Similarities between Reacher and Lee Child[edit]
Numerous critics have pointed out the various similarities between Lee Child and Jack Reacher. Bryan Curtis, writing for Grantland, and Natasha Harding and Caroline Iggulden, in a separate article for The Sun, have brought out the various similarities between Child and Reacher: Child is 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) tall while his protagonist stands 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m); both writer and creation constantly consume coffee; Like Reacher, Child "lives in cheap pairs of jeans and T-shirts and finds the idea of buying expensive clothes to be irrational"; and that "Jack Reacher's famous physical qualities are based on Child's playground memories as a child".[1][7] Child tends to agree with such observations: "I was huge as a kid and Reacher's stature is me translated as a kid. I enjoyed being bigger and fighting shamelessly. I've done a fair amount of headbutting. It's an awesome manoeuvre."[note 1] Andy Martin notes that "just as Reacher is half-Rimbaud, half-Rambo, Child is both art-for-art's-sake Parnassian and ruthless businessman."[8]
― omar little, Sunday, 13 January 2019 15:57 (five years ago) link
So is he the male el James? Brit hack writing self-insert fanfic set in America?
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Sunday, 13 January 2019 16:02 (five years ago) link
hard to think of a well-over-6ft guy with a special set of skills running around coldly decimating all in his path, well anyway let's use Tom Cruise I guess.
― omar little, Sunday, 13 January 2019 16:12 (five years ago) link
Jack Reacher books are definitely the shittiest thing I love
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 13 January 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link
Child is 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) tall while his protagonist stands 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)lmao the extra inch is a fucking amazing detail
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Sunday, 13 January 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link
on the WS show, in a very bad attempt at humblebrag he confessed that he had only been in one physical fight in decades, but mark my words the other guy came off much much worse etc...
― calzino, Sunday, 13 January 2019 16:15 (five years ago) link
lol otm
― Number None, Sunday, 13 January 2019 16:16 (five years ago) link
He should have called the character Jack Reechild
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Sunday, 13 January 2019 16:19 (five years ago) link
everything about the Reacher character was obviously conceived during his elementary school years of terrorizing small children. too bad about falling short by one inch, but that's what fiction can fix.
― omar little, Sunday, 13 January 2019 16:20 (five years ago) link
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/09/lee-child-and-naked-blue-team-up-for-a-jack-reache.html
― mick signals, Sunday, 13 January 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link
yeah the books are super trashythe descriptions of women’s clothing in particular were very 80’s playboy fantasy iirc (unless i’m mixing it up with some other author)
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 13 January 2019 16:47 (five years ago) link
id have said they have a lot in common with straight-to-video mid 90s churn, insofar as a book can have production values
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Sunday, 13 January 2019 16:51 (five years ago) link
I've read a couple of these -- my first thought was he's a 21st C Travis McGee, but the comparison fell apart after "they're both tall."
― The Non-Verbal Signs Your Mod Is Giving You (WmC), Sunday, 13 January 2019 16:54 (five years ago) link
when you've got movies like tom cruise in them you can't lose!
― zwei dunkel jungen (crüt), Sunday, 13 January 2019 19:18 (five years ago) link
Voting for Jeff Garlin.
