thread for the movie JACK REACHER (cruise, pike, herzog, duvall, dir. christopher mcquarrie)

"noooo, no britishes playing this american he-man. it'd be like burt reynolds as james bond"

britishers play americans better than americans.

"reacher is german iirc? or quite a bit german"

his mom was french. but the whole nomad thing comes about sfter he leaves the army cuz he wants to see america after living overseas his whole life. (his dad was a career soldier overseas and then he spent 20 years in the army overseas)

ya he was in germany as a kid, is what i'm sayin tho

https://twitter.com/newtgingrich/status/282331192118886400

reviews are shitty, it consumed Newt Gingrich's full attention at the cinema, done

i borrowed this richard brautigan anthology once & on the back there was this quote from a guy from the nyt book review saying "these books are fun to read" & it just seemed like such an impossibly childlike & pure appreciation for a cultural text, one so slight it was hard to imagine someone who reviews books using it to proffer an endorsement, & i didn't think it could be topped until i imagined newt in a suit & tie with a bag of popcorn on his lap, smiling glassily with his head almost uncomfortably raised, like a ventriloquist's dummy, the reflected light of the screen casting dancing shadows on the soft curves of his face, never thinking about anything other than jack reacher for a whole movie

yeah im with you omar. i dont much like Usual Suspects either, but i think of it as a "cold shot" for his shit to come (little ref to the motion picture Jack Reacher, based on the book Jack Reacher, for u guys)

VG - it probably does come off as somewhat affected these days. i havent seen it in a long time. i think theres some good stuff in there if you stick with it though

darragh hes half-french, half-american, 100% reacher. iirc.

jack reacher, cosmopolitan

raised a child of the world

half frog, half yank...all man

called frank

lol

he feels like he doesn't know his country very well. so he's gonna kill his way through it and see the sites. it's pretty poetic.

Ugh, this movie. Almost didn't make it through to the end. Not much fun seeing a guy who is always the smartest and strongest in the room. (And I'm a fan of Haywire, Parker novels, etc.)

a reader of the books suggested Alexander Skarsgaard

My dick suggests Alexander Skarsgård for everything ever.

yr dick otm

I want .gifs of all the women in this movie making eyes at Jack Reacher.

my review: if you see this one on the shelves, "reach" for another movie

or "jack off"

wait.

k kinda stoked for this

actually like the books - started them when i ran out of parkers and wasn't too impressed by the first one but the second grew on me

i guess i like hyper-alert protagonists in my crime fiction

fun watch, really horrible first 20 mins or so

I'm chinese so I know real chinese food

I would have enjoyed seeing Dwayne Johnson in the role.

The Reacher books are ridiculously violent but almost always fun. Child keeps the crazy action moving forward at all times. In the books you get everything from Reacher's point of view (a few are in first person). Much of the entertainment comes from watching the wheels turn as he makes Holmes-like leaps of deduction or exhibits idiot savant tics like always knowing the exact time. His limited comprehension of non-military human beings is often played for laughs. I'm not sure how any of that comes across in the movie ... I'm afraid it might involve Cruise acting even more insufferable than usual.

His limited comprehension of non-military human beings is often played for laughs

He and Kubrick did this better in Eyes Wide Shut.

there's a lots of job stuff in the books. i, for some reason, like reading about people doing their jobs? because i am sick and this country has ruined me. i swear there was one book where they must have had 50 meetings in FBI conference rooms. they were constantly getting on and off elevators in washington dc. for some reason this soothes me. so many special angents in the books. and sheriffs. they're big on rank. and the differences between govt. agencies.

I have One Shot at my desk, I shall begin reading today

In one of the ones I read, Reacher was obsessed with the perfect cup of coffee - a mug was too big, so the coffee would cool off before he finished drinking it, but this one type of diner cup was too small...it came up like five times in the course of the book and went from weird to hilarious to maddening.

I would love a 90 minute movie of nothing but Tom Cruise and barista Steve Buscemi working on a perfect cup of coffee. Jamusch directing, obvs.

ya more procedurals please hollywood, let's have an imax new yankee workshop

not enough coffee drinking, and only one breakfast-eating scene

still, not as bad as I was afraid it would be

it would work better for viewing at home, where one could take a drink every time a female character gazes longingly at Reacher

the number of women who can barely restrain themselves from pawing at his pecs is pretty hilarious

this was a totally boring waste of time

iirc the no music car chase was ok i guess

ritically panned

I am halfway through the One Shot book and I kinda like it! It's a bit ugh in places but he's a v intriguing character

Reacher is 6' 5" tall (1.96m) with a 50-inch chest, and weighing between 210 and 250 pounds (100–115 kg). He has ice-blue eyes and dirty blond hair. He has very little body fat, and his muscular physique is completely natural (he reveals in Persuader, he has never been an exercise enthusiast).

