The Bourne Identity and Doug

I just finished watching The Bourne Identity, the first movie that arrived on my new Netflix account. Even though I'd seen it before and was duly impressed, I was pleasantly surprised that Doug Liman's directorial skill also managed to win over Saint Peg, who is not known for being an action film aficionado. I think that Doug deserves a lot of credit for his work as a filmmaker to date.

Also, although I am aware of the weird familiarity with which everyone feels comfortable addressing the famous, I feel comfortable calling Doug by his first name because I went to a seminar he spoke at back when I was at NYU, and he pretty much opened up his life to everyone who was there. It's hard to address someone by their last name who's told you the blatantly selfish side of their life story, so Doug is Doug, the man who got his directorial start by moving in with two hot chicks so he could start playing softball with the men who tried to bed them. He just happened to be lucky that Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau slept over, and although I'm not sure what the life lesson is there, I'm sure that there is one.