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I doubt I'll watch it. Cruise is horribly miscast. Reacher was a big man. 6'3" if he's a day over 30. Yep...twisted railroad steal.
Thanks for the review but...PASS.
Solid movie.
Tom Cruise played the part perfectly. You could tell he knew all about the character and dug down deep to channel a tough guy loner type. I can't think of anyone who could have played the part of Reacher better than he did.
He was so fantastic, I completely forgot about his crazy scientology .
Tom Cruise was Jack Reacher. Jack Reacher was Tom Cruise. Oscar worthy, imo.
7/10
I doubt I'll watch it. Cruise is horribly miscast. Reacher was a big man. 6'3" if he's a day over 30. Yep...twisted railroad steal.
Thanks for the review but...PASS.
This from the introduction to the first Jack Reacher novel...KILLING FLOOR.
So, he's an ex-military officer, he's American, he's alienated, he struggles to participate effectively in civilian society, and he has a plain name. And he's huge. He's six feet five inches tall, and around two hundred and fifty pounds, all of it muscle.
Lee Child
The fact this is a big bad ass guy is a major factor in all the books, just like strength is in anything about Hercules. And he loved them blues. On page 23 of KILLING FLOOR...
Reacher says....
"I'd thought I'd come and look for Blind Blake"
Blake was a legit blues legend in Georgia where Reacher is at. What happened to him is a huge mystery in the blues world.
Child does come up with the best theory I've read later on in the book about what happened to Blind Blake.
His first recording in 1926. He was one of the top half dozen or so prewar blues cats,
Last edited by Avante; 12-07-2015 at 04:46 PM.
Child is fine with Cruise's playing Reacher in the movies. More money for Child.
Hey avante do you listen to the grass roots?
The first Zorro story was written by Johnston McCulley in 1919, it was...The Curse of Capistrano, and it appearded in a pulp fiction magazine All Story Weekly. The first movie about Zorro came out in 1920. The first book in 1924...The Mark of Zorro....which I hold in my hand, a copy obviously. Now imagine some short fat clumsy dude trying to play the master swordsman the acrobatic..ZORRO.
Ha~~~~~~
it's just because Cruise is that good
the fact that Reacher is 6'3" and can always beat up 3-5 other guys who have guns is super boring.
the books are OK and forgettable, I was literally half way through one of them before remembering I had already read it, but Cruise made Jack Reacher memorable and I hope they do more Reacher movies.
same thing with Edge of Tomorrow which really made no sense, that movie was awesome because Cruise made it awesome.
still love that song too
he also made those movies Ghost Protocol and Rogue Nation watchable
tbh
Last edited by vander; 12-07-2015 at 05:32 PM.
Sure, I have all that stuff. What's your fav tune they do?
I didn't get into them old blues until about 30 yeas ago, I got tired of reading about how this guy and that was influenssed by the music of all these old guys I'd never heard of, so I found out who they were, fell in love with the music.
That was 12 big books and around 6000 blues CD's ago.
Last edited by Avante; 12-07-2015 at 05:00 PM.
James Lee Burke writes about a Louisiana detective named Dave Robicheaux, these are as good as it gets when it comes to fictional character with a following. And there was a movie with Tommy Lee Jones playing Robicheaux, which was perfect. While he can handle himself it's his side kick Clete Purcell who is the maniac bad ass, far worst off than any of the bad guys in the books.
Highly recommend these books. And like Reacher, Robicheaux knows them blues, dead serious.
That black guy who said....you're stil in the state of Louisiana....... was blues legend Buddy Guy who was born and raised there.
Last edited by Avante; 12-07-2015 at 05:32 PM.
Midnight confessions
I like that one of course. But my fav.....
3am confessions
James Pattersons Alex Cross stories are pretty good also, yep, been a couple movies there.
I'll say it again, why Moor s Elric stories haven't seen the big screen...? That brooding albino prince of Melniborne with his vampiric runesword Stormbringer, who must have blood to reenergize Elric .......incredible stuff, the stories are amazing.
And right now would be a perfect time to bring Robert E. Howards*** EL BORAK to the silver screen. He is a wandering mercenary in the Middle East fighting for whoever pays him the most, and these stories were written back in the 30's.
*** author of Conan, King Kull, Solomon Kane, all of which have been made into movies.
Howard a Texan committed suicide at 30.
Last edited by Avante; 12-07-2015 at 05:58 PM.
Some of the names from book protagonists are too funny. Jack Reacher.
That sounds like someone's porn name.
this was actually a pretty good movie.
Jack Reacher 6-4, Tom Cruise 5-4
I bet 90% of the people who saw the movie had no idea who Jack Reacher was. So to them Cruise is doing a fine job being the character he played in this particular movie. But, those of us familiar with the books and know who Reacher really is know how wrong it was to have Cruise in that part, he wasn't beleivable at all if yas know who he was suppose to be.
Reacher is 6-5.
Make another movie using James Patterson's Alex Cross with Cruise as Cross. Cross is a black guy. This really is no different.
You're genuinely upset about this.
No one cares.
Movie made a ton of money.
They're making another one.
Child is fine with all of it.
tom cruise and jack reacher are a perfect match
So tell me a few things about Reacher that we didn't see in the movie. How about his family, especially his brother, go ahead. What did he carry around with him?
dont need to. he was perfect in the role. couldn't have cast anybody better
You're right, my bad. The fact Reacher is 6-5 250 pounds of muscle and Cruise isn't close to that is a total non factor. It means nothing. All us Reacher fans just need to ignore that. And when Cruise plays the part of Alex Cross, the with the fact Cross is a black man, does it matter, no!
You're right as usual.
Obviously John Wayne was perfect as Ghanghis Khan in The Conquerer.
Last edited by Avante; 12-08-2015 at 02:10 AM.
i think tom cruise playing jack reacher is one of the best actor/character combos in the history of cinema
Movie destiny tbh.
I'd have to agree, why try to have an actor look anything at all like the guy he's trying to play, it makes no sense.
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