Bourne. Better. But Not Yet Best?

So I was in the process of putting together a must do list for you. I was telling you the cars you want and the cars you don’t want for a reasonable price.* Then something happened.

I was, like, just told that the car chase in the new Bourne movie outdoes the old one. I have blogged in the past about the best car chase scenes in movie history. This “list” is commonly accepted and not open to discussion (its not my list, it is the pronouncement of the zeitgeist which in this case is fixed and immovable.)

(Looks like Matt ain’t sure neither)

I have not seen this movie but I am going to make an assumption (that I may regret) and it is this. I am going to assume that the new car chase is better than the last Bourne car chase but that it still not of the caliber of the top 4 (give or take) of all time. That would be, of course, Bullitt, French Connection, Ronin and a French movie called “The Chase.”

I am also told that the fight scene in this movie is peerless.

Better than the fight scenes in Raging Bull, I ask?

This is the trouble with people today. Since the passing of Pauline Kael, we have no luminaries to light the path to understanding– whether that the best punch in the face or hit to the happy pedal. Only in the movies that is. In real life, we have Maseratis. Including one at Sears that remains unsold.

(SPACE HERE. HAPPY FACES TO BREAK UP PAGE. WHEN I FIND THEM)

*Allright here is that highly shortened list. And forget what you don’t want. You already know don’t want a Pontiac G6 or Chevy Cobalt.

You want the Chrysler SRT-Series cars you in all price ranges except for the Crossfire. You will also want to modify your ride (and it is inexpensively done) You want no other Chryslers except the 300 Series.
You want the Honda Fit
You want the Mazdaspeed cars in all price ranges.
You want the Kia Spectra in 5-door, too.
And you even want the Suzuki Aerio.