldn't be taking government bailout money (which is what Chrysler spent to make that ad) to support a dying company that is on life support supplied by U.S. taxpayers.

It's overtime for Clint's career, sad to say. He should have quit the business after Gran Torino.

I don't think he says the movie is IN French, but that it's a French movie. It was made by a French production company with a French director/writer and the two leads are French. I think it's fair to call it a French movie. Passion of the Christ is an American movie, even if the actors are speaking Aramaic.

There is one thing conspicuously missing from these debates.

Think about it -- what are these men running for?

They all want to replace someone. Who is that? Let me see, who could that be....

Obama?

I don't think there was a SINGLE question from any of the three questioners that mentioned The One by name.

Wouldn't an obvious question be something about the guy they are vying to replace?

Now, I'm no trained journalist, so maybe I just don't understand these things. But seems to me that one question could be, "What would you do differently than the current occupant of the White House?"

Or, say, "Name three policies you would change from the current administration?"

Or how about asking them what they think of the president.

Here's a question: "Obama -- penny for your thoughts?"

Okay, maybe you think that's too "personal" or "mean-spirited." How about asking about the number one issue on Americans' minds?

Now, what could that be?

Choose from the following:

1. The Terri Schiavo case
2. The space program
3. Sugar subsidies
4. Everglades preservation
5. The economy

Not sure what I'd go with there. What do you think the American people care about most on that list?

If only there was some scientific way to determine what Americans find most important. Some kind of... poll.
Nah!

Wow. Wowsie wow-wow!

I've been to Sundance. Never seen a bigger, more vulgar display of wealth.

Multimillionaire celebrities fighting over swag bags worth hundreds of thousands.

Stretch Humvees cruising down the main street.

Eating sushi off the bodies of naked models. (And that's just at the kid's table.)

These guys make Louis XIV's court of Versailles look like a Norman Rockwell painting.

Sounds to me like the critics resent that someone would make a movie about black fighter pilots (or black anything) that isn't a lugibrious, plodding melodrama that paints blacks as victims rather than heroes.

I for one could watch 2 hours of that footage. Reminds me of the opening sequence in Herzog's Rescue Dawn (a tragically underrated Vietnam War movie starring Christian Bale, heartily recommended to everyone here).

The right needs more quirky artists. Vincent Gallo is my hero.

Did you read the article? She compliments Streep's acting in the very first sentence.

We on the right are so starved for attention, that we're sometimes willing to overlook the negatives in any film about one of our heroes. I haven't seen the movie, but I'll take Michael Medved's (equally cautioning) learned opinion, and this writer's, over yours.

Btw, I would like to compliment the author of this piece on her writing skill. Well done!

SNL had one great skit Saturday about the excessive "self-esteem" and unrealistic expectations of today's youth. They made fun of people with ridiculous college majors. They had one kid say, "I tried and therefore no one can criticize me!" It was hilarious. I couldn't believe my eyes and ears. Anyway, thought I'd mention it here because we should give credit when it's due and encourage the good stuff as much as we criticize the missteps.