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Sunday, 23 December 2012 15:07 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

I'm sorry but this sounds so much like gay porn it's kinda ridic

Also lol/rmde that all his descriptions of women's clothing makes them sound like they're all dressed to mirror 80's porn scenarios; sexy librarian, sexy lawyer, party girl...it's so bad. I'm picturing them all with huge perms

lol i just saw this, it... wasnt good... but there were scenes where i kind of appreciated what they were trying to do i guess

they were reaching huh?

Also lol/rmde that all his descriptions of women's clothing makes them sound like they're all dressed to mirror 80's porn scenarios; sexy librarian, sexy lawyer, party girl...it's so bad. I'm picturing them all with huge perms

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, January 15, 2013 4:33 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

lol

Jesus Christ, this movie. The opening is five minutes of actually pretty artfully-designed and dialogue-free storytelling showing a horrible crime and the subsequent investigation which leads to the capture of a suspect. These scenes are immediately followed by chunks of hackneyed expository dialogue outlining precisely Jack Reacher's history and motivations.

A major plot point hinges on a Sinister Corporation sending a henchman to follow our hero in a car registered to that same corporation and tipping off our heroes to their Evil Plan. Guess that was easier than hiring the goons an untraceable car from Hertz or whatever?

It's so fucking long. Like, it just keeps going. On and on and on.

Tom Cruise actually says these words: "I'm not a hero. I'M A DRIFTER WITH NOTHING TO LOSE".

still, the car chase is pretty cool i guess i dunno

Tom Cruise actually says these words: "I'm not a hero. I'M A DRIFTER WITH NOTHING TO LOSE".

you say that like its an argument against the film

haven't seen the movie but these books are shamefully addictive. bought one at walgreens on vacation and ended up getting 2 more

i forgot to ask s1ocki why he didnt like this. its basically a slightly classier version of a golden age Steven Seagal movie, i guess that wouldnt be everyone's thing

after reading the book I don't see how this movie could fail at delivering at least the basics of the plot

plus the car he drives in the trailer looks badass

It's an episode of 'How Did This Get Made?' waiting to happen. Ideally guest-starring Paul F Tompkins as Werner Herzog.

haven't seen the movie but these books are shamefully addictive. bought one at walgreens on vacation and ended up getting 2 more

― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, April 18, 2013 5:40 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

they are!

It's an episode of 'How Did This Get Made?' waiting to happen. Ideally guest-starring Paul F Tompkins as Werner Herzog.

― bizarro gazzara

OTM

Girl, trying to pick our hero up in a bar: "I'm Sandy."
Unimpressed Jack Reacher: "So was I."
Girl looks confused
"...last week. I was at the beach."

OH SNAP!

yeah terrible sub-dad-level jokes itm

Cigarette?
Yes, I know.

its during like two line stand in actor roles as well as gairly iften for our main guy

mark ruffalos hulk is somewhat reminiscent

/fairly often/

catheter torture was uh…vivid lol

from the reachers i remember reading, season 1 book (killing floor?) was always the best ito how well it would translate to tv and after finishing s2 i think the source was a messy one to try to make work, but even at that they made a clumsy (hamfisted lol amirite) job of it

ends up being a lot of trailerable moments stitched together with very rushed and forced beats about why we care (we dont, or at least we shouldnt)

final showdown is particularly shite

6/10 im bored now, nealey actress and character 100% deserves a spinoff show now

Should have been Reacher, Nealy and Herc stopping a much smaller criminal plot. Reacher’s added team were dead weight.

i enjoyed the tension of the generic white small sassy guy being a total stick-on for a double cross for as long as it lasted but of course reacher couldnt have been seen to have been fooled that way either originally or in present day

btw if these things merit a comparative analysis (they dont i think) then season 2 mawkish sentimentality and trite refrains of the likes of u do not mess with the 100th (i dont think a single cast member over the whole show managed to deliver this line with anything except the disdain it deserved as a raison d'etre for the whole affair) i think that it veered far more heavily into the aviators, masturbation over uniform and frenz4lyfe after an armwrestle of tom clancy than the usually-quite-tight episodic cut and dried situational reacher novels (ofc they arent without some level of the above but not to the extent s2 in particular was)

I will happily watch yer man bulldoze his way through anything but this season was a slog. Obviously, the whole premise stretches credulity but it works best when it's isolated from the real world. This was way too real-world-adjacent and, despite the carnage, it never really felt like anything mattered or had consequences.

haven't seen the show but the neagley character that appears in a couple of the books is terrific and I always wished lee child had spun off a couple of books centred on her

Agreed. Persuader has been announced as the s3 book, fyi.

tangential: Ritchson is in a Netflix movie called War Machine that is basically Jack Reacher Joins The Army Rangers (like he’s literally doing everything he does as Reacher in this movie) — the hook is that it’s rangers vs a space alien. (not kidding)
For a dumb cable movie it’s fine. Feels like the kind of movie you’d watch in a hotel.
Anyway.

(real Australian movie, on Netflix in the USA. first one the Red Hill director bloke has written since that debut, 16 years ago.)

oh yeah that too

I have heard he fights a cybertruck in it. is that true?!

the alien is kind of a cybertruck so yeah kinda