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 13 January 2019 19:27 (five years ago) link
The tv version casting can’t be any weirder than John Krazinski aka Jim from the Office as Jack Ryan in that Tom Clancy Amazon thingI mean, based on that we could end up with Michael Cera, who tf knows
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 13 January 2019 21:17 (five years ago) link
That Jack Ryan thing was pretty good. Of course, I only ever saw about five minutes of The Office (US version) and hated it, so I had no cognitive dissonance happening.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 13 January 2019 21:19 (five years ago) link
Heh, Zach Braff IS
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Sunday, 13 January 2019 21:20 (five years ago) link
goldblum
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Sunday, 13 January 2019 21:20 (five years ago) link
streep
― why date Ryan Adams in the first place? (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 13 January 2019 23:13 (five years ago) link
I could see Bradley Cooper, I guess. I mean, moreso than Paul Dano or Jesse Eisenberg
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 13 January 2019 23:19 (five years ago) link
eurghjosh brolin a few years ago mebbes
― Effectively Big Jim with a beard. (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 13 January 2019 23:26 (five years ago) link
Skeet Ulrich
― louise ck (milo z), Sunday, 13 January 2019 23:31 (five years ago) link
Frank Spencer
― calzino, Sunday, 13 January 2019 23:35 (five years ago) link
Bradley Wiggins
― calzino, Sunday, 13 January 2019 23:37 (five years ago) link
Michael Cera
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 13 January 2019 23:37 (five years ago) link
we watched a ton of The Office, so the Jack Ryan tv show very quickly became known as "Jim Goes To Yemen" in our house
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 January 2019 00:00 (five years ago) link
it got better as it went along, but at first it felt kinda terrible then again a lot of Clancy is kinda that way for me
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 January 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
Jim Krasinski was also in that shit Benghazi flick
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 14 January 2019 00:03 (five years ago) link
WmC otm re Jack Reacher and Travis McGee:
non-conformist lifestyle requiring frequent travelintuitive with flashes of deductive genius100% survival rate in homicidal hand-to-hand combatexperienced in dismantling criminal conspiracies without due process attractive and helpful to women but poor at long-term relationships
― Brad C., Monday, 14 January 2019 00:35 (five years ago) link
btw McQuarrie now signed on to make another two Missions b2b, making seven Cruise vehicles in a row for him (and ten total)
― sans lep (sic), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 00:36 (five years ago) link
hes a good handler for the lil fella
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 00:37 (five years ago) link
yeah this feels like good newsmaybe one day they’ll give McQuarrie a Bond film?
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 03:42 (five years ago) link
i mean, once he’s released from Cruise servitude
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 03:43 (five years ago) link
gotta keep Tom busy to keep him out of trouble and not making public comments about scientology
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 04:15 (five years ago) link
truepraise xenu for mcquarrie’s service
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 04:43 (five years ago) link
maybe one day they’ll give McQuarrie a Bond film?since they replaced the Hodge / Boyle script for the next one with the regular hacks, I can’t see the reins being handed on purpose to someone who’s good at both action & franchise management also the Bonds suck so much now that it would be a step down for him. if Chris Morgan ever feels like opening up his solo credit on the already room-written Fasts though, McQuarrie’s gift for combining multiple setpieces, twist reveals & clear emotional throughlines should sell itself to Vin easily(though one suspects McQ couldn’t hack working with him on a second one)
― sans lep (sic), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 08:35 (five years ago) link
would it kill u to let me dream
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 14:57 (five years ago) link
Don't hurt me but I'd love to see a Russell T Davies Bond
Which is to say, I like McQuarrie and the IM films, but he's not kinky enough for Bond
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 15:21 (five years ago) link
jesus christ
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 15:42 (five years ago) link
i've "seen" reacher 2 three times because i watched it in earnest once, and then put it on so that i could fall asleep on the couch a couple times
it's an action movie so rote and uneventful that if i pay attention to it, i fall asleep within the first half hour
― mh, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 15:48 (five years ago) link
RTD Bond starring Hugh Grant. (He can fuck Whishaw again.)
― sans lep (sic), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 16:23 (five years ago) link
i feel queasyMODS
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 21:42 (five years ago) link
a russell t davies bond u sayi think i need to lie down
― Effectively Big Jim with a beard. (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 21:50 (five years ago) link
ALL of the leads of The Inbetweeners play bad guys this time
― sans lep (sic), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 22:03 (five years ago) link
Barrowman = Felix Leiter, obvs, and then Geoffrey Wright can be Bond. In the next movie everyone swaps roles again.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 22:11 (five years ago) link
Barrowman =
OK I'm out again
― sans lep (sic), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 22:18 (five years ago) link
Reacher 1 is better than any post-Casino Royale Bond flick, why sully this thread by bringing up a recently inferior franchise.
― omar little, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 22:41 (five years ago) link
I haven't read the books but the Reacher movies do understand that we don't need to know a whole lot about Jack Reacher, which is overall an excellent stance
― mh, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 22:45 (five years ago) link
Put in JR1 tonight and couldn’t believe how boring it was, turned it off 50min in after there had been one (1) brief fist fight and 49.5min of Tom Cruise trying to solve a fuckin mystery, idgaf just punch ppl already.
That being said, the “I was sandy... last week at the beach” is truly one of the greatest dumb clunker lines in movie history, Wiseau-level genius. Very curious if that diamond was in the book or if Oscar-winning screenwriter McQ came up with it.
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Monday, 9 September 2019 00:58 (four years ago) link