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Newspaper Page Textmovies BY MOLLY TEMPLETON The Divine Cupcake Now Serving: snickerdoodle • lime n’ a coconut chocolate coma THIS SATURDAY PREMIERES $% # $ "! # " Bourne to Be Bad The Bourne Legacy fails to finish strong THE BOURNE LEGACY: Directed by Tony Gilroy. Written by Tony and Dan Gilroy, inspired by the series by Robert Ludlum. Cinematography, Robert Elswit. Editor, John Gilroy. Music, James Newton Howard. Starring Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz and Edward Norton. Universal Pictures, 2012. PG-13. 135 minutes. 00111 T ony Gilroy directed Michael Clay- ton. Think about that, while you watch The Bourne Legacy, and ponder how it is that the writer-director of such a taut, effective ﬁ lm created some- thing as skittish and incomplete as Bourne, which is about 45 percent prologue, and almost entirely unsatisfying. Did we need more Bourne movies? Granted, there was something particularly appealing about the previous trilogy, some spark of chemistry between director Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon, who’s always struck me as an unlikely action hero. Everything he did seemed slightly improbable but entirely possible, and Greengrass set the bar for the rooftop chase sequence and remembered that a ﬁ ght scene is nothing if you can’t see what’s going on. Little things, maybe, but they elevated the Bourne ﬁ lms, made them kinetic and spry. Brilliant? No. But let’s be honest about what we’re looking for here. Gilroy’s Bourne has no sense of space or connection, and takes for granted that we remember far too many details from the previous ﬁ lms (which Gilroy co-wrote). It begins in Alaska, where Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner) goes through some sort of training, dodging wolves and leaping ravines. Renner seemed the perfect actor with whom to revamp the series; he’s not pretty, but he’s attractive; he’s not bulked-up, but there’s 8/1 6 THU A R T C I N E M A S 492 East 13 th 686-2458 bijou-cinemas.com a coiled, under-the-surface physicality to his presence. So why does it seem like he’s waiting for the movie’s star to show up? While Cross mucks about in Alaska, Edward Norton, as Eric Byer, delivers a lot of terse, angry lines that are meant to remind us about the projects that created Bourne, Cross and, apparently, some other super-smart, super-strong folks around the globe who must now be eliminated. (Information in the wrong hands, everyone will be ruined, etc.) Byer and company fail to kill Cross, who’s none too pleased about their efforts. Meanwhile, project doctor Marta Shearing (Rachel Weisz) is wound up in a tight ball of fear and raging fury; she’s the only survivor of a lab-shooting rampage. When the requisite government goons in black cars and ugly suits descend on her place, Cross shows up too. This is a lot of plot just to get Cross and Shearing together, but The Bourne Legacy’s one stroke of relative genius was pairing up Renner and Weisz and then not requiring them to have immediate sexual tension; that builds, slightly, as they survive the destruction of her beautiful home, a tense ﬂ ight to Manila, and an appropriate number of choppy, inelegant chases. But when the smoldering ﬁ nally starts, the movie simply ends. It’s half a movie at best — the half packed with snippets of information, brief cameos from previous Bourne characters, and an overly busy setup with very little payoff. Before I saw the ﬁ lm, a friend claimed that not even Jeremy Renner wrestling a wolf could save it. Sadly, he was right. ew Air conditioned! for 8.16 - 8.23 8/17 8 /1 8 8 /1 9 8 /2 0 8 /2 1 8 /2 2 8 /2 3 FRI SAT SUN MON TUE WED THU 4:15 6:30 8:45 BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD 2:00 4:15 6:30 8:45 7:20 MONSIEUR LAZHAR 5:05 5:05 5:05 5:05 5:05 5:05 5:05 5:00 9:30 Black 12:30 12:30 BERNIE Shirley Jack MacLaine 7:15 7:15 7:15 7:15 Directed by Richard Linklater WES ANDERSON’S MOONRISE KINGDOM 2:00 4:15 6:30 8:45 2:00 4:15 4:15 4:15 4:15 4:15 6:30 6:30 6:30 6:30 6:30 8:45 8:45 8:45 8:45 8:45 7:15 7:15 7:15 2:50 2:50 2:50 9:30 9:30 9:30 9:30 9:30 9:30 9:30 SOON: NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS TRISHNA CELESTE & JESSE FOREVER SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN *Adults—$7 * Students w/ID—$6 * Seniors—$5 * Matinees—$5 * Miser Mondays—$3* WWW.EUGENEWEEKLY.COM 5:15 8/18-8/22 THE ARTIST 5:15 8/16-8/17 ONLY SA SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN 5:15 JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI 7:45 BILL & TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE 7:45 CASA DE MI PADRE 9:25 THE RAID REDEMPTION 9:25 # !!