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

cruise has always had a big broken nose. thats how he and dustin hoffman played bros!

nose bros

nos

Friendzose bose? Nose. Alose.

ive decided this is a total Dad Movie, i just need a test audience of Dads to find out for sure

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 01:41 (4 months ago) Permalink

thumbs up from me

motivation of the herzog crew was a little murky to me but whatever. rosamund pike was good but there were scenes where her performance belonged in a romcom as an uptight lawyer learning to loosen up thanks to a handsome single blue collar dude.

thought this was pretty brutal for a PG-13 flick.

haha nice call on pike

mcquarrie has his flaws for sure but this has a lot of the elements more action films should make an effort to include, at least stylistically. and damn, the reach was so harsh on that decoy girl in the bar.

Also cruise's chest was uncanny valley weird.

he looks amazing for a 50-something but hes probably getting to the point where he should be judicious with the chest-baring.

I'm not sure why this movie was the one that made me first notice the schnozz. i was watching clips from mission impossible and damn it's pretty noticeable there too

my coworker who is consummate early 40s suburban dad thought this movie was the shit

We need .gifs of the bar gals making googley eyes at him.

(Cruise, not mh's coworker.)

why did the ppl at the bus stop help hide him. "white guy getting chased by cops? not on my watch"

fuck the police imo

zzz

hey so was the second of these like worth bothering with like at all

still gotta see the second J-Reach, it's streaming and i'm tempted. The first one was the most pleasant mainstream B-movie action surprise I've had in recent memory aside from A Walk Among the Tombstones.

the Zwick factor is a potential red flag though. Love me some Glory but he feels underqualified for the kind of "swift blow to the solar plexus" type filmmaking required in this very brief, and now i'm sure finished, franchise.

yeah thats my feeling exactly

watching three amigos instead

jack reacher 2 was a drag imo three amigos the right choice

Reacher 2 is awful

Cruise has since learned not to do a sequel without McQuarrie. Three Missions in a row, he’s signed on for Live Die Repeat Repeat, and on-set for Maverick 2, not starring James Garner.

McQuarrie is a pretty exceptional action director in a way that's a bit throwback, he's not a sloppy shaky cam guy who draws attention to himself, which is a gift that should be cherished. I also keep forgetting that Jack Reacher was only his second directorial credit, with the MI flicks being his third and fourth. I think a lot of folks maybe gave Bryan Singer the credit for him having a career but it seems obvious it should be the other way around, considering the skill level McQ is operating at vs the extremely boring and pedestrian career of Singer.

McQuarrie also came on MI: Ghost Protocol midway through production to rewrite & 2nd-chair direct

(this all escaped me until this year bcz I avoid Cruise, but after catching up on the last 3 am on the path to standom enough that I’m even considering watching a WWII pic directed by Singer)

I watched Three Amigos recently and to my shock and horror it was not holding up

I have so much Zwick malaise I still havent watched Reacher 2. I have it sitting on my dvr like the telltale heart but i just cant because I ~know~ i’m going to be a) bored or b) annoyed or c) both and I don’t want that.

McQuarrie’s really building a rep as a solid go-to for legit action, I am ~loving~ what he’s done lately.

The Paris car chase in the new MI movie checked so many boxes for me. Helicopter chase got kinda bloated & dumb but somehow the audacity of it still made it fun. And he’s kept this run so watchable! I do kinda miss having a diff director for each, but he’s doing such a good job it’s not a big quibble for me.

Then again, the bar for car chases is so low these days that i’m over the moon if i get to see how fast a car is going ~in relation to other vehicles~ instead of just dramatic music & closeups of tense faces.

There's a scene in reacher 2 where they kinda run slowly across a town square while being chased, and it is awful

https://youtu.be/siVcDJj1qyw
Endless running movie

ugh god i hate it i should just delete it off my dvr shouldnt i

Yes. Robin from How I Met Your Mother is a dreadful actor and it has zero Werner Herzog.

three amigos far better than id feared and robin from himym is an angel placed on this earth u savage

author of reacher novels:

"The idea is that when Reacher walks into a room, you're all a little nervous just for that first minute. And Cruise, for all his talent, didn't have that physicality.

"So what I've decided to do is - there won't be any more movies with Tom Cruise. Instead we're going to take it to Netflix or something like that. Long form streaming television, with a completely new actor.

"And I want all those readers who were upset about Tom Cruise to help me out - participate in choosing the right actor for the TV series. We're rebooting and starting over and we're going to try and find the perfect guy."

danny devito or gtfo

funny that the last Mission Impossible also has a Tom Cruise running scene that feels like a parody...but it's actually good

No idea why they don't just CGI scale up Cruise 150%

xenu forbids it

The idea is that when Reacher walks into a room, you're all a little nervous just for that first minute

So, a Jason Momoa type who can actually act. Has there ever been that person?

always saw christopher eccleston in the role when reading it

obv vince vaughn surprised everyone in cell block 99 but not sure he could pull off reacher (lol reacheround joke)

he couldn't even truly detect

need someone who can imply ex-military with their presence

Momoa’s a bit too UFC & kind of bro-y

Maybe Josh Brolin, Karl Urban, or Michael Cudlitz. Something in that wheelhouse.

I think Brolin would be good

thor hemsworth

i love him but for some reason my gut says no

Reading the books pre-movie, I was picturing the actor playing Dwight in "Haven", a Canadian wrestler.

Urban needs a win now Dredd and Trek are both cancelled. Plus he’s awesome.

I’ve only read the first book but my mind went to John Cena with Ice-T’s voice for some reason.

I like how cruise wasn't intimidating. Just a dude that had trained his body, genetic limitations on the surface, to hurt people. The tim lincecum of pain delivery.

I didn't read the books, though. It still feels like a director or producer issue. Tom was fine in the first movie. Bourne series was able to extend the joy for a couple more without recasting.

I didn’t have any prob with Cruise in the first movie. He compensates for the lack of height with his physicality & intensity. I bought it.