trash and grand finales

So, tonight makes me ask the obvious question: Jason Statham vs Dan Craig vs, er, Matt Damon

Honestly, Transporter 3 was about a billion times more fun than Quantum of Solace. It didn't want to be Bourne part VIII, and it was directed by someone who actually let you see what was going on, rather than piling on zooms and jump cuts just because everyone else is (it was interesting in Bourne Identity; everything after that got very old very quickly).  Shocking, I know.

Oh, I know the Transporter flicks are trash.  But they're bloody well done trash, and more to the point, they're fun.  Casino Royale  was fun, and so was the first Bourne - before they got all wrapped up in their own po-faced self-importance in the sequels.  I can't think of a single sequence in Quantum, Supremacy or Ultimatum that I really remember or want to sit through again - each to their own, of course, but I was bored silly by the complete lack of character or meaningful plot.

The worse bit - being that I've seen Identity more times than I should - is that they are, ultimately, pointless.  ( more whinig about Bourne films )

Anyhoo, Transporter3 was pretty much reliably entertaining - you can't go that far wrong with The Stath, after all.  The boy keeps a straight face through hell or high water, or, indeed, driving a car into a train.  From the roof of another bit of the train.. The fight scenes were great (let's strip during a fight and see how many items of clothing can be used as weapons! In a garage!) and the script was suitably bonkers (yay Luc Besson!) to the point where I spent most of it cracking up every few minutes.  Even the nutty Ukrainian love interest was quite amusing (oh, and I wanted her hair.  Which I'm 90% sure was actually a wig.).  More than anything, it was inventive - Jase can't go more than 50 feet from his pretty shiny Audi, or he'll go boom. Which is a bugger when he drives off a bridge into a nice cold deep Ukrainian lake... that scene was classic.  And they had T Bag from Prison Break as the baddy, with 50% less psycho hillbilly accent!

So: fun.  And then I even got home in time to squee through most of the last ep of The Devil's Whore... ( Devil's Whore finale ramblings )