# $"$%"#!#"! david minor theater & Pub 180 E. 5TH AVENUE • 762-1700 21 & OVER THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (DIGITAL) PG-13 3:45, 10:15 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (3D) PG-13 12:25, 7:05 THE BOURNE LEGACY (DIGITAL) PG-13 11:55, 1:25, 2:55, 4:25, 5:55, 7:25, 8:55, 10:25 BRAVE (DIGITAL) PG 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (DIGITAL) PG-13 12:00, 1:45, 3:30, 5:15, 7:00, 8:45, 10:30 THE CAMPAIGN (DIGITAL) R 11:45, 1:00, 2:15, 3:35, 4:45, 6:05, 7:15, 8:30, 9:45 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: DOG DAYS (DIGITAL) PG 12:50, 3:10, 5:25, 7:50, 10:10 ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER R 11:15, 1:50, 4:40, 7:25, 9:45 BERNIE PG-13 11:20, 1:55, 4:35, 7:45, 10:05 DARK SHADOWS PG-13 11:40, 2:20, 4:50 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX PG 11:00, 1:05, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:35 THE HUNGER GAMES PG-13 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED PG 11:05, 1:25, 3:45, 6:15, 8:40 THE EXPENDABLES 2 (DIGITAL) R 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 HOPE SPRINGS (2012) (DIGITAL) PG-13 12:10, 2:35, 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (DIGITAL) PG 11:35, 2:05, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN (DIGITAL) PG 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 PARANORMAN (DIGITAL) PG 1:10, 5:50, 10:30 PARANORMAN (3D) PG 10:50, 3:30, 8:10 SPARKLE (DIGITAL) PG-13 11:15, 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 TOTAL RECALL (2012) (DIGITAL) PG-13 11:05, 12:30, 1:55, 3:20, 4:50, 6:10, 7:35, 9:00, 10:25 MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED (3D) PG 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15, 9:25 MEN IN BLACK 3 PG-13 12:55, 3:30, 6:05, 8:35 MEN IN BLACK 3 (3D) PG-13 11:10, 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 PROMETHEUS R 11:25, 2:05, 4:45, 7:40, 10:20 SAVAGES (2012) R 7:20, 10:10 SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN PG-13 11:35, 3:15, 7:05, 9:55 THAT’S MY BOY R 11:45, 2:25, 5:00, 7:35, 10:15 Adv. Tix on Sale HIT AND RUN IMAX: THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sat.1135 305 655 1025 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (PG-13) Fri. - Sat.(1105 235) 625 955 PARANORMAN IN REAL D 3D (PG) ★ Fri.(215 PM) 715 PM Sat.(145 PM) 715 PM PARANORMAN (PG) Fri.(1145 AM) 445 PM 945 PM Sat.(1115 AM) 445 PM 945 PM THE EXPENDABLES 2 (R) Fri. - Sat.(1115 1200 200 230) 430 500 700 730 930 1000 RUBY SPARKS (R) Fri. - Sat.(1205 240) 510 740 1030 SPARKLE (PG-13) Fri. - Sat.(1130 300) 630 915 THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN (PG) Fri. - Sat.(1215 245) 515 745 1015 THE BOURNE LEGACY (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sat.(1150 1220 255) 410 640 710 940 1010 THE CAMPAIGN (R) Fri. - Sat.(1125 1155 220 250) 450 520 720 750 950 1020 NITRO CIRCUS THE MOVIE IN REALD 3D (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sat.920 PM HOPE SPRINGS (PG-13) Fri. - Sat.(1125 210) 440 735 1010 TOTAL RECALL (PG-13) Fri.(315 PM) 645 PM 940 PM Sat.(1230 PM) 645 PM 940 PM TOTAL RECALL [OC] (PG-13) Fri.(1230 PM) Sat.(315 PM) ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (PG) Fri. - Sat.(1140 205) 420 635 Summer Movie Express - Tues & Wed. 10 am Adv. Tix on Sale HIT AND RUN THE EXPENDABLES 2 (R) Fri. - Sat.(140) 430 730 1010 PARANORMAN IN REAL D 3D (PG) ★ Fri. - Sat.(100 PM) 700 PM PARANORMAN (PG) Fri. - Sat.(130 330) 400 930 THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN (PG) Fri. - Sat.(110 350) 650 940 THE BOURNE LEGACY (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sat.(120) 420 720 1020 THE CAMPAIGN (R) Fri. - Sat.(150) 440 740 950 TOTAL RECALL (PG-13) Fri. - Sat.710 PM 1000 PM THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (PG-13) Fri. - Sat.(200 PM) 530 PM 920 PM Summer Movie Express - Tues & Wed. 10 am PARANORMAN (PG) Fri. - Sat.415 PM 930 PM PARANORMAN IN REAL D 3D (PG) ★ Fri. - Sat.(110 PM) 700 PM THE BOURNE LEGACY (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sat.(120 350) 420 650 720 950 1020 THE WATCH (R) Fri. - Sat.(100 PM) THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (PG-13) Fri. - Sat.(115 PM) 500 PM 900 PM Times For 08/17 - 08/18 © 2012 EUGENE WEEKLY AUGUST 16, 2012 21